Trusted devices is useful for avoiding the driver distraction issue of having to enter my password when I want to read and post to Slashdot while I drive. Having it recognize my Home and Work Wifi networks would be far more useful than this body motion detection.

Printing was another reason to require a signed applet. It was possible to limit the extra capabilities granted to an applet - but it was a huge learning curve that most developers were not interested in, and chances are that the end user isn't going to notice, or understand the difference (since their brain will shut down when they see the security dialog) so in most cases, a signed applet was getting full access, just like an ActiveX control.

Daewoo cars are now mostly branded as Chevrolet (maybe still Opel or Vauxhill in Europe), even in Korea. They are responsible for most of the smaller car designs from GM (from the Cruze down).

Chery is the only Chinese manufacturer I've seen locally, though another poster commented that Great Wall is available in Australia, so different manufacturers may be targeting different markets.

It was also due to the government's insistence that their homegrown encryption algorithms be used, combined with a delay in getting the algorithms registered as an official Cipher Suite for SSL/TLS, that led to them being implemented at the application layer rather than the transport layer.

They tried it for a while - N. Korea had a special zone just across the border where South Korean companies could send in managerial staff daily, but it turns out that such a scheme is not sustainable in the political climate that exists between the two Koreas. I don't think many South Korean companies are interested any more in having a factory that they can be closed down on a whim every time the supreme leader has a tantrum.

4. Inconsistent policy for character inclusion. After years of opposing addition of symbols commonly used in typesetting or web pages (such as a common symbol for indicating external links consisting of a box with a curved arrow coming out of it) on the basis that they are "not plain text and best represented by graphic images", we get emoji added. And they still won't add many of these symbols they've opposed in the past (they recently added the standard triangular recycling mark, but this was long after the emoji was added with several circular Japanese recycling marks clearly demonstrating the hypocracy).

For UTF-16. "Only Windows uses BOMs" is pretty much correct for UTF-8, where the Unicode standard discourages it.

I was going to post something insightful, but I got a warning from my browser about sending data over an insecure channel to http://slashdot.org and my brain shut down.

As soon as you admit you weren't watching your speed, you're toast. You've admitted that you weren't watching your speed. That's why the first question they ask you is "Do you know how fast you were going?"

Recommended defence when you rear-end a police car: "sorry officer, but I was watching my speed, not the road".

Are nuclear reactors mounted on an angle in the US? Is this a deliberate strategy to prevent China from attacking the power stations in the next world war?

Some distributions used to also distribute ABI compatibility, back when commercial software targeted Sco/Unixware/Xenix etc and ignored Linux. See here for example. These days, I expect it is the other way around - anyone left still shipping traditional Unix on x86 (or even other architectures) needs to provide a Linux ABI if they want to ensure that proprietary software will run on their platform.

Linux has been able to run executables from BSDs, SCO Unix and a few other x386 Unixes since quite early on. You also need all the dependencies from the target system, and constructing such a system would require a license for the Unix variant in question, but the binary compatibility is there in Linux. The question is whether it contains any SCO copyrighted code. The answer is a definitive no - what code is common appears to have come from BSD, or is trivial headers that could easily be common by chance, and more importantly, a court has already delivered the judgement that Novell, not SCO, owns the Unix copyrights.

There are no employees left. The legal cases were sold off to one of the execs who wanted to keep going and a bunch of lawyers as part of the bankruptcy. The rest of the company shut down.

They can sell what they like. The junkie down the road isn't going to start buying ivory just because you made smack legal. If there isn't a market for what they are selling, there isn't going to be any profit in it.

They don't have a case. But since they destroyed all their documents that show that, they are not aware of this themselves.