Laws and influence. If they get their way eventually hardware without such things simply won't exist. There won't be a way not to buy into it, because every single computer will come with it included.

Dear Wowsers. The internet IS NOT YOURS EITHER. Don't like a protocol, file format, or DRM scheme? DONT USE IT.

And I won't. But I'll also use all other avenues available: I'll make sure to be as much of a pain in the ass as possible to those who work against my interests. They try to use legislation, and standards and I'll make sure to extert the opposite pressure.

so what fucking business is it of yours as to how Netflix delivers content? Its not your business at all, BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS NOT YOURS.

It's an attempt to screw with my hardware and software, which is very much my business.

Bullshit. The music industry didn't want that either, yet go figure, now MP3 is sold with no DRM.

The industry, in the end, cares about money. Make DRM unprofitable, and it'll go away, one way or another. Making it disappear is just a matter of putting up a decent opposition.

Not any more ironic than the position that governments shouldn't limit speech

It's an attempt to intrude on and limit what I can do with my hardware, which is unacceptable. It's as if they barged into my home and demanded to to have a guard standing there to make sure I don't get the idea of duplicating a DVD.

As an user, I find it's hard to find something to contribute to.

I want filters and subscriptions -- notify me when something new in the "open source hardware" category becomes available. Notify when something new with "arduino" in it appears. Things like that.

Instead it's a site that requires me to regularly search for stuff by hand, and which ocassionally sends mail 95% composed of stuff that doesn't interest me at all.

I don't think that would have mattered much.

Once the world decided to switch away from CFCs, even with an exception, soon enough there wouldn't have been anybody to make it anyway. There can't be that much profit in ocassionally selling small amounts to NASA.

And if they did keep making it, it'd be at astronomical prices, and you'd be whining instead about NASA wasting money instead of switching to one of the perfectly good alternatives that cost 10 times less.

It does not matter. If I have a promise to get my money back, which applies to one specific component, I expect it to be upheld. In my view, if Lenovo didn't want to play by those rules, they wouldn't ship it with Windows installed.

Why would it be an outlier? Why would the military consider women for that position if they thought they might be unsuitable in any manner? To appease the yet inexistent Women's liberation movement? Also it's not an outlier, search for photos of computers of the same era, and you find quite a lot of women.

My guess is that it's much simpler. Designing the ENIAC was a man's job. Perhaps programming it was the unglamorous chore, a sort of maintenance task somewhat akin to sweeping the floor. Or maybe because they saw similarity with a switchboard operator.

Later, programming gained prestige, so obviously men wanted those jobs and would have the advantage.

Explain the third paragraph, then. Photo for additional evidence.

If women have something that inherently makes them less suitable for programming on average, why would somebody have them as the programmers of a military system, when the military (especially in those times) is heavily male dominated?

Those are just warnings, they don't intent to legally bind you into anything.

Licensing is another thing entirely, the terms are attached for Windows and Windows only. It's not part of the product, but simply bundled with it, and the separate license it carries only make that stronger.

If the board came with a licensing agreement for the capacitors on board, then yes, I would expect to be able to refund that particular component.

N9 doesn't run Symbian. It runs Harmattan, which is a transitional system between Maemo and Meego. It's Linux based. From the userspace it looks a lot like a normal Linux system, though the N900 was much better in that respect.