"Speak their language."

@thinkerer: Yeah, I get the feeling the linked article wasn't particularly well fact-checked. The "McGangBang" strikes me as particularly unlikely even on the coasts. I suppose on the West coast maybe you'll get the alternative to order something more reasonable instead of getting kicked out.

@orbitbreak: Except when the ice plugs up the cooling vents. And once you get several inches of build-up, yes it does take away from the capacity.

@orbitbreak: Disagree. Using the internet as your start page would take _forever_ to load...

@marky373: A less risky method used in commercial bottle-cutters back in the 1970's: Run a battery (or a stepped-down power supply) through a thin copper wire wrapped around the bottle. For an added bonus, score a line around the bottle first using a mounted glass scoring blade.

@TheMightyBuzzard: As long as you control how the add-ins get loaded no big deal. If an add-in will have the capability to do a drive-by download of other code (malicious or not), then yes, ActiveX leaps to mind.

@bwcbwc: For example: "Wear and tear on hard drives these days is not really an issue since they have a life expectancy of around 100,000 hours (or roughly 5 years, depending on how often you use your PC)."

@Bonsai_halcyon: The only real studies I've seen show that the wear and tear from leaving it on overnight is greater than the wear from cycling it, at least with newer computers. Newer computers turn the hard drive off according to your power-saving settings anyway, often as soon as within 5 minutes. So the wear…

@EtrnL_Frost: More pertinently for owners of Google mobile phones: Do Androids dream (of...)?

Hmmm, I'm torn whether to view this as ethically challenged or as a a brilliant charger exchange program. If everybody who loses their charger does this, it should probably work for a majority of people with minimal impact.

@veronykah: Actually, it's about 24-48 hours for water and several days for food. Unless you're already skin and bones, you can live off of your body fat. Water is the must-have in the short term.

@psychiccheese: Well if they're the same level of security, it's reasonable to share a common password. But separate people who hold your money (banks, brokerages) from people you owe money (credit cards, utilities) and people you buy things from (merchants). Even if they get access to all your merchant accounts,…

@Protector one: "Ask Schroedinger"

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: Alternative to Ctrl-Alt-Del is right-click on a blank area of the task bar and reach Task manager from there. Definitely have to kill the browser session from there.

@The How-To Geek: "past the point of being brute-force crackable"...At least until those 48 core Intel processors hit the desktop...

@Ronny: Merry, Christmas, Happy, New and Year are dictionary words. MerryChristmasAndHappyNewYear is not.

Big problem with Secunia: some really lousy license terms...

@bwcbwc: Oh, and for soaking up the moisture from electric components, I recommend a microfiber cloth rather than a tissue, paper towel or cotton swab. Much less lint for a similar rate of absorption. #repair

@GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat: Well people do put rice in salt to keep it from clumping, so it isn't completely valueless, but I agree it seems unlikely to make it go much faster. I salvaged a pager by opening it up and touching up all visible moisture on the circuits. That wasn't an operation for the faint of…

@Home: Not running any win 7. Four computers running Vista. One running XP which is being retired. Working on a HTPC build (replacing the XP box) that will probably run Win 7. For our use, there's no real reason to upgrade from Vista. #operatingsystems