I love vinyl and I know for sure that it gives a less accurate sound than CDs. What's great about vinyl is the euphonic distortion it adds to the sound.

There are loads of 1920x1200 monitors available. Looking at my local hardware shop's page, there about 30 different models with both TN and IPS screens from the usual suspects (Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, NEC, Samsung, etc).

I prefer that extra bit of height and use a 2560x1440 27-inch Dell.

Cut your fingernails :/

He probably plays the classical guitar (long fingernails only on the right hand...), so that's not an option.

Or they could just use a desktop PC with 64 VMs.

Chance of a collision between any two random files is the birthday problem, isn't it? That would be one in 2^64 for MD5 (square root of 2^128). That's a pretty low probability for a few TB of data. Anyway, just do a straight compare if the hashes collide.

I don't agree. As long as you have sufficient vertical resolution (1080 isn't enough, 1200 is ok, 1440 is great for me at the moment), then horizontal resolution is fine at either 16:9 or 16:10. In fact, at (say) 1200 vertical, 16:9 would give you a more useful monitor (won't ever exist, of course).

1920x1080 is, of course, an abomination for work and I think this is where the hatred of 16:9 comes from. Whereas 2560x1440 looks great from where I'm sitting.

How do I give one of them my interview coding test?

It did stand out. I lived for a time in Windsor (about eight miles from Heathrow right under the flight path) in 1980 when all the planes you mention were flying.

The noise Concorde made (whether on approach or departure) was astonishing and significantly louder than any other plane.

Yes they do (in the majority case). Think about the extended phenotype.

It's not the words that are memorable, but the picture it creates. The human brain is very good at remembering (especially odd) pictures.

The technique is well used by people that perform feats of memory. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

I have about 30 Windows server machines (mix of 2003 and 2008) in a a server pool that I inherited. All are set to manual updates and I have never seen an unwanted restart that wasn't due to a hardware problem (some of the machines have been running for over five years). I call bullshit.

It's quite simple: if they have quantum computers then RSA (and DSA) are toast and symmetric algorithms are reduced to the square root. So if you're using AES256 (but without public keys to exchange session keys), you're fine. If you're using AES128, you can be decrypted by medium-sized resources in the near future (and certainly NSA resources now).

Surely they can that now: just tap and bill the upstream partner of each layer 1 connection. If no payment is made then they're disconnected.

It's "world-class" as a server OS.

A port is not a protocol. It's trivial to monitor port 80 (or 443, etc) and detect if FTP or SCP headers are passing through. You could, of course, come up with a completely encrypted customized protocol, but this can be flagged as well.