>> Diesel engines are much more polluting than petrol
Not in France. Most diesel engines here have FAP filters.

>> I've always been curious if there is ever going to be a clean way of running straight windows....

There's no clean way of running windows anyway :)

>> That's the problem: not enough bugs. Time to replace it with the Apple Watch Protocol.

No. If you want the most buggy and incomplete reference implementation, then take the microsoft one.

Double Check.

"Wipe the drive and do a clean install of Linux. You'll probably also be getting rid of a whole bunch of other bloatware in the process anyway, so Lin-Lin."

Corrected that for you

>> Find job in IT tech without Microsoft knowledge / support required.

Done.
http://nofeeofw.blogspot.ch/20...
http://www.linuxinsider.com/st...
http://www.careerbuilder.com/j... .....

Just google it.
Also, my job is MS free ( at leaset 98%)

Perhaps we should just exclude Sony from my "Japan" remark....

No. The best Lenovo could do is not collecting money and let new users get infected hardware.
The best Lenovo could do is commit to their customers, and get the PCs cleaned before they are sold.
But this kind of thinking is not really in the direction of typical chinese manufacturers, who simply ship the darn thing, whatever the defects. Japanese manufacturers are more commited to their users, when they admit the fault ( which does not always happen)

From the article, it seems it's not so easy after all, even Lenovo does not succed in removing it. (letting a malware exe on your system is not what i call "removal")
Also, it it was easy, Lenovo would put in the effort to do it for their ware.

Or just don't buy Lenovo.

>> No point to the story

Yes, there is a point. If Lenovo was concerned with the security of their customers, they would arrange with their distributors to either remove the malware or recall the hardware.
Continuing to sell it with malware shows they don't care about their customers.
And yes it costs money. That's the cost of deliberately distributing malware.

Alternative ?
Try the Fujitsu Lifebooks.

Or "Not Yet"
In a few years, the whole ecosystem will be swallowed by systemD

There is no country named "fuckin' Ethiopia". So the USA must be the only one who double taxes expats.

Yep. These standards exist. they just don't work in many cases. A built in standard header would indeed be better, and more coherent.