But TSA Administrator John Pistole on Friday announced that all travelers will soon be able to join PreCheck – as long as they pay $85 for a five-year membership, ...

There are a few programs for expedited travel across international borders, like the joint US CBP/Canadian CBSA NEXUS setup.  I've got that, and in addition to letting me zip across the US/Canada border a lot faster, it also adds faster clearance back through US airports from any country, and even though it's not a TSA program it somehow adds in PreCheck access as part of the deal.

NEXUS costs $50 for five years.

Friday, you forgot Yumi

what's the matter

too much drama

I suppose some pins could be shorted on the MB, but I can't think which ones; if power or reset were shorted then the computer wouldn't come on at all.

Could be the pin pair on the 20-/24-pin ATX power supply connector that actually turns the power supply on: the light grey wire to any ground wire.  That could be a fault in the PSU itself, and the easiest way to check would be to unplug that connector and see if the PSU still turns itself on when you plug it into the wall.  That won't catch a short on the motherboard, but that seems like a less likely failure to me.

I think I'm already sick of Christmas.

Well, that's no good.  We'd best play the same six Christmas carols on loop in every public space in the country for the next four weeks to bring you around.

I think 1 might have some other sort of drm attached to it, but Steam's store doesn't list any.

The only thing I remember was needing to jump through some registration hoops for the Bring Down The Sky DLC, but while that's still done outside of Steam, it looks like it's now a simple code-free download.

Through #outerheaven, no technical difference from the Saturday OH cast.

Another question: am I likely to need to buy a separate CPU cooler?  I've never had a problem with a stock fan on an Intel processor; is that something I should worry about if I keep it at stock speeds, or only if I decide to overclock it?

Stock fans are remarkably good these days.  Even with some modest overclocking, they can be fine; I've got one of the early, absurdly overclockable Sandy Bridge i5-2500K chips that I'm running at 4.0 GHz (rated speed 3.3) on the Intel fan alone, and the temperature stays sensible under any load.

One thing I discovered with that build was that my reused old case (Antec Solo) wasn't quite long enough for current graphics cards or some motherboards.  I have one unusable HDD bay because the end of my GTX560Ti protrudes into its space, and it wasn't the longest card on the market even when I bought it.  Shouldn't be a problem with a modern case, I hope, but worth eyeballing if you can find the dimensions easily.

You know, we haven't seen a nice long Prenda post in a while.  Let's fix that.

Nothing exceptionally new, but lots of updates about how they're getting savaged in six (!) different federal district courts all at once, complete with loads of court orders filled with straight-faced snark.  Turns out federal judges are really, really good at writing that.

I have an increasingly ludicrous stash of frequent-flier miles to burn, so as long as there's an airport somewhere in the vicinity, that could be a thing.

Keiji Inafune has brought a whole band of Mega Man people together to make what Capcom couldn't:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9

I was at the PAX announcement, and was wondering if we should just start throwing money at Inafune right there on stage.