US is already on metric. 1 inch equals exactly 25.4 mm according to the International Yard and Pound agreement of 1959, though the US retains the 1 / 39.37-metre definition for survey purposes... ;-)

Most locks are for privacy, not security. If you want security, use steel reinforced concrete and armed guards.

What is the recommended method for destroying CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs which have sensitive tax records (besides using a microwave)?

The second is ncal output.

Unfortunately, these "going private" deals usually end with an IPO 2-3 years later. Same old compay with extra debt! The refinancing will make no difference to Dell, since "providing useful products and services at a profit" is what management should be concentrating on.

1) Use other people's money to buy up company
2) Pay self fees for being the Buyout fixer (Profit $$$)
3) Wait 2-3 years
4) Perform IPO
5) Pay self fees for being the IPO fixer (Profit $$$)
6) Sell new shares (Profit $$$)

Apparently compiling speed is less important when using powerful CPUs and cross compiling for slower architectures.

Actually, "Steamboat Willie" and "Plane Crazy" are what is copyrighted. Mickey Mouse is trademarked.
And "Steamboat Willie" was inspired by "Steamboat Bill Jr." which was named after the Arthur Collins song, "Steamboat Bill".

You need both methods.

This is the setup for employees who do not handle files from the outside world and only need internal networks.

This is the setup for employees who regularly work with outside files.

Stop looking at what you all pay as income taxes. You're missing all the taxes hidden in the cost of products and services. The only accurate measure of government interference in your lives is government SPENDING. You mistakenly belive that you are islands, isolated from the effects of taxation upon your fellow citizens. We are all part of one economy and taxation on anyone effects everyone.

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

SEO activities should be treated as slander in the sense that they bring down ratings of more relevant content. Google should lobby Congress to make such things punishable by several years in maximum security. And if more than one person are involved then this should be prosecuted under RICO and carry even stiffer penalties (ideally 25 to life). Google should work with the FBI to aggressively uncover and prosecute such activities.

I do not know why I got marked as flamebait. I clearly stated it was my personal opinion and I meant every word without intent of inciting a flamewar. Mods are on crack.
That said, to me the ideal design of GUI so far has been Windows 95, with toolbar autohide. Horrible OS but imho best GUI ever. Clean, simple, rectangular without the horrible rounded corners. Grey background, forgettable fonts, and equally neutral pointer shapes.
I have always hated icons and preferred text instead but I have yet to see a GUI with labels instead of pictures by default. Other than that - Windows 95 got most things right.

So now I know who made the Mac so insufferably ugly. For me it was a retch at first sight. I think I may be the only one in the world but I have consistently hated every single artistic and stylistic choice Apple ever made with their GUI (their hardware designs sometimes look OK, e.g. iPhone 4)

Not really. It is not too hard to make things robust. There is no reason why for instance a sub-folder could not be mounted even if the parent folder is corrupted. Just make every home directory a separate partition and mount them all under /users. If /users gets corrupted, mount discoverable user partitions somewhere else (e.g. /users-restore). So root folder could still be robustly accessible even if /users or /home were corrupted.
In any case, the point is that complexity should be within the filesystem, not on the user end.

I have no issue with your version either.
But my rationale on /var is that logs is something an admin consumes (like any other form of media - books, movies, etc). So logs that a given admin would care about should be presented to them and those they do not should not.

Example. A server in a household. One person reviews hardware related logs. Another takes care of internet facing services and security and the relevant logs. No-one looks at all the logs so there is no need for central repository. If multiple admins are registered to take care of any aspect of the system they get a separate copy of the logs. Hard drive space is cheap. Duplicate and personalize, don't centralize.