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I think not.

The IBM PC was introduced on August 12, 1981.

Yet, here is a 1978 Computerworld article, slinging the phrase about with abandon

No, actually, the article does no such thing. The term was "personal computer". The acronym "PC" appears nowhere in that article, which should be no surprize because it was not in common usage at that time. "Personal computer", on the other hand was widely used to describe a variety of different platforms available at that time. "PC" comes from "IBM PC" and it's clones. It only gained a tentative broader definition after nearly all alternatives to the IBM PC linage were extinguished.

I think not.

The IBM PC was introduced on August 12, 1981.

Yet, here is a 1978 Computerworld article, slinging the phrase about with abandon

For future reference, if you googled Libre Office Release Schedule you could have saved yourself some trouble. Substitute any other project with admittedly varying results. e.g. Mageia 3 Release Schedule.

For Chrome at least, have you done some remote debugging, as outlined here in this article: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging ? Doing this lets you use the built-in Chrome DevTools to track what JavaScript events fire, set breakpoints for your JavaScript, etc.

I did this out of curiosity, and found that m.slashdot.org gets "stuck" -- that is, when attempting to scroll, the page doesn't move. Upon inspecting events, it appears that something's attempting to recalculate the stying, and also firing off/detecting a whole bunch of "scroll", "touch", "touchstart" and "touchmove" events at once. Though, that "recalculate style" event occurs _every_time_ that scrolling gets "stuck". The pattern seems to be this: // single scroll
"Recalculate Style"
"Recalculate Style"
"Event(scroll)" (varying "scroll", "touch", "touchstart" and "touchmove", at least 10+ occurrences at once) // end single scroll

Do you have code somewhere that's trying to detect scroll-related events? Maybe there's a touch-related (module of an) API that you're using (unnecessarily)? I looked at events that occur while scrolling on coding.smashingmagazine.com, m.bbc.co.uk/news, and allthingsd.com. The last one also fires a series of scroll events, but they're all just "scroll" events and not the various "touch", "touchstart", and "touchmove" events m.slashdot.org is firing. And, the "recalculate style" event doesn't occur either.

One trigger of stuck scrolling appears to be an attempt to invoke a scroll by dragging your finger at a 45 degree angle. Actually, it appears to happen at most angles other than up-down/90 degrees (i.e., dragging your finger vertically, from the top of the screen toward the bottom). Interestingly, you should be able to scroll a page even with a 45 degree angled drag on most pages (it worked on m.bbc.co.uk and coding.smashingmagazine.com, but not on allthingsd.com).

Also, on that "scrolling being interpreted as clicks" issue, it appears there's something wrong with Zepto.js (at least, that was the comment at the beginning of the file). Specifically, the error that was thrown about the time that the issue occurred: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'trigger' of undefined". DevTools points at line 5/the first line of actual code, but as it's minified it's very hard to say what code is the culprit. I haven't been able to duplicate this to verify, and I have no idea what I did to cause the issue to occur.

I'm using Chrome 18.0.1025469 on a Galaxy Nexus, running Android 4.1.1.

Are you saying the Powerpuff Girls grew up and became hookers? I knew the economy was bad but that is just depressing...

I don't know about depressing... I always had a thing for Blossom; so now if she'll just take a bit of cash, my childhood fantasy can come true!

Are you serious? How the hell do you make it to Slashdot and not know about Rule 34?!

From the Rules of the Internet:
Rule 34: If it exists there is porn of it, no exceptions.
Rule 35: If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made.

Just add "rule 34" to any search term for the porn version. (search results w/ safe=off, links may be NSFW). Since this is your first time here's some complimentary Star Wars Rule 34., or if you're more the mile-high club type: Why not declare Rule 34 on Jets? (both SFW, non nudes)

If you need to invoke rule 35, just proclaim rule 34 has been violated to the right folks, then wait.

Welcome to the Internet.

Google doesn't need new hardware for Chrome OS. They just need more marketing, because they're already doing well.

Imagine for a moment that you're a small business, such as a plumbing company. You don't have a full-time IT staff. You have maybe 10-30 computers.

You're probably buying your PCs retail. Then you have to buy a Windows server, and pay someone to set it up. You buy CALs for users and computers. A second back-up server is probably out of your budget. Off-site data back-ups are probably out of the question.

Who administers your network to keep it safe and secure? How to do you prevent malware and viruses? Administer your email?

You pay a bunch upfront, and then never know when you need to bring in an IT company to fix things. Your IT budget is completely unknown.

Or, you get Chromebooks. Google used to offer packages to lease them for $25/$30 a month. Not sure if they still do, but you can get them for $250 if not. You don't have to have your own server, unless you need Citrix for proprietary Windows apps. Your data is in the cloud. You don't have to run a mail server. Anyone can sit at any PC and instantly have their work. You don't pay an IT staff. You can budget easily for IT costs.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/

Further to my above comment -- see: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9907256353585916992&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr in which a US court held that the title "The Book of Virtues" was eligible for trademark protection, because it had acquired "secondary meaning", i.e. it was associated by consumers with a particular source. Now, I make no argument that this is true for "space marines" -- it blatantly isn't -- but it does mean that your suggestion that book titles in the US cannot be trademarks is clearly wrong.

I don't know - last time I actually had any insight into this, it was a very worrisome topic for the brass, at least for the US. So much so they banned working USB ports on all computers, among other things.

Google understands Chinese

They don't seem overly worried about all the fake Chinese chips showing up in our respective air forces.
Too many links so here's a google search, https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=seamonkey-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&spell=1&q=counterfeit+chips+canadian+air+force

We really have to start requiring the DMCA takedown notice sources to bring the burden of proof, or this will just become business as usual. Particularly as you don't even have to be resident in the country to abuse the system.

Alternatively, HUGE fines for incorrect takedowns and use of the perjury provisions for submitting an incorrect takedown notice need to be assessed / used. Actually, in a just world, this would be in addition to requiring burden of proof from the takedown notice source.

Nothing less than our entire culture is at stake.

A culture in which almost nobody thinks running a blog from their computer at home will always be a bit fragile (yes, I fully understand that the bandwidth for a home connection may not be large enough for a popular site... yet ).

So Might Is Right, then. Corporatocracy.

No, the opposite of that, if by "might" you mean arbitrary violence.

"Might makes right" is what we have today; with trillion-dollar governments, some with nuclear weapons, having tremendous influence over the public opinion through control of schools and universities, media licensing, economic controls, "family law", "intellectual property" (not to be confused with real Property Rights), fiat currency, and countless other monopolies. Governments always have tremendously more influence on the mind of the voter than the voter can ever have on the government. Democracy is a propaganda tool, the ultimate "opium for the masses", fooling them into a belief that they are in control. Voting provides the rulers with useful feedback, like which puppets are the most popular, only strengthening their rule.

"Corporatism" is what we have today - not because of "evil corporations", but because of the government whose powers they are encouraged to utilize. If some corporations try to swim against the current of government-created market incentives, they shrink and go extinct, and a less principled competitor inevitably fills the gap. Governments have tremendous influence on the marketplace, which powerful cronies can use to their advantage. Taxation and regulation gives benefits to large businesses over small, and old over the new. Cronyism is the result of socialism, not capitalism - it cannot exist without the power of the state!

In the free market, a corporation is nothing more than a voluntary agreement between individuals. This Web-site is a corporation, and so is a marriage, a Linux users' group, a not-for-profit as well as a for-profit business large or small, etc.

Large-scale voluntary cooperation (aka corporations) are the driving force of all modern progress. Do you honestly think that the only alternatives to corporations, which are "cottage industries" and Soviet-style manufacturing monopolies, could have given you smartphones and now self-driving cars?! The latter didn't even want to produce jeans lest their ideological power be threatened by them, and their cars (in spite of many designs being copied from the West) were nothing but a joke!

The governments' power comes from a wide-spread delusion about its "divine rights", but no such delusion can ever exist around private corporations. No one would pay taxes to say Walmart for unwanted services! No one would let Citibank force them to use a currency that it can then devalue! Very few would agree to join Shell Oil's army, and probably at a very high cost. And the marketplace would never allow Toyota the construction of aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines (without paying tremendous liability / insurance costs, which would make the construction of such weapons, much less ballistic missiles, utterly impossible in a free market).

The power of governments is now gradually slipping away, in spite of democracy, and all thanks to technological evolution, which is powered by corporations world-wide, and which governments are powerless to deny. The Internet is a trap that governments had no choice but allow, and which they cannot control. For the first time, they don't know what to do about Wikileaks, Bitcoin, BitTorrent, Tor, or private networks beyond their reach...

Where evolution is headed, whether you like it or not, is individualism - that is the predominance of every individual's negative Rights over his or her life! And reason, validated by Evolutionary Pragmatism, is the source of all Rights.

--libman

You don't want to get blowed up, don't stand with the enemy. American citizenship has no bearing if you are actively engaged in planning WAR against the USA.

Also, don't attend any weddings, either. The trouble is that the state can just hit any random person or location they want, and come up with a justification later. Worse, this is happening in countries in which we have no formal declaration of war, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention. Violating that convention, being signed and ratified by US dignitaries, is also a violation of the US constitution.

You mean this? Prevent your images from appearing in Google search results.

BUT BUT THAT'S TO EASY!.... I need to vent my anger and bust out my lawyers! I should NOT have to protect my own property. Google should automatically know what's public domain and what's not. geeez.

As someone who uses Google Image Search quite a bit, I have this to say:

Please.

Someone look at my images, either at my site or at Google

Where have you been the past 4 years? Nobody calls it "Sixaxis"

Oops, my bad. I was referring to it by the name of the Android app that connects to it.

What's "Bing"?

A search engine that doesn't forcefully censor the results of your searches.

People believe in conspiracies because there are so many conspiracies you can point to. There's a plethora of articles on conspiracies that turned out to be true and meanwhile we have shit like the many and repeated bailouts while execs take home record bonuses. It's hard not to start seeing conspiracies everywhere when you see conspiracies everywhere!

Dear "Webmaster", nobody cares about your shitty website packed full of annoying ads. Get over it already.

If someone clicks the Google Image Search 'high-resolution' link for one of my photos from Flickr, they get a medium-resolution version with no description, attribution or copyright information. (Example search page here.

If they go to the ad-free Flickr page, they get links to much higher resolution versions, associated images and also get informed that it's under a super-open Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Example (maybe slightly nsfw, could probably get away with it)

Took me 5 seconds https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&tbo=d&spell=1&q=robots+.txt+for+images&sa=X&ei=FJYRUeytEIeGiQLemYGIDg&ved=0CCsQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41934586,d.cGE&fp=7c0022b148dcff04&biw=1680&bih=860 with the results http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35308

How about a small effort from the site owners?

Agree!! I tried porting my PostgeSQL app to GAE and failed miserably, cuz MySQL sucks: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-cloud-sql-discuss/rKtuhdBIdvI/ZLPL5LG4z1YJ

I wonder whether it's the fact that they keep getting their bicycles stolen

Does Doc Louis of Punch-Out!! have anything to do with this wave of bike theft?

The Super Awesome Guide to never getting caught using torrents and such Most people don't know how to protect themselves and don't understand how the Internet works. It isn't hard to cover up your tracks:

1) Get some Bitcoins

2) Find a seedbox provider in Europe that accepts Bitcoins

3) Find a VPN provider in a different country (such as an African country) that accepts Bitcoins

4) Find a VPS provider in yet another country that accepts Bitcoins

5) Build a virtual machine on your system that only can use the VPN connection you've aquired

6) Profit!

Irrelevant to FreeDOS, a few days ago I was searching about MSDOS and in which language it was written. For whoever might be interested, there's a nice read here: What language was MS-DOS Written in?. Summary: MS bought the QDOS rights, QDOS was based on the CP/M OS which was written in FORTRAN

A few observations:

• -Last October, prior to Obama's reelection, Kimberly Strassel writing in the Wall Street journal documented Barack Obama's record of consistency and dedication to principle.
• -More recently Daniel Kessler has assessed the promises Obama made when selling Obamacare, concluding "Every one of the main claims made for the law is turning out to be false."
• -Gun and ammunition sales surged immediately following Obama's reelection.
• -We have just learned President Obama has secretly granted himself the power to assassinate U.S citezens without due process.

Some people, with reasonable cause, do not trust Obama. Their suspicions have been vindicated.

Dudes, you are getting a Dell.

This then suggests a simple fix for global warming - we just need to move Earth into a slightly higher orbit. A few hundred well-placed nuclear bombs ought to do it.

Yes, but not a new idea. The slogan for Earth Day 2012 was "Mobilize The Earth":

For Earth Day 2012 we are mobilizing the planet simply to say one thing: the Earth won't wait. It seems that environmental issues have been put on the back burner as we are in the midst of a global recession. It is time for us to Mobilize the Earth

However, I was disappointed when their implementation did not even begin to approach my own vision.

Prices are already down and below pre-flood prices for 3TB HDDs, so I'm not sure what the fuss still is. Here's the price development on a Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB 6Gb / s, scroll down to "Full history" and you can see the whole history from pre-flood to today. The prices are in NOK so forget the absolute values but pre-flood it cost about 1000 NOK, peaked at 1700, returned to 1000 around Christmas and now it sells for 921, wiithout VAT that's about $135. Bulk storage has never been cheaper than now.

I recall chatting with some of the Opus developers on IRC about the time this came out. Evidently the story is quite overblown: as I recall this is more a dispute over how "deep" the specification goes (MS [if I'm remembering this correctly] wanted the specifications to specify deeper hooks to the OS or something of the sort) than an outright incompatible difference of opinion.

The context of the conversation at the time was more to do with .opus files in the tag (something Google hasn't even bothered to implement yet, annoyingly, though it ought to happen Real Soon Now) and the possibility that it'll happen in IE at some point, rather than WebRTC, but overall I get the impression that the differences of opinion aren't quite as incompatible or maliciously anticompetetive as, say MS's "OOXML" vs. "ODF".

> The performance problems though were attributed to running the Android environment emulated rather than showing off the Wine implementation from a bare metal device.

The Androids Emulator is a pile of shit. It is really, really slow. So slow I would describe it as unusable. Google knows this and have promised to speed it up, but in typical Google fashion they haven't done anything for many, many years. They are full of shit. Really. Android is cool platform, but Google don't understand developers the way {it pains me to say this!} Microsoft does. Google are irresponsive just like their useless emulator. Compare this with Apple's iOS emulator which kicks ass, but don't blame it all being a software emulation. The non-Google Bluestacks emulator runs faster than Google's piece of shit. It's so widely known that the Android Emulator is such a piece of shit I'm surprised WINE did a demo using it: It's like infecting yourself with pustular total-body herpes before a first date.

Typical posts:
"The Android SDK emulator is notoriously slow, and almost everybody hates it."
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+emulator+slow

For good reasons (listed in my 'p.s.' below) & I did something about them, via the most effective & efficient manner possible (a custom hosts file):

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).

& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!

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Same with Ghostery:

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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.

They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious PR reasons.

Despite the name chan

iTunes, Bandcamp, and Amazon sales (almost all iTunes and Bandcamp). $82,651 between Oct 2011 and March 2012. Make sure you flip between the different spreadsheet pages via the "tabs" at the bottom.

Wikipedia says the median income in the US is $45K. There are a lot of wrenches thrown into this comparison. Perhaps there was something special in that time that caused it to be above average (though no close-by releases; here solo albums are from 2004, 2005, 2010). Because she's self-employed, she also has (or potentially has) a ton of expenses that most full-time employees don't; if you take the typical rule (IIRC) that the cost to an employer is double that of the salary, that means that in some sense her income is half of the above numbers (which when you add in other stuff would put her reported income right around the median income). Or maybe she has health insurance through a husband, I have no idea.

But that IS only for 6 months, and it doesn't seem like it includes touring income either. (Though other information she's reported indicates that she gets rather less revenue from touring than the above sales, and there are also a ton of expenses to that.)

A piece of hardware that boots very fast to a browser and is semi-useful when connected to the Internet.

When the Internet is not available, you have a useless metal brick.

ChomeOS and Google Docs do not need a permanent internet link. The work offline quite nicely. Here is a quick overview...I Googled it. http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/landing.html

So...do you have to speak Austrian to understand these economics?

better to stay

You ever had a bos that considered you his enemy? Not disliked you, or enjoyed making your life hell, but considered you an enemy?

That is an untenible and professionally dangerous situation.

Bosses HATE being questioned or shown-up. They DISPISE being publically humiliated and being exposed as unethicle, and possibly a criminal. That's not the sort of thing they're likely to laugh about over drinks later.
Being a boss is about being in control. If they loose that, they've been gelded as a boss.

http://www.google.com/patents/US5506866

minus Excel you really don't need office in a given day

The load time for a 2452 Cell x 7 Row libre office chart is about .5 seconds as ODS format and about .5 seconds for a XLSX format. So unless your working with some really poorly build spread sheets your not going to see much if any difference, here is a link to the actual file:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7RIGjmEU0IlMk81bjJ0aW9TaGM/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7RIGjmEU0IlRV9aSFJiYUUwNGM/edit?usp=sharing.

However if your using a sheet that big you might want to think about a better database setup to use for access and viewing.

based on a very quick search, you can tell them to go fuck themselves. here's the patent:
http://www.google.com/patents/US5506866?printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false

it's originally by AT&T. it's a patent on the means to combine simultaneous voice and data onto a single line. the submission date is in 1993.

however, if you look at this: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/gsm/gsm_overview.htm

you will see that GSM was started as far back as 1982. GSM includes GPRS, which includes a means to combine simultaneous voice and data into a single transmission.

there will be plenty more examples like this. i recommend that you find lots of examples, but any one of those examples can be used to tell these patent trolls to go fuck themselves.

Link.

Hmm, now who said that?

As per google, you are the only one who said it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+have+altered+the+details+of+our+arrangement%2C+pray+I+do+not+alter+it+any+further%22

A license might contain permissions, but a permission is not a license.

http://www.google.com/search?q=definition%3A+permission
permission

Noun

        Consent; authorization.
        An official document giving authorization.

Synonyms
permit - leave - license - licence - authorization

http://www.google.com/search?q=definition%3A+license
license

Noun
A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (esp. in alcoholic beverages).
Verb
Grant a license to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place.
Synonyms
noun. licence - permit - permission - leave - authorization
verb. licence - authorize - permit - allow - authorise

A license might contain permissions, but a permission is not a license.

http://www.google.com/search?q=definition%3A+permission
permission

Noun

        Consent; authorization.
        An official document giving authorization.

Synonyms
permit - leave - license - licence - authorization

http://www.google.com/search?q=definition%3A+license
license

Noun
A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (esp. in alcoholic beverages).
Verb
Grant a license to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place.
Synonyms
noun. licence - permit - permission - leave - authorization
verb. licence - authorize - permit - allow - authorise

Look at the incredible amount of work that Google puts into Android only to give it away. It's like downloading cracked software from a warez site that also installs a keylogger.

Except that the source code for Android is available and communities can build from it ie, Cyanogen.

Cyanogen also built a version of android with in-app level permissions, which would have allowed users to explicitly set what each app could have access to, though they've drooped that ability in recent versions.

Google however is adamantly opposed to giving users that much control - see their responses to the request here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3778. I'm guessing that's to protect developers' ad revenue.

The Mac Pro has a power supply. The power supply has a fan. This fan is close to the outer housing of the Mac Pro and accessible through some gills of some sort ... Do you now see where the potential risk lies?

http://i46.tinypic.com/2gvvq61.jpg

I don't really see the potential risk there.
However I should admit I've been doing this sort of work for the past 20 odd years, so perhaps that experience is why I don't see it.

It seems one would need to take a long and narrow wire, heat the end up so it glows, then put it in the grill and push it to melt through the plastic in order to touch the fan.

Are people known for doing this?
I admit it wouldn't surprise me, but for those types of people I generally wouldn't trust them holding a screwdriver, and would expect great personal injury from wielding nothing more than a sheet of paper ;P

Compared to many other generic power supplies out there [ https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=psu+fan ] Apple looks to be up with the safer designs out there.

To really get at the fans one needs to open the case. Not many current generation systems are designed to run with the case open. Airflow is too important to prevent component damage.
I always leave the system plugged in so I can discharge static by touching the PSU, but rarely ever powered on.

Maybe "Mother Earth" wants quadrillions of her human children to go to the stars and to take all her other creatures with them?

Something I originally wrote on that two decades ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/openvirgle/msg/ac0ffaab1aa1c8ca

A letter from Gaia to humanity on the joy of expectation

Don't cry for me. When I let you evolve I knew it might cost the rhino and the tiger. I knew the rain forests would be cut down. I knew the rivers would be poisoned. I knew the ocean would turn to filth. I knew it would cost most of the species that are me.

What is the death of most of my species to me? It is only sleep. In ten million years I will have it all back again and more. This has happened many times already. Complex and fragile species will break along with the webs they are in. Robust and widespread species will persist along with simpler webs. In time these survivors will radiate to cover the globe in diversity again. Each time I come back in beauty like a bush pruned and regrown.

Be happy for me. Over and over again I have tried to give birth to more Gaias. Time and time again I have failed. With you I have hope. I cannot tell you how happy I am.

Your minds, spacecraft, biospheres, and computers give me new realms to evolve into. With your minds I evolve as ideas in inner space. With your technology I can evolve into self replicating habitats in outer space. Your computers and minds contain model Gaias I can talk to; they are my first children. Your space craft and biospheres are a step to spreading Gaias throughout the stars.

Cry, yes. Cry for yourselves. I am sorry those alive now will not live to see the splendor to come from what you have started. I am sorry for all the suffering your species and others will endure. You who live now will remember the tiger and the rain forest and mourn for them and yourselves. You will know what was lost without ever knowing what will be gained. I too mourn for them and you.

There is so much joy that awaits us. We must look up and forward. We must go on to a future - my future, our future. After eons of barrenness I am finally giving birth. Help me lest it all fall away and take eons more before I get this close again to having the children I always wanted.

(Paul D. Fernhout, Lindenhurst, NY 6/92)

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The preceeding is something I just scanned in from 1992, written while I was in the SUNY Stony Brook Ecology and Evolution PhD program (where I had gone to learn more towards simulating gardens and space habitats). I had learned there that it took about 10 million years to regenerate lots of biodiversity from a large asteroid impact event, and this had happened several times in Earth's history.

The following is a related statement also just scanned in of what inspired it written at the same time.

--Paul Fernhout (NY Adirondack Park, Oct 2008)

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If one accepted that modern industrial civilization has initiated a great die-off of species comparable to the one sixty-five million years ago, how should one feel about this?

Is overwhelming sadness and anger the best emotional response? On the surface it may seem so. Apparently modern civilization and the accompanying pollution and deforestation are pulling apart a tapestry woven over billions of years. Anger at the short sighted and narrow values driving industry may seem well placed. Certainly feelings of joy and excitement would seem out of place.

Here are a few thoughts that may affect one's feelings. High levels of biodiversity can be generated from very low ones in about ten million years. On the time scales of the earth this may not be a blink of an eye, but it is a short nap. To humans this may mean a great loss, but Gaia might barely notice. It has after all been only sixty-five million years since the last die off.

Not all species will be affected equally. A simplification will occur where the more specialized cre

No they don't. This is Google News:
https://news.google.com/
That's not giving away the content, in any case. Each teaser is shorter than a slashdot summary.

And you don't already have to know the news to search for it, you just go to news.google.com

Seriously, how can someone be so anxious to post bogus info as if they're "clarifying"?

Are you kidding me? Come on, be serious. How about this one, on Google News now:

Twitter: Hackers hit 250000 accounts
USA TODAY - 5 minutes ago
Twitter hacked on the heels of several high-profile cyberattacks on U.S. media giants. Twitter logo. TheTwitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

Now that I know WHERE the twitter logo is displayed, what more could I possibly want out of the article?

No they don't. This is Google News:
https://news.google.com/
That's not giving away the content, in any case. Each teaser is shorter than a slashdot summary.

And you don't already have to know the news to search for it, you just go to news.google.com

Seriously, how can someone be so anxious to post bogus info as if they're "clarifying"?

I just looked at the spreadsheet in question (found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdEJFUnhyNFFkZjVSUWxhWGl1dE9lQXc#gid=4) and found that all told, she made 82k in a six month period. She's hardly living hand to mouth at some dead end job she hates.

Does her income from streaming services compare at all to what she gets through iTunes? No, but it's just a little extra icing on the cake for basically no work on her part, especially considering her style of music is unlikely to have much of a traditional fanbase (radio, top 40, etc). The nice thing about it all is that, as she gains more media exposure and traction, the basic infrastructure is already in place for her to make more as she gains new fans.

Again, 82k in six months is hardly a starving musician, especially considering the fringe nature of her music.

I am not really surprised. It looks like the amount of offer in music grows with time. There is more directors and composers than before. According to [1], there are 2.5 more music director and composer than 3 years ago while the number of musician appears to have decrease by roughly 10% in the same time. Since 99, it went from 52K people to 67K people. So there are 15% more people to pay. Meanwhile the US population only increase 12% [2].
I do not think the average entertainement of famillies changed a lot but if anything the music budget went down. So I am really not surprised.

Moreover, I feel like Internet concentrated music interest on a smaller number of artists which performs better than anybody else for no good reason. I mean gangnam style from psy shipped more than 6 millions albums in not even a year [3].

I do not know the artist that is speaking and I never listen to her music. But she is a cello artist which is not a popular style. So of course making money out of it is difficult. Yet her income increased according to her own numbers [4].

The real numbers we lack are the numbers from 10 or 15 years ago. How much money did an independent artist make in the 90's ? Is it really worse in 2013? (I ma not saying it is not, I am asking a real question)

[1] http://money.futureofmusic.org/how-many-musicians-are-there/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style
[4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdGhjdExSMzYyMXFZUkZNSUJrY3MwNXc&pli=1#gid=0