They might be right - if they keep the direction in which Windows is going the sole way I will interact with Windows computers is going to be by swearing at them.

I can name some of the top of my head:

1. 1.Cost of housing - high pretty much universally across high income countries, which in turn leads to:
2. 2. High standard of living is hard to maintain without both potential parents working,
3. 3. High standard of living is hard to maintain without extended education which delays children,
4. 4. Access to contraception which allows 2 & 3 to happen
5. 5. Greater mobility means grandparents are more often not available to help with grandchildren
6. 6. People having children later means grandparents are more often not available or no longer able to help with grandchildren

Want to have higher fertility? Make it so people in their mid to late twenties have a life stable enough that they can choose to have children without it being a major sacrifice.

is there any legislation — in any territory — which addresses this?

It's forbidden in Poland. Similar rules apply in many european countries

The project is mature enough - time to start using it http://stupidfilter.org/

It's not that bad. ImgSeek author has been informed of the patent application filled and there's always http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

I did in fact read the claims in patent application and a lot of them look like the wavelet based method used by imgSeek. I seriously doubt much will be left off this patent in result.

Patent is invalid if there is prior art. Well, imgSeek has had that function since at least 2008 (can't find changelog for desktop version - it might have been there already in 2006).

half price: http://www.maxcdn.com/pricing/

Adobe software and games - that's about it.
Sadly Gimp is no replacement for Photoshop at this point.

Now I have motivation to stop spending my time on /. instead of working.

"This provision applies to all consumers to the fullest extent allowable by law, but expressly excludes residents of Quebec, Russia, Switzerland and the Member States of the European Union."

Doesn't apply.

I've had this keyboard. In fact I had two in 6 months time and both broke down.
An no, I don't abuse keyboards - my previous ergonomic keyboard (made by Chicony) lasted 8 years and the only reason I stopped using it was the fact I didn't want to have DIN5->MiniDin6 and MiniDin6->USB adapters at the same time :P

As far as the 4000's ergonomy goes I liked it.

This.

That's what you get for being cheap when hiring security team. Setting up memcached on a public IP or without a firewall is as bad as having your session directory fully writable on a public ftp (and quite similar too).
Memcached is good software and does exactly what it has been designed to do - provides fast key cache - but as with every tool if you are dumb you will hurt yourself. If those admins were carpenters they'd have an average of 4 fingers ;-)

Yes it will and you will be no longer limited in terms what hardware you access (other os option limited you to less than 15% of raw hw power).

Being able to run linux wasn't a strong enough selling point to justify the cost - thus ps3 slim no longer has this option.