It's like any form of sadomasochism. If it's consensual, there's no victim.

I'm not saying that it's better for robots to work the help desk, just that it's inevitable if the droids can do a good enough job for less money than people would cost.

Or things that are unpleasant or that there aren't enough people willing to do for money. Arguably, interacting with people who can't use a word processor might fall into one of those categories.

"It wasn't me your honor. It must have been that government official to whom I gave my password."

> Explorer cannot keep the display configuration per folder that
> I set it - not if I edit a parent folder (with the 'inherit'
> checkbox cleared, obviously).

I think this is a long-running bug from XP and earlier. The "per-folder" configuration stores configuration entries for a fixed maximum number of folders, which I imagine you are more likely to have exceeded if you are running Vista.

There may be a registry hack, but I just turn the feature off because it annoys me when it works.