Even if it's dark, it's star would still be there, same mass bending space time to form a gravity well. If tinge star blew up, it would probably destroy the planet. If it escaped, you have an 11 jupiter sized bowling ball just waiting to be captured by another star, at just the right angle for a stable orbit?

Don't forget gravitational lending and wobble as other methods to detect exo planets.

I prefer Urr-a-nos

Vacuum still 8)

The biggest problem with these all in ones is that the pcs inside become obsolete well before the screen does. Most of my monitors have survived several pcs each. So I stick with Mac minis hoping that someday apple might just stick the brains of an iMac into amino chassis

You know printing presses were developed to allow mass production of the bible and other religious texts?

Surface rt with touchy keyboard?

They can also tell when random bob downloads and the shares with his contacts too so they can follow those contacts. It's already known their policy is to capture and keep ANYTHING encrypted. Trying to hide in a crowd of people not hiding actually makes you stand out.

That's why I encrypt my iPhone backup, and keep it local, not on iCloud.

Phew, I'm mad then the best encryption is made outside the USA so it doesn't have to be exported. Though this does mean is citizens may be restricted to the broken backdoored systems.

Unless you have to support or learn how to use any ms software. It is still the main way that I know of to install Dev software in our labs that don't have Internet access.

And of course, the us paid an informant to break the laws of another country to gather information without a warrant, or due process. Infant, wouldn't that make the informants actions industrial espionage? That might be illegal in some countries.

He is not a US citizen, and at no point did he betry Australia 8)

Mail, contacts and calendar - options are going to me.com - not really a fan of more tie in, but at least supports push mail to my phone and tablet, or a zimbra mailserver appliance as a VM. Online filestorage: Dropbox and Mega are filling that role nicely, I might ass an owncloud server on a VM. Online Office suite: you know, a crappy old PC with enough RAM running ubuntu, VMware Server, a desktop VM, and the above VMs, and VNC or X11 tunnelled over SSH works well enough for me. I can get VNC or SSH/X11 clients on just about anything. Could also run an Open SSL VPN appliance. Software cost for the above: free Might have to buy a DNS name, as DynDNS is getting less friendly, Ive already lost my old [host].homelinux.org domain from them 8(

for my desk at home, I simply took a blank wall plate fitted 4 USB cables. Cut a hole in the desk surface off to one side and mounted the plate. The USB cables then go back to an active USB hub mounted under the desk. My MAc Mini is held in place with a bracket under there too, with a circular port at the rear to bring cables up onto the desk. Ive got a USB superdrive uder the stand of my monitor, and keyboard and mous are cordless. The number of people who have simply thought the superdrive awas a new Mac is just rediculous 8)