What's a "Window" key? I don't think my Model M has one of those.

Maybe, maybe not ... but there's definitely a lot of privacy and distracting-advertising issues.

Who says it would be bad press? I'd be much more likely to choose theaters with zero tolerance polices. I think most people would actually switch off their phones if there was a big on-screen announcement that they absolutely WILL be booted out if it rings or they try to use it in any way during the movie.

If not ... watching somebody who's that self-entitled being told where to get off is probably better entertainment than what's on the screen. They can always pause the movie while they do it.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout

Another idea is for each seat to have a row of red LEDs in front of it which gradually light up when people talk. If it reaches LED number three, out with them.

I've got lots of perfectly good hardware (scanners, printers...etc) that never received a Windows 7 driver. I have to keep at least one XP machine around just for that reason.

Um, the problem isn't learning it, the problem is liking it.

Try turning off the "Run RAM diagnostic on startup" option...

Nobody.

But ... Microsoft might pay them to put some "Windows 8 only" features in their games (prominently greyed out in Windows 7).

With Linux Steam on the horizon, it would be a risky move.

This is just a marketing announcement for the gullible. There'll be a percentage of people who'll go out and upgrade after this, and that's the point.

Have you read the OEM licensing agreement?

You can only 'downgrade' if you purchase Windows 8 Pro, which is, a) Not always an option on consumer machines, b) Much more expensive.

Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/downgrade_rights.aspx

Apple's special-cable and SD-card-adapter business is very lucrative...

I've read it a dozen times and I still don't see a different meaning. At best you called them semi-benign traits.

All of those traits are desired by somebody out there so I'd say it was just natural selection doing its job, no need to 'correct' anything.

Those things are a "malfunction"?

(But not your small dick, right? That's 'normal'...)

This word "clear", I don't think it means what you think it means.

The real LOL is that the department heads think spammers/scammers "do homework".

Most binary data will sound like white noise if you listen to it (zip files, video, mp3...etc)