The blame for this is on certain browser developers (*cough* MS *cough*). There is no technical reason why "amazon" couldn't be a host, but IE stupidly assumes that when you enter a single word, you want to search for it. It won't even resolve local domains. When I use IE I can't type in just "sharepoint" like I should be able to. Instead I have to type "sharepoint.company.com".

I'm talking about the Metro UI itself. It's meant to be an intuitive UI yet is exactly the opposite and requires knowledge of hidden buttons and gestures. Take Metro IE for example. Normally, it's pretty easy to navigate to an arbitrary URL. You can press Ctrl+L or click in the address bar, then type the URL. Now go try to do that on Metro IE.

I'm not sure how much this is true in the release version, but MS seems to have not separated the normal UI and the Metro UI so it's not always possible to get away with only one or the other.

My assessment of the dev preview is pretty bad. I was doing some consulting for a company, and we had installed windows 8 on a PC there. Me, the IT admin, and another guy who was fairly tech-literate couldn't figure it out due to the unintuititve UI that ends up getting in the way. They have plenty of good ideas that are just poorly implemented.

It's fairly standard on laptops with the newer Intel graphics (the ones built in to the CPU).

The controller board for the drive just has a USB port.

"Retarded" and any similar words just go through an endless cycle. Some new politically correct word will come along (like "intellectually disabled" as you said) and in a few years' time it will start being used as an insult. When they realize this, they'll come up with a new word and the exact same thing will happen.

The "getting things others already had" is part of why it's becoming worse. They're trying way to hard to copy chrome. If I wanted to use a browser like chrome, I would just use chrome. Mozilla has taken the google route and dumbed down their UI to the point where I refuse to upgrade past 3.6 because I don't want to have to install 80 addons just to get the UI back to where it should be.

The real question isn't "are we breaking the law?" it's "should we report it". Even if it is illegal, reporting it could cause you to get in more trouble than if you pretended you never knew. I'm not sure what differences there are between businesses and individuals with respect to child porn, but some people have accidentally downloaded it, reported it, and gotten arrested for it.

If you only need to do something basic like delete a specific line number, then there's an even easier way: just use sed. If you know you want to delete line 10, then just do "sed -i 10d .ssh/known_hosts"

How would it be any better? You still would have to replace equipment and software in order to support it. Most high-end equipment uses ASICs for routing, so you wouldn't be able to just do software upgrades to support it.

Doesn't it become a bit redundant? If you want to tell parents about absences, just look at the teachers' attendance and look at who was missing. Seems like too much cost for little benefit over what is currently done.

It sounds like it's just automated attendance. Your RFID in your shirt gets scanned at the door. No different than a teacher taking attendance the old-fashioned way. A lot of schools call the parents if their student is marked absent, so it's no different than that.

They're trying to make it as cheap as possible. Even TFA mentions this.