I'm guessing you have your own personal office then.
My workplace is in a large office-room shared with 5 other persons.
If even one of them is on the phone or is having a conversation with anyone else, it gets hard to concentrate on anything complex.
Especially since the volume at which people talk have a tendency to increase when more than one person is talking at the same time, for instance if several people is on the phone at the same time in the same room.
If I need to concentrate, I put on a pair of in-ear headphones with non-vocal music and put on a pair of hunting hearing protectors on top. Even though the hearing protection has much better noise dampening than any closed headphone I've ever tried, I still need the music in order to mask out the sound of annoying conversations.
Working in a shared, open landscape or cubicle landscape office makes it more or less impossible to be productive without a way of shutting out annoying noise and chatter.

I'm glad that I live in a country where it is illegal for the police, or other government organizations, to incite crime.
Like, for instance, trying to get people to do illegal acts by acting like activists, drug dealers, prostitutes, etc.
If you get arrested for a crime and it turns out that you were incited to the crime by the police, you can't be prosecuted.

Non-lethal weapon is a bad name for these kind of devices.
It's a weapon that torture the victim instead of killing him or her, so they should be called "Torture weapons" instead.
Much better description.
Would make people less prone to use them unnecessarily.
 

The best thing about the 486 was that with a small forced air cooler, they could be overclocked by 100%.
I ran my 25MHz 486SX at 50MHz. Performance was awesome when running the bus at 50MHz, but not all mainboards or graphics-cards could handle this.
In a lot of situations, a SX at 50MHz could outperform a DX2 at 50MHz, simply because the bus ran at 50 instead of 25MHz, like it did with the DX2-chips, even though the SX lacked an FPU. FPUs didn't really become important to mainstream computing until 3D-games became popular.

But this seems more focused on finding the mechanism behind why growing up in a "dirty" environment leads to fewer allergies.
Possibly, this could lead to a "cure" for those growing up in unhealthy environments, like having overprotective parents, living in a large city or for other reasons being unable to have a healthy childhood environment.
Maybe it is possible to develop something like those yoghurts with bacteria that helps people with an unhealthy or too sterile diet keep a working digestive system but for people who need something to keep them from developing allergies instead.

I've got a certain lamp that burn through bulbs, no matter what kind, at about three - six per year. It is of the bathroom-mounted kind with a built in transformer for a lower-voltage shaver-outlet.
My guess is that the built in transformer gives some kind of power spike back to the bulbs either at power on or power off...
Really annoying.

The use of the word "War" has inflated in a very hilarious way, especially among retarded politicians.
This isn't a war.
This is a fight against climate change.

Just like there is no war on terror, only a fight against terrorism.

There's a big difference between a fight and a state of war.

Also, if a large part of the reason why the Ivy Bridge CPU runs hotter is the smaller area of the chip and the changed thermal interface materials, this means that while the new CPU chip might run hotter than the previous one, it doesn't put out more heat.
The CPU is hotter but the heat sink is cooler since the energy can't be transferred from the chip to the heat sink fast enough.
If this is the case, then Intel need to do something about the CPU package before going to higher frequencies.
It also means that people needing the extra heat in their cold rooms would be disappointed since the heat output would be lower, not higher. ;-)

There are ways to get glass to be non-reflective too.
Personally, I've got matte screen protector films on my Ipad and Iphone instead. Makes the screens much, much more enjoyable.
The biggest problem it that, since the diffusing layer is so far from the actual screen due to the thickness of the digitizer/glass in front of the screen, it gets a bit "sparkly" and fuzzy.
A small price to pay to get a matte screen though...
If there was a good smartphone or tablet on the market with a matte screen as standard, I would switch the same day it was released.

At work I got rid of my 27" Imac and switched to a HP desktop with two matte 21.5" IPS-screens instead, just to get rid of the horrible reflective screen.
Looked into getting a 27" matte film to put on the screen first, but they where ridiculously expensive and the "sparkle"-effect is apparently really bad with those.

My first reaction reading the original post was the same.
Boycott the OS.
It's not very interesting in the first place and if the organizers are going to behave like sociopaths, they don't deserve to have anyone watch or take part in their event.