At the moment, Cambridge, UK. It's technically a city, according to wikipedia, but it's not fooling anyone. There are some somewhat urban bits in central, and the suburbs go on for ever, but it's nothing compared to a real city like Birmingham or London.

is pumping petrol without paying first not standard in the USA? Here in the UK I've never seen a place that doesn't do that. Though, all places have automated camera plate-loggers

Do you really need them all, all the time? I've gone modular with my keys - Each group gets it's own keyring and the lot goes on a mini karabiner. I have college keys (room, college key), bike keys (Two bike locks), drinking keys (Bottle opener, discount card thing), car key (Goes on its own so I can detach it and avoid driving jangles), house keys. When I'm going to head out, I grab/ditch until I have just what I need. Means if I lose them I lose less, I don't have bogloads of keys all the time, and it stops me getting sidetracked and going for random cycles when I shouldn't (It's a 3 minute walk from my bike to my room where the keys are, which is long enough to make me think out whether i really have time for it)

I have an audigy 2 ex and audigy 4 - both cards appear nearly identical, both with the external box things, giving me three line ins (two large phone (The first also usable as microphone) one double-phono), full size midi in and out, optical in and out, digital coax in and out, volume knob, microphone level knob as well as an IR receiver, 5.1 output, as good a quality as I can distinguish, an extra back-plate with RS232/joystick. Also, pretty winful linux support (not alll the trimmings but all the ins and outs work)

Admittedly, keygens are probably among the most likely software to contain a trojan or something. However, that sort of hand-hacked code does quite often throw up false positives. I've quite often found AVG complaining about cygwin executables or scene demos (Which usually have convoluted compressed executables, probably similar to trojans)

In the UK you can get that for £6, which probably works out to about $10ish

Funny, I get the opposite problem with my N95 - with my pretty sensitive sennheiser rippoff in ears, the minimum volume without being muted (10%) is too loud for me sometimes. I get a similar problem with my ipod (running rockbox) - the minimum volume is still pretty loud and it just mutes if I try to go lower.

Regarding the last note, read Altered Carbon - interesting book on that topic - murder in a world of resurrection.

Good on you, but not everybody thinks that. (Originally I put "Unfortunately not everybody thinks that", but I guess it's their/your choice).

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I can't see iceweasel doing anything proactive to change the menu system. I thought they were just rebranding But yeh, a fork would be good. Why in the name of god can't they just make it an option!?

Firefox's greasemonkey allows you to have javascript of your choosing execute on sites - you can do a lot of this sort of funk with it. I've seen things to remove annoying sections from myspace and display full size photos when you rollover the thumbnail, among other things. On the downside, it requires a bit of knowledge on the behalf of the person creating the scripts. But it's pretty braindead to actually install and use them.

I love how the least popular option is the one that every linux user, without exception (I'm including upstart etc) actually uses. (Preemptive) I use kernel init=/bin/bash and start everything manually, you insensitive clod

In DOS, without a memory manager, if you use pointers / arrays you have unrestricted access to every byte of RAM on the computer. Completely raw. Think about every time you get a segfault or a "Program performed an illegal operation" - that could easily be a dead system right there.

By toys, I mean my smartphone, ipod, laptop, xbox 360, microprocessor development tools. Which are all rather recent. I wouldn't say I have anything from childhood that I would regard as a toy. I do have some cool gizmos though - a mostly working ancient dymo labeller and a big box of tapes.