Again... No one cares about whether it's backed. The real question is who accepts it as legal tender for actual goods and services? Newegg does. I get that this is small potatoes, but something is always worth it to someone else. And the previous poster is pretty on point. Our $$ are no longer backed by the gold standard.

That's a hard one. And I'll be up front. Don't care, will never attempt to mine... There are real world vendors out there that will accept Bitcoin as legal tender to buy actual goods. Newegg is the easiest example. It's worth something to those who will accept it.

The opposite of "switch"? I mean, I get that the controller bits can also be switched out too, but isn't the point of this to be able to switch between TV connection and portability?

Bless tech support, of course. But you can't fix stupid. I am working with someone who wants a new win install, but does not know how to boot from CD.

Two docs by two different people to be dead. Seems simple enough by someone in the know. In terms of life, all I can think of is the scenes from The Shawshank Redemption. Randall Stevens was created through the mail, but one needs a birth cert, a social security number, a bank account, a driver's license. As far as I can tell, that's the minimum to live a real life here in the US. How can one hack all of the above today? A DL in NJ required "six points of ID" presented in person. So... How can one hack a new life after hacking the death of an old one?

One certainly does have to manage their public image on the interwebs. It's out there forever. I am a high school teacher. I do have a facebook account. And yes, Virginia, I do watch what's out there and what gets shared, tagged, posted, etc. I have asked friends and students to mind what they post and to take things down I don't want published. I don't know if it's a generational thing. I've telecommunicated since the days of 300 baud dialup and BBSes. I've largely kept my online persona in good repair. I do watch what I type because my students can find me online in a pinch, so I censor my tweets, etc. I don't know if kids are as concerned. Today's infrastructure for communication is way different for my students. Texts, tweets, FB postings, forums, and email are all acceptable forms of meaningful communication. Though I think kids mainly use email as a digital bridge between them and us old fogeys. But in the end, it all has to be managed, cuz people DO judge. It's common sense. S

Amen, baby! It baffles me that people would put a dumb, personal email address on a resume, business card, or even in an email message. I am a teacher and I get email from parents with addresses like "doglover@verizon.net" or "24beers@comcast.net". There's a line. If you are going to put yourself out there professionally, then your email address should reflect that professionalism. No parent ever gets my personal email address. I only use my school-provided email for work stuff and it bolsters my image. Sure, myname@isp.com works great, but it's not the same as myname@school.grade.state.us.

Putting a live XP or Linux distribution onto it makes it a fine rescue disk.
Give 'em to your church.
Use them for backups of small things.
Add them to the internal usb ports on your pc or pci card for some hidden always-available storage.

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