So in the same camp as every iPad made, and the majority of Android tablets, then?

The Windows 8 Hardware Certification requirements published by Microsoft. To quote the relevant section:

Bullshit.
1) Windows 8 runs perfectly fine without Secure Boot
2) For a manufacturer to provide a computer with Windows 8 pre-installed, or to label their product as compatible with Windows 8, they MUST allow end-user modification of the bootloader keys. If they don't, then no Windows 8 for them, as per MS' own hard certification requirements.

Good news, it's already fixed then!

So who decides what keys can be added to the bootloader? The end user, in the case of every x86 board. Microsoft requires any system vendor to allow end users to add their own keys (either directly, or by wiping the existing keys and requiring the user to add their own and microsofts back in). No user-modifiable Secure Boot, no Windows 8 for you. No windwos 8 certification? The manufacturer can do whatever they want, from locking down the loader to only one key of their choice, or not implementing secure boot at all/ Basically, the current state of affairs.

It is decentralised. It's so decentralised, that it's handled on a per-end-device basis. Because you manage the keys on your device by entering them.

No, it isn't. If you can add your own keys, you can add any keys.

The level of FUD over Secure Boot, and it's non-relation to Windows 8, is astounding.

Who do you trust less: the military, or a whatever corporation would be set up to run it? Personally, I'd take the one where people of whatever level of management can be held accountable by court-martial.

Not above break-even, but actually performing D-T fusion is relatively easy, to the point it has been done as a high-school science experiment using the old Farnsworth-Hirsch 'fusor' IEC design.

What, did you think NIF was actually going to be producing power? I assume you also class JET as a total failure for not producing cost-effective energy, then.

And that 'fusion will never happen' article cold be summed up as "D-T fusion is the easiest so is used in research reactors, and so must also be used in commercial reactors, and it has a bunch of problems in tokamaks, so fusion will never happen", happily ignoring a-neutronic fusion entirely, as well as other forms of confinement than purely magnetic.

This sounds like a subset, rather than a fragment. The idea being to restrict what users can or can't install from the public appstore (i.e. to prevent PHB#528 installing 300 fart noise apps with 6 different keyloggers lurking in there), and restrict global users from installing company-specific programs while still delivering them to company users via the same distribution mechanism as the rest of their apps (e.g. no need to sideload each phone individually).

There already is a standard way of doing things, and it's built into Android! Introducing an additional way to connect a bluetooth controller to an Android phone only means a game now has to support two bluetooth controller APIs, rather than one. A total waste of time and effort.

So what you're saying is, The Hobbit does not contain any Trolls.

Apple are the exact definition of a 'bit player' then, I take it?

True, but ARM devices that aren't locked down are vanishingly rare. On the one hand you have every idevice, almost every Android device, set-top boxes, etc. On the other? A handful of Android devices with officially unlocked bootloaders, the RaspberryPi, and some ARM-based microcontroller-a-likes.

It's a Dick Move, but a Dick Move in line with the Dick Moves of every other portable-ARM-device manufacturer.

Not only is this EXACTLY what you can do, the Win8 certification requires OEMs to allow you to do this.

The irony is, MS specifically require manufacturers to allow you (the end user) to modify the Secure Boot keys, or they don't get Win8 certification. They're enforcing the exact opposite of what you think they are.

The tricky part about an ICB is hitting the target i.e. your ring-laser gyros, PIGA accelerometers, and the algorithms to turn that into a useful inertially tracked position and velocity. The actual Big Grunty Rocket part is trivial in comparison, especially if you're not a commercial entity and cost effectiveness is not a particular concern. Inertial guidance isn't really something that goes into commercial launch vehicles, as you're expected to have good ground tracking station coverage.