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How are they mowing down passengers?

What happens when you need to update your PS3 in order to play newer blu-ray discs? You'll need network access to update it, and you're forced to accept their shitty agreement.

Yeppers. Not only that, "affect" can be used as a noun.

"She displayed a happy affect."

Take that, society. Your world is now upside down.

Wrong-o.

Effect can be used as a verb that essentially means "to bring about," or "to accomplish."

http://xkcd.com/326/

Supposedly, with modern hard drives, the need for repeatedly overwriting data is gone.

A single pass with /dev/zero should make the drive unrecoverable. There was a whole challenge about it, though it's now ended and was never accepted.

From http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=79982

Q. What is this?

A. A challenge to confirm whether or not a professional, established data recovery firm can recover data from a hard drive that has been overwritten with zeros once. We used the 32 year-old Unix dd command using /dev/zero as input to overwrite the drive. Three data recover companies were contacted. All three are listed on this page. Two companies declined to review the drive immediately upon hearing the phrase 'dd', the third declined to review the drive after we spoke to second level phone support and they asked if the dd command had actually completed (good question). Here is their response... paraphrased from a phone conversation:

"According to our Unix team, there is less than a zero percent chance of data recovery after that dd command. The drive itself has been overwritten in a very fundamental manner. However, if for legal reasons you need to demonstrate that an effort is being made to recover some or all of the data, go ahead and send it in and we'll certainly make an effort, but again, from what you've told us, our engineers are certain that we cannot recover data from the drive. We'll email you a quote."

He wasn't talking about making the drive no longer functional by overwriting it with zeros...

He was talking about a pass of /dev/zero wiping a drive, making it impossible to recover the original data.

In high school, I was suspended from using any of the computers in the school for half a year.

The reason? The librarian saw me type "dir" at a DOS prompt. I was accused of "hacking".

The principal told me I shouldn't be using "dir" because it gets me into "directories".

I don't know why everyone thinks wiping the hard drive is foolproof.

What about firmware or special hardware?

For some reasons, high schools don't seem to think students are people with rights. I remember being told the 4th amendment didn't apply to me while I was at school.

Sounds about right. I picture a guy running into a room of suits yelling "The internet is DOWN!!" and everyone panics.

Just because it has potential doesn't mean George can't screw it up.
Maybe having a smaller budget will actually improve the special effects frenzy, but he can still screw up the plot.

I hope he proves me wrong.

I think it's under the Settings menu, something about saving to default.

I'd be more specific but I don't have it in front of me here..

Here's some people with the same window size problem, and some possible solutions:

http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/430081-how-set-konsole-window-size.html

Agreed. I used Gentoo for years but I wanted something a little less time consuming. I tried Kubuntu and a few others, but OpenSuSE has been the best by far.

There's a default profile that you can save to, I haven't had a problem after doing that. I changed the font size and colors, saved, and it's been good to me since.