I've lived in Fla. since '74. Andrew, Wilma, Katrina, and others did enough damage that I make it a point always to keep plenty of MREs and stabilized gas handy. I test my generator twice a year - after Wilma I was 21 days without electricity. I always have plenty of fresh batteries, ammo, and dog food. If there's a hurricane warning, I fill one bathtub with toilet flushing water, the other with drinking water in an Aquapod.

The nice thing about modern batteries and MREs is their long shelf lives, so it's no problem using them up before they expire. 100 lbs. of dog food is devoured way too quickly. The only thing that I hate to use up is the ammunition. Range ammo is cheap, but apocalypse grade is expensive.

My kingdom for a +1, Funny point!

This particular judge is an interesting guy. He is reported to have sentenced a woman to indefinite jury duty for answering the question, "name the three people you least admire," with "African-Americans, Hispanics and Haitians."

I dial 252 (ALArm) from the device I want to be called at, and enter a time at the prompt. At the appointed time, the lovely voice of Allison Smith tells me it's my wake up call and presents me with a random 3-digit number to enter. If I don't answer, hang up, or get the number wrong, I'm called back every two minutes until I get it right. The random number business is necessary because sometimes, if I don't have to do a slightly complex task, I'll just hang up and go back to sleep.

From now on, thanks to your misspelling and their behavior, I'll just call them Dumpstersoft.

That's what concerns me. If my ISP ever blocks (or redirects) access to the root servers, there goes djbdns and unbound.

If I could answer you specifically, I probably wouldn't have asked in the first place. My degree is in CS. It just seems that modifying multicellular organisms with non-natural amino acids might create a whole new class of threat. Say, a hardy, prolific insect with an insatiable appetite for all cereal grasses. Could there be naturally mutated single celled organism that would do the same? I suppose, but now the possibilities are growing.

I don't mean like haha, "I, for one, welcome our new C. elegans overlords" or tagging the story with whatcouldpossiblygowrong. I mean The Stand. Could somebody with a reasonable knowledge of GM organisms please offer some reassurance that this technique couldn't backfire in some disastrous way?

RTFM, dolt.

If the length of src is less than n, strncpy() pads the remainder of dest with null bytes.

My personal fave is strncpy(), which will silently not terminate the string if the buffer is too small, but if you give it a huge buffer it punishes you by NUL padding the string all the way to the end of the buffer.

I think his joke was very close to being right.

Personally, I would have chosen "fascist", but facist works, too.

This is all about politics and scaring older voters.

"Sorry, sir, but we've determined that you're likely to commit a crime soon. Please come with us. Thank you for your cooperation."

Urophagia!

It's not just for perverts anymore!