The overuse of the word 'creepy' is arguably far worse than the arguably correct use of 'females'

People seem to think that these 'evil drones' can hover silently all day recording stable HD video through a window...

Things to consider:

- Multicopters are quite noisy
- They have very limited range/battery life
- They take a fair bit of skill/practice to fly
- They're fighting wind and vibrations. Getting stable footage is tricky
- GoPros are great for filming landscapes, but a wide-angle lens isn't really much use for close-up spying on people
- If you point a camera at a window, you'll mostly just get reflections anyway

If you want to spy on somebody, a better solution is a camera with a big zoom lens, on a tripod, on solid ground. Or a GoPro on a pole if you want to peer over fences.

Plenty of model aircraft have been built and flown which aren't sale models of full-size aircraft. How about this foam approximation of a Star Destroyer?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZcBLoPUEY

Is this any more or less a 'toy' or 'model aircraft' then a carefully crafted scale replica of a Spitfire?

What about the Hubsan X4 - or any of the many small, light, and fairly safe $100 'toy' quadcopters out there these days, do these not count as a toy/model either, due to drone paranoia?

Make it hard to get hold of pure, *relatively* safe drugs... and people end up doing shit like this...

Does the world really need another 'App Store Platform'?

Want to steal firearms, for use in your criminal endeavours? - here's a handy app to show you where to find them...

Given how far behind they are, I really couldn't care less about what they're doing to gain market share in the phone/tablet markets

What I really do care about, though, is having traditional general-purpose power-user-friendly desktop computing slowly taken away, and forcibly replaced by a dumbed-down locked-down model of computing centered around code signing and a single App Store.

You can install desktop apps, unless you're running WinRT - which is the likely model for all consumer versions of Windows (maybe enterprise versions too, in the more distant future?...)

WinRT has a desktop, and could run desktop apps (once they were recompiled for ARM) - but Microsoft has locked this away, as they want their control and a 30% or so cut of all software sales. (Which in the future, in a signed-code-only world, could effectively be demanding 30% of all revenue from, say, companies such as Autodesk, Adobe, and more!!)

Does the dev license let you side-load software compiled by somebody else (e.g. the apps that MS ban from the store - emulators and so on)? - or does that only work for open source projects? Whichever way it works, frequently-expiring certificates are a bloody pain.

It's not about it being hard to find. It's about functionality moving from 'real computing world' into 'locked-down App Store computing world'. (AFAIK it's been moved to Metro in 8.1)

Amazed so few people notice/care about the real issue here. It's not about UI fails and touch/mobile focus - that's a minor issue.

It's about Microsoft moving from a 'general purpose computing' model to an 'app store computing' model. Where everything has to be code-signed, approved/censored, and taxed at 30%+.

They are doing this by gradually phasing out the desktop and applying pressure to users to use Metro, by making it harder to avoid - whilst the desktop gradually has functionality stripped out (first the Start menu, now the control panel)

This is why we should absolutely reject Win8. Not because the new start screen is annoying.

But it's NOT ABOUT THE UI with windows 8. The UI issues are merely a mix of incompetence and misdirection.

Windows 8/WinRT is all about moving people from the desktop to Metro. From general-purpose computing to 'App Store computing'

Microsoft are following Apple, pushing as many people as possible into a world where all code must be signed, approved, censored, and taxed at 30%+ by the platform holder. And to do that, they will gradually limit the usefulness of the desktop.

Compared to mining gold/diamonds, mining bitcoins has a fairly small impact on the environment, and nobody gets hurt in the process.

Well, Unity does contain a lightmapping tools named 'Beast'...

Unity doesn't suck (although the workflow doesn't suit everybody). A lot of Unity users are inexperienced, and don't fully understand how Unity's rendering tech works.

Without a background in lower-level games/graphics programming, It's very easy to over-use expensive features (pass-per-light dynamic lights, projectors, full-screen post effects) without knowing what Unity is having to do behind the scenes.