Fringe? Season one? I beg to differ, they aired S04E01 five days ago - at least in OUR universe. ;)

Fringe doesn't have to agree with our physics, because that's the premise of the show: that strange, unexplainable things happen - because, as we later find out, Walter had to mess around with stuff better left untouched.

It always depends on the scenario. In a sci-fi or fantasy environment, it doesn't annoy me (if done consistently and is generally fitting the scenario), while in "this is like real-life right now and here in this universe"-movies (or games, for that matter) it can drive me bat-shit.

Done exceptionally well: Mass Effect. You don't have to bother with the in-universe physics, if you don't want, but if you do, you can read all about how stuff works in the in-game Codex. They did it really well, because with their titular "mass effect", they can explain basically every tech in the game reasonably well.

Done exceptionally bad: "ENHANCE!" I'll just leave this here. Also, "Live Free or Die Hard"s whole "hacking"-crap (and several other scenes). Or "Hackers"' concept of it.

Gay porn can be very penetrating and if you don't like it, it can penetrate your mental vision for a long time.

Technically, it'd only be fair, if Samsung won that, but still - it's really childish. "Mommy, my brother broke my toy, break his toy, too!"
I detest Apple and own a Samsung Galaxy S2 myself, but really, Samsung, man up and don't go there. At least not for now. Let Apple try and sue you another time, then strike back. This crap needs to stop.

On a completely unrelated note - is there a way, I can patent "The use of charged, sub-atomic particles, for example electrons, for the transportation of information and/or energy"?

Aye, I'm not saying, it isn't a possibility, but at the same time, I also doubt, every OEM will join in happily, because the only thing, that'll happen, will be "those computer people" telling the technically illiterate to avoid #OEM because they lock down their systems. For reference, see Apple losing customers to Android (and Win Phone 7 *cough* ... nevermind that), because locking down your system = not cool.
So I guess, it'd be a self-regulating system to some degree (Also, if Win 8 with its Metro GUI stays as it is now, most people won't bother and simply skip it, because it's just no desktop OS; though of course, the lockdown possibilities will still persist for future OSs - though, not only Windows).

Also, I remotely remember reading or hearing something about Microsoft also trying to find a way to let people dual-boot, which also wouldn't surprise me, because they should know, that not everyone's going to jump on their lockdown-bandwagon.

"How manufacturers/retailers Can Lock non-stock-OSs Off PCs, that are sold with UEFI" But because this is /., this is OBVIOUSLEH!!!11 Microsofts fault, because they're requiring UEFI, thereby driving forward actual use of it, because at the moment, the majority of PCs still has a BIOS. But god beware, if TEH EVIL MS actually supports something new! How could they?! They're Microsoft, so there has to be something evil about it, even if you've got to pull your reasoning straight out of your buttocks.

I don't really keep constant track of it. I usually take a reading of a device after setting it up and then decide how to do it. My small server (EeeBox with ext. HDD) draws about 20 W on normal load and runs stuff like VibeStreamer, Subsonic or larger overnight downloads, so it's always on. My large fileserver is only on if I actually need it, as it's about 100 W. I mainly use it for backups or movies, so it can be off most of the time. As for my desktop, I usually shut it down, when I'm about to go AFK for more than one hour (including, of course, going to bed or work). It draws about 300 W (with peripherals; probably more, when I'm gaming), so there's really no need to let it run when I'm not using it. All other devices are on standby if I don't need them, as I've yet to encounter something that draws more than 0.2 W in standby. All in all, it probably is a good amount of energy, that I'm wasting in devices on standby, but I'm being honest here, I'm a lazy bum. Still, I don't pay insane amounts on my electrical bill, so I guess, I'm doing alright.

... irony meters all over the world just blew up.