Install Linux. Finish Windows off now.

I want apple to give me a choice in what features I buy with Apple's OS. Maybe, I don't need, and don't want to pay for features apple includes on all their computers, but if I want their OS, apple will force me to buy those features from them. Screw that.

Sometimes the best way to deal with stuff like this is to stop the money. How do we know what country they're in anyway?

and it doesn't integrate open source software. The closest thing to the "home" directory on Windows is Documents and Settings -> User Name.

I don't recommend encrypting your "home" directory on Windows, because Windows tends to self destruct, and the last thing you want is for your data to be lost permintaly when that happens. If you have specific files you need to encrypt, try AxCrypt, make sure you have a portable version of AxCrypt to decrypt the files if needed.

That's reasonable.

Get a laptop.

Every other browser lets you block 3rd party cookies. Why doesn't Chrome? The proof is in the pudding.

One day I was on a bus going up the bus lane to Oakland, when the bus started going 5 miles an hour I looked up to see what was going on. A car had been driving in the bus lane and was slowly backing up, with it's headlights shinning into the oncoming bus.

What part of double yellow line did that driver miss? Now I wish that guy had been caught on camera. S/he shouldn't have a licence.

Google makes it's money by selling online adds. Why would they make a browser giving you the tools to block those adds? They won't. They'll make a browser which gives them more control over your browsing experience, and you less. Hell, Chrome doesn't even let you block 3rd party cookies, because they don't want the 3rd party cookies they put on your computer to be blocked. Any browser google makes will always be limited by google's business model of selling online adds.

Chrome will never give me the control I want of my browsing experience, because that's not in google's interest. Other community developed versions like SRware might do it for me, if they give me the control I want, and block adds.

I wouldn't put my card in one of those. What company, so I can never bank with them?

Why would an ATM allow access to anything but the needed functions?

I couldn't imagine an ATM that ran a consumer OS.

What if they want information about puberty or birth control? Will you restrict their access to such information?

You're kid's never done homework all night at? And they're not allowed to? For 11 year old yes, but the 16 years old? What about when they have a research paper due the next morning and they're up all night doing that? You'd cut off they're internet access, and make the turn in the paper late?

Linux solves the malware problem.

LOL. You can wait a few minuets longer for that piece of data you need on bittorrent. No one is suggesting blocking bittorrent completely. You will still have access to all the data on bittorrent.

People will have to share the bandwidth available to this community. To do that efficiently, put standard, lower bandwidth transmissions first (like http, POP3, https, etc) then rarer higher bandwidth protocols (including VoIP and bittorrent). Why anyone would be using VoIP if their internet service was poor is beyond me, quit hogging bandwidth and get a standard land line. Prioritizing protocols can give everyone faster internet for most normal things.

Clearly the best solution is to get more bandwidth, so people can use VoIP effectively, or use bittorrent without slowing down their neighbor's connection.