Are you sure about Mr. Handy? 0:16-0:17 tells me that Mr. Handy has a bit of murder-death-kill in his chips. He's soooooooooooooooo handy indeed... /em looks suspiciously at floating robot

I hate to repost a statement, but I made this a couple of days ago in regards to java in another /. story.

Who do we trust? We gotta trust someone/something at some point. I use VPN, proxies, Tor, Freenet, and some other things frequently. Still though, I gotta trust Google with some of my mail. I gotta trust Comcast with some of my pipes. Heck, I gotta trust the Devs of Tor/Freenet for that matter. I gotta trust Apple/Samsung/HTC/et al with the hardware.

I could crawl though every line of precompiled code for the services mentioned above. Still doesn't help me with the pipes. Even RTS/Torvalds/the EFF has to trust some part of the process in the modern world.

I wish there was more of a vetting process for those who want to check everything out. Sadly, there isn't at the present time, and likely there will never be a 100% vetting process. Maybe a different question to ponder is how do we increase the trust in those where we HAVE to lay some trust?

Aye, the place with the Rocky steps. Main entrance (facing the Parkway), up the main steps once you are inside, then it hits you in the face. It's a big place though...easy to miss entire areas.

and before anyone beats me to it, even Simon Phoenix would like this place.

Anyone who finds themselves in Philadelphia would do themselves a favor with stopping by our little Art Museum. Their collection of Murder-Death-Kill weaponry would make William Wallace goo his kilt.

The overview is here and individual pictures are here. A truly dizzying array of polearms is part of the collection.

If we lived in a proper world, the RPG would have been first, followed next by Alcohol, Doritos, & Dice - essential for any gaming session.

Indeed and well said Sire. My faith in tech humanity and common sense is somewhat restored (at least for tonight).

Look me in the eye and tell me you compile everything from source, after verifying each line of code. Do you trust Mozilla? Canonical? Berkeley? What an asinine statement.

Thank you for the RL chuckle :)

This, and /endthread. I have enjoyed /. lo these many moons, but these types of "questions" border on something you'd see on the late (and little missed) Call for Help on TechTV. Please, please start raising the bar again, huh?

I agree with the AC - kludges are part of the tech world sadly. Who among us hasn't hammered a proverbial round peg into a proverbial square hole once in a while to deliver a project on time, make a customer happy, etc. I can't imagine anyone who takes pride in their work likes using kludges, but sometimes they gotta be done...

Damn stupid dropdowns - unmodding this as flamebait.

I am not affiliated with Digital Ocean either, but a pal of mine told me about it a few months ago - very nice responsive support and decent prices.

He can get a free year of EC2 hosting. Windowz and Linux both. Amazon may be a Big Corporation but this ain't bad