I have a set of 4 spotlights in my kitchen which I have 1 "40 LED" spot, 1 "Halogen" spot and 2 "Energy saving" spots. The Halogens last 2 months, the LEDs last 4 months and the Energy savers haven't been replaced in over a year. Halogens are much cheaper and brighter than LED and Energy savers. LEDs are expensive and need additional lighting for colour balance. Energy savers take 5 minutes to achieve full brightness. For this reason, I have the mixture in my kitchen. Halogen £0.79 Energy Saver £1.99 LED £4.99 I wont buy any more LED until the price is under £1.50

>You: Computers have made my life much easier.
>Harvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money.

>Note the slight difference there?

yes - but you missed the bit about efficiency. "Computers have made my life much easier." is usually how we express efficiency.

Over a decade ago I did a stint at a hospital looking after the pathology database. When it was down and paper records were required then lives were at risk due to the lack of efficiency (time spent accessing paper). It honestly scared me!

  I'm sure things are much much more reliant on computers now. Computers are not just for the hospital admins.

The worst month for the Flu is February.

What exactly would you do to secure those sort of apps into a "sensible implementation" that allows me to limit write access to the home folder?

This seems like a job for virtual machines. Run each one in a separate instance, and that instance is for all intents and purposes their "home directory". Something goes wrong, simply reset the machine's disk image and restore user data from a backup.

And, of course, once you're running apps in a VM, the host can use Linux and get all the security/stability/efficiency advantages of that on top of Window's app support.

Actually in the UK you have zero rights to create archive or backup copies of copyrighted media, at least you used to, this may have changed. There was actually a push by music companies to give you the right for a backup copy ( on the basis that a single company suing for a tape/mp3 copy to play in a car stereo would make them all look incredibly bad and force a much more liberal fair use law).

I believe UK law permits one workable version of anything you've a licence for (you can copy a SNES cart but you have to destroy the original and you can't circumvent copy protection measures). Also allows for recordings of broadcasts, provided you delete them after viewing or a reasonable time period.

Last.fm has streamed 275,000 years of audio around the world.

I'd love to know how much of that was stuff like Britney Spears

56,904,147 plays (1,246,583 listeners)

First, there's no such this as Chrome (from Google)...Maybe you should use your brain...

Maybe you should check your facts.

"Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier."

Get off it That is all

why would Amazon need to rely on a browser's cookie to identify returning customers? In order to display the custom pricing (or whatever else they want) before you log on.

No, seriously, boss. I was, ummmm, ummmm, simply using the Bing search engine. Seriously. Really. Please believe me!

Yes, I can has remembers that. I never logged onto Amazon from my work machine, and could see different prices between work and home. This was almost 10 years ago, I have not tested recently.

Of course when someone steals your laptop which is syncing to dropbox, the data is theirs.

Which has nothing to do with Dropbox.

Actually, on another machine synced with Dropbox, you could copy the files to another directory and empty the Dropbox folder. When online, the stolen machine will sync and delete its files, too.

I can tell you...that if this money is appropriated as Contracts & Grants monies or "Sponsored Research"...then there is A LOT of accounting going on

And people go to prison for abusing it.... "On October 20, 2008, the former grantee was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment and 3 years probation for violating 18 USC 666, which covers theft or bribery concerning federally funded programs."

USS Cobia, Manitowoc WI
They built 28 WWII subs up there and floated them down the Mississippi.

...from world-renowned scientist Jenny McCarthy.