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I hear there is fiber in California MO too!

I was recently kicked off of Facebook for lack of an "Authentic Name." Humorously my name was my legal name. Getting kicked off of Facebook was the best thing to happen to my produ…

I think it is a bit of a generalization to say younger people mix business and personal lives. Opposite of you, I'm in my late 20s, the youngest person in my organization; and I ge…

I received an email from Vanguard regarding $20 for taking a survey. It seemed phishy as the domain that it was sent from wasn't @vanguard.com (or similar) and the enticement of a …

Many cards in America have foreign transaction fees. There may be other fees associated as well. That said I have looked into cards with no foreign transaction fees for future inte…

I've used MoC, Mpd + ncmpc, and I am currently using cmus ( http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ ). Currently cmus has been my favorite. Just another option.

I always thought it was from binary. 1 being on and 0 off.

Fresh out of college. Discussing with others it was pretty standard from conversion through a co-op program.

$60,000 But, that is with the federal government. 3 Weeks vacation + holidays & sick leave is nice, but with furloughs I'm beginning to look elsewhere for employment. I know spacex…

I asked my friend, a native German, about that last summer when I was in Germany. She said a lot of times that money does not even go to the person cleaning the toilets. I did pay …

I find it a bit easier. Very simple and easy to use interface. Very visual on comparing timelines of flights. I'm also fond of the no nonsense prices, no added fees. What is lackin…

Without altitude and temperature a Mach number is rather useless. (Depending on altitude the temperature and pressure changes which has an effect on the speed of sound.) Also was t…

I took that as a paraphrased quote from a tech journalist. I hope you are right though. I know from my experience with Flash on Linux that it is insane, Flash eventually consumes 4…

"Adobe says it has made tweaks that will shut down the Flash Player 10.1 when the system runs out of memory." I'm not sure that I would call that fixed.

But, the vehicle was already transporting suspects. That's like using a medical vehicle to transport combatants and then come back and pick up the wounded from the same vehicle.

SXSW isn't a tech conference. It's a music/film festival with an "interactive" section. I don't think I would consider the interactive section which is primarily made up of blogger…

I work for a gov agency and both linode and hosted sites work for me.

I work under DOI and works for me.

I thought about that a bit more and talked to our music director and I think you are right.

Actually radio stations pay licenses for rights to songs for satellite/internet radio, while music is sent to radio stations for free through promoters. I work at a small college r…

Things like this completely devalue the MIT Media Lab to me. I can only hope the creator did not receive a Masters for this.

I'd agree with that completely. My roommate recently interviewed with Facebook(we attend a state school in the midwest). The other candidates were going around saying where they we…

This doesn't mean NASA as a whole uses it. It really comes down to who is in charge of the project. Some NASA centers in certain departments mandate the use of certain technologies…

I'm a Debian guy, but I gladly put Ubuntu on family/friends computers. The big plus on Debian/Ubuntu for me is the package manager.