It costs (guessing, CBA to check) $100, and anybody walking (/swimming/sitting) near you could potentially break your device, and brick it so it becomes useless. That kinda sucks.

Uninstalling updates enables "Disable" on some apps, but not others, unfortunately (on non-rooted devices). I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and can't disable the Samsung Music app

No, it's not the maximum fine under UK law - that's £500K. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/05/ico_power_analysis/

The summary isn't even about it being the highest fine imposed so far by the ICO for a breach of the Data Protection Act. There was a £325K fine imposed on an NHS trust. See http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2012/nhs-trust-fined-325000-following-data-breach-affecting-thousands-of-patients-and-staff-01062012.aspx

My ISP (o2 broadband in the UK) has a particularly bad set of DNS servers that regularly seem to error. Somehow, resetting the router helps, but I think that's because it just gets forwarded to a different pair of o2's DNS servers.

As a result of this, I've switched to OpenDNS, which hasn't errored at all, so far (about 6 months). However, I'm probably going to try Google's offering because I'd prefer to get a NULL response than a search page if I hit an unresolvable URI.

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Mrs Doyle approves

To each, his own. I like mice with side-buttons for when I'm too lazy to go back any other way.
The side-button mice I've liked have two buttons positioned just above the natural placement of the thumb, which I never hit accidentally and are comfortable to use.

The OpenOfficeMouse, however, is surely a joke.

That's a separate thing entirely. Of course applications built against version "A" of the .NET framework won't run on a machine that doesn't have version "A".

OK, I could be clearer here. There may be .NET assemblies that use Interop to call unmanaged C++ assemblies that could potentially rely on some of the DLLs reference in the article.
However, assemblies that do not rely on C++ DLLs will be fine.

It does not seem to affect applications built in other languages (e.g. the .NET Framework).
The summary should probably make this clearer.

If Google are running the OS, the chances of being able to stop adverts with an Adblock-plus-like extension are slim, and even running your own local proxy or editing the hosts file might be impossible!

35% is actually a much higher figure than I had in my head. About 12-18 months ago, a Microsoft representative was unable to tell us what percentage of users had Silverlight installed and web estimates seemed to put it at less than 5%. If the 35% figure is true, that's huge growth over that period, and more than enough to make it a serious consideration for shops considering rich internet applications.
I'd like to see some research to back that figure up, because if it's true, it's enough to change our product's technological road-map for the future. We're a Microsoft shop producing premium data products delivered over the web. Creating rich data applications is likely to be far easier in Silverlight (1.0 or 2.0, let alone 3.0) than, say, Ajax, Java or Flash. We couldn't say to our customers "install Silverlight - 1 in 20 people have already", but we can say "install Silverlight - just over a third of people have".

Just in case anyone decides to post the parent as informative, I'll point out Moonlight which is an implementation of Silverlight that runs on Linux. There is also Mac support in Firefox and Safari.