If stories of Microsoft's competence (heh heh) are to be believed (heh heh heh) then they already have a full test harness in place, and engineers tasked full-time with adding new cases to the system. Given what slips through, though, one doubts both their competence and also that they have a meaningfully representative set of PCs to test on. I'll grant you that would be difficult in the best case due to wide variation in the market, but the point stands.

Either you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or your cells didn't do the thing because of the genetic lottery. Now we can write everything off as luck, and never take responsibility for anything!

I, too, am capable of building a lunar base.

I just need some funding. And a rocket. And a team of trained engineers/astronauts (both, not either or).

Rocket fuel, I guess. And plans. Plans would be good.

But I am totally capable.

The technical term would be 'seigniorage'.

"Inherently worthless" is the salient feature of money. When you trade things of intrinsic value you are bartering. It's only the fact that you were taught to value "dollars" without question that makes you think "$370 million" has any intrinsic value.

Well, we know the Nazi regime asembled ME 262s in an elaborate network of underground tunnels to avoid Allied bombers who late in the war were operating over Germany with near impunity. The tunnels were excavated and ME 262s assembled with Jewish slave labor under horrific conditions.

If you were involved with such a thing you'd have plenty of reason to keep it secret.

Sure it does. If you stay home, you don't drive to church, or to the waffle house.

Yes, by giving his wealth to those who need it, thus becoming not-rich of money, but rich of spirit. But he still won't be rich when he dies — once his wallet shrinks, perhaps the camel will fit

Sorry, but it sounds like Pope Francis has published a list of all the child molesters they know they've relocated. Can you drop a link, please?

Sadly, it doesn't include treating women like humans. He still believes they're inferior. I don't take him seriously on the subject of the poor, either; the vatican is still sitting on too much wealth. But seeing the pope agree with current science is a refreshing breath of fresh air. The vatican must surely have investments in companies whose management are not glad to hear this lot from the pope.

As a joe computer user, about all you can do with them that's meaningful is run XBMC or build a NAS. But you could buy something to do that for the same kind of money once you add a case and power supply.

If you want to get a bit hackish, these computers can control stuff if you add some relays or whatnot. That's who they're for.

Nonsense. That's only true if your lawyers don't have deep pockets, but Sony's do.

How long will it take you to visit Wikipedia or the IMDB before you buy tickets for a given film, to make sure it's not published by Sony?

Yeah, guess what? The kid's Xbox would integrate with Windows 7 or even XP just fine. But it still wouldn't play MKVs without PS3MediaServer or similar.

Well no. Sometimes you can find the bug, but you're not allowed to use the source. Common with closed-source products. They'll give you enough information to help them, but they won't legally let you help yourself. Because money.