Most dangerous Xmas gift of 2017?
"When you buy directly from other countries you effectively bypass local trading standards and safety testing. Many of the products bought from international sellers on eBay may be made for an unregulated or less safety biased market. This video is my choice of what I believe may be one of the more dangerous products being sold in many forms. I'll guess that it may be based on an original product that may be made to safer standards, but the original has probably been buried under a flood of clones and style copies."
Why do so many Linux users prefer the command line to a GUI?
"Answer (1 of 51): The GUI interface allows you to have a visual, often pictorial cue as to what you want to achieve. For a CLI, the name of the command is the only cue. Often, there isn’t a menu to choose the best fit command from. So you do need your memory. What you get include: 1. Composabi..."
US nuclear tests killed far more civilians than we knew
"When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973."
December 27, 2017 4:40 pm Update
Why would anybody in their right minds click “yes, register this computer” and disable the safety of two factor authentication?
The Most Expensive Way to Steal Music
Sure, you can copy a record using resin.
Skunk Fur, Why Have We Forsaken You?
"It’s durable, warm, glamorous and striking. And it comes from an animal that is abundant in the wild, easy to trap, and easy to farm. In short, all the right boxes are checked for a great fur. It was also once the height of fashion. Yet today it’s rarely seen in stores, and a pelt sells for the price of a coffee. This is the conundrum that is skunk fur. Are the fur trade and consumers turning their noses up for no good reason?"