#4 really needs to be addressed. They need to stop doing that. It made sense when the server room was a closet, or in someone's house... it doesn't make sense in hosting environments.

Yea, just don't tell anyone that it's not doing anything and it's still there because nobody knows anything about it.

Or you could investigate stuff like this.

Hell, I remember when I was in Paris... I found a catacombs entrance without looking up directions simply because I recalled the intersection mentioned in Deus Ex.

(heh of course that one was completely wrong once you are down there)

You're forgetting about those electrolytic capacitors that tend to be clustered around the CPU... those will (eventually) dry and CPU/RAM voltages will begin to fall out of tolerance.

No more than the desk would...

Sure, if you're towing an antenna capable of sending a buttload of power with a wavelength measured between 10 and 100 kilometers...

Those high frequency emissions that any consumer digital device would emit (even when being tortured with a car battery) aren't going to make it very far with any appreciable strength.

You'd be better off trying to detect the sub by looking for magnetic flux disturbances (eg large conductive object moving within the earth's magnetic field) - they mount them to helicopters.

You're not weightless, you're just falling while moving so fast forward you miss the ground.

Have you ever fallen off of anything from height? Bungee jumping or parachuting perhaps? Then you've already felt it.

... until they counter with "well, how high have you been" and you have no answer better than 40,000 feet...

Port Security.

There's no "no" to say. "We're sorry, only devices installed by IT can access the network."

Yep.

The catering monkeys can wear that hat too.

Dogs are not so good at climbing trees to remove nests.

Are you stupid? 600 * $250k = $150 million. That's not chump-change.

Oh? Compare the night sky in, say, Los Angeles to that on a mountain in the middle of nowhere on a clear night.

It's even -better- outside the atmosphere.