One of the reasons that drug companies put acetaminophen in things like hydrocodone and dextropropoxyphene in the first place is because they make it more difficult (ironically) to overdose on or use recreationally.

Of course, instead of the intended effect of less drug abuse, we now have more liver failures, at a higher societal cost. This is the same thinking that has people opposed to clean needles programs - does less clean needles mean people will inject less? No, actually they will still inject, and they will have a higher chance of contracting Hepatitis or HIV.

Foam corners on desks has downsides - it would be ugly. Will separating codeine and acetaminophen in prescription drugs have any affect other than saving lives?

Giant TVs everywhere happened.

Here's a video from dl.tv: http://dl.tv/2008/01/ces_2008_microvision_show_proj.php

There's no mention of battery life, and it looks like the framerate might be terrible, but it's a real product!

There's no price, and demo of this thing working, because it doesn't exist yet. But they do have CG mockups in 10 different colors!

Control Panel, Firewall, Change Settings, Advanced, deselect every network interface.

As you noticed, just turning the firewall off in the General tab will not be permanent. In Vista, at least, the firewall will be turned back on when you switch networks (connect to a wireless network or plug in an ethernet cable).

Of course, Windows didn't have memory protection until Windows NT (1993), and Macs until MacOS X (2001). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_protection

That hasn't been true since like 1980, when processors started coming out with MMUs. Learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_unit

If I don't have remote security, nothing else matters.

This is not true. There are plenty of things in place on your linux box that minimize the impact of a network intrusion.

First of all, you run network services as nonprivileged users. If I find a vulnerability in your ntpd, and exploit it, I can't for example delete files or shut down the server, or setup a keylogger, because the ntpd user doesn't have the rights to do any of that.

You might even run certain services in chroot jails, where they have no access to most of the filesystem.

However, a local root exploit makes this all much more serious. You would be able to turn the unprivileged ntpd login into a root login.

If you don't run any network services at all (or you firewall them from the world), fine, local exploits aren't going to be an issue for you.

A local exploit is a potential problem even if you're the only user. If an attacker combines a remote non-root exploit (say an Apache bug that gets him access as the 'nobody' user) with a local exploit (that upgrades 'nobody' to 'root'), he now has a remove root exploit.

Local in this case just means a logged-in, unprivileged user that can run arbitrary code.

Read up on blended threats.

I think you just mean watts, not watts per hour.

Another common unit for power is kilowatt hours per year (1 W = 8.77 kWh/yr).

It's not a myth. The myth I see is people spending big $$$ on a quality gold-plated monster composite video cable. Even the cheapest (shielded) S-video cable will produce a better picture. Just look at the setup menu text on any cheap DVD player. Text with fine vertical lines would look blurry and have bleeding colour with composite video, but be crisp with S-video. Hook up your computer to a TV via composite and S-video and tell me which picture is more readable.

I could see your point if we were talking about VHS. Regular VCRs (not S-VHS) only had composite out because that's as good as the signal on the tape is going to get. But DVD players, computers, and ATSC TV signals will all show improvement with S-video.

I guess you posted anonymously because you're full of shit.

Oops, I mean it only allocates/take up enough disk space to hold the single byte you've written.

That doesn't allocate any space at all. It just creates a sparse file.

Besides, even if you did write all the bytes to disk, it still wouldn't be the same as an extent, because extents are contiguous (not fragmented).

Oops, not just "new" sets, but the point stands that the larger sets are not going to be CRTs.