I believe the correct statement would be:
"You're fired"

The point of UAC in Vista was to show the users just how badly-written their software was.
Unfortunately, it also showed just how badly-written some of Microsoft's own software is.

I have enjoyed my install of XP64 since the release of FarCry64 and am now trying out Windows 7 x64 to see how well it will cope.

XP was based on (then immature) win2000 and XP64 and Vista on (now mature) win2003. With any luck, everything will work out of the box.

So I guess you never read 'Snow Crash'?

I confuse myself and others by driving an energy-efficient BMW (50mpg diesel)
The gasoline engine does a paltry 40 mpg =]

Experts Exchange has been doing this for years.
Users can post questions and (super-)users can post answers.
The Superusers earn points by answering hard questions and points get you a free premium membership.

I used to hang there for years, until they started asking money for premium services.
I still highly recommend it to small businesses. One membership can save piles of consulting fees.

The fact that the traffic originated from IPs that include China and Russia does not mean that the hacker is Chinese or Russian.
It just means that the hacker is using chinese or russian computers.

Step 1:
What if Google were to allow libraries to link their stock to the book collection?
That way, a user could check for availability of the selected book at (local) libraries.

Step 2:
Thay way, the libraries that have the book get the traffic and the user can check for (nationwide) availability.

Step 3:
Everybody wins:
- Google gets an index of every book ever published
- Google can perform full-text search on every book
- The libraries get publicity
- People will join a library if required (profit!)

I feel a lot safer now that the current President of the USA is trying to reason with potential enemies, instead of vilifying them.

Not everyone agrees with his plan, but it has shown his ideas for Foreighn Policy.

Whilst true, keep in mind that they do not need +/- 6000 nukes to do so.
A half-dozen nukes per hostile country is enough to deter most of them.

The really scary part is that a lot of nukes are over 40 yrs old and they could go off accidentally. ...of be stolen from a cold-war era depot.

The US tends to lose the occasional weapon.

And when the US is no longer safe, all of Asia becomes nervous because of potential fallout of a US/NK war.
The US does not seem to care what lasting effects it leaves behind, as long as its goals are met and the US itself is safe.

Even now, the US ignores the international ban on landmines in on especific case (that we know of):

*) Anti-Personnel Landmine

I see only one bright spot:

Somehow I can only remember one country that has actually used WMD's in a war...
And they still have plenty in stock.

The floppy icon is there by default because the BIOS tells Windows it is installed and Windows has no way of checking wether this is true.
The way to remove this icon is by going into your BIOS and telling it there is no floppy drive installed. (it' the option with the 3.5" 1.44M floppy)

Doesn't that also ban any call for a Jihad?
Doesn't that protect pastafarianism from ridicule?

Where is the application form for religions that want protection from ridicule?

This sounds more like something Scientology would start.

Actually, this bug demonstrates the vulnerability of a distributed system, not a centralised one.
If there was one central computer to control them, the machines would have been set up
    for a single administration point, which would disallow the attack in question.
Because a lot of 'outside machines' are regulated by a big semi-public network,
    the remote machines can be abused to create chaos.

Creating a grid of small machines means that the small machines need to be as pridictable (monolithic) as possible.
This means that a hack for one of them will also work for the others.

Farmers are still free to set up their own wind farm and push spare power into the grid,
    provided they play by the local power company's rules/system.

I see you have met the Internet.
Where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.