Racial profiling leads to higher number of convictions for the group that you're profiling compared to the rest of the population. If you only shake down black and brown people, then your arrests/convictions will be heavily skewed. This has been shown to be the case with drug arrests/convictions -- drug use is pretty even across ethnic groups (I don't have the reference handy), but the majority of drug convictions are black and brown people.

Interesting discussion on the Mozilla forum. In light of the information so far, it seems like it would be difficult for Mozilla to keep TeliaSonera as trusted and not lose face. It will be interesting to see what kind of implications this has going forward in regards to dealing with other CAs that have practices or relationships that might fall into the similar shady areas as TeliaSonera. There are some forum posts mentioning that maybe Cybertrust (acquired by Verizon - known for participating in surveillance activity) and Entrust (related to BlueCoat via Thoma Bravo) as possibly requiring similar scrutiny.

I find the entrenchment thing to be true in my experience with my family. It's been a bit more difficult to get my wife to be happy with Linux/OOo than my kids. My kids don't seem to care about what OS/software they use, they learn and adapt quickly, no entrenchment to overcome. They seem to be equally comfortable in Linux, OS X, Windows. They're pretty much OS agnostic.

Style matters. I'm in the market for a small stylish non-windows desktop that guests in our house can use, something that would not be an eye sore. I was about to spring for a Mac mini, but I think I'll wait for the Asus desktop. Also, my daughter wanted her own computer for her b-day. I got an eeepc laptop for her to try out, she loved it from the beginning and has been using it heavily for the last 5 months. If the thing was ugly, I doubt she would have used it much.