Which time zone GMT/UTC or local time zone.

As a Linux/Unix user I expect the time of the HW clock, UTC for me.

I most European we don't have this education system.
So It's difficult the match.

Here is a list of education systems on Wikipedia.

You've forgotten to mention one thing. Everyone in the UK.

Outside of the UK people can write what they want about Ryan Giggs, the clown who thinks he can control the world.

Very good idea.

At least an article that isn't an April fools day article.

First of all I don't know if Novell is dying. Novell is Acquired by Attachmate Corporation.

Secondly the openSuSE community is very big and is operating on more or less independently from Novell.

Even if Novell would dying I think other companies would by the SuSE part with SLES. As SLES quality is also due to the openSuSE quality I don't think a owner of SLES would not support openSuSE.

I as a openSuSE packages still foresee a bright future for openSUSE and SLES also because the community around openSuSE is growing. And there are great projects within openSuSE like the openSUSE Build Service (Multi distro packaging framework), SUSE Studio (Build a custom distro), etc

I thing the console builders are to blame. Most PC games don't have hidden costs, and you are the ruler of the PC, more of less. Since Sony's action to remove the otherOS option I'm not fond of the consoles anymore. Customer who are using console have more or less sold their rights to the console maker. In the end they have the power we as a customer has non (by accepting te EULA you've sold your console soul to ...) They can remove anything they want to and even ask money for something that used to be free.

If it's a Philips product (of which they would have been capable of). It might be that friends of the evoluon (the Philips "flying saucer") might be able to help you?

This link gives some extra information security thoughts about EFI.
http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/01/efi-hidden-threat-to-computing-freedom.htm

I don't see any advantage when it would be encrypted or DRM would be used.
As a garage needs to do tests they'll be able to change values. If you get the keys credentials from a garage one can do the same.

It should just be impossible either change values for certain devices like brakes when the car is running or they should be reset when a diagnostic device is detached.

This new item wouldn't be an issue in most industries.

If an employee of a certain car producer drives to work with the car of the competitor no one wouldn't even be bothered. It's a fact that this happens.