Then stop buying computer monitors that are designed for viewing Hollywood movies and start buying ones that are designed for general-purpose computing.

Weird... I don't understand the problem they're describing in that blog post. Surely JS code can detect when viewport size is modified, and change images accordingly.

Or, future generations will be even lazier than we are and won't think of privacy and true freedom as really desirable things, so they won't mind what we did(n't) do.

So you're saying they may have been dying out from our gun bullets before we met them?

I highly doubt Obama evolved his actual attitude on gay marriage. As with most things, we'll never know what Obama really thinks about it. What he evolved was, as you said, his position on it after seeing the way the political wind was blowing. Eich was merely more honest and stuck to his guns instead of pretending he now believed the popular thing.

Yeah but say you build a new PC and install Windows on that, it's a whole new set of hardware talking to MS's servers for updates. Aren't they going to complain about that?

How does that work, though? How does MS know you've removed it from the old drive, or do they just trust you?

Yeah but Vista and 8 are such a POS you probably won't want to keep them for 10 years.

Does that apply if you've already activated on one PC, and want to install it on a new PC? Presumably you have revoke the install on the old PC or something?

Except that it isn't the lifetime of a decade, is it? Microsoft will want you to "upgrade" and pay them more in a year's time, like they did with Vista -> 7 -> 8. And as I mentioned elsewhere, changing my PC hardware means I have to go through some stupid reactivation process.

Well there's also the issue of having to "activate" Windows now. What happens if I build a new PC? I have to go through some crappy procedure to "transfer" my licence onto the new machine... or maybe MS don't even allow that?

I stick with XP for one of my desktops because I put my own hardware together (no OS preinstalled), and I don't want to pay horrific sums of money (£135) for a new operating system - Windows 8 is even more expensive to buy a worthwhile edition of. It's behind my free Debian install which acts as a router+firewall. Works for me.

In Britain, MEP is a very widely-understood initialism so I'm not really finding this joke funny. :-) You Yanks use acronyms all the time anyway, don'tcha?

Hahahahahahaha, how do Japanese cut things then? Shinto willpower?

No, but you can pump it up your colon with a garden hose...