My recorded will shall read:

"For the road to salvation and repentance must be paved up the avenue of my soul, and not up yours... up yours... up yours... up yours..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8xYH9ork8

Roman Moronie might have put it best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8tVxk6Nj4

Some of those still using IE 6 are forced to by virtue of decree by Microsoft: If you're among those hangers on to Windows 2000, Microsoft won't let you upgrade to IE 7 or higher even if you want to. Which isn't to suggest sticking with Win2k is necessarily advisable, but guaranteed that's one of the reasons some are still using IE 6...

Maybe I'm too old school, but I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned this game as a superb candidate for reboot. This is one of the first MMP games, and later modifications made an already fun, dynamic gameplay experience even better. If the reboot retained the excellent taunts and playability of the original title (unlike its subsequent releases), while incorporating contemporary graphic detail, I can't imagine it wouldn't be a successful title. The gameplay of Tribes remains some of the most fun I've ever had playing a video game-- I miss those days!

Ah yes-- Excellent point (and one I should have thought of, I say embarrassed). I suppose this further demonstrates the reality: If someone has physical access to your machine, Game over, man!

Given that this appears to be loaded via internal optical drive, I'm not completely understanding why this is such a threat. Discounting the fact mentioned by many others that if you're physically compromised you're already hosed (they can pull the hard drive, etc.), all BIOS renditions I've ever seen allow you to select which device the machine first uses to boot. So, set it to your hard drive. Machine boots from hard drive, doesn't boot from bad CD/DVD. Password protecting your BIOS access (which many, if not most, offer) prevents malicious user from setting the machine back to CD/DVD boot. Some BIOS flavors allow you to turn off CD/DVD boot all together, even.

End of "problem".

I mean really-- This is so simple I fear I must be missing something about this story... ?

How did Stellarium and/or Celestia *not* make this list!? If one's criteria is for "Cool" applications, these can't do anything but qualify.