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I'll be drinking pirate sherry with me shiny friends! Arrrrr.

http://whedonesque.com/comments/27812

Passwords are, it is said, like underwear.

http://www.umflint.edu/its/units/initiatives/publicity/password.htm

If you are willing to share your underwear with a partner, why not your password?

In my case, I was dating a woman who had been cheated on and had trust issues. I made sure she had access to my email and a tracking location on my phone. She says she never checked up on me, but I hope the gesture was appreciated.

I went through this a few years ago. The church is a medium sized (5,000 - 6,000 members) church in Silicon Valley. The Children's Department library had been on the honor system. A decision was made to automate it. After a lot of research and talking to people we went with SurpassCL (http://www.surpasssoftware.com/surpass-cl.html)

It was slick and worked well. Getting all the media into the system was quite easy. Eventually they decided not to have a Librarian available during check-out times and went to Surpass's self-checkout system. That worked OK too.

Finally we went back to the honor system with little slips of paper. After all, we're a church. If someone wants to keep a DVD, it isn't the end of the world.

I thought Surpass was a little pricey, but the quality of the product is really high. Most of the software I found is *extremely* ugly and non-intuitive. Be sure to get hands on with whatever you choose. More importantly, get your librarian hands on with whatever you choose. I have no problem with ResourceMate, but it was too much for the part time library lady.

And don't discount PaperOS too fast. The licensing fees for your automation software will pay to replace a lot of copies of King George and the Ducky.

(Now where did I leave that hairbrush?)

The US center is also left of center.

I wish I could find the citation, but I read a large survey (Pew or the like) which showed that on average American's are slightly left of center.

This shows what an amazing job of defining the issues the right wing has done. I disagree with the right on many social and economic issues, but they sure do get things done.

I consider myself libertarian. Which I define as being so far to the right I ended up back on the left, but I'm not sure how I got here.

Expanding on the person who suggested personalizing.

You can also uglify your kit. A couple wraps of duct tape and some paint will make your equipment look undesirable. This is a technique used by a lot of journalists who work in third world countries. They make their real camera look like trash and, if space allows, carry a nice looking bait camera. Once you are targeted you have lost, but not looking like a target is a good thing. (Obligatory XKCD reference http://xkcd.com/538/)

Regarding putting valuables in the trunk... It has been 20 years since I was a cop, but at the time we had a lot of parking lot thieves targeting trunks. They would sit in a parking lot until they saw someone pull in and put things in the trunk. Then they would pop the trunk with a stubby screwdriver and steal what they found. By pulling into a parking lot and immediately putting something in the trunk the tourist was advertising that they had something valuable enough they didn't want it in plain sight.

Take a look at Backblaze. They will ship you DVDs or an external drive with you data.

This is the big benefit of Backblaze over JungleDisk (who I also use.) Jungledisk uses the S3 cloud so hard drive restores are not an option.

The downside to Backblaze is that they don't do servers, which is why I also use JungleDisk as a secondary backup for remote servers. That and their business features aren't very robust. They are a lot like Dropbox. They are so interested in (and successful at) making it "just work" they don't take the time to add features that enterprise users expect.

I believe Mozy has DVD restores but I was burned by them when they were younger and I'm not interested in trying them again. I have no idea about Carbonite. I have also been burned by them.

Crashplan has DVD and hard drive restore, plus seeding, but I haven't used them yet. If I were starting now I would probably choose CrashPlan based on features, but I really like BackBlaze. I appreciate their open design philosophy (CrashPlan seems rather secretive) and from their blog posts they seem like good people.

(Disclaimer: I have several TB of data on Backblaze servers but no relationship other than as a customer.)

Since you are asking on slashdot, I am going to assume that you are geeky, but not a network person.

If you were a network person, as I am, then building a little box to route would be easy. That is what I would do. If you have more time than money, then I heartily recommend that option. There is plenty of software that will work.

Assuming that you are not a BSD/linux routing jockey, then you should look at a SonicWall or similar firewall. There are TZ100s used on eBay for less than $150. The configuration is through a simple web interface and has wizards. There are other brands, and SonicWall is quite mediocre, but I have the most familiarity with them.

I heard that people are selling these things called "movie tickets" that grant the bearer the right to sit in the dark with a bunch of strangers.

If that interests you, please contact me. I have some swamp land in Florida I'd like to show you.

Browsing at "3" I seem to be the only hybrid owner commenting.

I *very* much want this feature on my Nissan hybrid. Not just for the benefit of the pedestrians, I have certainly been startled by hybrids sneaking up on me, but for selfish reasons.

Often in parking lots people walk down the middle of the driving area. If they hear a car they naturally move to the side so the driver can pass. If they can't hear you, they keep walking down the middle. Just this morning I was stuck turning into a driveway because someone was standing in the middle of the entry yelling to another person. My choice was to wait, and risk being hit by another car, or honk and be a jerk. If my car made a little noise that wouldn't have happened. I want a little noise to move people out of my way.

Personally I want my car to play the Portal song.

71 degrees (that's 22 for you civilized folk) with 56% humidity.

Too dang hot for me. I've got the air conditioner cranked.

I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary.

newb. when i was your age we got our web browser from the NCSA, and we liked it.