Better built-in task manager.

Vastly improved copy/paste controls and feedback.

Those two things alone would be worth the $15 upgrade price to me if they didn't come with the metro / hot-corners / charms / etc stuff.

Re: shutdown.

I could go through the who rigamarole of charms or searching or whatever, but instead I do {winkey} cmd "shutdown /s"

Is there any better response the white house could give than a simple NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What happens when the government doesn't have the privacy? They say "oh no, we need the privacy that we deny you"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/minneapolis-police-pushing-for-more-license-plate-data-privacy/

If we shouldn't have privacy from governmnt because "oh who cares it's boring", then neither should any police, fire, rescue vehicle, or any politician from the public. It is not in the public's interest to make governmnt managers a higher class of citizen who can see all but not be seen.

So you're cool if the info from all these hypothetical car, face-cam, license plate reader database, shopping discount cards, etc, becomes completely public domain for everyone, and all tied back to the individual(s) who own them? If I want to look up everything you've bought and everywhere you've been, and every website you ever visit, I can do so with a couple clicks?

I'd assume that's what you want based on your statement that people should be open about what they do.

True. Now Apple will take care of your decisions for you so that you don't have to be exposed to that "drama queen bullshit".

I can't imagine what it would be like in both gender directions as we freely have access to each others browsing and chat logs.

Actually, I can - people wouldn't browse or chat about the things they want to. So, it's a great society if you're willing to give up many of the perfectly legal things that you want to do. Save a few bucks and give up your identity because you must conform to the norms or be an outcast. Aren't there already cults that people can join if they want to live like this? They're pretty cheap to live in from what I understand, maybe the author can go try one out for a while and let us know if it was worth it.