My company now tells clients that if they want IE 6 support, it costs them 5-10% more. Suddenly when they hear it costs money, they don't want it so much anymore, and consider upgrading since they now have a tangible downside.
Many design firms actually include pricing calculations based on browsers supported, but they don't give the break down to their clients, so the clients don't realize they're paying a lot for IE 6.

$800 for a gaming PC? I don't think that much was needed for a long time, unless you had to play the latest game on your 2600" screen with a high resolution. For roughly $300 these days, you can build a machine to play any game you want on a 19" screen. You don't really need anything more than a GeForce 9 (~$100), and a high end X2 (~$60). The other ~$140 is more than enough to get some RAM, hard drive, dvd burner, motherboard, especially if you find a deal on newegg or the like.
This here which is quite a decent machine is only $287 ($322 before rebates). Just add a DVD burner for ~$25, and you're all set.

Oh no, if they prevent kids committing suicide because of game deprivation, how am I supposed to know which new games are good?

This myth has been going on ever since computer cases added a light to them labeled hard drive. A user sees this light blinks whenever the computer is "working", or so they think, so obviously the box that does all the work is the hard drive.

Okay, summary is definitely wrong, Debian already supports four completely different kernels. See here.

I must be missing something. I have a Debian FreeBSD Live CD from 2006. Here it was reported that Debian imported the FreeBSD Kernel over 4 years ago. What exactly happened now that is new?

If you were using 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap, and replace it with only 8GB of RAM, you wouldn't run into any memory issues that you didn't have with the former setup to begin with. Swap doesn't magically work better than actual RAM. Of course adding swap over RAM gives you more capabilities, however, it's hardly a requirement with enough RAM.

Those indexing programs are only a problem IFF they're running while the encrypted partition is mounted. Hopefully those who use encryption are smart enough to realize that.
Your swap problem also only applies to the olden days. Now that we have machines with 16GB of RAM, who still uses swap?
Truecrypt does protect you, it's your own stupidity that would void that protection.
I personally have the updatedb script ignore all partitions under /mnt/special/

That's one of pros of TrueCrypt, you can hand over the password, and they still won't be able to access the encrypted data. TrueCrypt allows you to make it that different passwords decrypt different parts of the encrypted partition, and there is no way to know if there's more than one part.