Are we now outing ourselves to our alien neighbours? Is this a decision that NASA can make without consultation from other countries?

With any other laptop manufacturer, some would comment "They probably saved a few cents leaving that out". The Apple of today, this looks increasingly likely, especially since they want you to buy the accessories. Accessories are the "bloatware" equivalent on Macs.

Does that mean we hold Microsoft to a higher standard than Apple?

As an ad blocker user, and science-loving geek I feel such a hypocrite that the herd immunity that anti-vaxxers are abusing is so similar to the reason that I can block ads and still enjoy the free content that is on the web "bought" by advertisers. Or maybe the irony is that my ad blocker is actually my vaccine from the malware on the web?

So Google submits suggestive results via the Bing Toolbar, and when those results surface in Bing Search, Bing is at fault?! Ingenius! No one will be able to see through that! If it weren't for those dang kids...