Back in the day (like the 1980's) the audio industry had shared standards for output power, frequency response and SNR specifications so that you actually could compare products. Now it's just a waste of time.

@Makidian: As long as Scalzi lives in Ohio, it won't be boring.

How about earthquakes and volcanoes in the Caribbean? They've already been the source of localized disasters (Haiti, Soufriere). Anything there that threatens a regional impact?

Re Campbell: "His personality and eccentric beliefs alienated writers and made Astounding a third-rate magazine after the mid-fifties, "

@shazaam42: Even the pay version of expression encoder is cheaper.

@Wit is periodically disensouled: For some reason I can't visualize a slip-knot at the top of a mostly-full bag. A half square knot seals the bag but is a pain to re-open. It seems like you'd need a bag 3/4 empty to do anything more useful.

@scriptedfate: Our dump has signs saying that items dropped off become the property of the county, so be careful you don't get arrested for theft.

How about buying a docking station instead of an enclosure so you can swap the "old" and new external drives around more easily? Simplistic, but no more simplistic than some of the ideas in the article.

@brianary: There are two types of brute force. One is just attempting logins, which is rare. The other is to obtain/download the encrypted password from a vulnerable site and then match it to a dictionary that matches encrypted strings to their cleartext values. The dictionary can be infinitely expanded by generating…

@JobyOne: You're assuming that all/most sites adequately salt their hash.

@pete: Yeah, then it might actually take hours to crack your PW.

@Star Vixen: I suspect the banks that allow this have a fast path to the ACH, so they will get the money while the second bank would be the one to come after you for fraud.

@Gotlactose: BofA scans the amount for you at the ATM. All you do is verify and accept. At first they had trouble reading the format of things like rebate checks but it's gotten pretty good over the past year. It pretty much scans everything I throw at it now.

@Tsylord: Not necessarily. In my home there is an AC vent in the walk-in. Probably still have to keep the door open for airflow though.

Best fence for me: Separate computers, separate accounts. Plus a computer dedicated to business only is a deduction.

@mikinho: Uhh, if you move the cache to RAM you actually outperform the SSD. RAM is faster than flash, but volatile, so it loses the data when powered down.

@BishopBlaize: In FL about a buck. But there's a national packaged brand that charges about $2-3 for 8 stems worth. Ridiculous.

These depend on where you live. Here in FL, locally grown cilantro in bunches runs about 1/3 the price of the packaged brand sold nationally. In the same supermarket.

@bwcbwc: Actually, it turns out there's a more concise way to do this shown on the NoScript webpage for ABE. [noscript.net]

@mrsayao: Maybe not yet, but I can't wait for 3-D displays (and cams) to try this! :)