Why do you think they made updates unavoidable in Windows 10?

It was also highly suspicious when they just started listing KB numbers instead of giving any info about what each update is. It seems an obvious move to make it much more difficult to tell what you are actually installing; presumably so they can sneak stuff through that people would normally question.

There is a company that makes lightdims, which are like tinting stickers that you can put over LEDs to dim them (block some of the light). They come in different strengths, even blackout.

I use them on the computers and other electronics in my bedroom since the LEDs collectively put out so much light it's hard to sleep.

You just need to look at the lumen ratings and find out what brightness corresponds to them. I have noticed that the equivalent wattages that they list are a bit higher than they should be. As a good rule of thumb 1600-2000 lumens is about equivalent to a 100-120 watt bulb.

Also note that CLFs take some time to warm up and reach full brightness. Comparing the bulbs right after you turn them on won't really work. If you give it a few minutes, you can do a better comparison.

It sounds kind of like a win-win for them. Either they:
A) kill off Hulu, or
B) get to charge customers additional fees for the same content

If they do kill it off, then they can claim that they tried on-demand digital distribution, but customers don't want it because it failed.

With film or digital, you can shoot at a faster shutter speed than the exposure time. With movie cameras, they use a rotary shutter with a wedge cut out of it that lets light expose the film. The angle of this wedge is called the shutter angle, and determines the relative amount of time that the film is exposed for each frame. It can be varied to achieve different effects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_disc_shutter Dropping half the frames is still an issue because the relative amount of blur is less in each frame, as you pointed out. It would tend to give it a somewhat choppier look. I do imagine that adding more motion blur would have be easier than converting to 3D.

Did anyone else read that headline as "Airforce Drone Comments on Malware"?

Extra strength placebo, then?

The cables aren't going to be altering the data passing though them (else you would see CRC errors and the transfer would retry). The only plausible explanation is that the cables are better shielded and normal ones' EMI could cause problems with the soundcard or DAC. However, given the super high frequencies involved, I imagine it would be unlikely to cause any effects in the audible range. A more reasonable explanation is that high end audio people have been sold on expensive cables, and this is simply an extension of that (regardless of any real benefit).

It seems wise to have a brewery on board. The last thing you want to do on a long deep space mission is run out of beer.