With some time and some exponential growth those damages can be reached easily.

Whoops, there's an error. The Slashdot filter removed an asterisk (used to match subdomains) from the @include in the ecode tag. To correct it this time I saved my post as "code". Hope this works:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Fix invisible Slashdot titles
// @namespace      hjd73hd73hd
// @include        http://*slashdot.org/story/*
// ==/UserScript==

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s.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
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You could try this Greasemonkey script.

// ==UserScript==
// @name Fix invisible Slashdot titles
// @namespace hjd73hd73hd
// @include http://slashdot.org/story/*
// ==/UserScript==

var s = document.createElement("style");
s.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
s.innerHTML='\
.title, .title * {\
background-color: #005151 !important;\
//background-image: none !important;\
}\
'; // End of source
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s);

I have a hdd for software-managed backups in my computer, so I want my next backup to be off-site to guard against fire/burglary/earthquake. The most convenient place is actually my car. But the downsides/risks include vehicle acceleration, temperature changes, and humidity. Are these manageable, anyone?

Yeah well, my telemarketing calls went from 6+ a week to zero. I used the DNC list and Micheal Geist's iOptOut.

There are lots of World of Warcraft videos, and my guess is it would be much more useful & interesting to watch those and see how people played than to know only what people played (by analogy, like knowing the rules of chess vs. the history of chess: the former tells you less about people).

The President's office already has a Science Advisor to handle that stuff. I think the CIO would get to handle infrastructure and supporting technologies, but not scientific or engineering applications including medicine and chemistry.