Cars, possibly yes, can have a negative impact with bank robbers, kidnappers, accidents, etc. but they only affect a few individuals. One anonymous virus writer has the potential to infect millions/billions of PCs. This is a global problem and has been since the internet was born. Being anonymous has allowed people to continue this for years. This is about being held accountable for your actions online, not servitude. You are held liable for things you do in person, why not online? Changes like this would improve security on the PC so we can finally get to the REAL root of the problem - the anonymous cyber terrorist. It's been obvious for years that fighting viruses/spam as they happen hasn't been successful.

'I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.' Couldn't have said it better. Look what being anonymous has done to the internet - viruses, trojans, spam, black hat hackers, etc. etc. People have developed tools of destruction all while being anonymous. We then pay then pay tons of money to anti-virus companies for software to protect ourselves from the viruses/trojans/spam of unknown authors. Hackers like LulzSec can taunt the world anonymously via Twitter on how they hacked tons of websites and made it look easy. And you know what? It works. FBI can barely touch them. Being anonymous has been abused for far too long and it's time for a change.

[quote]IE 7 on XP really doesn't offer much to Firefox converts. Aside from perhaps the nifty tab screenshot thingy, and a really good RSS reader, Firefox has all of IE 7's features, plus it has the "comfort" factor.[/quote] IE7 still beats Firefox in many ways - better tab functionality, better phishing utility, user-customizable embedded search engine, and of course support for ActiveX and ASP. Among others of course. The main reason I could see people switching to Firefox is security but I wouldn't put any bets that it'll solve all my security problems. I have an anti-virus and spyware tool and that's my security.