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No, it's covered by the FDIC. Banks can offer better protections but at least 48 hours within discovery is mandatory. http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnfall09/debit_v...

The same is possible with a credit card - you can have your card maxed, get nailed with overage charges, declined transactions, etc. It's still a headache, but when I've had it happen to me I think I had the money restored within a few minutes of making the call.

They don't, protections are exactly the same.

They are. Protections are exactly the same (in the US at least.) You have protection from the moment that you learn of the problem, not when it happens.

Not that having your account drained doesn't suck, but your worst case scenario there isn't terrible unless you fail to check stuff and be responsible.

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Thanks for the submit! Crazy useful/interesting article!

Yes. http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/why_informa...

Most people that visit sites for new content get a tiny burst of pleasure. It's the same reason that people gamble, and the impulse is strong.

Unfortunately that's something of the lifecycle of online communities. Once they reach a critical mass people that probably shouldn't belong start congregating, sooner or later there seems to be a tipping point where things start racing down to the LCD of humor and insight. People start leaving and form another community.

HackerNews is surprising for the length of time it's managed to exist without turning into that. I have noticed that the quality of submissions has decreased over the past year.

What a fascinating concept. Not only can this potentially revolutionize the lives of millions of people, but the implications past that are staggering. If this was a standard option how many lives would be saved from the moment distractions? How many sleepy drivers would be saved from hurting themselves or others?

The next iteration of highways and freeways requires technology like this to happen. There's no reason that we can't travel much, much more quickly than we do currently and adapting cars to help prevent accidents and avoid the situations that cause them is a necessary catalyst.

How nice would it be to commute to work every day and avoid the traffic jams that plague cities?

I for one can't wait to see this progress.

This quote is one of my favorite Linus quotes ever. Bashing on Microsoft is such an 'in' thing to do and honestly it's so pointless. Many IT folk are stuck using their products for any of a number of reasons. Many of their products simply are the best fit for specific applications. It's so irritating to hear the constant Microsoft Sucks(tm) from people that either honestly know little about it or that bash unnecessarily. Every OS sucks, none are perfect.

The biggest gripe I have with that attitude is that it destroys the FOSS, Apple, and Linux movements. People that are new to the IT world don't have years of backgrounds with projects and are going to be picking up on the attitudes of the people already there as well as struggling through technical problems. If they're instantly exposed to a very negative attitude (towards themselves, others, or really anything) it's going to be a huge turnoff to whatever project it is. The negative/hateful attitude that a lot of people have towards Microsoft actively hurts the same cause that they're trying to help.

The other part of that is that with any social interaction someone that is constantly putting something down is perceived (usually rightfully so) as being insecure about their own inadequacies. I don't know about others, but Linux and Apple have both matured to the point that I'm quite comfortable quietly evangelizing and building others up, regardless of the OS choice.

It's time to relax guys, we finally have an atmosphere with the freedom to pick your own OS and to be happy with it. This is a GOOD time to be a nerd, and a fantastic time to share that passion and excitement with people from whatever background.

Besides, if there's someone to demonize, it's the people that don't take the time to secure their boxes. Those come from all distros/OS's and I'll gladly pass the pitchfork around for them!

I'm so glad to see other companies actually picking up the slack on space exploration. Hopefully they'll continue to pick up steam since it's looking like government funded exploration is more and more dead.

There's no reason that anyone under 30 today can't at least visit space cheaply in the future, unless we just give up.

Agreed. Many scientists can't even agree on the health benefits/drawbacks of foods like (cow) milk that we've ingested for centuries/millennium. Every other year for decades it's been called good or bad.

I have no interest in following health fads, until something is conclusive it's far too much energy (and indeed far too expensive) to try to play along. Most have a lifetime of a few months to a few years before they're discovered to be well-nigh worthless.

I'd rather invest time, energy, and money in my projects rather than trying to follow a diet. There's a lot of things to like in vegetarian diets, there's also a lot to like about meat (bacon anyone?)

With 18 years between new games and the inability to save, better make sure you're playing at the best of your abilities.

This is an awesome thing. I can't see tech-savvy people switching to IE and keeping it unless they prefer it. All of the less-tech-savvy people out there that catch wind of this will upgrade to IE8 Goodbye IE6!!!

I hope this does catch on :)

I too am impressed with Adam's character. He has managed to turn two very difficult lessons into something that shaped the rest of his life.

One of the lessons that I took from this is the value in learning lessons early on in life. He failed doing a small budget movie early-on in a spectacular manner which managed to help him avoid failing in a huge movie.

I also really liked how he related all of that to children, limits, and helping them grow.

Giving serious thought to getting a rackmount or cloud slice with these guys. Stories like these are darn impressive.

Materials act differently under different conditions. Lots of pressure can make some materials very brittle or even softer. Brittle materials plus the weight/stress from the water currents involved could be what they are referring to.

I don't know the specifics of how the steel/iron/other compounds would react to that pressure but that's a guess.

Edit:

Other sources leave out the pressure part, it looks like the weight of the cable would be the issue. I guess it's also why we don't have a space elevator yet.

This is amazingly awesome. At the end it talks about how this device connects to the surface using cabling thinner than a human hair. Technology just blows my mind.

My favorite choice is probably MythTV + Boxee for a nicer front-end/social media application. The Mac stuff is nice, but you're locked into a single hardware piece. MythTV + Boxee let you add/modify your hardware as you see fit, select the OS and all that.

Borrowing someone else's car is probably more hassle than it's worth. You'll have to deal with insurance, maintenance and there's problems, you risk that relationship.

You assume that older cars are cheap and newer ones aren't. Get something reliable (good engine, good transmission) that's ugly or damaged in some non-functional way. I've had friends that have driven $500 cars all their lives and had them work. The secret is finding something that nobody else wants for non-functional reasons.

Just jump in and try. You'll probably fail a few times. You learn and get better and try again. Eventually you'll get it. Or not, in which case time to try something new!

Ubuntu, so nice, it must be on there thrice. Lists like these often substitute fanboyism for open-minded reviews and the full range of possible packages.

You need to break lists like these down into categories, and then list out options. There's dozens of very, very good tools out there for about any problem you have each with a specific focus where they are the best.

Everyone has biases on what they prefer to use, but it's super important when you are influencing people that know less than you to give them the full picture.

Dave Ramsey plan?

This article leaves out all the people out there that simply use meetings as an excuse for social lives, the chance to be heard, or as a way out of actually working hard.

Does Howtoforge actually have created content? Every time I see one of their articles I see probably 5 absolutely identical articles on other sites. I'm not sure which way the ripping-off is happening.

If you take it a step further, there's always things that people are better at than you. Accordingly, you are constantly learning from everyone around you.

Unless you're always the smartest person in the room.

That's a pretty good response. Intelligence has nothing to do with intellectual abilities. 'Idiot savants' can do brilliant and amazing things. The smartest people in the world have trouble remembering where they put their glasses. Some people can recall every detail of every minute of their lives.

People are simply different. The people that feel that they are smarter than others are often way down the line. The really smart people are the ones that want to learn everything from everyone.

As it turns out, when you're always trying to be the teacher, you miss out on many of life's lessons.

You can retire well even if you only make $10 an hour for 40 years. It just requires you to be very frugal with your expenses and investing wisely. Let interest do the heavy lifting for your retirement :)

OpenDNS was having issues resolving Google yesterday. It looks like at least part of the problem today is DNS related. Anyone else experiencing that?

I've been a ham operator since I was 10 so I have a little experience on the subject. Interference can come from anything. Lots of power supplies for surprising devices are culprits. The little cheap universal AC/DC adapters are one of worst offenders. Power-lines, bad transformers, any business that has massive electrical devices.

TV's, (especially older) microwaves, vacuum cleaners... pretty much anything can cause interference. One of the worst culprits are the cordless handsets.

The biggest offenders aren't devices that use the same rough frequencies, it's ones that either splatter all over the place or have harmonic issues (multiples of frequencies, a 500MHz device can splatter 1,000MHZ, 1.5GHz, etc)

It would be nice to have more spectrum for use for digital devices. Hopefully in the US they continue moving the TV stations off and eventually provides more spectrum for growing wireless devices.

It's more than 56 :)