Such an act is a really big deal. Do you advocate that it be taken in haste?

Perhaps the U.S. should also declare the iPhone to be a security threat.

What we need is a revision that turns incorrect automated takedown notices into a contempt charge. That is exactly what it is., a failure to show the care and seriousness due to the DMCA process.

If a bolt of lightning hits it, that cable will vaporize. And in fact, many of them are not at all that well grounded.

Alas, no. Your suggestions would determine that he knew it before he was arrested, none suggest his on-going memory of the password.

It's harder because the other questions only have to look at state of mind for a particular moment in the past before police activity could have influenced it.

This is closer to Heisenberg. The act of questioning can cause the accused to forget. That is exactly why this is a screwed up law.

Have you truly never heard someone say "If you hadn't asked, I could have told you?"

You've never known anyone who can type their password by muscle memory but cannot consciously call it out other than by watching themselves type it?

There are a great many factors that can confound memory and all must be ruled out to eliminate reasonable doubt. Furthermore because memory can be malleable and tricky, even evidence that he later recalled the password isn't evidence that he could recall it when asked. It's actually common for an answer to pop into mind once all pressure to remember has passed.

OTOH, there's really only one reason to arrange to meet someone in an out of the way place and take a gun, gloves, and a body bag with you. The prosecution and the judge don't have to determine what the defendant is thinking NOW.

Why yes, I did eat pork and beans, asparagus and eggs for breakfast, why do you ask?

So instead of killing one planeload of people, kill the ten planeloads waiting at the checkpoint? Bad trade.

If the static voltage is high enough, you don't need to complete a circuit to ground to have a significant current flow. Capacitive effects are more than adequate to give you quite a shock.

The same effect happens with plain old aspirin with less risk to your liver.

Sure, but there's no good reason not to minimize it.

Clone it. upgrade the clone and make sure it works. If so, wipe the clone, snapshot the production VM and upgrade it. If it fails, roll back. Make sure your infrastructure is set up so the clone CAN be properly tested. Yes, sometimes you will have to do that rollback, but with an adequate test setup, frequently you won't.

That shouldn't be true, but probably would be.

Overstated, not wrong. There's nothing you can buy for the home that won't cost several times more money than the equipment being protected.

You can buy arresters that will protect against near misses, but if a bolt of lightning hits the outdoor antenna, the TV and arrester will become smoking chunks of plastic and metal.