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.

Usability in this case is based on the user interface, not usefulness of the device overall. Welcome to English, where ambiguity in word usage is our middle name.

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.

So the back door works because people confuse strcmp() with == ?

I don't get it.

If anyone knows the answer, send it to me care of Goose Island, Oregon.

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.