Bingo. In fact I'd say the opposite. The people who love this barely use their PCs and they see those walls as something that keeps the bad guys out. Not something that keeps them in. They are not geeks. They do not want to root their iPad. They want to show grandma pictures of little Timmy.

My friend's lappy just died. He uses email, a bit of the web and a bit of FaceBook. He likes the look of the iPad - says it'd be nice to have something he can just leave in the lounge without driving the gf crazy. He asked me what I thought. It's perfect for him. It's not a case of having another device, it's replacing a broken one with one that needs less maintenance and is quicker for his use-case. It's not for me to be honest. But that doesn't stop it being perfect for him.

Yeah sure, NOW it is... ;)

I thought the idea in France was the laws get passed and then everyone just ignores them?

It's not that good then. :D

I think you might be surprised. They don't think they care right until the linky linkys stop working. Then they'll really hate that they're missing out. Anyway, the ISPs would have to implement this as a whitelist unless they want to play whack-a-proxy, which leaves you with the choice of sanitised playground or the big old dirty internet. And that playground thing failed like a dozen times already, right?

Yeah, but whose side will everyone take in the "War on Pirates?" Drugs are bad mmmkay? Pirates are cool. ARRRR! The only chance they have is forming an army of ninjas.

1. They want to be a Sys Admin when they grow up. Okay it's a long shot, but it's a reason... :)

50% - How about "I'm like a shemale with an abusive wife and husband!"

No. But it will become self aware and start making Arnie clones.

I was under the impression the freakishness of interbreeding was precisely there to accelerate genetic variance in a populace. Sure it's a risky gamble, but sometimes it must pay off.

I guess laptops could be too. In fact it's a growing trend in the UK. Buy this service plan! Free laptop, okay, it's usually a netbook, but not always...

Unless you're coming to it from a UK IP last I checked...