OT: Things have changed.....MS unbelievable oversight....

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bob Rasmussen done said:
> It took five minutes of searching on microsoft.com to determine that 
> shutdown could be disabled. Several hundred other behaviors can be changed 
> as well.

Oh, come on, Bob...  You know should know as well as anyone here (better,
probably, as a major vendor) that that doesn't fly as an excuse, or
even a design rationale.  It doesn't matter how easy something is to
search/fix/set/hack.

Sane behaviour should be expected as a default, not an alternative.

Believe me, my wife, and even clients on the phone have heard me numerous
times griping at the computer, "Yes, I -said- delete!"  I'm a big believer
in the system doing what I asked, when I ask it.  But shutdown, by
default, should not be -that- easy to accidentally trigger.  Maybe under
*nix...since you need to be root; I'd get more than a bit tetchy if
`shutdown -h now` started questioning me--but if I'm in as root, I should
have the right and the responsibility.  It's not the same under 'doze,
though, no way.

I mean, think about it...how many complaints have there been about the 'X'
window decoration shutting down Anzio over the years?  Now apply that to
the entire OS.  Ugh.

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