Why color-code them? Just make the saggers and jocks... er.. 'anyone' who can't keep their test scores up and continually slips on homework wear fry-cook hats to school. Let them get used to their eventual career dead-end.

It's hard to look like a badass in a striped red white and blue Hot Dog On A Stick hat that's as tall as your head, and a hairnet under that.

Duh. He lives on Cupertinalia. A place where all the architecture is sweeping and beautiful, everything has glowing logos, everyone drinks Kool-Aid and bows to the sweater-god, but if you want to add a washing machine or (god forbid) an extra ROOM onto your house you need to demolish the building and buy a new one. Not to mention keeping up with the Joneses on this year's house.

...fans, of course.

Fanless is a nice thought, but doesn't tend to work out well even when engineered on a whole to shunt heat efficiently. Not really going to find a mini-system that'll be able to be too quiet, but a nice mid-tower hidden in the back with a USB hub taped down by your TV usually works out well. Built mine with four (five, counting the PSU) 120mm fans; one intake/HDD, one exhaust, and two just to move air over the CM Hyper 212 CPU cooler (in/out sandwich).
Running all four at 800rpm makes them whisper-quiet; even with HDD isolation rubbers, the drive read/write is significantly louder than the fans.

Still keeps an Athlon X4 635, three 2TB WD Green drives, and a fanless Zotac GF 460 GTX down below 35C at idle (and that's just the HDDs peaking that, the rest idle about 27C), popping up to just shy of 60C on the video card at full load for an extended period; none of the rest going above 45C.

Tears along in zsnes, MAME, epsxe, pcsx2, mupen64... and can rock along in TF2 at 1920x1080 with no issues if something more modern is wanted.

tl;dr:

I dont care.

Yes, but how would you represent a 0? Timed gaps assuming constant airspeed? What about error-checking given expected bit-drops due to predation? Increased signal attentuation over time as the constant stream of pigeons turns your signal path into a more inviting target?
Actually, factoring in male versus female swallows in addition to that gap, birds are trinary-capable and thereby futureproofed.

Also, it's not exactly fair to compare these. After all, the main limitation of bird-based connectivity is more the latency involved; taking the same amount of time to transfer a 1MB file or several terabytes (assuming sufficient MicroSD cards and robustness of carrier).

1. Shocker. Apple having an engineering flaw? First time ever, huh? At least with this one you don't have to pick it up and drop it on a hard surface.
2. Make something idiot-proof, the world will always make a better idiot. Given time, with a new revision, a new jailbreak will be found.
3. Just because Apple won't like you doesn't make it any less 100% legal. Steve Jobs does not set the law, as much as iDrones (and Steve) seem to think so.
4. And gain functionality, just as with modding almost any other hardware.
5. See points 2, 3, and 4. Especially 2.

Yes, modding is a trade-off. If you aren't happy with the limits set by a manufacturer, you give up your warranty to make it work the way you want or need. It's expected that you have at least half a clue before you start, and accept the potential consequences.

Bah, tucking ribbon cables into drive bays. No one remembers cable-gami any more... young whippersnappers with your SATA cables, zip ties and stickum.
Give me a 40 or 80-conductor IDE cable and five minutes, I'll hand you back a cable that keeps ITSELF tight and flat to the back of the case. WAY better airflow than rounded cables, pointless spaghetti, or unmaintainable 'tree trunk' ziptied bundles most 'modern' cases tend to house at this point, just because the thin little cables are /easier/ for people who don't know what they're doing.

Well, that and.. y'know. The better throughput.

Because civilization didn't exist prior to the USA. Fiefdoms weren't a form of government, nor were tribal leaders or councils. </SARCASM>

Honestly, I'd say it's closer to 'I just noticed that the combination on your lock was 1-2-3-4, which any IDIOT is going to try, and changed it to your phone number so all your stuff doesn't get stolen'. Seriously, 'password1'? Even with external access disabled, there are a number of client browser-based exploit techniques which will try a default list of 'idiot passwords' (aka: defaults) which read as coming from your LAN as far as the router is concerned. A quick scripted set of commands and that external admin access is re-enabled... and most likely the 'router' is compromised not long after to provide a permanent path to your internal network. And what's the likelihood of someone who would leave a default password on their NAT device would know how to avoid getting hit by that sort of thing? I'd prefer to thank Verizon for closing off a potentially *huge* wave of new botnet zombies, which would be even less likely to be noticed by clueless end-users. Also, a good idea coming up with a relatively secure PW that said clueless end-users can look up just by turning their network bridge/modem over and looking at the sticker on the bottom, if they DO need it at some point. PS- If you haven't checked your network device's firewall settings and closed off any ports you aren't using, you have no right to complain. If you have done so, and they've re-opened it via TR-069 or a tftp'd config file on boot (or hidden scheduled reboot), you might have room to argue the point... or at least yell at a supervisor for half an hour to vent the frustration, even if they refuse to take your unit off that autoconfig list.