Not all jobs are like that. For example, I work as a sysadmin and sometimes I do get to work overtime if something important fails or if what I have to do cannot be done during normal work hours (because it will disrupt the service). However, I cannot choose to work overtime because I need the money, the clients would not like that (as they would be charged more).

So, I repair my electronic devices or my car, unless I do not know how to solve that particular problem or do not have the skills/tools necessary to do it (for example, I do not know how to weld, so I cannot patch a rusted hole in my car).

Syberia, Sanitarium, American McGee's Alice, The Longest Journey, Secret Files, Broken Sword, Shelrock Holmes games and other adventure games would be kinda pointless without interesting and consistent plot.

OTOH, sure, Counter Strike or Team Fortress do not need a complicated plot.

What would the govt of some place like Egypt have given for a phone kill switch?

Nothing. All governments have a cellphone kill switch that affects an area.Just turn off the towers in that area and no phone will work. And I doubt that the government would go trough the trouble of identifying the protesters one by one and just disabling their phone (which can be done now, just block the IMEI).

The idea behind this is that the phone somehow discovers that it was stolen and then bricks itself, deleting all the data. If somebody stole my phone, the thief would not get service (after I notified the police and the provider), but he would still have my data. And.he could rewrite the IMEI to something else to get service.

Some protesters could have older phones without the kill switch. So, the more appropriate method is to ask (nicely, or send some guys with guns) the cell service providers to shut down all towers in the required area. This method works on all phones.

Cellphones are short range devices - if the government wants to, it can shut all of them down. Same with the internet.

What you need is a satellite phone and ham radio if you want to evade the government's attempts to silence you, for a while anyway.

What about Terminal Services? It may be a server, but it may be used by lots of regular users like a mainframe was used in the past instead of running IIS, Exchange or something like that.

A lot of people work "normal" 8-17 schedule or similar (9-18 etc), so they tend to go to sleep and get up at a certain wall clock time. Their bodies get so used to this schedule that they might even get up at the same time on weekends without an alarm clock.
Having to go to sleep one hour earlier (later) to wake up one hour earlier (later) throws them out of sync with their natural sleep cycle until the sleep cycle adjusts.

I have a weird sleep schedule (sleep during nights on work days and sleep during days when I do not have to go to work) so DST does not affect me, though I still hate adjusting all the clocks (my car, VCR, etc).

OTOH, people see Win8 UI hate it and not use Win8 despite the better security etc.

I recently installed Windows 7 - because newer games (that I wanted to play, like Bioshock Infinite) require DX10 or 11. I did not install Win8 because I hate the UI and the look of it - if I could have "Windows Classic" theme on Windows 8 (like it is on 7 and 2008), I would have used Windows 8. Yes, I can have Start menu on Win8 (actually I am using ClassicShell on 7 to have the Windows 2000 start menu (with search though)), but I cannot have window edges.

Do not want. All this complexity of modern cars makes me appreciate my classic car (no computers at all) more and more.

The metal evaporates. The thin part briefly gets really hot and so it evaporates faster (making it even thinner for the next time).

Pulsing, but not cooling off completely, does not damage the bulb as much as blinking. This is why some disco lights (that use incandescent bulbs) keep the bulbs warm (filament barely red) all the time. That makes the bulbs last longer.

Blinking lightbulbs wear out faster because of the thermal shock and also because the filament does not heat up evenly. The thinner parts of the filament heat up faster and more (because of lower thermal mass and higher resistance), later the heat gets distributed evenly. So, during the warm-up the thinner parts of the filament become even thinner. Slow turn-on circuits reduce the effect.

This was most evident in vacuum tube based computers - if you didn't turn them off, the tubes were more reliably than in a computer that was power cycled a lot.

Yes. So, those lights are further from the side of the road (and the ditch near it).

I guess the "both small lights on" mode was supposed to be used in other times.

The law probably required constant on lights. Also, blinking adds another relay and shortens the life of the bulb.

Yea, on my car only one side of the parking lights can be turned on at a time (the idea is to turn on the lights on the side of the car that is further from the side of the road) if I want the buzzer to stay silent. I can turn them on on both sides of the car at once, but the buzzer still sounds.

No, the idea is that if you leave the car parked on the side of the road and the road is dark (no lights), you leave the parking lights on so that other drivers can see your car and not hit it. Though the lights will turn off eventually (when the battery discharges).

Parking lights should be on when the engine is off (if you leave the car in a dark place).

My car has a buzzer to warn me when I leave the lights on (and remove the key and open the door). I guess they saved a really big relay and also there are times when I might want to leave the lights on. Also, in my country you have to have lights on all the time...