Just watch out for this:

https://xkcd.com/1319/

It would be awfully nice to have accelerometers and GPS tracking on important packages.

They sort of exist in a low-tech form. My company uses these on every shipment.

http://www.shockwatch.com/monitoring-devices/impact-sensor/impact-indicators/

It'd suck having to put up with trash talk from Stephen Hawking after he won a bet with you.

Yeah, he's pretty good at the trash talk, especially in rhyme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hawking

...you go into a market one day and eggs are 68 cents a dozen and you go in the next day and they're $5.92 a dozen ... and you can go to the store management and they're looking at some graphs at the beginning of each day to set their prices but they're doing guesswork because the money fluctuates so quickly.

Sounds a bit like gas prices.

Nobody's posted this yet?

http://xkcd.com/844/

Just to reinforce what others have said - code reviews (even starting small) and independent QA is essential as a starting point. Make the quality of the code a source of pride.

I have my Commodore 64 hooked up to my 6 Terabyte Network Attached Storage. For real.

I'm cheating a little, using an IDE64 and Ubuntu box as an intermediate, but it works quite well.

I did it as a "because you can" type of project. But it actually makes sharing files between my various machines (including the C64) really easy.

This type of tech is a central part of Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel "The Terminal Experiment". Very good read, if a bit dated now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Experiment
http://www.sfwriter.com/exte.htm

Reminds me of

https://leapmotion.com/

(Was discussed on Slashdot a while back.)

I just don't feel any obligation to make it useful for anyone but me.

What about you 5-10 years from now? I occasionally have to revisit code I wrote on past projects, and I write my comments and documentation with that mindset - that the target audience is myself, some years in the future. It's extra work but has paid off for me.

This is where services like Mailinator are invaluable. Just create a throwaway email address for each of all these stupid logins.

I take it a step, further, though: I own my own domain and have made it a practice of using a custom email address for each site I need to log in to, i.e. sitename@mydomain.com . This way, each login is unique *and* I can track who is giving out my email address as spam.

Yet the emails all go to one central inbox, so it's not inconvenient to get/search the confirmation messages.

In Toronto there is a party at a downtown bar (Hotel Ocho), with drinks, costumes, and live streaming of the PlanetFest event.

http://www.marsparty.ca/

(I'm not involved with it, I'm just planning to go).

This capability has been around for a while with Upverter. Good to see some competition, though.

http://upverter.com/

> What liquid agent is a terrorist going to use to blow up a plane? Napalm? Or just set the plane on fire?

Liquid nitroglycerin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434#The_bomb

There is is still a very active user community centered around the Commodore 64 (and to a lesser extent, the VIC-20 and other Commodore machines). There are active user groups, vendors, new hardware and software under development, you name it. Yes, in 2012.

Check out this link for a partial list of what's out there!