I'm a keyboard monkey at a three-man retail computer / repair shop. In the last week, literally every PC that's came in to get cleaned up has had a copy of "Security Tool" installed. The fix is quite easy - download process explorer, rename it to iexplore.exe, run it, kill 08732030.exe (Or whatever random number it's used this time), then install & Scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and a couple others. But it's obscure enough that nobody can do it, so we can charge our standard 1 hour to clean it up. I wish I could meet the guys who wrote this and buy them a drink. They've been paying my cheque for about 6 months now.

I just bought one last week, and my wife's will be getting here either today or tomorrow, you insensitive clod!

Absolutely not - who as a consumer goes to a store, copies down the patent numbers, goes home to look them up then buys the product solely based on what they find, completely ignoring the much more obvious "CONTROLLER SOLD SEPARATELY" warning?

I know there are programs / firefox extensions to download + convert videos off youtube, but this just makes it too damn easy. Especially since you're already using Chrome - right click on the video, choose Inspect Element. It opens the page source, and finds the URL of the video for you. Copy to clipboard, paste to address bar, and it downloads a suprisingly high quality .mp4 - no conversion or crappy flash video players neccesary. Keep up the good work YouTube.

In a new install of Windows XP (IE6) the default page (At least in Canada) is MSN/Sympatico, which has Bing search at the top. The search bar in IE7 and 8 both by default still point to Live search, which automatically redirects to Bing. So that 10% includes anyone using the default search for IE6 or 7 too.

To which Oak Ridge National Laboratory replied "Fuck everything, we're doing 500 million cores."

Wouldn't it be trivial to have the benchmark app randomly rename itself every time it runs? It would be far less trivial to optimize for djdusah89efhsl123d.exe...

Corporate IT departments (and their management) that are still using IE6 probably aren't going to be too upset that their users / employees aren't able to access YouTube while at work.

You've never watched Judge Judy, have you? To be fair, they sign away their rights to a fair trial beforehand, but she still technically is a judge. The Peoples' Court, Eye for an Eye, etc... Pretty much any daytime Fox programming is the same way.

Where they spike the air to cure aggression in people? It doesn't end well.

Even if you choose the Express Settings option, it does tell you that it's going to change the default: http://www.geeksmack.net/uploads/ie8_screens/wizard_settings.jpg Notice "Default browser: Internet Explorer" under the list of default options that will be selected.