That's like saying driving to work and walking to work are both dangerous, I'd better be a hermit. It would be great to be absolutely safe in every way, but it just isn't realistic. Our world is a dangerous place out to get you and there isn't any way you can avoid all danger, all you can do (and do dozens of times each day) is use reasoning to pick the least dangerous options available.

You can download nice drivers for most printers from their website too that are just the basic driver. I never ever open those cd's they send with the printer anymore, even if you try using device manager to install the drivers off the CD it ends up running an installer and loading a whole slew of stuff.

"the police officers in charge of testing the 20 breathalyzers used by the Police Department did not carry out any tests on the equipment. Officers instead filled the test forms with numbers that matched the control sample" Wait, that's a mistake? I think headline needs to read "SFPD Breathalyzer test results forged, Puts Hundreds of DUI Convictions In Doubt" I don't see how you can accidentally not do part of your job and buy complete the paperwork that makes it look like you did your job - someone decided to do this, on purpose, and potentially let hundreds of drunk drivers off the hook and/or harm innocent people.

I bought a rather expensive Samsung one which was super buggy, and after 6 months the drive couldn't read discs any more... I managed to get store credit for it which I used towards a sony bluray player and aside from MKV playback over wifi being choppy when the resolution is above 640x480 (and the really nice feature the Samsung had where you could type in the specific minute/second in the movie you wanted to go to rather than fastforwarding/rewinding), it really is better in every way in my opinion.

Who wants to be the software they're using for this solution uses deCSS?

You can already buy inexpensive HDMI / Display Port to VGA / DVI adaptors.

I wonder if Fracking causes a similar effect for toads as Earthquakes do?

Latency

They've already done this in a lot of places by using pay and display meteres, where the time if on the ticket on your dash (sure, you can still pass the ticket on, but that's much less likely that just leaving the meter with the time on it).

Two TV's on at the same time, on different channels?

A lot of banks use services such as Advanced web analytics, which include bits of javascript from advanced-web-analytics.com inside their secure pages. I'm not sure how secure their servers are, but I for one have blocked their server on our proxy.

Except if one of France's nukes has a serious melt down - Germany will still suffer (albeit not as badly)

It's a problem because your call is being listened in on by spyware on the phone of the non-security concious user you just called?

I had an apartment where all the plugs were on one circuit, and we had to ask the person in the basement to reset the breaker when it popped. Thankfully the stove had an outlet (which drew it's power from the 40A circuit the stove was on) which we were able to plug the kitchen appliance into with a power bar, that prevented us from being in the dark until the other tennant came home!

I watched it last night on TV and the story was lame, but the kid's facial expressions were also damn creepy at times.