Remember this was a long, long time ago. Maybe ion's were heavier back then and could produce more thrust. The ion cannon on the ground at the start of EP 5 seemed to pack quite a bit of punch.

Not a reason to upgrade to Win 10. A tiny (180k ?) free download adds support for these if you want to use WMP.

The average new computer being sold today sits on a desk in an office or is a facebook machine at home. It will have in it 500GB to 1TB of storage on average ? Then whats the actual usage, 20% or less ? I have people asking me all the time, my computer is slow do I have too many pictures on it ? I look at their drive, 482GB capacity, 404GB free.

Sure there are some users who have hundreds of movies stored on their computer and businesses and datacenters who would love a drive like that but by number of computers, thats a small percentage. A majority of computers would do much better with just a SSD 1/4 the size of the HDD they currently have. A faster system overall, bootup times cut by 60%, 20-30 minutes more battery life in laptops....

It's about time, since there is no place else to buy electronics and gadgets on this internets.

I would bet many people saying surge protector are actually just using a power strip with an on/off switch or a power strip with a fuse or breaker. Their 'surge protector' has no surge arresting ability at all, just over current protection, to save it's self from someone drawing to much power though it.

Yes but half the time the TPMS comes on, the sensor it self has gone bad and the tire is fine. More systems monitoring more things = more things breaking. Same with self driving cars, even more things to break and more cars in the shop for even more expensive parts.

I thought mozilla was not for profit, so who's getting the money ? Then whats next, suggested (sponsored ) web pages, killing extensions like ad blockers and more annoyances. It just takes a second to say make chrome the default browser.

Thats why I buy from newegg, they never charge me tax. Amazon charges tax but not newegg, if they both have the same price I order from newegg since Im saving almost 10% in tax.

Ive seen that as well. But I have had drives that report a SMART error at boot for years and still never failed (nothing important on that drive, thats why I didnt care) Maybe they would just rather the end user surprisingly looses all their data one day, rather then be troubled by a message at boot up when a problem us suspected.

I would like to see SMART tools built into Windows and other OS's (maybe there are some I don't know about). Especially since some of my computers are up for 6 months or more at a time, a drive could be fine 4 or 5 months ago when it was last booted, but I wont get a smart message until next reboot, maybe a month or two from now, after it's to late.

What are there, maybe 4 school shootings per year in the US ? And 98,000 public schools. What does that make the odds of a school actually having a shooting, about 1 in 25,000 ?

Ive been running Waterfox (64 bit firefox) for several years now. I'm not sure what difference it really makes but makes me feel better.

How they work is the are hidden under the dash, usually with a Y cable running off the OBD2 port just for the power feed. Just plug and play, about a 5 minute install. The devices cost around $100. For a bit more you can get one with a battery back-up, so if the car is left abandoned, it will signal the dealer the vehicle battery is now dead and here is the location. usually once a day (often 23 hours apart) they send their location, so after a few weeks you know the car's typical location day and night.

Many times the customer is not told at all. It's still a grey area if this is legal since the car is property of the dealer. Once the car is paid off the device (and monthly service charge) is disabled. If the customer is told, it's not made clear what the device is used for. There will be a line in the sales contract saying - your vehicle may include an anti-theft device - That's all. What's not said is the anti-theft device only benefits the dealer, and will be used so the repoman can come pick up your car.

In the dealer defense, buy here - pay here customers are the bottom of the credit barrel and no big name dealer would touch them. They will have 1 or more repossessions, maybe 5 or more accounts in collections, a bunch more of charged off accounts they just gave up on and maybe an eviction from their last apartment. So the dealer knows they don't like to pay for things they buy. There is only about a 50% chance they will actually pay off the car they are buying.

Good. I was worried Android was getting ready to loose expandable storage, likely under pressure from manufactures, so they can charge ridiculous amount of money for extra storage. Like Apple has always done of course.

I still have and use an eee pc 1000hd. It has an extended battery and SSD, boots up very fast and runs a long time. For web, facebook, slashdot and youtube (not HD) its fine. I even have some games on it, warcraft 2 & 3, they run great on 8 year old hardware. This machine with non expandable 2gb ram and 32gb drive is just not going to do it for me. I can spend another 75$ and get a real mini laptop thats upgradeable for the future.