Yeah, maybe something like ASN.1.

Oh wait....[1]

[1] If you don't get this, you've never actually dealt with ASN.1.

First off: IANAL. Having said that, my $.02:

Was everything sold in the pet store made within the state? Is the credit card processor for the store and all its operations in-state? Both of these seem highly unlikely. The locally owned pet store is still engaging in interstate commerce even though its not obvious.So the commerce clause probably applies to the local pet store. But that's irrelevant because the 14th amendment is primary for the ADA.

And the 14th amendment has two pieces that are relevant to the ADA: The first says that people need to be protected equally.(the "equal protection clause" in section 1). The second says that congress has the right to enforce this law (section 5). The ADA says that handicapped people deserve equal protection under the law in all the states and Section 5 gives Congress the right to pass laws that affect in-state public entities.

Note the last part - as I understand it, the ADA only applies to public accomidations. So if you have a members-only club which is not open to the public, you don't have to comply with the ADA - this is the same legal basis that allowed the Augusta golf club to prevent african american members until 1990 and continues to allow them to ban women. As a members-only club, they don't have to comply with the 14th amendment.

Here's a hint:

(4) to invoke the sweep of congressional authority, including the power to enforce the fourteenth amendment and to regulate commerce, in order to address the major areas of discrimination faced day-to-day by people with disabilities.

The law cites the 14th amendment (equal protection) and the commerce clause.

Push the power button, it shuts down quite nicely. Or close your laptop's lid.

If you want, you can use Control-Alt-Delete, Alt-S then up and down to pick which of the 3 menu items pops up on the power button.

If you'd rather use the command line, the "shutdown" command still works just fine.

Almost the mechanisms to shut down windows over the past decade or so are still there. The only thing that's missing is the "shutdown" button on the start menu. The one that spawned all those "You have to use Start to shut down windows" jokes?

Actually according to Inside Windows NT, NT was Intel i860 only, then x86, then MIPs.

Alpha didn't come along until significantly later.

A variation of your car analogy: I buy a car, but I decide that I don't like the tires that come with the car. Can I get a refund of the cost of those tires if I choose to use different ones?

Check the dreamwidth.org post I cited - mjg calls out (in the comments) that there IS a challenge that the OEM needs to include the distro's cert in the box, but that doesn't mean that Linux is locked out - the Linux distro just needs to work with the OEM to ensure that the cert for the distro is included in one of the set of certs that is included in the box:

"Re: Is there any way for the end-user to load their own keys?
Date: 2011-09-24 02:10 am (UTC)
From: mjg59
Not inherently. It's actually reasonably hard to do - inserting new keys requires that those keys themselves be signed by the private half of one of the keys in the KEK database, so you'd need to give your key to someone who *does* have an entry there (either the OEM or Microsoft), have them sign it and then pass that into the variable database"

I'm not saying that there aren't challenges, but it's NOT impossible. "Requires that the Linux distribution owner work with the OEM" is far from "locked out".

Where did they say that? What I read in all the excerpts was that the competing OS needed to built according to the rules that Intel defined when they defined UEFI secure boot.

That's not "impossible" - According to this, it should be possible. And this says it should take about a week's worth of work for any distro to support it.

That's FAR from "impossible".