If your wireless provider refuses to release updates, how are you expecting a backport of the fix to 4.3 to help?

When I've come across corporate internet pages that need "compatibility modes" to work properly in modern versions of IE, they mostly work fine in Firefox, as the developers already catered to standards compliant browsers, and put in exceptions for IE being broken. Dropping IE's compatibility modes would force the cleanup of all these legacy exceptions for IE, which can only be a good thing. Any remaining corporate webapps that were developed solely for old versions of IE without catering to standard browsers of the day, and have not been important enough to update over the past 8 years or so that more standard versions of IE have been available (I'm counting IE7 here, which may be a bit generous, but mostly it's applications made for IE5 and IE6 that are the problem) need to die already.

The main reason it is not remotely the same thing is that the web was not set up by Microsoft exclusively for their browser and reverse engineered by others to provide alternative browsers.

Really? Because I've never seen "liberal media" try to control interviews by shouting over them when its not going the way they planned the way Fox News presenters regularly do it.

You haven't noticed the beta program going on for Microsoft Cryptlocker?

Thats pretty skinny.

Maybe compared to the people around you, but it's actually smack bang in the middle of a "normal healthy BMI" according to NIH.

I submit that anybody who watches more than five hours of television a day is suffering from depression or some other condition that would lead to doing such a thing.

Are you sure you got cause and effect around the right way? Daytime television is particularly mind numbing.

It doesn't counter the effects of sitting for a prolonged time "after adjusting for the effects of regular exercise". Regular exercise is still a big part of a healthy lifestyle.

It depends how it is done. If, like the original Qt license, the license says that the software cannot be used on those platforms without paying the fee, then you are correct, it is non-Free software. But if anyone is free to compile the source themselves, but the authors make a convenient binary package available for a fee, then it is still Free software.

By measuring the actual emissions using regularly calibrated test equipment (not blindly trusting what the car's uncalibrated sensors are telling you). The visual inspection is to ensure that the emissions are not also coming out from other places they shouldn't be.

The US government holds that Bitcoin is property not legal tender.

Legal tender has a very specific and limited meaning relating to payment of debts - if you owe a debt, then an offer of legal tender to settle it cannot be refused. Not being legal tender is not a barrier to something being used in commerce, even by the government. If both parties agree, they can use whatever payment system they want (as long as the IRS is kept happy by declaring a US$ equivalent where required).

"Go to bed NOW or you don't get to go to your friend's house tomorrow" is very obviously exclusive to an adult -- but to a kid, they figure they' ve got options.

I'd say the opposite. The kid is thinking if I go to my bed now, I am definitely going to my friends house, and I can get straight out of bed again, because once I've fulfilled the request the outcome is decided and the threat of not going to my friend's house cannot be pulled out again for another situation. It's the adult that figures the options they are giving are not exclusive, and may very well decide the child is not going to their friend's house even though they went to bed NOW as requested.

Sometimes it depends on context, like a lot of written English, but a big clue is that there is no word 'xor' in the English language, and another clue is that it is common to see 'and/or' written when the author explicitly wants to include the possibility that both options may be true at the same time.

My eight year old son has one. I think the real purpose of it is to introduce 7-10 year olds to how to use a dictionary by providing something heavily simplified that they can understand easily, rather than providing a comprehensive word list.

Confirmed that they have replaced acorn with arm in the 2007 edition. The definition reads "Arms are weapons".