As far as I know, it doesn't work this way. If his death would have restored to life all those servers, _then_ maybe it would be considered The Right Thing To Do®. However, committing suicide for having failed your customers is neither the norm nor encouraged.

That's right, but completely irrelevant in context.

So, the bottom line is that the Dell Mini 10v might be OK as regards the graphics (it's GMA950) which in turn means that it doesn't do HDMI and has an unfortunately lower vertical resolution than the Mini10v, but the wireless sucks and the touchpad probably sucks, the RAM is fixed too low.

You obviously meant a different laptop model for one of those because the Mini 10v can't have a lower resolution than the Mini 10v. Which model were you talking about?

Ah, I see. Thanks guys.

What? No way, those would be incredibly hard to read from. Which camera do you use?

I guess the majors are scared shitless by this kind of initiatives, hence their purchase of a new law.

That's a pretty neat way of doing things, but how would this law damage it?

I'm sure many people here know what that is about, but which processor had these design flaws? Googling gives me Amazon reviews of computers.

I don't claim to be a lawyer, but I have noticed that another case was thrown out despite the temperature being 179 F and that the Cambridge News reports that McDonald's serves hot coffee today at 85 C (185 F) in the UK and other places in the US serve coffee at up to 195 ÂF. Surely if the temperature itself is too high, then these establishments should be forced to drop their temperatures or shut down. What is the point in litigating after something happens? Isn't it better to just shut them down before there is harm?

Perhaps I should have said, "That doesn't make it sound any less absurd." because it doesn't. It still sounds bizarre to punish someone for doing something and then let them and other people continue to do it.

Does slashdot not do the  (degree) symbol or something?

Because it's not like the article is properly cited or anything, right? Look at the Wikipedia article as a list of citations with a description of each. You must be one of those people who repeats the latest talking point without the least amount of thought.

It's in the Wikipedia article. She was wearing cotton sweatpants which soaked up the hot coffee. In your case, you had the T-shirt on, and if you try to remember you'd probably see that you sort of pulled the shirt away from your skin when this happened (I know this is what I'd do). This person was old, and the coffee also spilt all over her sweatpants, therefore it would be harder to perform an equivalent action. In any case, the fact of the matter is that she did indeed get third-degree burns over 6% of her skin.

That doesn't make the case any less absurd, though.

Well, you're certainly right about that, but maybe you should have explained what you meant? I just read the first four results and two observed no elevated risk, but these two report an increased risk for certain kinds. I only read the results and do not know how to interpret them properly, what do you think?

Well, I've done it the other way around with Ubuntu, transferred a disk image to a virtual machine and it booted up just fine but that has all the drivers bundled in. You're right, those are problems I never thought of with my suggestion.

The only thing worse than that is: "Never mind, I fixed it."

If your recovery disks simply restore an image to the hard-drive, just install into a virtual machine, then download the the redistributable version of Windows XP SP3, then make an image of that and restore at your leisure.

In fact, try that even otherwise. Simply install to a Virtual Machine without internet access, then get the redistributable SP3 using your safe Linux distribution, then create a slipstreamed ISO inside your Virtual Machine and burn it in your Linux distribution if you can't have passthrough enabled in the virtual machine.

Never tried this myself (I use a Linux distro), but can't see why it shouldn't work, and it should be safe.

...for single player games they may tell friends and eventually somebody they know who likes the game may pay for it.

Ah, that's true, they may tell their friends, but they're likely to give their friends a copy too. I've never seen this phenomenon where one friend says, "Dude, this game is great. I got it from The Pirate Bay." and the other guy goes, "Hmm, maybe I should buy it." though maybe it's more prevalent elsewhere.