Having read TFA, and following the link at the end to the manufacturer's site and reading up on the technical details of the vehicle, I'm more than a little daunted by the possibility of air tanks under 4500psi of pressure failing while I'm inside the vehicle. I read their claims that the carbon-fiber technology used to create the tanks makes them safe, but I'm having a hard time accepting that having air under that much pressure released (worst case scenario) all at once isn't going to injure me in some new and interesting way, and I'm certainly not down with the idea that any chunk of matter propelled by that much pressure is not going to cause greivous harm to my person. As a possible example of such (although it may not be a fair example), has anyone seen the episode of Mythbusters where they explored whether or not a welding tank could propel itself through a wall made of concrete blocks, if the valve was broken off the top of the tank? Granted those were steel welding tanks and not carbon-fiber, but there's a serious amount of force involved there. I'm not trying to say EVERYBODY PANIC! and put them off the technology -- I think it would be a great thing to have, if practical -- but I would be foolish to not be leery of a scary amount of pressure being used in essentially a confined space.

Well, I'm kinda chuckling at that. This is the internet, what did you expect?

I still keep holding on to the hope that there is actual intelligence out here in the wilds, but I'm continually disappointed. Guess that makes me a masochist..

What would be really funny would be if some guys in China tried to do a DoS attack to TPB... and it would DoS the government's (in essence) servers.

Yeah, that would be really funny, how the Chinese government would come in the middle of the night, take them, their family, and likely anyone else that knew or cared about them, and drop them in a hole somewhere, never to be heard from again. Yeah, that's fucking hilarious.

There is a very easy way to fix this... the first time a user requests a web page, or maybe they click an icon on their desktop called "web browser" a little window pops up: "Would you like to download - Mozilla Firefox - Internet Explorer - Safari ... etc" problem solved.

Why not take it one step further and put the installers for all the above right in the OS install? If they really wanted to improve their (Microsoft's) image with the public, it'd go a long way towards that.

I just got thinking. So let's say Microsoft doesn't include the new IE in it's next Operating System -- how do you get it?

Maybe they'd expect you to FTP it. Hilarity ensues as the average little old granny tries to understand how to use the clunky command line FTP client.

*shrug* I dunno, what that AC said makes at least as much sense as the AC he's calling out, and there's the added bonus that the AC he's calling out is likely so ignorant in the first place, that he'd actually believe that's true. Either way, can't see how everyone else can lose out here. ;-)

Hasn't IE been a fully integrated part of Windows since, what, all the way back to Windows 98? If they start using some open-source code for their browser, will the architecture of the OS still have IE as such an integral part, or will it become a separate application again? Also, is it really such a good thing to have Micro$oft active in the open-source community? Forgive me, but talk like this makes me a little nervous.

Sounds like a prime example of what happens when salespeople get too much of a say in the development process. Wonder if they made them back-burner fixing actual bugs and security holes in favor of adding adware like this?

He's going to Disneyland! :D