Windows XP called, they want their security model back.
In Vista and Windows 7, all users are normally regular users, but can run programs as administrators much like sudo.
See http://bit.ly/10KkWr (PDF) for more info.

AT&T, every time someone accesses my website using you as an ISP, you must pay me 5$. If you don't, you're clearly against net neutrality.

Well, all I can say is to make your intentions clearer next time.

*whoosh*

In the article: "Movie mad and immunized from international copyright laws, Iranians are normally treated to one or two Hollywood or European movie nights a week." So no, but they don't really care anyways.

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/ Choose your revision, and run mini_installer.exe Or, extract chrome-win32.zip for a portable version. (it still leaves behind its settings in your AppData directories, though)

There wasn't a massive amount of data stored on that USB stick. It was just an authentication medium for the online government system, which actually stores the data. It's like the difference between putting your key or your house in your pocket. They shut down the service so they could go over their logs and change the passwords, much like I would get my locks changed if I lost my key. Also, to have an encrypted net connection, you have to have some way to authenticate anyways, and then you go right back to problems with storing that stuff on a physical medium.