The defectiveness of the Start Screen isn't a matter of it "being hard". For me, it disrupts the context information in my brain for the task I'm currently doing. It isn't hard, it's annoying. And, same as with Clippy of days past, it isn't hard to bypass, but it's annoying all the same. It hinders me, it disrupts me from getting things done. And that is all the reason I need to shun it.

Incidentally, I feel perfectly justified to complain often and loudly about the Start Screen, as this is my only small way of providing feedback to Microsoft. Feedback, that, accumulated with thousands of others, hopefully will result in a change to disable Metro.

Renumeration. Taxed as income.

Renumeration. Taxed as income.

Renumeration. Taxed as income. If there is tax-treaty with that country, tax already payed in foreign country on that income is tax-deductable (or vice versa).

And while I'm at it, I'll suggest a _progressive_ tax rate.

Actually, a pair of boots stuffed with a few insoles sounds like a *perfect* place to keep a (fragile piece of art/ornate watch). Depending on the material of the boots, they could protect the watch from any mishandling of the luggage. Yes, he could have put the watch in a separate box, but that box would have taken up space on its own. This just sounds to me like efficient use of space.

Property rights? Over money stored at a bank? In a bank-account?

Sorry, you don't own that money. The only thing you have is credit. The bank promises to give you that amount of money when you ask for it. That's all.

So, well, the answer is; no.

And what exactly do you think a human crew will do with:
a) a weapon
b) a target
c) orders in hand to bomb said target
d) a communications outage?

It doesn't matter if it's a human crew or not, because that target will go BOOM in that scenario.

Hell, there could even be evolutionary advantages for some people to sleep longer/deeper than others. Some people being more awake/alert during the night; others better rested during the day. That could be advantageous in a hunter/gatherer civilization.

IIRC, when in running with the -server switch, java is willing to -eventually- remove some of the unused memory in permgen.

Aaah, yes. TPM and Palladium to the rescue!

Ditto. *ahem* Europe.

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Explain this to me; why is UPnP so insecure? UPnP can only be switched on by a random application if that application has access to the LAN. That application is then _already_ running locally on one of the machines on the network. It can _already_ connect to random machines/ports. If that application now wants to exploit a vulnerability on one of the machines connected to the LAN, it can do it directly, no need to configure any port forwarding to let yet something else in.

I haven't yet read any realistic argumentation on why UPnP is dangerous (and I looked!). Mainly just FUD. The only security issue I can see is that _after_ the baddies take over your PC, they can open up ports.

Sure, but why, in the holy trinity of three hells, would you embed it in child pornography, as the second linked article suggests?

From http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q1/nr_050214s.html

In the future, ground-based pilots will be controlling multiple combat aircraft with high-level commands: Patrol that sector, destroy target, refuel, RTB.

I hope a WPA2 security key was set in that router's configuration?

Even if Windows phones are just as good as droids and iphones, the current market shares can be the determining factor in purchase decisions. Maybe what MS needs is to have WP7 be better than its competition. And that is going to be hard to do.