I accidentally left my sunglasses and jacket in one of those tubs that you put through the scanner last Christmas while rushing to a last minute flight after some genius wearing more chains than Mr. T snarled up the security queue for 30 minutes at a regional airport.

Upon returning a week later and checking in with TSA agents, I found out they had itemized and bagged my stuff and got both back to me in less than 15 minutes.

Not everywhere is Dulles.

I blame the Conservative coders over at Google+.

That NASA has learned from the experience of upgrading Sojourner to WinAMP 0.92...

Sans Digital Makes an 8 slot drive enclosure with either a PCI-E or USB 3.0 interface for about 350 bucks. Put 8 3tb drives in it, run it JBOD. You can buy the cheap 3tb drives because you're going to run them JBOD. At 150 bucks a drive, Your total cost is about $1600.

You might be able to get Windows to do Incrementals to those drives, although I haven't tried it myself. And remember to run the enclosure sparingly, because non-enterprise drives aren't rated for the same number of spin-up hours.

Of course, it's not as safe as putting everything on a billion optical disks. But even using a BD-rom (at 46gig a pop), you're talking about 534 Blu-rays, and that's pretty much ridiculous, unless you have an intern you really dislike or something.

This is exactly the kind of reasoning that makes me want to verbally tear someone a new backdoor for their production system, if you know what I mean.

A dev's approach to writing code isn't a binary state; neither is political ideology, for that matter.

This is a classic case of someone coming up with the "answer", and then attempting to find a way to logically justify it. But hey, since this is "Snap judgement and reason later" Friday, I'm going to automatically assume that Yegge is one of the geniuses behind the push to put everything on the cloud, despite the fact that more than a few long-term prediction models show user data volumes rising geometrically and overtaking infrastructure increases, or the inherent privacy and identity risks associated with waving's one's digital cheese out in the electronic wind.

Let's put this logical tar pit to bed before someone has to ponder if LISP programmers, being "liberal", would support gay marriage.

All I can say is that I'm still feeling a little guilty about uploading an article about Sgt. Pat McGroyne, who led the charge at the Battle of the Bulge.

I see a picture of what I assume is the "worst of the worst" monitoring stations at surfacestations.org compared to a good station. What I don't see is the methodology or the formula for determining the temperature error. You could easily test AC impact by simply setting up a second site and turning off the air, for instance.

I could just as easily make up a formula for error based on the geographic proximity to Narnia (which had a really long winter), but that doesn't mean it would be any more accurate.

Naturally, that sounds snarky, but NOAA already has a formula for compensating for local microclimate effects, what makes this new formula better?

It may be important to note that the "incorrect" graph on the surfacestations website looks different than the one at NASA, which you can view here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425745000030&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1

I mean, hex strings are a pain in the ass to remember. You have to admit, it's pretty easy to remember 81680085 when you have "big boobs" as a memory aid.

I'm a little disappointed in the State Department hasn't figured out that arguing on the internet is like playing Global Thermonuclear War in "War Games", the only way to win is not to play. That being said, I'm arguing my point on the internet, so I might as well submit myself for an Irony award this year.

I made a bet with a co-worker back in 2004 that bionic implants would be available in the next ten years. Although, five dollars isn't what it used to be...

If 'Anarchist' attacks against scientists are on the rise, wouldn't this be further validation of Raymond Kurzweil's predictions? I seem to recall a newspaper article recently citing a lack of anti-technology violence as one piece of evidence questioning Kurzweil's accuracy.

If the graphene filter works, you could use it to filter seawater on a small scale in much the same manner as those filtered water jugs for people who don't like their tapwater. It might not sound like a big thing, but many a person trapped on a raft at sea has wished for his own pocket desalinization plant.

The big question is: can you make those matrices small enough so that only O2 molecules fit through the gaps? Because that would be even sweeter.

In my opinion, different types people prefer different routes for server management. If you're in IT -- a lot of it depends on how you got where you are today, and your personal temprament.

I've found that people with more classical training in information technology (i.e. programming), tend to prefer CLI for server management, not to mention people who were in the industry back in the days of 8" floppy disks and accoustic couplers. That's not to say that there aren't industry professionals that don't prefer a GUI, and programmers who like managing their servers the old-school way, etc, but that's how it seems to skew.

The one exception being that there a few things you can't do in the GUI that you can only do in the CLI. Personally, I find that irritating. Also, unless your server is very badly in need of a refresh or underpowered for its job, the 'too much overhead on the GUI' excuse really doesn't hold much water.

Finally, I would like to say that I personally am for neither the CLI or the modern GUI; I want that waving around virtual reality stuff that Tom Cruise had in 'Minority Report'. Oh, and as an added caveat, apologies in advance if I duplicated the same response as someone else. I've been reading the comments while trying to troubleshoot an HP printer that suddenly decided to switch all the print menus to German, so I might have missed a comment or two.

People need to understand that just because is high-tech doesn't mean that there's an easy or brute-force countermeasure. People were actually hacking into drone feeds not too long ago, so I'm not really surprised. And it could be the shiniest drone ever, but it only takes one exploitable security flaw ( because someone was lazy or incompetent or rushed to deliver on schedule) to compromise it.

Hopefully Obamacare will help me to have that Pink Floyd song surgically removed from my head, thanks for that. :) I agree with you that many Americans weren't very informed about the actual content of the law, though.