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Aren't pretty much all of these permanently tied to an account so they'd be useless to the thieves anyway?

It's cute that you think that these are equipped with secure enclaves and such like a cellular phone rather than a hard reset like your garden variety WiFi router or IoT device.

Security is something to add in v4 so that you capture a an additional round of upgrades after the early adopters and first wave mass adopters get burned by having multi-hundred-dollar pieces of equipment wander off.

Odd. I just tried this using my wife's iPhone 6+. There's no context menu popping up when I long press an image. Tried this with the same image on my Android phone and I get the expected context menu.

Try a different site. Apparently, image saving in Safari can be blocked for copyright etc.

But this is how you do it. This must be from an earlier version of iOS, because my popup menu had a few more selections. But it is essentially the same.

Most of them won't install just because the installer checks for 2k and denies what would be otherwise posible.

Your solution is here. I even have Windows Defender running on Win2K after using this tool.

You're forgetting the horrible "tray" dock they introduced with Leopard. Also the translucent menu bar. Both can be disabled, but not easily.
That said, the "flat" dock that you get when you turn off the 3D version in Leopard is much nicer and less obtrusive than any of the previous versions.

Blame firefox for this. A quick google search reveals a large number of extensions for firefox must be uninstalled manually. These include vendors such as Skype, AVG, Sun Microsystems, etc.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/internet/firefox/manually-remove-skype-extension-from-firefox/
http://www.technipages.com/firefox-3-cant-uninstall-avg-safe-search-extension-because-uninstall-is-grayed-out.html

I think it's bad design that it's possible. But "Wasn't there some laws being pushed that made this sort of covert install procedure illegal"? Are you high? It's a bootstrapper for clickonce, a feature that comes with .NET, not some extension that's gonna log your bittorrent usage or shoot your baby.

Can you imagine the shit that would go down if Firefox, or IE, or even Yahoo or Google implemented the same prefetch scan

You said what? I don't see much fecal material but, then, I may not be looking in the right places :-)

I'm not defending Grisoft, simply pointing out that this sort of balls-up is more common than many think.

FYI, Silverlight works perfectly well on windows 2000, both 1.0 and 1.1. The only thing they did was make the installer reject any installs on systems "under" XP. There hasn't been a single thing MS has released that hasn't worked on windows 2000 so far, and that includes the XP+ exclusive directx upgrades since the start of the year as well as SL, .net 3, the list goes on. Someone at MS obviously thought it cute to make the installer check for the OS version and dump you right out of the bat. Let me paste you the msi check for SL 1.0, for extra entertainment value:

(VersionNT = 501 AND ServicePackLevel >= 2) OR (VersionNT = 502) OR (VersionNT >= 600 )

You'll notice it just borks out even if you have XP with no sp2, as if sp2 really makes that big of a difference on silverlight.

The only thing you need to do is download a nice MS tool called Orca, http://www.technipages.com/downloadview-details-44 -Orca_MSI_Editor.html or http://www.brentnorris.net/orca.msi or just download the Windows Installer SDK (from the platform sdk site), it's in there, then open the msi with it, and just change that check to say VersionNT = 500 or something along those lines, and install away.

They did the exact same fucking thing to NT when W2K came out, by not allowing installs and not making usb drivers available for it, and they'll do the same to XP one of these days. Wankers.