IR chaff - IR LED throwies are cheap compared to these bullets and will be brighter than any IR laser (that you can't actually feel as 'hot')

Oh no - you should purchase them .... but them return them because they don;t work with Linux

Jan 1st the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act came into effect - Apple didn't do this because of This American Life, they've been brought kicking and screaming to this point by the politicians and public opinion in general

Don't forget you're paying for all the people trying to break into your household - a friend here in NZ noticed he kept going over his paltry 1/2Gb cap - turned out 1/3 of his traffic was from other machines (mostly on the same ISP) trying to break into his.

I used to regularly buy a CD or two a week, but all the good local music stores have closed leaving chain stores full of pap - if I don't regularly browse I'm just not going to buy.

Sure I could buy on line but I really don't get the opportunity to find new stuff that interests me Pandora doesn't stream outside the US and besides buying from Amazon from outside the US is really expensive - and of course one can't buy from iTunes from a linux box because of Apple's lousy support

Years ago, in my first job out of college, i was tasked to do just this - I spent a day wandering around town looking in hardware stores - a lot of the old guys behind the counter would snigger and make a smart comment - it wasn't until the end of the day I realised that "do you have any small vices" might have another meaning ....

Just last month I found myself at the local big box hardware store looking for - you guessed it - looking for a small vice .... with a wonderfuil sense of deja-vu I got to pop the question - the young whipper-snapper there didn't even blink and took me to the aisle with the vices - kids these days, just oblivious

haha!

I've always been a big fan of recycling but recently I've realized that recycling newspaper is probably wrong - it drives down the cost of wood pulp at a time when we ought to be providing economic incentives for people to plant more trees. We're better off sequestering its carbon - down some old coal mines or the equivalent - yes I know there are issues with methane and land fills but I see those as being things that one can spend some money on researching technological solutions for not just a reason for rejecting the idea out of hand.

Well to be fair he's a nutter, part of a right wing party that seems to have jumped the shark at this point, he was the proponent of our '3 strikes' legislation - when this was announced in parliament today there were shouts of "strike two".

The main reason why the government started doing that in 2005 was because we had discovered that Israeli spies had been doing exactly that thing, getting fake NZ passports using the birth certificates of dead babies - the police went back through the records to hunt down any such passports, to cancel them to protect our citizens traveling abroad.

and now they announce the release of a new product with a funeral ....