Wow. way to not read TFA.

don't you mean superstitious?

where are my mod points?!?

> no technical background aside from surfing the internet Sounds like a perfect audience for an OS with fewer security flaws.

now get going on the other 96%

only if the android in question is named Data, Kryten, or Marvin.

Look up Therac-25. Actually, here I'll do it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 tl;dr: Radiation therapy machine had buggy software, existing code was used on new hardware which allowed a previously-unnoticed bug to engage a high power beam without shielding. Patients experienced severe pain and burning; three died.

Slippery slope is a logic fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

I still love EGA Trek. Did you ever have SimTREK? The one where the computer talks?

Like gold, the price of brushed aluminium is at an all-time high.

His head was cremated with the rest of the body. It was not frozen.

But will it belong to us?

We prefer the term Earthicans

You should know the universal greeting as actually Bah Weep Graaagnah Wheep Ni Ni Bong

Actually I was talking about the top sticker, thus implying that any sufficiently large number of requested refunds will likely see an increase in the bureaucracy required to navigate. (see also: mail-in instant rebates, and those returns that require every styrofoam peanut) I would hope at a minimum they would require either a return of the serial number sticker or advise him that the number is being voided and must be destroyed; otherwise (as indicated in other comments) it could trivially be resold.