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$10 per device per month [1]. [1] https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/business/

From the article: "[Ron Milner] remembered showing it off to some buddies at a county fair when the game first came out, but that was 40 years ago!" Perhaps it did?

How does this compare to Nissan (US), also non-union?

Parchives. Great for adding recovery to any file. :) I use them [now par2cmdline-tbb] religiously for archives. I started doing this years ago after having CD-R's burned on a drive…

Bitdefender likes to revert to default settings frequently. I prefer Windows Firewall (Win7) and have to turn off the Bitdefender firewall usually at least once a week.

And reel-to-reel. Example article from a quick web search: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-...

They can. I bought a Roku 3 after seeing how much more responsive it was compared to my Sony BDP-S790 for streaming apps.

Paris, even though it may not be what is pictured, is also what I immediately thought of, from the GP's second link.

LEDBenchmark [1] does a good job with their own spectrum and flicker graphs. So far, the LED bulbs I have gotten based on their results have been good. [1] http://www.ledbenchmark.…

How DuckDuckGo generates revenue: https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates

A regional (to me) real estate web site that we had to work with had a data service that output XML. It was naively implemented and managed to output malformed XML. Mostly in the f…

Employee IDs. That is [not even close to] all. Sadly.

A few jobs ago (factory automation), we had a story from one of our projects where a device (would have been a PLC or relay panel) was failing. Rather than dust, metal filings had …

Also, (unsweetened) cacao nibs: http://navitasnaturals.com/product/439/Cacao-Nibs.html

The old Right Stuf website catalog [1] (old catalog not accessible) would list their pages with the first two letters of the first item's title on the page. I found it immensely he…

You might find ladder logic for PLCs interesting. It simulates old hardware relay systems.

In case this is not the explanation you found: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wat

That is starting to sound like 419eater.

My work machine is not nearly that beefy. :| I do often have 8-10 cmd windows open. According to task manager on my machine, each PS instance on start is 90-100MB. I didn't dig dee…

I know we have machines with lots of RAM now, but at 90-100MB (PS) vs 4MB (CMD) [1] RAM usage per instance (not counting the conhost instance that also spawns), I think I would sti…

This bit me badly when trying to pipe GPG output. I ended up building a command string and sending it to cmd. :|

News story from 2012: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/may/23/miller-...

This categorized approach is what my email usage has evolved into over the years. I ended up "demoting" email addresses over time and letting them be used for spam-attractive uses …

One of the earliest www rabbit holes I remember visiting: https://www.chroniclesofgeorge.com/ Surprised MF has not been mentioned, yet. http://www.metafilter.com/