Of those who did get cancer, all of them were diagnosed with cancer (though ~5% during an autopsy). Thus we can see with 100% certainty that a medical diagnosis causes cancer. Protect your loved ones, don't let them get diagnosed or tested!

Actually, my hypothesis is that oral cancer is caused by drinking soda; so the people who drink 4+ cups of coffee/day don't get it, because they never have any soda.
Now, somebody, please come out with a study that refutes my hypothesis so I can get back to drinking Mountain Dew by next sumer!

Okay, not to be a wet blanket, but my Dad told me about this a week ago, after reading about it in his subscription of AARP's [print] magazine. Shouldn't us young[er], technologically-savvy, electronically-delivered folks be getting science news a little bit faster than the old people get it in their mainstream print magazines?

Personally, I never went to college. I'm a business owner now. I worked (consecutively, starting at age 18) on a farm, at two difference McDonald's, for an Office Depot (where I learned sales and management from the ground up), then worked for a dentist, all while doing computer repair on the side and having various side jobs (being a vendor that hangs signs in grocery stores, things like that), just to make ends meet. After I got married, I realized that what I wanted more than anything else was to spend more time with my wife, and the best way to accomplish that was to become self employed full-time. It took a couple of years of saving while living in poverty (sub-$12k/year total family income), but we did it. We've been running our computer shop for 3 years now, and last year grossed $45k.
The moral of this story is that I wasn't driven by greed, didn't go to college to get my ideas, and wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth (my parents have never made more than $35k between the two of them), but I'm living the dream. I work when I want to (well, sorta, we have set hours to be in our retail store, but when I want to take a day off, I just pay my mom to watch the shop for a day), and most importantly, I get to spend time with my wife. I'm not a millionaire, but I also happen to be making more money than I've ever made before in my life, though that's just a fringe benefit. The only debt I have is my mortgage. Oh, and I'm only 27.

tl;dr: Greed isn't the only motivator, and college isn't the only place to get ideas and experience.

This. I have Win8 on my Fujitsu T5010, and love touch scrolling with it. So much more natural. I've touched my office monitor and my wife's laptop screen a couple times now without thinking. I love having a convertible laptop/stylus/touch PC (the T5010 has a 'dual digitizer'; the active stylus digitizer is awesome for my comics, but the touchscreen is better for games/surfing/reading), and I'm never switching back to an ordinary laptop.
Oh, and by the way, I'm a web developer who has written thousands of lines of code on a convertible tablet pc. That's what the keyboard is for.

I'm sorry, but seeing a pedant make a mistake while chewing someone out for making a mistake is just too funny.

You must be a superhero-level slashdotter if you host enough dance parties for digital music to make any difference in your lifestyle. I'm guessing that the average slashdotter has never been to a dance party, let alone hosted one. I know I sure haven't.
Then again, this is slashdot, where the standard is to go way overboard over the tiniest thing, so maybe...

Actually, Security Essentials has been renamed Windows Defender (because MS is in love with reusing names) and is included with Win8 right out of the box.
As far as AV software goes for pre-Win8, in my shop we have a single-file installer for MSSE and for a 90-day trial of Norton sitting on the desktop of computers for sale, and let the customer choose which to use. When asked, I always recommend MSSE, but the customer is the one who installs and activates it.

I would kinda tend to disagree with most of your points.
1) I totally agree.
2) Totally unneeded. Vendor updating slows computers needlessly. If there is a critical driver update, it gets pushed to MS and will be downloaded with Windows Update.
3) Sure, you can use it, but why? It runs as a background service, and (if it's like the Win7 version) as a systray app that hogs resources whether you ever use them or not. They do nothing for you that Windows can't do out-of-the-box. And why would you need a program to convert videos before uploading to youtube? Youtube accepts any standard video format, and if you have a camcorder, it would have come with software to do any necessary conversion. If it didn't, that's their problem, and not something a PC manufacturer should be concerned about.
4) Totally unneeded. Spotify makes money from you by playing ads. Their software is every bit as useless as an IE toolbar. Sure, some can have handy features, but that definitely does not make up for their unneeded bloat or the fact that they're only there to make money off of you. If someone wants Spotify features, they can download Spotify. Or maybe they could just use xbox music, a new service from MS that comes preloaded in Win8 that is exactly the same thing.
5) Maybe some folks like the features of this software better than the integrated application, but Windows 8 does have pre-loaded webcam software. It comes on the Microsoft install disk -- I purchased Windows 8 for my PC and installed it from scratch. I don't know what features it has, because my webcam unfortunately isn't compatible (the only hardware issue I've had with Win8), but it's there nonetheless.
The only software I consider appropriate for an OEM build would be the basic Windows components, Java (which is difficult thanks to licensing), and the basic Adobe suite of free software (which MS is trying to do away with, thanks to 'viewer' for opening PDFs, and Silverlight). Everything else should be installed later by the end user, including the free MS games. After all, Win8 has a large, obvious button for the market, where people can download anything that's available.

Here's the conversion.

Methinks, perhaps, the best method for you to prepare a turkey would be with a tinfoil hat on.

I would assume this isn't a license for the screen, but rather a license for the privilege of recording. I'm sure the logic was something like 'Without a mandatory license, there would be no way to prosecute people who record others through a bedroom window without their knowledge.'

Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome. When it comes to weapons development, this is exactly the sort of weapon we should be cheering for. Whether you agree with the ones using it or not, this is a wonderful thing. A weapon which only works as a shield to block incoming attacks; that is what the weapons used by enlightened countries should have evolved into.

Since when do Christians, Jews or Muslims abstain from meat? Or teach that meat makes you wicked? Hindus and Buddhists don't believe in Adam & Eve. I'd really like to know who is backing this textbook.