There isn't an app to automatically switch off a phone when driving is detected.

: If IE still has more than 30% worldwide marketshare, and doesn't have basic requirements for this, its not going to be used. Period.

IE is being retrofitted:

~ Canvas: http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/
~ HTML, CSS, PNG: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

: Homeopathy is water

well perhaps not even that - i heard the water is allowed to evaporate completely off the sugar pills before bottling.

: As long as we're trading unsubstantiated anecdotes, let me say that my experience with Karmic Koala has been perfectly smooth. I have it running natively on one machine and inside a VirtualBox VM on another, and in both instances both the install process and the system as a whole have worked very satisfyingly.

not so lucky with mac parallels. fresh install crashes with being unable to detect optical drive (on which it is booting). not too sure whose's at fault here (appears to be an old kernel problem resurfacing), but mac parallels has a history of delayed ubuntu support. it took 4 months (2 months before the karmic arrived) before jaunty had parallel tools support.

parallels desktop 4.0 already supports win7 - and that speaks volumes since microsoft's release cycle is rather haphazard while ubuntu's is regular at 6 month intervals. it seems support for arguably the largest/most popular linux distribution[1] is being sidelined - and not for any technical reasons. why is it that they're able to keep up with:

~ freeBSD 7
~ solaris 10

but ubuntu is a second class citizen?

my anecdotal evidence++

: If you have a good firewall and secure applications, the only remaining way to get a virus is if you download it and run it yourself.

a vector i'm seeing a lot of, is going to any copy/print/photo shop with a usb stick & bringing that sick baby home. apparently some mp3 usb sticks come with a read-write tab just like old stiffy diskettes - this really should be the norm to help avoid infection by proxy.

: East Asia, by and large, are doing a very good job at avoiding cultural suicide, by severely restricting mass immigration from poor countries, or countries with lesser-developed cultures. Europe, OTOH, has failed, and with the ghettoization of its inner cities, has only recently woken up to that fact.

socio-economic apartheid, is still apartheid. globalization is already here - take the red pill and "cultural suicide" becomes a melting pot. it's not hard not to imagine your polarized view as veiled xenophobia.

:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitution

you wouldn't have to go around fixing things... or sighing in dismay when bad laws are passed... and a constiution would become more of a living document... if new laws were required to pass a constitutionality test.