Should i be turning off my computer every night

should i be turning off my computer every night

Hi,
This would be largely down to personal choice. I would turn it off - why waste electricity on something you're not using
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I got a problem which I thought somebody online may be able to help me.
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If you know "for a fact" it is being hacked and by whom, get together your definitive proof of it being hacked and definitive proof of who is doing it and visit your local police department or visit these guys: http://www.cybercrime.gov/index.html. I believe it is a felony.
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== Description
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It is impossible for me to turn off the computer by clicking the normal sequence (apple symbol and turn off the computer). I need to press the on/off button for some seconds to be able to turn it off. I need your help, please.

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamps of the BOOT_TIME log messages, which refer to the times when the system was started. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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