KDE3 is alive and well in the Trinity project: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/

.. also Total Recall.

I'm actually O.K. with this.

... a Beowulf cluster of these!

Except this is a sociological fix. It's not new technology, it's a new application of technology.

The hidden advantage of Lenovo is that all their stuff looks 10 years old, so no one bothers stealing it.

Well good. It'll spur change. These old media "ecosystems" need to be torn down.

"Technically interesting and very clever" is the definition of innovation.

I'll second this. People who work office jobs just don't get enough exercise. The way this works is that, when you're just sitting there, subconscious bits of your mind are thinking "I'm not moving at all! Must be bedtime.", then they try to "go to sleep". This would be true in a pre-industrial world, where anything worth doing involved movement. But now, you're sitting there watching TV or working at your desk, and parts of your brain are "asleep" (causing depression) and parts are alert and conscious.

The solution here is MORE BITS of encryption. Keeping your data private is simply a matter of making sure the strength of your encryption keeps pace with the "enemy"'s computing power (which is vast and growing, but not infinite).