Get a cooling fan stand for it if you are going to use it as a media center extender, as that will drive it really hard. Mine went three red lights while I was streaming video from my PC.

Symantec? Ha! I would rather have nothing at all than Norton products. They are bloated resource hogs, and any script kiddie's concoction can disable them. People who know nothing about computers, but still own one for their work or their kids' school buy Norton crap purely on name recognition. All they are buying is a false sense of security.

The brain is much more complicated than a series of switches that can be set to one of two positions. No set of zeros and ones will ever be enough.

Placebos work when the problem is all in your head, but they will not cure or treat any real disease. Prescribe placebos for a staph infection, cancer, AIDS or any other real disease, and the patient will die. Homeopathy is just a placebo.

There will be some kind of conspiracy that keeps them off the shelves, like the one against nuclear light bulbs.

Shrinks are quacks, and have mad up so many mental disorders that everyone has two or three of them, and they can't wait to sell us snake oil pills. No one is normal, according to them.

The only thing that will motivate the lazy to get off their butts and do something is a TV making snow. So much for emergency service first responders who need the frequencies that the changeover will free up. I guess Congress thinks it is better for people to die in a fire than for the stupid and lazy to lose their idiot boxes. Read more

You aren't allowed to do jack shit in Windows without administrator privileges, so everyone gives themselves an administrator account. Also, once people are desensitized to cancel or allow dialogs, and just say "allow" to everything, they no longer provide any security. The problem with Windows is that it is used by the masses who know nothing about their computers except that they need one for work, or the kids need one for school. They are the security flaw that will never be fixed.

In Italy, it is a criminal act for cities to rig traffic lights with cameras to quick change. In the United States of Avarice, it is business as usual, and no one says boo about it.

Some other consequences: Emergency first responders were going to get new frequencies to improve their communications as of February 17. Forget that. People can die in a fire, but don't you dare take away my idiot box!

AT&T and Verizon were sold the freed up bandwidth that didn't go to emergency services. They will sue if their lawyers determine that they can sue the government. Find my whole take on this here.

Considering that Vista is a bigger disaster than ME, is almost universally hated, and never should have seen the light of day; of course they want to rush 7 out the door. No surprise at all.

Why does this take more than a simple majority? Could somebody clarify why there have to be 2/3?

I never used much SCSI, but I used to see a lot of Quantum IDE drives with a burned up chip on the circuit board. It was always their electronics going out, not the click of death.

Almost all the bricks in my junk pile are Maxtor, and Seagate seems to have become them by buying them.

You have two choices in hard drives: "Western Digital" and "Other". You are playing Russian Roulette with your data if you choose "other".