Hell look at the posts after you and you'll LYAO, they've full on jumped from "MSFT will make Linux a felony ZOMFG!" right into "MSFT is gonna move the OS into the cloud and you'll get arrested if you don't pay your $699 license fee ZOMFG!" full on batshit.

Ya wanna know what the REALLY sad part is to me? Most of the normal folks like me that were using Linux in 05 and 06 have frankly moved away simply BECAUSE of all the batshit. Its like being a normal person around total weirdos, its just creepy. Hell I know every time I had a problem and went to the forums I always got works for me and Ur a M$ Ninja!

I don't know what happened because i swear it did NOT used to be like this. Guys used to actually care about problems and wanted Linux to get better, and would bitch when things were broken or got worse. Now i swear its like a damned religion, where ALL comments that aren't simply praise of "the one true god" causes the nutters to come down like flies on shit, and all the FOSS posts or articles, hell even articles that don't have a damned thing to do with FOSS, end up with nothing but conspiracy theories and pointless "just use Linux!" posts. No wonder so many look at FOSSies like this. Hell I'm starting to wonder if that isn't an accurate description myself.

Someone steals your wallet, now they have all of that information. If the information is encrypted in the database and the key is the QR code then the person who steals your wallet also needs access to the database. If access to the database is controlled, then you need to be a paramedic who steals wallets to compromise the system.

Thanks but frankly Metro just pisses me off. hell it doesn't even follow cell phone UI conventions as you point out with iPad and Safari, and I watched time and time again as normal users, smart people that do complex tasks on and off a PC daily, ALL ended up just frustrated and upset. Upset with themselves that they couldn't just "pick it up" which i told them the thing is so screwy and unintuitive NOBODY is just gonna "pick it up" without a HELL of a lot of trial and error, and frustrated with the OS that tasks that they have found trivial to do for years and years were suddenly as alien to them as if I dropped them in front of a CP/M machine's blinking cursor.

For another good take on metro just read this article where he goes step by step through what is wrong with the UI, but his number one reason i agree with completely, the entire OS is made for touch and touch above all...when was the last time you saw a touch screen desktop in the average home? How many touch screen laptops have you seen lately? Is YOUR desktop or laptop a touch screen? Mine isn't yet without a touch screen it feels like you are fighting it every damned step of the way. Hell I wish I had the link because one of the articles praising Metro started with "And here I'll show that you can even use it on old hardware! Right now i have loaded it onto this touch screen AMD Athlon laptop and I had to LMAO because even when he was plugging metro he had to dig up a laptop with a fricking touch screen!

In the end if you aren't one of the 3-4% that have a touch screen desktop or laptop Win 8 is pointless and will just irritate the living hell out of you. I honestly tried to like it, I really did, in fact i used it as my main OS for nearly a month. But the constant switching between metro and desktop, the constant feeling of fighting the OS, the major step backwards in multitasking...it was just too much. I've run the beta of every MSFT OS since Win2K and I even fought Vista for nearly a year before giving up (I was one of those bit by the file transfer and the lost network shares bugs) but Metro is just too much of an unintuitive PITA for me to deal with anymore, I'll pass MSFT and so will my customers.

Because he's using a C compiler that can't do inlining, like, uh, none of them.

Enforcement of this part of the license relies on the fact that the person distributing the proprietary software would also end up distributing the GPL'd software. They can only do this because they have been granted a license by the copyright holder, which can be revoked at any time if some set of conditions is not met. In this case, the condition is that you don't distribute it linked to something under a GPL-incompatible license. Even without the proprietary program counting as a derived work due to API usage, you still can't distribute the GPL'd library. You can, however, optionally open it on program launch if the user happens to have it installed...

And, it seems, the last two terms of the equation...

Windows Store has some dedicated language in the license so as to explicitly enable FOSS apps (yes, including GPL)

Metro requires a minimum of 1024x768 - that has been stated a year ago when the first beta came out, and has not changed since then.

As for why - minimum requirements are there so that app developers have some baseline to code against.