You can reduce power by using an HTPC like the Intel NUC as your 24/7 server. Some of them run on as little as 35W, much less than a laptop (60-90W generally), or a beefy 550W server tower. Also most of them force you to use a mSATA SSD internally, which consume less power than traditional platter drives which would…

YES. I have to do this because of my Slavic last name. Also my company has hashed (or otherwise obfuscated) usernames for some reason, for example mine might be "u137z5" instead of "mikey.ironically" to login to Windows. I always use that for each of the letters when I have to call the help desk.

I do it just to make sure Microsoft has to sift through as much data as possible, even if it was my code that caused it.

My internal policy is, "Screenshot/error message or it didn't happen." Of course, I don't say that directly to users, but it is the single most important thing I see in this article. It also tells me everything I need to know about a user, if they do this for me after the first time I tell them, they tend to be…

When I was last active on OKCupid, they offered a service where if you voted on 125 photos of other random people (compared to photos in their own profile), random people would vote on the best of your photos. I used this to success - my now wife loved the photo that was voted "best" by this process (a photo of me…

I can see the difference, but barely on my computer monitor. Also in smaller states I can't really discern which team even after staring at it for a few minutes.

Both teams have red as team colors. The branded color values for each team are slightly different, but the difference is so subtle that someone watching non-HD or with minor vision problems (even outside of color-blindness) would not be able to discern the difference.

Mine was subsidized by the government, the rate on my FHA loan is 3.75%. I also bought the house from friends, who not only knocked off some money, but their real-estate agent was also mine, and the wife of my friend of 30+ years. That was easily the smoothest home-buying experience possible in the modern mortgage…

No, what they need is to make a designated marijuana smoking area, and surround the entrance with vending machines with over-priced Doritos. They would make a killing.

Oddly enough, this is an appropriate comment on an article about Craig Ferguson.

The Liberal Tortilla Agenda is way out of control.

Nobody is going to top the Pirates record for some time, they were actually trying to lose that much. And they were good at it.

Even luckier than you realize, that wasn't cheese.

It was already "change your password" week for me at work, and its been going rougher than usual. Now I have to deal with this crap.

The absolute worst is the people who stop when they have their own lane and don't have to merge into one.

He's way too young to know that from observing it when it happened though. God I'm old.

I got 46 GB of space on DropBox with my Samsung Galaxy Tab, was a nice little surprise when I started playing around with it.

With that many run-ins, his father is complicit in the harm Jared Remy caused. If he had balls at any point, he could have done something, and now a woman is dead.

If they calculated based on those direct numbers (dividing 680 by 1000), that number would not be reached, you would get the nice round 68% (try it in your calculator app). My theory (10+ years of software engineering, degree in computer engineering) is that they added up the percentages for every player instead of…

This has changed my life.