I reformat my PC once a year on the off chance there is something going on I'm not aware of... and it never takes me more than an hour and a half to do so.

That may be true, but they still mark their CPU's down 10-20%, so I always by mine there.

For the i5 2500k: Newegg: $220 Microcenter: $180
Of course they do this to get you in the door and sell you other stuff, but I've never had a problem with sales people being pushy or not letting me leave. (My experience is at the Boston/Cambridge location)

The problem is that even if you're tech team is the most savvy in the world, you've still left yourself wide open to attack via social hacking. In terms of security, humans are and will always be the weakest link in a computer network.

Good luck keeping the CFO from being phished.

You can legislate only to a certain degree. That is, make companies responsible for the security of the information related to their CLIENTS. I personally don't care if a company loses their trade secrets to hackers, but I do care if they lose my personal information, credit card numbers, etc.

And as long as corporations are not controlled by the government, their security is their responsibility. Let them handle it.

I believe there was a story within the past year where a team of researchers found that they could determine with ~85% (if I recall) accuracy the sexual orientation of a facebook member simply by analyzing who they are friends with.

You don't have to declare yourself to come out -- someone else can do it for you. People who don't want to announce their sexuality (for whatever reason) are exposed every day -- not in the way stated above, maybe, but it certainly happens.

This sounds like a great way to get the shit beaten out of you (unless it's one of your "friends" who stole the bike).

This is a really old joke. It was very funny to me at first, but in reality by making that false 911 call you're buying yourself a free ticket to be arrested and jailed for the night. And for good reason.

(The only reason I brought this up is this joke supposedly originates from a Newspaper clipping, and the above statement makes that very unlikely to be true)

It's a sandbox game with linear progression and no time constraints.... it's not a genre for everyone.

If it is, it isn't very funny.

It's things like this that cause already frustrated /. readers to abandon the site because of consistent decline in article quality.

That being said, I don't think anyone every really leaves /. forever.