I'm a sysadmin with a background in security.

I don't want over the air firmware updates for my car. Scratch that, I don't want to drive a car with OTA updates. Actually, I don't want to be ANYWHERE near any car with OTA updates.

I update complex software for a living. Trust me, you don't want your car, any car to do that.

They do the same shit for server remote admin cards. The hardware's in there, but you can't use it until you shell out the $. Premium plus deluxe HP resellers often have a tendency to forget about those, and you find out the hard way when you have to troubleshoot a server on a saturday and nobody's available with the god damn license key.

SuperMicro doesn't have platinum support contracts, but for the price difference, you can buy a lot of spares in case shit breaks down. Plus they don't charge you an arm for disk trays: if you buy a server with room for 24 host swap disks, you get 24 empty disk trays you can fill with whatever you want!

Additionally they have the cleanest remote management interface. No annoying pop ups, no artificial browser requirements, no frames, no mandatory Java applets.

Release energy, lose mass.

Burning gas increases entropy. Burning coal decreases mass, very slightly. And it doesn't mean what you're appear to be thinking because earth is not a closed system.

Saying that mining and enriching nuclear fuel produces greenhouse gases is a really pointless thing to focus on, considering that other fossil fuels also require mining and processing. Even if a given quantity of nuclear fuel required 100x the processing of oil, you'd still be ahead by several orders of magnitude because it contains so much more usable energy.

that if something else had happen, people would have been saying something else?

Profound. Deep. Insightful indeed.

Now look at Guantanamo.

the first million times. Do you have anything new to contribute?

Contrary to the Murdoch toilet paper you're swallowing, the EU administration is not that bloated. Its budget is tiny considering the area it covers.

England should be thrown out of the EU. Yes I said England.

Your gun fetishism is pathetic.

Malware sites have a technical effect that is unrelated to speech. Blocking them is as much censorship as is banning lead-based newspaper ink -- i.e. not at all.

> Neither of those is censorship - they're illegal

What a stupid thing to write. By your idiotic "logic," there's no censorship in China because the law says you can't criticize the Communist Party.

They rely on the public SSL PKI. Any rogue SSL cert registrar can let someone generate a cert for any domain.

Just like with Zune, Microsoft copied what's worst about their competition. I attribute it to cargo cult marketing.