generally as close to the middle of the oven as possible. Don't bother if you have a gas oven though as they have inadequate temperature control.

Jetdirect 615N cards? I landed up baking mine to fix it, still works too. The 5th gen iPod logic board didn't fare to well in the toaster oven though.

Because they want to sell you that feature as "visual voice mail" for $2.99 a month. Who actually wants to spend money on voice mail?

There was a brief moment that companies released laptops with Thunderbolt (mostly Ivy Bridge platforms). Now its a rare feature outside of Apple's laptops. Microsoft didn't put Thunderbolt into the Surface 3 because of the DMA security concerns and "InstantGo" devices (source: http://technet.microsoft.com/e... )

Just keep Brannon Braga away.

The concept of transwarp beaming made an appearance in TNG, Season 7 Episode 22, Bloodlines. It was called "subspace beaming" though.

Voyager tried to bring in more of the Borg side of things..... tried. There was also that campy interactive movie game too.

The problem is the law is outdated. How many computer related positions were there in 1975 compared to today? Why was computer related work singled out for exemption to begin with? I can see management being included as its a step up the corporate ladder (usually with better pay to match), but a broad job title not tied to a rank/level in a corporation shouldn't be included in the law.

Even the "management" exemption can be abused. A friend of mine was recently promoted to an "exempt" title of "Team Leader". The problem is shortly after the promotion, his boss pulled him from the responsibility of actually managing people (nobody reports to him and he no longer does tasks assigned to the job title). He is under the mistaken impression that all salaried employees are denied overtime, which is incorrect (method of paid doesn't correlate to the exemption).

Or they just buy a Mac.... and change their credit card number.

The key management server that dishes out the activations should have caught that and prevented new installs from activating against it. Although that would be too logical if that was the case.

I remember ads for dongle emulators in the seedy advertising market place in the back of the magazine. Whats funny is how lazy software developers are when it comes to implementing the protection....

OEM copies of Windows (pre-Windows 8) generally aren't activated online, they use OEM SLP or SLIC keys paired with an installed certificate and OEM BIOS marker. Unless you install with System Builder or retail media, the restore discs/recovery partition image that come with OEM machines generally come SLIC activated. That being said, the Windows 7 keys on the side of countless OEM machines have never been activated against Microsoft's systems. It could even be the source of this person's keys.

This all changed with Windows 8 though, now OEMs have to embed a unique product key in each machine's UEFI BIOS and activate it online.

MS14-066 (along with the MS14-064 OLE fix) was released for POSReady 2009, so technically XP was patched for it. http://support.microsoft.com/k...

But Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 does. ;) I wonder if they have been keeping up with security patches, particularly the OLE one.

An extra $20 gets you a usable machine (sometimes it goes on sale for $200): http://www.microcenter.com/pro...

Granted it isn't as small as the Stream, but it certainly isn't bulky or heavy. 4GB of RAM is plenty for current apps and storage isn't a concern. I landed up getting two for a friend of mine to replace some really old XP boxen. Performance was good for day to day tasks and the Celeron N2830 has GPU accelerated video for playing 1080p cat videos on YouTube. The only "con" I have with it is that it only has 2 USB ports.