Faster and more clear: Left click on "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the icon tray and then left click on drive title example "Safely remove USM Mass Storage Device - Drive(G:)"

Had the same experience. In winamp there is an option about size of the buffer used for decoded audio. I usually set it to 5000ms but I remember it can be set much higher. This allowed for winamp to play even during the blue screen for limited time, often until the song ends depending on cause of the BSoD.

My thoughts exactly. I say lets keep them busy. Use VPNs, torrent clients, multiple instant messengers, in game messengers, VOIP, encrypted communication protocols, as many as possible at the same time. Let them do the work. Overload them. Make them give up on whole society surveillance.

Disclaimer: I am not citizen of EU, but my country is doing exactly the same for more than year, for no apparent reason. The government set up an regulatory body, that made recommendation for ISP to monitor and retain relevant internet traffic data and god knows what else for an year. The same regulatory body is the one that gives the licenses to the ISPs, so it is not too hard to imagine what happens to the ISP who dares not to obey the recommendation.

Why detecting the spin up? There is a signal line named /DISKCHANGE that should be used to detect if floppy disk is in drive. On PC floppy drives it is pin 34, but state that describes that disk is in drive is not determined by standard, i.e. it might be different on different drives.

... almost is never good enough.

You should check the pin outs on the floppy drives. /DISKCHANGE signal is ether on pin 11 or on pin 34.

http://home.mira.net/~bytey/PC-TaskScreen.html

Pin 34 should be /DISKCHANGE on "PC" floppy drives. No one seems to use it.

http://aminet.net/search?query=noclick

Amiga used hard wired control pins for managing floppy drive. As far As I can remember control pins used for disk detection were:
11. /CHNG Disk change, Low state == No disk in drive
14. /WPRO Write protect
15. /TK0 Disk drive head over track 0.
The key pin was pin 11. On a PC floppy drive pin 34 was disk change, surprisingly it was never used on Windows.

Again, wrong. If You have EVER opened an Amiga 500 floppy, you could see the sensor. The sensor that is not present is tho one that detects the other end of the head motion, that is usually track 81, on better drives 82.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what type of floppy drive an Amiga 1000 uses, I never had A1000.

But I do have an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200, both in working order, and a pile of external floppy drives, and internal floppy drive from Amiga 2000. Every single one of them has 0 track alignment sensor and uses it. The only way to get the different click sound is to deliberately ignore state of /TK0, pin 15, and to order head position to decrease. It is possible, but will not occur unless you disconnect the sensor.

If You need an photo of Amiga floppy with sensors, e-mail me on junky_space_fee(a_t)yahoo.com

Wrong. Commodore Amiga used standard industrial floppy drives, (as did Rolland for theirs midi boxes). Note: standard industrial floppy drives have noting in common with floppy drives used in Atari, Amstrad CPC and PC clones except for data storage medium. Amiga had capability of detecting floppy disks without spinning them, could use up to 4 floppy drives on single controller and DMA access was default mode for floppy use.

Ticking sound was meant as a reminder to prevent damage that could occur if hardware / cables were removed while Amiga was powered on. It could be silenced, an patch (CLI) command is available on http://aminet.net/disk/misc/anticlick.lha and the exe size is 178 bytes.

Even if floppy drives for PC clones had DMA capability there was no support form BIOS, or more likely floppy drives were too different for easy support via BIOS. Most of floppy drives could not even be rewired for DMA enabled operation. The only model that could be modified to respond to commands from DMA capable hardware as far as I know was Panasonic's JU-257A floppy drive.

Sounded strange to me too. After Facebook changed terms of service in a way to allow them to license and sub-license whatever Facebook users share I was considering to leave the FB forever. It was rumored that FB could have backdoor allowing monitoring of the all communications between users. When I saw this headline http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/facebook/5046447/Facebook-could-be-monitored-by-the-government.html I decided to erase my account and leave the FB forever because I was afraid that new terms of service and looks was not all that has changed.

I guess that The Pirate Bay has nothing to lose. Facebook is probably the most closed community on the internet, so getting in the one such community might look like a good strategic move.

I might, but in my country law says it is. The prosecutor had nothing, yet she was arrested. I'm just wondering what would have happened if they found that pictures on her boyfriend's MySpace account.