Privileged II

The best part of upgrading that background application Dell Support Center to version to 2.0 (which I never use but kept pestering me to upgrade and I would probably uninstall it anyways except what if...) was it trying to shame me for using an unsecured wireless network with a manufacturer-default SSID. And telling me that was a "Problem."

And when it told me how to troubleshoot the problem, the solution was to merely turn the alert off. Shiny.

Licensing Your Consumer Rights I

Have you ever noticed that DVDs produced by specialty boutiques (examples being Criterion and Anchor Bay) often don't have the myriad of warnings (FBI, Interpol) that plague major studio releases? That's suspiciously pro-consumer. Where's Joe McCarthy when you need him? Dead? Then bring me zombie Joe McCarthy.

These unskippable warnings have become so ubiquitous to become analogous to commercial breaks, allowing you to pop in your DVD and then get any food, adjust lighting while you wait for the menu to arrive. God forbid the product you purchased to not treat you like a criminal for legally obtaining it rather than download it illegally, perhaps through a torrent. Sorry did I say buy? That implies ownership, I meant to say license. Obviously.