I just spat coffee on my monitor.

Now excuse me while I go huddle in the corner trying to make the memories of years of repeated dataloss go away.

Ewww. I hope you used protection and didn't just share code with the first random person you met online.

Could it be an alternative for solar concentration?

But then I have to ask why not just melt salts and store them so you get energy storage as well.

Except when I click the link it asks me to log into a windows live account.

I just did a bit of testing. Interestingly enough it asks me to login if I go to www.msn.com in Firefox, and in Chrome, but lets me through if go there in IE, just offering the copied from google login status bar across the top of the screen.

Very very interesting.

Well I always did think Fred Phelps was a pseudonym.

You haven't pulled apart many electronics have you? For the vast majority of consumer electronics shielding is either an after thought or poorly implemented borderline turning the system into an antenna to drag noise into the power supply. What is shielded in any system is typically the bare minimum. Transmission lines are shielded. Cables are shielded. In some cases the housings are shielded, in many other cases a tiny shield sits over a powersupply just enough to get that piece of paper that says Part 15 FCC compliance on it. Also my UHF puts out 0.935watt (though I don't believe my measurement equipment's 3rd significant digit), and a cell phone will rarely blast full power unless you're in a low signal area.

All of this is irrelevant though because there's only two things that matter here, one of which you pointed out:
1. There is no requirement to shield consumer electronics from external interference. (hence some screens, and I'm making note here that your screen may legitimately not be susceptible to interference, are affected and other's aren't)
2. There IS a requirement to shield electronics used for aviation. (hence the call to replace the monitors)

Is this a joke? I now need a Microsoft "Live" account to follow articles linked to by Slashdot?

I mean searching for 35000 walruses on google only provides about 2million hits the top one not being msn's sorry attempt at a failing portal.

Why not link to CNN or any of the other sites running the article. I can't believe I'm going to say this but why not link to someone's blog covering it?

Queensland here, we did away with our registration labels yesterday.

I'm inclined to believe it's the type of software being churned that would make a difference. Games are a classic example of things typically done right. A folder on the HDD with most of the stuff. A folder in the user profile to store the saves and settings, and a folder in the registry for the DRM shit. And most of the invasive stuff to the system (DRM, Battle.NET, Origin etc) are shared between games and thus not churned.

Now compare that with say changing antivirus software vendors, and filling up the computer with spyware and crapware from yet another worthless program downloaded from CNET and you may have a very different take on the whole idea.

The problem is that you have to know what you're doing.
The problem is that it's not automated on an application level.

Even those tools which market themselves as cleaners of registry often pick up items which are still needed and delete them or miss things which aren't. The core problem is that for the average user keeping the system clean is not possible on a windows machine and an attempt to clean it often breaks things in strange ways.

Heck just thinking back to DLL hell days "It appears this file is no longer needed do you want to keep or remove?"
The only thing Microsoft missed from it's uninstaller package is "ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY PUNK?"

You're assuming that a person made the effort to support that call.

But you're right that a package manager should resolve all that.

Nope, not if you follow the conversations going on below. All manner of "too hard", "units don't make sense", "our speedometers will implode", "OMG what about the streetsigns".

No if anything people have shown they give so much of a shit that it's clouding their judgement.

It's the switch-mode regulator inside them that provides the constant current which is radiating the RF. This is not unique to LEDs, and probably also not universal across LEDs. Instead it would depend on the design of the individual regulator, chosen switching frequency, and shielding. I have a bench supply which interferes with AM radio when I turn it on and the radio is sitting too close to it. "DC" hasn't really been nice clean "DC" for a long time.

Indeed I'd be interested in this cite too, since prior to 9/11 not only did I not hear of anyone asking for locked doors, but the opposite where pilots actually invited (typically younger) passengers into the cockpit for a look around.

Gone are the days.

While you may not have heard of it your sarcastic alarmist examples is way off the mark for what can take out any ordinary screen. I have a 1W UHF transmitter on my desk, when I push the PTT button my PC screen goes blank. It doesn't take much to interfere with digital signals, especially if you look at the quality of a typical digital signal these days.

You may not appreciate how on the very edge of not working most electronics actually are, employing all sorts of tricks such as digital signalling, shielding, transmission line impedance matching etc just to make things work at all.