It's so you can run your AMD SSD with your AMD RAM brought together by your AMD CPU and your AMD graphics card inside your AMD case. Now all they need is an AMD motherboard and an AMD power supply and you'll be able to build a computer with nothing but AMD.

Not exactly. If they say the game is 1080p, you'd be right to say that 960x1080 presented at 1920x1080 is still accurate. However, if they say the game is at native 1080p, the only definition that fits the bill is 1920x1080 presented at 1920x1080. Sony said the latter.

That would be the CFAA and the Fourth Amendment (but who gives a shit about the Fourth anyway?)

The simplest one is PPTP. Windows (at least the professional version) has a server for this. Set it up in the Windows network center and open the port on your router. Just about every OS out there (including Android and iOS) has a VPN client capable of PPTP. Point that to your external IP, put in the username and password, and you're off to the races. After that, all that information is saved and all you have to do is hit "connect". There are various other protocols with extra levels of security and difficulty, but PPTP will get you a basic VPN pretty quickly that will still be more secure than exposing a private NAS to the internet.

Yep, I have to "fuck with VPNs" whenever I need to access my stuff. Hitting that "connect" button is really hard, you know.

Hey, that sounds like my rig! >4000 on Passmark after 5 years and still rocking as my main. Oh, except I payed $800 initially and added in a $200 GPU a little later. I'm not sure why anyone would buy a prebuilt desktop.

Wait... I must not have read well enough. Surface temperature? As in, the temperature of the heat sink itself? No mention of CPU temperature? That thing must be boiling under "normal use".

I dunno. How many successful people drink alcohol? The answer? Nearly all of them. So, then, why would these successful people want to escape into mind alteration? Try again.

I don't know how parent does it, but I'll tell you how I do it. I've got a dedicated server that is wired in (I wouldn't recommend WiFi for the server). I use samba on linux for sharing from the server. The same exact thing can be accomplished through Windows by just sharing a folder. My home theater pc is on WiFi (TVs in a bad place to wire it in) and runs XBMC. Share two folders from the server, one for TV shows and one for movies. Tell XBMC where to grab them from, it will automatically pull descriptions and cover art and then you have a basic HTPC setup. You can control XBMC from keyboard/mouse or any remote control that works with PCs. There are also XBMC controller apps for both Android and iOS. I like this setup because both the server and XBMC will work on whatever computer you have, with whatever OS you have on it. My wife likes it because she can pick up her phone and have a movie playing on the TV faster than you could grab a DVD off the shelf.

Handbrake would work well for you. It can rip the DVD and transcode it to MP4 in one shot.

Could just write the whole number out. "The company brought in over $19,000,000,000 in revenue last quarter, but reported a net loss of $126,000,000. Sure, it looks a bit weird at first, but it does have the bonus effect of giving people a sense of scale.

You do know Microsoft was doing public betas at least as early as Windows 98, right?

That's the point. When they know certain conditions, they can predict, with some level of accuracy, what evolutions will take place.

My slashdot password does not need to be high entropy. I can probably use the same password for a soylentnews account. While it's true that if one gets compromised, they both do, guess what? I don't care. Nope. Not one bit. Facebook's different, email's different, my bank is different. What do I care if my pointless accounts get compromised? If you're using these types of accounts on computers you don't control, it makes sense to have easy to remember passwords and keep the high-entropy passwords for the actually important stuff.

Actually, you do. If you kill someone because you were driving recklessly, that's called "involuntary manslaughter" and you do go to jail for it.