Guess they want to follow Lenovo's lead ... Of course, Lenovo is a Chinese company who is going to be manufacturing some of their products in the US, I like that even better than the US company who is moving a few things back to the US.

If you have a drive that you could boot windows to this setting should stick once it is set, if you configure it inside of windows you should be able to run linux and the system will respect those settings that you configured.

I do allow my X220 to run full 100% charge, but it is rarely at 100% as I plug in most of the time and my battery is set to not start charging until it is below 70% ... As I move it from place to place and leave it in standby, and occasionally run on battery power, the battery slowly runs down to less than 70% and this setting keeps my battery from getting charge current more than an average of probably 4-5 times in a month. For my T510 that is always docked, the battery is set to start at 50% and stop at 80% since I just really don't use it or need the capacity.

This is one of my favorite features of the ThinkPad ... As a reseller, I generally set all of my clients systems to start at about 90-93% to prevent the 1% charge cycles.

Regulatory red tape is PART of the problem...

But IMO it doesnt take much to analyze the environment you have and protect it using additional meathods... Any hospital IT department that leaves their medical equipment open and exposed to malware or any internet (or even LAN) based attack / infection has already failed. There is no reason for an MRI machine to talk to the internet, even if the imaging storage and PACS system is off site restrict the traffic to only what is needed for that specific function. There is also no reason for the compuer in Medical Records to have the ability to ping the MRI machine, and it should not be able to. This is basic common sense to me, of course I've found that most people don't have common sense.

I worked as an IT Manager in a hospital for a few years, and know a little bit about this... The first issue is that these systems typically CAN NOT be upgraded, and this is not due to the MFG not wanting to upgrade, this is a FDA compliance issue... If they upgrade the software, they have to do some very expensive certifications with the FDA, these same certifications delay the release of medical equipment to the point that much of the technology is already close to being outdated when it hits the market.

Our solution, which seems simple enough, was that every type of medical equipment was located on a different physical network (for critical pt. monitoring equipment) or at a minimum a seperate VLAN on the main network. All network access to this equipment was blocked except for very specific exceptions that were allowed based on the absolute need of that piece of equipment. We had no issues with any of these infections or malware, although it did increase the man-hours overhead especially when working with the vendors that would sometimes wonder why they could not hit the internet from the X-Ray machine ... but we managed just fine.

No, I was already moving my stuff from them in response to SOPA.... The stuff not moved yet was not moved because it was not expired, and I didnt have the money to move everything all at once. The remaining expiration dates are approaching. I have not purchased or renewed anything from GoDaddy since the SOPA event.

+1 Namecheap.com ... I migrated about half my domains during the SOPA deal, was going to do the rest this month (just ran out of time) .... Now some of my sites are down, and you can bet they will be moved ASAP.

You realize that Analog cell phones went away a long time ago right? ... That's when we lost the "fuzzy" talk, ... Now when you have a bad signal you get choppy voice... which is something you get with DIGITAL (i.e. 1 and 0) signals. ???

Where are you finding your $250/hr CCNAs that take this long to do that kind of configuration? The couple of hours you spent on the Linksys should be plenty for a decent cisco guy to do the same on actual enterprise cisco hardware... just saying. And where could I get paid $250/hr to do CCNA work (I have a business, will consult, call me!).

Unfortionately, the current generation of ThinkPads are the last ones that will ship with the traditional 7 row keyboard. Lenovo has decided to put 6 row chicklet keyboards in every thinkpad system starting with the _30 line, including T, X, and W series. I have a T61 and my current T510 --- I have owned several other ThinkPads over the years, and I must say I am very disapointed with this change. The Chicklet keyboards they make are still best in class, actually very nice to type on, and I would have been ok with the move had they kept 7 rows but the 6 row design they came up with is a mess IMO.

There is only 3 compartments as previously stated, all of the other spaces on a sub are nothing but simple walls that would not stop fire, air, or fire from spreading. The doors between these spaces are less likely to stop something than the front door on your house. Fires on a submarine also get very hot very fast, there is nowhere for the heat to escape like you might imagine on a building, this causes other things to ignite. This is why we are trained to fight fires VERY QUICKLY because it does not take much time for a fire to get out of control. It doesn't take much to make a 20 something year old boat "not worth repairing", especially if it has not yet been refueled. when it comes to the destructive forces behind a fire, loosing critical cable bundles alone could cost millions of dollars to repair - Loss of critical systems is very expensive considering that every critical system would have to undergo some of the most challenging QA policies found anywhere (NASA actually took the Submarine QA manual and adapted it to their needs, the sub QA process is known as SUBSAFE). As far as things that could cause a fire to get out of control? Batteries, 440v electrical systems carrying massive amounts of current that have a non-traditional grounding system, 3000lb hydrolic systems, 4500lb air systems, oxygen lines and tanks, the list goes on and on.

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The compartment door between the forward compartment and the engine room is generally always closed. The engine room is a restricted area (more so than the forward compartment). Anything running through this hatch does have quick disconnects, even in an extended overhaul (which I have done). In addition, the actual reactor control room (Called Maneuvering) is equip with additional systems that maintain positive air flow into the room, which also assist with cooling that space, all designed to keep that room inhabitable during the worst of emergencies to include a steam line rupture. You will never find this room unmanned on a ship that is still commissioned with a reactor, whether it is shut down or not. SSBN (Ohio Class) and SSN (LA Class) veteran

Do you actually expect Google to make their system export in every possible format to every online suite on the internet? Really? You mention that to export a document you would have to convert to an intermediate format, really? Seems pretty easy, download the document in .DOC or .ODT or whatever, then upload that same document to the other service, --- Not like you HAD to have Office on your computer to do this.

What other Webmail service provides an easy "transfer my stuff to Gmail" feature? IMAP and POP3 are the standard ways to transfer email, and Gmail offering those is better than the other services already!

As the poster above said, grasping at straws... Your arguments really hold no water and make you look silly.

You realize that new games have been $60 for a very long time, and if you take into account the depreciation of our dollar, games are actually cheaper now than they have ever been. --- I buy 90% of my games new, and will continue to do so... I'm willing to pay because I find value with the product that justifies the price... According to sales numbers, I think a lot of people agree with me.