Oh, and it supports Wake-On-LAN.

Try looking for an old slimline desktop PC from eBay. Some have very low specs. I personally bought 12 of these when I found them at a real bargain price. The model I have is IBM Netvista A40p, I bought them for around $35 each (including shipping from Germany) and they have 1GHz and 256MB RAM. I guess when saving is what you want, buying new hardware kind of defies the point. These do the trick, and their usage is low (when I did some tests I saw around 25W usage).

I wonder if posting source code is considered illegal as well... may be a way of working around the law.

Or perhaps record labels and software companies should be forced by law to send replacement CDs/DVDs for free if you mail them a scratched disc with a self-addressed envelope. Of course, this has its cons though, such as a very good replica fooling the company that the disc is original, and they would send an original one back.

Probably due to copyright / trademark issues with Kaizen Games.

Fastest Windows to shut down was Windows ME, closely followed by Windows 98. This basically involved a blue screen appearing before you even click on the start button, after which you press either the power button (to shutdown) or the reset button to reboot.

Only problem is that the US gallon is about 83% of the Imperial gallon. 42 US mpg is equivalent to 50.4 mpg in the UK.

Too bad that the world will end in 2012 :)

Adblock Plus will then check the browsing history to see whether the user frequents this site (this could be specified for example as "visited the site on three days of the last week") and then display a notification

What is the point of having the META tag then? Why are they discriminating between users who have a meta tag and those who don't? Will web developers have to stay wondering whether increasing the size of their HTML is going to reap enough benefits? Can't they just do the same thing for ALL sites, irrelevant of the META tag or not? It's pretty obvious that if someone puts up ads on their website, they want people to view them and be interested in them.

In 2004, thieves did the same thing in Malta, and stole a $5M Moon Rock

"The problem the thieves have is what to do with it," Joseph Richard Gutheinz, a retired NASA agent who helped recover the Honduras rock, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "They can try to sell it to private collectors or if they're sufficiently dumb, at an auction house."

The next generation of people from a US state to be familiar with and at ease with using Linux would go a long way to accepting Linux as a serious desktop contender.

It's not going to change the world, mind you, but it's yet another step towards demonopolisation of OSes :)

"Hey mom, could you give me a hand updating my kernel please?" On an equally serious note, will they be disallowed to use WINE until they're of legal age?

I'm mainly a MS user myself. I do use Linux occasionally, but I end up using Windows. Why? Because I can't play the games I want to play on Linux. I don't hate Microsoft as much as I hate being forced to use Windows if I want to play games. I want the situation to be fair -- if it is, Linux would improve, and Microsoft will do an extra effort to improve Windows to stop the loss of market share -- end result is a win situation for general public.

How about this? The EU decides that it wants to stop the monopoly of Windows for PC gaming and defines that game developers would need to follow certain criteria which would allow the games to be played on different OSes. This would be the ultimate blow to Microsoft, as gaming is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) excuse people give as to why they won't migrate from Windows to Linux. Such an influx of users would also mean that there are more 'hands on deck' to improve the Linux experience.

I remember in my childhood around 20 years ago wondering if and when this will happen. My estimates at the time were just about right (I estimated this to be happening big in about 5 or 6 years' time). Yes, it works, up until people start adding new features to it and it becomes bloated.