@ernie.: That's actually one good thing about some of Apple's proprietary development: some of it goes on to get included in standards or made standards themselves (Firewire).

@SharpnPointy: Firewire's a standard; I wasn't saying that it isn't.

@TriGun5312: Good point, electrocuting yourself isn't something you should aim to do, of course. Still, I'd rather get zapped by an LCD than a CRT :)

@styfle: Thanks! About the heat - it seems to vary a lot by generation and CPU choice with AMD. The few notebook ones I have experience with (first- and second-hand) seem to roast compared to Intel notebooks, for example. For desktops, I think it's mostly the higher-end AMD stuff that runs hot. Mid- and low-end AMD…

@ernie.:

@Johann Schmidt: AMD vs. Intel:

@Robert Grimm: I can vouch for LCDs being pretty safe when disassembled. Due to a bit of clumsiness on my part, I zapped myself while testing a partially disassembled LCD and all I got was a minor shock. It was a bit of a surprise but not much else.

@Jared904: Alternately, you can just say "it's magic" and pretend I never explained anything. That might be more interesting than the explanation of why. :)

@Jared904: I have a star on Lifehacker, which is where the article was originally posted. I don't know where you're reading from (probably Jalopnik?), but if an article is cross-posted on other Gawker sites it still uses the permissions of the originating site. Every time there's a cross-post there's a slew of…

@impalintryor: That's the sort of thing you use the #corrections tag for. They check the tag for article fixes like that.

@Hasteur:

@Tycho123: The Wikipedia link in the article explains it pretty well.

@jupiterthunder: Um, both. I can usually pick out the shirt I want at a glance by either front or back, so I don't really worry about keeping them consistent.

@Alaska Jack: That's easy to answer: Gizmodo's a prime target for Gawker network linkbait now. Giz got a huge influx of readers from the iPhone4 debacle, so it's profitable (from an advertising perspective) to put articles on it that should not be there. Irrelevant crossposting and fluff articles started cropping…

It's usually easier to lead people into making false assumptions than it is to outright lie. Tell the truth but don't tell everything. Control the facts so they work in your favour rather than fabricate stories.

@Posco Grubb: I'm not sure you even read the same comment I wrote. I made no mention of warranties at all and I didn't say anything about screwing with companies, either.

@David Josselyn: You don't have to be an authority to make rules, nor do you have to actually be capable of enforcing them. You just have to convince the other guy that you can do it. The people that believe and obey the companies are convinced they need to obey. The rest of us, then, are being disobedient. Just…

@TheFu: I used to do the backup root-equiv thing too. It's been years since I needed it, but it was a nice trick for exactly the reason you stated. I was helping admin someone else's machine (a Linux newbie at the time) and set that up in case root got hosed for some reason. I was right, it did, and the friend…

@TheFu: The big problem is the Ubuntu way of doing sudo makes it just as easy to do sudo bash (or other shell of your choice) and completely negate the logging benefit. Sudo's great and all, but I hate how Ubuntu does it.

@ka1axy: It's still disobedience, because someone is demanding you do (or not do) things a certain way and you're refusing, disobeying.