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You should review the terms of your warranty. I believe the standard is that they will replace the unit after it has to be serviced three times *for the same issue*. I can't recommend that you do it, but dumping electricity onto the mainboard is a pretty good solution. If you do it right it...

Any stress can deform a disc and make it unusable. It may sound silly about storing DVDs on a horizontal spindle (with each disc supporting its own weight), but those things weigh more than you'd think and over months and years it could cause problems. Not all jewel case clamps designed for...

Blah blah blah. I wouldn't go around marking up archival media with a felt tipped anything (or thermal transfers or stickers or ANYTHING), but I go through hundreds of DVDs a year (and yes, they're actively used) and they all get the Sharpie treatment. I've never had a coaster that could be...

Why announce something at a tradeshow in January when you can announce it at a more strategically sound time with a special event? I seem to recall the 3G IPhone announcement being a few months earlier than it should have been. All it means to me though is that Ars Technica won't get so...

I'm sorry. The problem is that you don't really follow Mac security or computer security in general. If you did, it would not have been vague at all. More here: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/28/apple-patches-patchy Of course, this means that your arguments are more or...

Apple has a less than stellar track record of responding to serious vulnerabilities. Cheer all you want, but they act like Microsoft circa 2002 and that's not nearly good enough.

"Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult." You know you come off as 100% fanboy, right? They did but now they don't but they still...

Targus is a good company to go to for something like this. They have adapter kits for just about any laptop under the sun. I'd be surprised if FS didn't have a section dedicated to them.

The report wasn't particularly damning. Unethical inaction with plausible deniability? I don't see the problem and I don't think anyone who would vote for McCain does either.

In addition to the above link, I'm pretty sure all of Google's hoaxes have been April Fools jokes.

You can perform remarkably complex tasks while intoxicated, even while on dissociatives and being nearly unconscious. In my experience, good judgement is compromised, then the ability to write/communicate coherently is lost, then good judgement goes out the window (to a very dangerous degree...

Because unless you secure the computer you're using, which is probably grounds for a firing, it's still not safe.

For 90% of users, Vista is perfectly fine. I wouldn't know about deploying it on a 100 business machines though. For my part, I barely notice operating systems these days.

Woah, a full page without anyone coming to McCain's defense? I'm going to guess that's because his position is indefensible. Does anyone believe the situation is at all better with him there than on the campaign trail?

How much space you'll save depends on how much uncompressed stuff you have. If it's mostly Xvids and ZIPs, you won't save much. Of course, compressing a 500GB drive is probably a really, really bad idea. I'm not sure how the system works today, but back in the 90s it was a great way to double...

If you really think either were involed, I'm fucking blocking you. Politics aside, I wouldn't trust someone who looks and talks like Sarah Palin with anything related to information security. Because gosh, she might be the kind of person that uses publicly available information in security...

You're such a n00b, OTB. You're not even trying to understand this in the context of /b/. /b/ is pretty apolitical. The odds are the information in that article is incorrect and the account was hijacked to upset people like you.

It's simple enough, reallly. Every mongoloid that passed the postal exam and could pull down $25,000 a year could get a $250,000 mortgage from Ditech. The key was that Ditech wasn't taking a lot of risk. Loans were done with little regard for viability because they were being packaged and...

The crowd response at the end was pretty inappropriate. I wonder if any of them felt weird applauding.

Mid range a year ago was the 8600GT, which had an MSRP of $200. The new mid range is the 9600GT, which is a much bigger leap than 7600 to 8600. And a reasonable price for an 8800GT today is $150.