My Mom purchased a laptop Aspire_V5-571-6499 (Windows OS) it won't work for her, after the refund date she tried to, she was stuck with it so gave it to me. Trying to make the battery to last longer some things weren't give the power they needed, one being the WiFi, even changing the power settings the WiFi is worthless, it worked on 1 of 3 routers I have and not reliably. My son now has it and not really all that computer literate so he'll never know (it has a land line).

Not sure if you talking about a motherboard (computer) or tablet. But I've always bought ASUS (one EVGA and the last). Have a P6X58D, first batch of i7's and it's rock solid still. Have a ASUS Z97 (Sabertooth) kicking around if I find the time or need I'll install it, but this one is working just fine.

and always look for another source to verify. All references are to "ask Ethan" and this article.

Stick the subject line into a search machine and look at all of the pictures of single atoms.

  I remember many many years ago of the atoms at the end of a pin.

A link to images https://www.google.com/search?...

My first impression of a coffee machine being sold at Walmart (Keurig) that only took specialized coffee pods and no others.

And I read the box, think of all those who didn't, and just grabbed a handy coffee machine as the price wasn't bad.

Samsung S5, after switching to 5.0 I have to recharge twice a day. The usage shows the OS taking all the power. A lot of times I've found it's turned itself off as it's out of power.

it was just a grab http://gizmodo.com/5943266/thi... while they call it a waste of time it sure meets the needs of small devices

Long time ago Risk Digest had an article where the latest and greatest air craft carrier failed left drifting in the water when the operating system (NT) had a divide by zero error.

Doing a global search the best I could come across was this one article.

(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/12/emals_backfire/)

The article describes an incident where, apparently, a test of the US Navy's
new Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) failed because it
unexpectedly went in reverse, destroying 'important equipment' and delaying
the program by several months. The failure has been blamed on a software
problem.

Given that such a device only has two possible ways to move - forwards or
backwards - one wonders just how it happened. However, I'm sure that it is
far more complicated than I realise.

What is most risky is the attitude of EMALS programme chief Captain Randy
Mahr who says, "The things that are delaying me right now are software
integration issues, which can be fine-tuned after the equipment is installed
in the ship."

I think most RISKS readers will agree that on-board ship will be the worst
place to finish the software. (However it will be the best place in order to
claim to your paymasters that the project is complete and operational - bar
a minor software glitch that may not happen again. And even if it does, it
may not kill or injure anyone as long as we remember to tell everyone to
stand well away from the back of the machine as well as the front.)"

a lot had to be removed due to "junk charters"
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So little subject space.

Back in January /. had an article: that "just 9% of Google+'s 2.2 billion users actively post public content. "We've got a grand spanking total of 24 profiles out of 7,875 whose 2015 post activity isn't YouTube comments but Google+ posts." http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

I've avoided Google +, even got it removed from my account, at which point when I log into Google now I'm given the choice of which one of two accounts to log in with, both mine, both old, so one with Google +, one without. I only log into Google to post videos to Youtube then log off, POPing my Gmail, to my computer.

I have a 4 second video nobody likes, and the comments threating, yet it's seen 500K views - the demographics one gets with that kind of activity is amazing, and justifies logging in only when one must, and logging off as soon as possible.

I agree. While the levels of Mercury are very high, they do want to do this one right and in no hurry.

You'd know him from the Terracotta warriors uncovered. The Burial site is close to being a wonder of the world and it's known where it's at. They won't dig there due to the high levels of Mercury measured at the site, a vast simulated area of water was created using Mercury in the tomb (as claimed by legends). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...

All of the early civilizations of pre-Columbian America used Cinnabar (a source of Mercury) in their rituals and almost always at burial sites due to it's red color.

Microsoft makes $5.00 for every cell phone sold (would have to find the cite which I still have... somewhere)

At the least a selling point to investors, No mention of the TPM chip. I bought my motherboards due to their lack of a TPM chip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... (it's Hardware, it's a damn chip).

Now it's almost certain your new motherboard has a TPM chip installed. It's bloody overkill, the difference (I see) between PlayReady and the TPM chips are the availability and path the keys take.

To Quote Wikipedia:
"Almost any encryption-enabled application can, in theory, make use of a TPM, including:
digital rights management
protection and enforcement of software licenses.
prevention of cheating in online games.