And MS has had loads of practice throwing good money after bad, so what's another go at it here and there?

Their argument is basically, "Everybody is going to pirate the new software anyway, so please continue to sink money into supporting the old software that we've already pirated." Is that how I should be interpreting this?

Hobbies like working for a company that's not in a nosedive.

The kind of people and activities that need TOR to provide extreme anonymity need significantly more than just TOR alone to do it effectively. This seems like it could lull people into assuming otherwise.

Personally, I think the answer might be a hybrid situation. EG. Offer physical DVD rentals out of an existing establishment that's already successful on its own - like a gas station, bar or grocery store.

So Redbox machines, basically? I see quite a few of them around here.

This is a great way to make your Wii collect less dust (what with the reduced surface area and all).

They're used to microing from all that Starcraft.

I still wear one. I even use the scheduler. I love having the little 2-week preview with dots on the days with events (a dot on the current day will blink). It sucks that Casio discontinued them not too long ago.

Well that part just goes without saying, really.

To everyone suggesting blasting the landing zone flat, have you considered what sort of scientific data we could recover from from a site that's been razed with Earth explosives? If this ice is enough to ruin a spacecraft, then anything capable of dealing with it on a scale needed for a safe landing is going to fling contaminating detritus for probably miles. So we could land, and... then what?

So we've got OCR nailed. What NP-hard problem do we dupe the spammers into solving for us next? Can we throw halting problem at them, or should we work up to it with traveling salesman first?

Increasing goodwill to sell more hardware, and burning a bit of revenue to rake MS over the coals a little.

It's still handy to have it back on a tablet. In 8, you can right-click the lower-left corner of the screen to get a nice shortcut menu, but with no spatial presence, it was pretty much impossible to tap-and-hold the corner. Now in 8.1 there's at least a target for your finger to open that menu.

Certainly not that keyboard with the keylogger embedded in it!