Hey, I got a blue screen of death on my windows 7 box. Granted, my RAM was fucked and I would've gotten a KERNEL PANIC on Linux but the code is still there.
But yea, it's a real pain in the ass to install Linux without a keyboard.

Say you want to search for the imdb article about the Italian Job, firefox gives you the imdb page for the 2003 version (using "imdb.com italian job" as the address) whereas chrome gives you the imdb search results page listing both versions of the italian job (with "imdb.com\t italian job").
You obviously haven't used chrome or you would notice that it's address bar is significantly more intelligent than firefox's not-so-awesome bar.

It's been there since the beginning. Once you use a search box on a site, it remembers it. Then, type the domain name into the address bar and then press tab. For example, google.com changes the address bar to "Search google: ".
Yes, it's actually better than firefox.

I hate to say it but there really is little wrong with the Windows 7 taskbar. Drag it to the left side of the screen and it become the best vertical taskbar I've ever used. Look, even the time rotates so that you can read it! (I'm looking at you, gnome-panel). Sure it's fat but on a widescreen (or even a 4:3) it just fits right in. It auto-hides well. Pinning items gives you an easy shortcut and the aero window thumbnail preview actually works, even on minimized windows which compiz to my knowledge is still trying to fix (try alt-tabbing w/ compiz and seeing if a minimized window has a live preview).

Say what you will about windows 7, but the taskbar is something to learn from.

Ouch, only 4 times the energy in 25 years. I'd hate to be in that game.

Though they rarely say that physical access is root access that persists through reformats as long as you 're using the same keyboard

I was in a similar situation getting junk calls and texts that I couldn't block to my prepaid phone, basically sapping minutes from my phone with each text I received. I recently changed my phone number and started giving people my google voice number instead so that if this ever happens again I should be able to block the spam at googles end before it gets to my actual mobile phone. It also means that if I change my phone number again I won't have to try and tell everyone who matters.

So, your think the reason we call a Ford Pinto a car is because it just is. Isn't more because it has 4 wheels and an engine?

I strongly believe that it should go to the AMD shareholder.
Disclaimer: I currently hold shares in AMD.

Wouldn't flashing the BIOS recover the original SMM memory?

Actually all you need to do is right click on the executable and selected "Run As..." and then log in to your admin account. Hardly more onerous than sudo.

Average Tour de France winners speeds average around 25mph.

35 bits is about 4x10^-13 LoC's, taking 1 LoC = 10TB.
so, you could fit the entire library of congress in about 9x10^-12 grams of copper.

Basically, this dude just got $100k from Moz. Or more likely, it went to xiph.org.