I use it all the time, both in Windows (8.1 currently) and Debian GNU/Linux (with xbindkeys). It has a lot of useful shortcuts in Windows by default and I've configured several on the Linux side too.

I mean no offense, but someone not using the winkey seems to me as incredulous as it apparently seems to you that people would use it very often. For example, do you really click the start button with a mouse and then select Run... instead of Win+R? Or search without pressing Win+F (or Winkey on its own, or Win+W for settings search)? Not to mention Win+1, Win+2 etc. to run and focus taskbar pinned applications.

Sounds like a scam; why would one need a credit card to receive an award?

Why would the word "user" imply payment?

Indeed; I would have expected it to search globally, the same way it works when you first open the page. It's cool and useful that it works like it does, but it wasn't obvious to me. Thanks for the hint GP :)

I wonder at which point smartphones will become fast enough so that people will stick the same phone for at least five years or so.

Of course they're more prone to physically breaking than the desktop PC, so they'll be replaced sooner than desktops no matter how well they're performing.

I suppose sports sites are already geared towards normals instead of athletes, which IMHO would be the gearhead equivalent here.

I know what they say about assuming, but I assume you mean that 20-40% of low income voters would vote Republican. I'm not familiar with minor US parties (my excuse: not living in the US) but surely there are other parties that they could be voting for, like a socialist party that would at least seem like a better option for poor voters?

NoScript helps with this, it gives an ABE (application boundary enforcement) error.

ABE and some other features such as clickjacking protection also work if you've set it to allow scripts globally; this is how I've configured it on my parents' computer. It helps that my mother understands hardly any English, so I told her to close the browser if any foreign language messages popped up. No problems so far... *knocks on wood* :-)

You're correct of course, nothing on Earth really matters. We all will die eventually and the whole universe may (will?) be gone one day. Luckily I can mostly forget that and get excited about little things that don't really matter.

As much as I'd like to see GNU/Linux succeed on the desktop, my experience has been similar. How much of it is X's fault though, that I don't know. My guess is not much actually, but I'm curious if anyone knows better.

I don't understand where the fear of computers comes from. I would expect anyone who is comfortable driving a car at high speeds to have no trouble operating a small machine that doesn't have the potential to kill bystanders if your concentration lapses.

Your finger needs to slip quite a few times to add the --no-preserve-root to that command (it might be GNU coreutils exclusive though). :)

I've clicked the wrong button on a GUI several times, just as I've made typos on the command line. Both have the potential to screw things up unless I'm being careful.

Just like you might confuse the icon representing yyymy with yymyy.

Driving the kids to some place around the corner while they watch movies on iPads. Sounds so stereotypically American that it's funny!

Also it somehow makes me feel kinda old and I'm only 31...