Any one you want to use, if you put it in a Zip-Lock bag.

If that's all you were using it for, then you should look at PDFCreator.

So has Windows, since 2000 and XP (actually earlier, but I'm only counting common user versions), but stupid developers persist in writing software that can't run without Administrator privileges.

"Mac vs PC" ads.

Apparently you've never seen any of Apple's "PC" ads.

And do the same thing if you're using a Windows machine with Vista or 7, and it works almost exactly the same way. There are still some ill-behaved programs that require administrator access though, even though Microsoft has been telling developers to stop putting stuff in the program directory for years.

Because "Showing the finger to Goldman Sachs" isn't something you can make money on, it's just dick-waving. A thousand zombies that collect credit card & bank account details, MMO account details, and which you can also sell time on for DDOS or spamming is actually profitable.

Run as a regular user, not a user in the Administrators group. Create a new user the Administrators group, then demote your account to standard user.

The fucking 8% (or whatever local sales tax is) that Amazon didn't pay is not why Borders went out of business, not when you can order the same books from Amazon and still pay less than the Borders price even before the sales tax.

Form 1 instructions page 13, line 33 instructions:

Taxpayers may use the following table to self-report a “safe-harbor” amount of use tax based on their Massachusetts adjusted gross income. A taxpayer may pay this amount in lieu of the actual amount of use tax that would otherwise be due with respect to such purchases. Individual taxpayers electing to report use tax under this method will not be assessed additional use tax on audit, even if the actual amount of use tax due would have been greater than the amount from the schedule.

The estimated liability applies only to purchases of any individual items each having a total sales price of less than $1,000. For each taxable item purchased at a sales price of $1,000 or greater, the actual use tax liability for each purchase must be added to the amount of the estimated liability from the table below. See TIR 04-26 for more information.

And I don't even live in Mass. New York has similar language in the instructions.

Here's your solution. This is something that only works with e-readers, because it's hard to turn the fucking pages when you put a book in one of these.

Yes it does, it's called regedit.exe. That's no less built-in (and no more obscure) than "add[ing] a variable like [MACADDR=12:34:56:78:90:ab] to the ifcfg-eth0 or similar file."

Anyway, most NIC drivers have an entry right on the "Advanced" tab of the NIC properties in Device Manager for entering a MAC override, either "Network Address" or "Locally Administered Address," which sets the appropriate registry entry.

If buying a car were like the Apple App Store, you'd hand over the check, take the keys, and drive one block before the engine fell out. Your only option would be to go back and buy another one. This time, when you get in and drive away, the shiny body stays behind and you find out you're really riding a Vespa with flat tires and a leaky gas tank pissing all over your shoes. Or you buy a "1 ton pickup," stop for some groceries on the way home, and the first bag you throw in the bed cracks the body in half.

Holy [citation needed] Bat-Man!

(I still say BD isn't gonna make it, they haven't been able to get the price per disc down low enough to make them suitable for small backups or handing out to friends)

They're down to $1 a disc for 25G BD-R, that's not cheap enough for you? Yeah it's almost twice the price of a DVD+R DL, but it's also nearly 3x the space. The drives are down to about $100 too.