Why not? This is easily answered.

Secure Boot does not mean "secure for you". It means secure for Microsoft.

The advertised "feature" of anti-virus, anti-malware is a strawman. I don't get why any hardware manufacturer would be so unbelievably greedy and implement this just to get a stupid "Works with Windows 8" sticker, but obviously I am just too stupid to get it, because it will probably happen.

I really, really hope something will happen, that prevents the whole secure boot thing with MS certificates. I don't know. Maybe the European High Court (or whatever its called) does something about "secure boot"

There would be a really easy way of implementing secure boot without any certificates from a special vendor. Just securely hash the boot sector at first boot. If the has changes, ask the user to verify the change or rebuild the old boot sector. This way you cannot change the boot sector without the user knowing it. Easy as this and as secure as the so called "secure boot". And as a bonus you still can run any software YOU want.

I clearly said "in this case". And i stand by that. 500 years may be significant to give some random development an edge in a species, but it will definitely/reasonably certain not cause something beneficial to develop. This might never happen, due to the nature of evolution. And 500 years for something to come into existence by coincidental mutation is very very very unlikely to an extend, that I would say impossible.

500 years, eh? What is that? 20 generations? maybe a few more or less. Evolution is not directed, so even if somethings seems evolutionary benificial, it does not mean, that it will develop. There has to be alot of improbabble mutations happening for growing some kind of piercing mechanism on your penis. So in this case 500 years is definitely not evolutionary significant.

Read up on your evolutionary theory.

Hmm. This is not a comment, where I would use an "Anonymous Coward" as poster.
Afraid for your mod-points? Or just trying to make Monsanto look good?

Is it really that hard to search wikipedia?

There are (hopefully) experiments on the effects of CFCs on O3 molecules, that made us come to the conclusion that CFC damages the ozone layer. That was simple in my opinion. AGW/ACC on the other hand is far from being simple. I for one am very sceptical about the pace and the amount of global warming happening because of humans.

Why would you buy them? As you said, you already own them.

As far as I understand it, it is just another platform you can access your Steam profile from. Any game that runs on that platform and you own, would already be there. Am I missing something here?

The Steam client is free.

You would only pay per game.
And the client will probably warn you, if you are about to buy a game, which won't run on your platform.

Yes they bill you for more than 100%. Otherwise they would run at a loss.

It's the ease of use. Simple as that.

No, they cannot. None (I suspect) of the people on facebook have joined to be represented by facebook. Least of all politically. They joined facebook to .. "socialize" or whatever it is you do there.

Yeah because everybody can freely commit to the firefox codebase.

And would you care to elaborate the your linux remark? I still think that this is the most successful open source project.

You think?

Fixed it for you.