It's important in marketing to know people's response to events.

Nothing really beats a pump action shot gun that makes a lot of noise when you pump it. That is the scariest possible thing for an invader to hear. If they don't have the sense to leave after that, they are dangerous enough to shoot.

Perhaps there's more to the classic joke than we originally thought...

My mom says the only thing keeping her on DirectTV is that she can't find all the Sons of Guns episodes online. Does anyone know where she can?

Is it possible to define a Trash:// folder for remote storage in Linux? (in this case, using pcmanfm to access a NFS share; though since the Trash:// folder is a freedesktop.org standard, I suspect there is a universal solution to this...)

Does anyone know of a Pacman/Archlinux equivilent to Aptitude (i.e. the curses program you get when just running "aptitude")?

In my experience, building your own is usually cheaper in the long run. Dell may not cost much, but their computers break often, and in the past, they've even knowingly shipped computers with faulty parts.

Sounds to me like your "D:" drive isn't mounted. Usually Ubuntu mounts it when you open it with a file browser, but until then, other applications can't see the files on it.

Guess I'll share my backup script for any Linux (and mac?) users.

What exactly is the difference between pink posts and grayed-out posts?

+1 for Kupfer. I use it every day, and it's ridiculously fast.

SOPA makes changes to the DNS system to block websites. If you use IP addresses, then this bypasses SOPA.

Here's an interesting 2-player game I came up with a while ago. If you have a competitive puzzle-loving friend, it gets really interesting

If you can get the novel in Word, then just use that.

I've had this problem at Walmart. The employees (and the fact that I can use it easily at other places) tell me that it's a problem with machines. Though I have found 2 more tricks that usually make it work:

"Obviously, you wouldn't want to use this extension if someone were looking over your shoulder, lest they download the extension themselves and learn all your passwords by the colors they saw"

If you're not feeling "awake" doing this, then you're not doing it right. You should feel awake every time you wake up from a nap. If you feel like a zombie, it means you're just depriving yourself of sleep.

To anyone who wants to try this, let me give you a few points of advice:

I've heard many reports of people "curing" various minor sleep disorders with polyphasic schedules, but I'm not sure how many of them are true, how many are subjective, and how many are just flat out lies... But I agree that polyphasery will help you sleep better when you go back to a monophasic schedule. (it's as if…

On Überman, after a few weeks you get to the point that you wake up right before your alarm goes off.