That's a nice anecdote. But I think length of life, barring accidental death, all comes down to genetics and wealth. All other factors are secondary.

I know a 92 year old woman with dementia who has clearly had no purpose in all her life. But she comes from a family line of people who all lived long lives, and she has been propped up by a wealthy family. She does little more than watch TV and pretend to read books, and she doesn't want to do anything more than that. Also, she drinks tea, not coffee. How someone like this is motivated to go on living is beyond me.

Why are there no CVEs issued for this?

Nuclear waste isn't any less dangerous than it was before. Without government subsides nuclear power generation is far more expensive than any other power generating methods.

The US military's plans to modernize it's nuclear weapons is what's driving this sudden love affair with nuclear power plants.

As someone who has organized dance events, I've seen cut-throat activities of other dance organizers, like one dance organziers calling ASCAP on a competitor to try to put them out of business, or calling the VICE squad on them to report outside alcohol or minors, etc. I can tell you that a phone call to the local ASCAP agent will get someone out there to slap them with a bill on the same day. Those guys have very little to do, so they love to do that.

If the air-gapped system is TEMPEST compliant, it would not matter if the RAM card is transmitting anything.

TEMPEST

If the attackers stole student identity data, then there is still profit possible if the school won't pay the ransom. Just sell the identity data. The real solution is for admins to keep their networks secure.

I was an engineer at Qualcomm and Kyocera Wireless in the late 90's and early 00's during the development of smartphones. Cell service providers, at that time, were planning to offer free smartphones and free service because they knew they could make a ton of money spying on their customers, peering into their bank transactions, selling data to advertisers, and providing geolocated ads based not only on the customer's current location, but also on their past spending habits. It was all made legal by laws written by the industry and handed over to Congress for passage. Then, the industry figured out their customers were dumb enough to pay for the privilege of having their information sold and being inundated with ads. Is AT&T really in such bad shape that they would revert to the original plan to gain some customers.

I guess I misinterpreted "...attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate" as interstellar then. But I guess you can add Cesium Beam weapons to the list of unattained technology. I'd have to watch again, but I seem to remember "incept. dates" of the repicants being show as the late 1990's.

Several of the older movies were set in times that have already past (Blade Runner, Colossus, 2001) but depicted technology far beyond anything we have now. Blade Runner: Organic humanoid robots, flying cars, interstellar travel. Colossus: AI-like computer that can control the world. 2001: Interplanetary travel by humans, suspended animation of humans, AI-like computer.

So we waited and the AI and other technologies never came. What does it mean when our dystopian sci-fi was too optimistic?

Maybe a more realistic view of the future is that we never create AI, or flying cars, or interplanetary/interstellar travel for humans because we are too busy wasting our resources on killing each other.

Yes, because everyone uses their "real" identity on G+ and FB!

This is the same weird logic used in health care insurance, which also wants to charge more or less based on individual risk. So if we follow their logic...

• They increase their accuracy in predicting who will be in an accident and change them more.
• They increase their accuracy in detecting good drivers and charge them less.

Extrapolating this out, they eventually end up charging each individual exactly what it will cost the insurance company to pay each individual's claims plus their profit margin. At that point, the insurance company is a useless middle man and everyone may as well be self-insured.

Web sites that use PayPal often won't work without third party cookies enabled. When you press the payment button, you end up getting dumped to the PayPal home page instead of to a payment page. Enable third party cookies and it works fine. I haven't delved into it too deeply, but I assume it doesn't effect all their shopping cart frameworks, because I have seen some site using PayPal that do work without third party cookies. Maybe Mozilla figures that until issues like this are resolved, disabling third party cookies by default will cause too much havoc.