That will work great, until someone cuts the phone and cable lines to your house and your modem goes dead.

When I used to work on security systems we would bring along a shovel for installs. We would bury the phone line and move the phone box inside to the basement. Made it inconvenient for the home owners if they needed changes to their service (they would have to be home to let the phone guy in), but gave them a heck of a lot more security.

For my own place I put up a dummy box with some wires running into it. If they cut the wire it set off the alarm.

The Flash updater annoyed me the last time I ran it. The last update I applied snuck some Mcafee software on to my machine.

The flash updater now has the checkbox checked by default for mcafee security scan plus, and they moved the checkbox so you don't notice it when you are glancing at the installer.

Would some of the credit card companies go for something like this? I would guess they like having a piece of plastic in your wallet that you might look at on a fairly constant basis. Free advertising and a reminder to charge more on card XYZ.

I once read that is the reason that credit cards have a 2 or 3 year expiration date. They could last longer and they know they could save money shipping and producing, but the card refresh is a chance to get the card in front of you again in the hopes that you will use it more.

Most gamers had to turn off superfetch in Vista, it did not do a good job releasing memory from the cache when a game needed it.

This is fairly unsafe...but it will work in a pinch.

This was suggested by an electrician to keep the house from freezing about 5 Christmases ago.

Turned off all of the breakers and the main...it would be bad to fry the lineman.

Picked up a 5500 watt generator, put it under the outside porch roof. Got heavy gauge wire, got the one end plugged into the 220v output of the generator. (Here is where it gets dangerous) got a male electric dryer plug and hooked it to the other end of the cable. Plugged that end into the dryer outlet. Tie-wrapped the heck out of this plug to the wall box.

Fired up the generator and turned on a few breakers to the furnace and water pump and a few outlets.

Yes, I know it would be bad if the main were turned on, yes I know it would be bad if it came unplugged and the male plug were exposed. This was only in a pinch and two weeks later got the same electrician back to hook up a break out box and do it the right way.

When I was in the Navy we were using this term well before the Internet. Over bad communication lines, it was used as Whiskey, Tango Foxtrot, over.
BOHICA and FUBAR has been around forever to.
Here's some more good military acronyms:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/inside_iraq_weblog/2008/06/whiskey-tango-f.html

I like POO from that list...well not literally. Point Of Origin.