....that won't change the commercial market place (or the number of government systems that run under MS).

Of course, the back-doors are a hot-potato - at least, they are to anyone that hasn't been aware of them since NT4.

In America, I thought this was law rather than the rule.

Gah, just realised you weren't talking about just IE. my bad

Which I'm sure will be the desktop OS of choice *next year*, just like it always is. Until then, in the real world....

Or alternatively, be careful of picking holes instead of examing/ googling how much evidence is against you;

Also from the first page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwater_v._Lago_Vista
"Texas law provides for police officer discretion in arresting any person caught committing a misdemeanor, such as violating its mandatory seat belt laws."

I was actually trying to help you avoid having to defend why it *wouldn't* be an arrestable offence...but never mind

Google is your friend - here's one example

http://199.193.115.250/kentucky/johnson-county/charges/failure-to-wear-seat-belts/3

Well, I was giving a rather base idea - it's not very hard to do facial recognition/ heat detection/ etc. - sure, there will be people who try to circumvent it, but then when seatbelts were made law there was always some wag who connected the seatbelt before sitting down because 'nobody tells me what to do'...but after a few arrests, that attitude didn't really last.

If the car detects more than one person in the front seats, viola

...and I can tell you, this is not surprising at all.

All the desktops are the lowest CPU version possible - usually with not enough memory either. Because you can't put a value on waiting for bootup/ apps/ etc., but you can show how much money you've saved by going for a Celeron instead of an i3/ i5, you can guess which one happens.

Then there's citrix, and other money-saving wheezes that ultimately do nothing to lower the TCO, rather just shift the expense to the server-end instead of the desktop. And that's before we get to staff (or rather, senior managers etc.) that then demand a PC anyway.

And let's not forget the stupidly low money that gov. techs get paid - see peanuts/ monkeys, because anyone that has a real aptitude for the job will be gone within a year because this. As a result, contractors do very nicely out of it but the value-for-money aspect goes out of the window.

And remember, the decision to save-money-now-even-if-it-costs-more-tomorrow are legion - I just finshed a domain refresh, where I had to replace all the DC's across a London borough with brand-new HP boxes...loaded with Win2003 because the client 'didn't want to change anything'.

What's annoying is when politicians start complaining about the system they preside over and are ultimately responsible for - I suggest we remove them and replace them all with contractors :-)

...and look how that turned out.

I hear there's quite a market for them.

'Drama Queen' still has only one gender? Where have you been?

I utterly hated the Metro interface. Actually, that's 'I utterly *hate* the metro UI'.

However, use either of the above and you get to enjoy Windows 7.1 (to give it its' proper name) without the bolted-on second OS designed for hardware nobody owns getting in the way :-)

...second time today that I've seen someone do this. It isn't the Times. That's a London newspaper. It's the New York Times. Shortening the name after the first referral only works if nothing else already has that name....and ultimately, a real Journalist would not need this pointed out to them.

is it a really slow day or something, Slashdot?