Also, there are plenty of other third-party de-Metrofication solutions for Windows 8. I'm not sure that ClassicShell is the most popular, but it's the one I use.

True, and most important, useless to most corporate users.

Microsoft under Ballmer has earned its place in business school case studies next to Edsel, Circuit City, and the inventor of the 110-volt rubber duck.

Win8 + ClassicShell is fine. No drawbacks versus Windows 7 that I've run across. I've never seen Metro since the initial installation, it just isn't there.

Clearly, you have never purchased or rented a house that was rewired by a doctor.

The thing is, fire alarms are more than just battery-powered smoke detectors. The alarm sensors are wired to a central control unit, and shielding the wiring is tricky. If you're unlucky enough to have problems, you end up needing to individually RFI-proof all of the sensors as well as the main box.

Either that, or downsize the Tesla coil, and that's no fun...

For what it's worth, fire alarms and large Tesla coils don't mix.

It doesn't matter if they used Triple Double-Dog Secret Patent Pending NSA-Certified ROT13, a large collection of four-digit PINs is about the best known plaintext short of the Pledge of Allegiance. If they aren't salted, it's open season on those cardholders.

Do you have curtains on your bedroom window?

They don't have an endgame. People who can think beyond the next five minutes don't generally end up chanting slogans, waving signs, and vandalizing buses.

On a 3 GHz CPU the worst sort algorithm you can imagine should still run a thousand times faster than necessary for a graph this small. This effect is either incompetence or malice, not the result of a bad algorithm choice.

*Are you claiming that, in the presence of human error, the risks of nuclear power are comparable to other sources*

Yes. Coal-fired plants also have a radioactive waste disposal problem, too, but they solve it by spewing the waste into the air. This pollution probably kills even more people every year than Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island combined, but it doesn't glow green, melt through concrete, or otherwise look scary on CNN, so nobody cares.

"You could, but frankly, we'd rather talk about the 16.76 GB of underage duck-rape porn that you downloaded between August 6, 2004 and September 30 of the same year. Why don't you have a seat over there?"

And the folks in this thread might argue that the failure of a fifty-year-old reactor operated without regard to best practices, well past its design lifetime in a seismically-active tsunami zone, says less than nothing about the safety of the nuclear power industry as a whole.

Well, I don't think anyone (sane) would argue that the government should have no power at all to enforce laws. It's just that a government that is omnipresent enough to keep you from talking on a cell phone on an airplane just because it annoys people is also powerful enough to prohibit something perfectly reasonable that you want to do, too.

Nobody on here seems to understand that.

It's important to note that the cell phone frequencies that must be blocked in consumer receivers sold in the US are the old AMPS analog phone frequencies. They are not the same frequencies as what your GSM phone uses. I'm not sure it's even legal for the carriers to support AMPS anymore, in fact.