If one truly believes that the laptop will be stolen and the contents of the drive must never be revealed, then don't store the contents on the drive. Decoys, deception and hiding things in plain sight are paramount to paranoia. Yes, sometimes they are out to get you. Or place a small explosive charge within the drive itself that will be triggered unless an authorised command is sent. (yes, it can be done).

Everyone's an expert. Give it to Microsoft to write it on Windows 8 and Access and publish on IIS.

The problem is "IT Workers". This include a huge variety of "workers" and disciplines. There is no single qualification or group of qualifications that cover everything. I initially studied for 7 years in electronic engineering, radio communications, digital, analogue and control systems, programing, etc. After 40 years in the industry, I have migrated from one facet of IT to another as my interest changed. Every facet is becoming more specialized and people with a general knowledge across the board are becoming rare. If a CEO wants a business oriented CIO, then business must be studied, otherwise, pick your discipline. Learning is endless. For people like me, we are now consultants because we have broad levels of knowledge and know where to find the expertise. As consultants, we charge people a lot of money to tell them what they want to hear.

Excuse me, but you're not old enough yet. Eventually those tunes get lost in senior moments and you can listen to it all again without getting bored.

We already have a plan for any aliens that come to to planet Earth....Battleship..and Rihanna will save us. Whilst I am happy to search for alien life passively (observation), I am not so sure about doing it actively (big transmitters). Actively searching is like tracer bullets....they work both ways. ALL the life we have known on this planet (human, animal and plant) is powered by a need to survive and that usually means dominating other life. Would alien life be any different?

Operating systems should be seen and not heard. They should "just work" and do the bidding of the apps. There is little point in having a whiz bang OS/DE if the apps blow up in your face - or vice versa.

You obviously haven't seen Prometheus.

But did you carve "Multiben loves Sue" into the old Oak tree that everyone still reads today?

Program in binary. There are no limitations except the processor and time....a very, very lot of time.

I'm 64 years old (shock horror!) I began with vacuum tubes, discrete transistors, etc. I learned UNIX on an IBM1130 and went through many incarnations of many OS's. I now use Linux and reluctantly Scumsoft Windows (in a VM) have Android phones and tablets. Don't stop learning and evolving. If you can't beat them with code, beat them with experience but never give up.

I have an iPod, not an iPhone. However, the AppleMobileDeviceService.exe process is running in the background. I have never seen it gobble up cycles. It normally sits at "00" CPU. When I plug in the iPod, it jumps to an incredible "01" for a very short interval and then returns to "00". So, does anyone else have this process gobbles up to 50% of the CPU?

"It would be Yahoo's responsibility"......and you know this how? I would suspect that in an operation of this size there would be various responsibilities and Sky would have a large say in the specifications and implmentation...maybe I'm wrong though.

Good customer service requires that you think (or pretend to think) like a user. When dealing with thousands of customers, one must think at the lowest common denominator and that is someone who has NO idea what POP3 or IMAP is. Their email client has a facility to leave messages on the server, so some use that facility. The chaos that this can cause in migration would never be understood by the majority of users. I would suggest that those managing the migration were so wrapped up in the technical aspects of the migration that they forgot about the consequences of what they thought they were doing. Flawed methodology will ruin the best of intentions. The Sky is the limit with introverted, narrow minded incompetence. The results speak for themselves.

Not being able to believe in any form of super being, I find the Bible and its ilk just best selling novels. However, if it weren't for computers, we wouldn't be discussing this, so.... In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte. And from those he created the Word. And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else existed. And God separated the One from the Zero; and he saw it was good. And God said - Let the Data be; And so it happened. And God said - Let the Data go to their proper places. And he created floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks. And God said - Let the computers be, so there would be a place to put floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks. Thus God created computers and called them hardware. And there was no Software yet. But God created programs; small and big... And told them - Go and multiply yourselves and fill all the Memory. And God said -I will create the Programmer; And the Programmer will make new programs and govern over the computers and programs and Data. And God created the Programmer; and put him in Data Center;

I believe the term "high fidelity" has been removed from the dictionary these days. Listening to MP3 music at high levels through ear buds has probably robbed many ears of any fidelity. Not that MP3 could be deemed to have much fidelity anyway.