A fictional movie is a movie that exists in fiction.

No, you're thinking of Steven Seagal.

So they should have released the driver a decade before they release the hardware?

It really annoys me when people say vi instead of vim. It probably has something to do with “vi” often being an alias to vim on many systems.

Should I walk in to an Apple store and start disassembling their computers to check if they have fan guards?

Why wouldn't you just ask them?

Might be easier to just require them on everything so I know that any product I buy in a shop is safe.

So what you're saying is that because you're too lazy to research products you intend to buy properly, Apple should be forced to make their computers in the way that you prefer?

Ah, collectivism. How do you know what I like? There are hundreds of millions of people living in Europe and the US, and you claim to know that Europeans always like X and americans alsways like Y? That is incredibly arrogant. Please note that this comment is not only directed at you, but also at the american you were responding to.

If you require these guards, you could install them yourself or buy a different computer. If you don't like the way Apple makes their products, don't buy them (as with any other product).

Why would they sue FSF for a bug in Linux?

I wish I hadn't spent my last modpoint on something else. I hope this pseudo-modpoint is adequate.

I'm glad they're suffering. They deserve to suffer for their decision to force their evil cloud firmware on people.

If we don't regulate pants, then the alternative is that big business sets de facto policies for us, because they're the ones making the pants. Your only choice as a consumer is to not wear pants.

Why would you assume that?

Or even better: 10 Years Ago 4 Microsoft Engineers Predicted that DRM Would Fail

It made me think of Hans Moleman.

Opera is actually a decent browser (though I prefer Firefox), but their fanboys are even more annoying than Chrome fanboys.