If i'm not mistaken, BIOS passwords on laptops have been stored on non-volatile chips for a very long time, so pulling the battery wouldn't work. I can't speak for all laptop manufacturers but I can say for sure this has been the case with Dell, HP and Toshiba for well over 10 years.

You aren't being pedantic at all. If you are, there are quite a few us joining you in that particular club.

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I'm trying to figure out how this makes a laptop tamper proof. As someone stated earlier, this might make it tamper evident. I don't see a single instance where this would protect anything at all on a laptop, which is what I taking "tamper-proof" to mean.

These parents weren't putting their child in danger of being physically harmed. Whatever the statistical chances of whatever happening, the reality is that the kid was physically safe where he was. What they did do, was put their child in danger of being traumatized. Whether that actually happened is anyone's guess.…

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Questionable writing aside, I think that Rick's call to save the kid was on par with his character. He consistently puts everyone at risk for the sake of "doing the right thing". One thing that his character has yet to realize is that "the right thing" is not what it used to be. In that situation, the right thing to…

Is it just me or does it look like Duke is dead? The dude at 1:12 - 1:14 doesn't look like Duke. I actually think he's taking Duke's tags. Add to that the fact that Duke is not shown at all after that bit at the start of the trailer.

You mean wooden and one-dimensional?

I'll start to worry when they give it fully articulated hands. Until then, PETMAN will be filed neatly under Slightly Threatening in my "Things That Can Kill Me" book.

It feels like they are clobbering the audience over the head with Chuck and Sarah's relationship. They aren't doing the show any favors by doing that. They seem to be preventing Chuck from growing as a character even when everything about the story says he should. He got the Intersect under control, he got the girl,…

The second that Whatshisface Bad Man broke the beer bottle, I looked over at my wife and told her exactly what was going to happen. I even told her that they were loading blanks in the next scene. My wife thought that I might have seen a preview or spoiler or something, but the sad fact is that the writing was so bad…

I dont know if heard this wrong, but when the FBI agent was calling the Washington office, one of the bad dudes got a call giving him a heads up. The guy on the phone sounded a hell of a lot like Sterling to me. Which makes sense. So we have: