If browsers don't impose such a minimum, devices with embedded web servers (think printers and home routers) become vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. They can potentially defend against this by checking the Host header on requests, but since these devices are only manageable through the web there's no good way to establish what the correct value is.

With Intel you have to buy a CPU, buy a north/southbridge. If you want custom interfaces beyond that, that's more chips too.

Not so. Intel has SoCs now. Apparently they're quite popular for use in IVI applications.

Explorer isn't the window manager, although it does have some integration to make minimised windows appear within the task bar. The window manager largely runs as a library within the application (USER32.DLL). Windows 2000 added the feature that lets you force minimisation or kill the window's owner if it doesn't process window management messages quickly. (I don't know what component or process handles this.) More recently DWM.EXE was introduced to handle some window management and particularly compositing.

Try migrating a running system with dd. Many VM systems can do live migration, with a fraction of a second of down-time.

In Israel, the parliament only ever specifies the period of DST for one year at a time. I hear that Israeli Windows users don't even bother with automatic DST adjustment.

Actually, no, this has nothing to do with linux-libre which simply breaks every driver with firmware or a table of numbers they don't understand.

Apple has way too much experience being burned by Motorola and IBM both being unable to supply chips in heavy demand.

As I recall, Motorola and IBM had no problem with regular supply. The problem was that Apple was the only major customer for desktop/laptop-suitable PowerPC processors, and those vendors quite reasonably expected long-term order commitments for these products while Apple wanted more flexibility. With Intel, Apple is just one of many customers and while it has less control over x86 processor development it also doesn't have to make such commitments.

There is a hoax running especially in Europe, +358 or similar number, similar to Italy code (+35). Once you get a "ring" from that line or tricked calling it, your phone bill will be doomed. I speak about thousands of dollars (euros) here and you can't get that money back.

Urban legend.

I believe that the hybrid connector is still in the spec as an option, but no-one appears to be implementing it. The standard host connector for USB 3 has extra electrical contacts deeper in the plug.

The flash change is in some ways a downgrade, because wear-leveling is now done by firmware in the flash controller rather than in the filesystem (which was JFFS2). Although JFFS2 probably doesn't scale to 4GB, ubifs might.

I briefly played with one last week. It booted into GNOME, which had a desktop icon to start Sugar. There may well be a facility to do this the other way round.

No references; it's just what I've heard (backed up by examples) from friends who develop ARM-based embedded systems.

As for Nvidia, do they have any chips that fit in the price and power brackets of netbooks?

Hmm, apparently they do, in the form of their own ARM SoC...

You are confusing criminal and civil cases..

MS still supports Windows Server on Itanium, and the X-Box 360 runs a somewhat modified NT kernel on PowerPC (even big-endian!). So I think the HAL is still useful to MS.