Everything has been better when trade unions existed and they had power and really were protecting labors rights.
And that is socialism. But after the capitalism came, they have been hunted down or limited their power so corporations can rip everyone off as much as they want and because competition the products quality has gone down as well while amount of workers kept minimum.

In China, so many such strong trade unions did not exist. And same problem is on many other countries, so no wonder capitalistic corporations goes where they can hijack peoples rights and possibilities better.

Well, it is not about operating system (like NT or Linux) but configuration.

Everyone can on these days take a CyanogeMod supported tablet (or Smart Phone) and tailor the Android for it so that it has only a web browser application.

And I think it is not so difficult to make that browser application to replace the launcher application so it is always running.

I can understand wireless networking in centuries old buildings where there are no service tunnels for cables or any other 'hard to reach' locations. But otherwise I suggest to go for cable if just possible. It is more secure, faster and gives much less problems than wireless networking gives.

Yes, wireless can give nice comfort when sitting middle of room or just need to pull some data. But when you have 40+ students in one room and same AP is used by 120+ students easily, network really starts crawling and fast dropping clients off at worse case (network setup).

Is WiFi a health concern? I would say yes. But would I ban it from schools? I don't know.
All what I can say is I would concern childrends and teens to spend 6+ hours a day few meters off from the AP (usually placed middle of the room on roof or other higher place on room) and when having few AP close each other, they really can start cooking those 'male balls' in next few decades... Who knows how bad thing they make in next 30-40 years....
But is it scary enough to ban that technology? No... but to limit? Yes.

They are still on same danger... but there is one catch what many does not understand.

Microsoft could do all kind software, as many or how well as they just want. But here is the catch.

They can not pre-install it to Windows or even distribute with Windows disk.
But they can offer it trough their web sites as post-install method by the user choosing. Like what Microsoft does with Windows Live Essentials.

No one, can and say Microsoft could not made earlier a easier way to open a ISO files just with post install method by downloading it from microsoft.com (as long as Microsoft use same API's what are available for everyone else and not secret ones).

Microsoft could have done all kind fancy software, to be installed by post install method. But they never actually do it for now anything else than for Live Essentials.

But this new thing is that Microsoft knows it has a dominant market position on PC markets and it abuse it shamesly.
Microsoft does not need to fight with others of popularity among PC users as over 99% of sold PC's comes preinstalled Windows (and you need to understand, PC is just a line of personal computers like Mac is line of personal computers).

If we want situation to change, every PC needs to come with empty storage device. And every storage device (HDD and SSD) needs to be empty when sold. So to PC user to get a Windows to their PC, they need to buy a PC and separated Windows disk and install it by themselfs or buy a service so someone would install Windows for them.

This would give a two benefits.

1) People would learn that they are free to use their older Windows license and not to pay again from Windows license
2) People would learn that there are alternativites for Windows, so Linux, FreeBSD and many other would get better change to be chosen by their features, not just by idealistic persons beliefs sotware needs to be open and free.

[quote]This part is especially fake sounding. Where did you find a windows tech who didn't know how to deal with an iso file?[/quote]

I would say... 1/3-2/3 of Windows tech persons don't even understand how to manage files well. All what they have learn and wanted is to click mouse here and there. And that is the reason why MS is bringing this ISO mounting to new windows, because it really needs to be much easier for Windows techs.

Same thing is with Microsoft (or new Linux fans) when Apple release new version of OS X or iOS. Apple does say that new feature is a new thing for _their_ users. But when they specifically mock Microsoft, they really mentions it, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2C2gb6ws8

There are group of amateurs and fans who check both sides (Microsoft and Apple) and build up a war between them without even understanding what and how Microsoft and Apple say things.

But, there is a point, if world largest companies comes up and say "We invented this" and such "invention" is known and in wide use in Open Source world, it is not wise to say so. Better thing is to say where the idea came, or at least check what others are doing and say "We added same feature what those users have enjoyed".

Yeah... too bad that Linux is just a operating system and so on it does not have anykind user interface, only a interface for other software.

Question is, what graphical user interface offers easy mounting (double click image to mount, double click again to umount) and it can be noticed there are many different kinds and some comes preinstalled in mainstream distributions to KDE and GNOME.

You don't need operating system mentioned at all when thinking about the needed user action to mount thing, as it is graphical subsystem job.

On Unix, everything is a file. Were it then a device or just data file.

Physical access is not needed so you can get a remote access to transfer a image or mount image from network location.

The only stopping force there is the root access.

Well, one thing what I loved on ICS browser was in Menu > Request desktop version. As tapping it and you got always a full site instead question of mobile version or automatically a mobile version.

CyanogeMod is great modification of Android, but they really should primarily offer a vanilla version first and THEN separated packages for modifications like root, CM7 power widgets, CM7 theme and own custom apps.

Actually Android applications run on Linux, because Linux is as well the operating system in Android.
As every android application is ran by Linux (Linux Dalvik Application) it can not be said they wouldn't run on Linux.