This reminds me of my teacher who said she stored her important stuff like grades on the network drive where it was safe.
I really wanted to tell her that it was much harder for me to access on her local PC than it was on her network drive which as an admin I had full access to.
I was pulled out of class to fix school computers on more than one occasion and had access to the computers that stored the permanent records but
I never felt the desire to change my transcript. I made good enough grades as it was and there was no reason to take that kind of risk.
I was the type of kid who would have changed an A to a B just to see if I could do it and then change it back after I saw that it worked.
This is obviously frowned upon but I think it's just a natural part of learning your limits it just happens to be with electronics instead of climbing a tree
to see how high you can get.

I figured that even if someone did manage to trace my sudonym back to myself that noone cares at this point and even if they did
there is zero evidence left and I could always just claim that I made it all up.

There's an even simpler solution. Let the kids use one of the many free TI emulators on whatever android/iphone they have.
Here's one for $5 that runs an actual rom from an actual TI. https://play.google.com/store/...
In this case you might need to tell TI that you will only continue using their calculator if they give you a license to use their rom
on an emulator. Then when it's test time, you give them an official TI for the test. Regardless of how dumbed down the calculator
is suppose to be if you are worried about cheating it seems like a very bad idea to allow a student to bring their own electronic device
to a test. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to open the case of a ti-84 and install a 64G microsd card or the equivalent.
Instead of having an exam mode and approved apps, just provide a device for the exam. If you needed to provide android/iphones
then you could do that too as you only need one set assuming you schedule exams accordingly and you don't have to worry
about people rooting their phones, exiting exam mode, etc... If a school can't afford to buy 30 devices for exams then it shouldn't
be requiring it's students to be buying 1000+ of those same devices.

Also need the "yes, but nobody cared back then" option.
I carried a 6 inch pocket knife and a lighter to school every day in high school. I used to loan my knife to the teachers. Today this would get you thrown in jail.
I created a program to harvest passwords and then granted myself administrator access. I never did anything bad with it. It did come in useful once
when I was falsely accused of a crime (because I was known as the geek who might be able to) but I was able to find out who really did it.
I did the whole free payphone calls with a resistor trick and a few other experiments.
In college, I found a security hole and downloaded a copy of everyone's SSN, place of birth, and 4 digit pin. Again, I never did anything with it but today
that would land you in prison. I just quietly told the university programmer about the security hole and he quietly fixed it.
Probably a few dozen other things I could mention not counting downloading thousands of warez that I never even used.
I feel sorry for 14 year olds today that are "exploring" because alot of my "exploring" although mostly innocent are considered serious crimes today.
And I'm only 35 but alot has changed in the last 20 years. The kids still know more than the adults in alot of cases but "innocent hacking" seems
to be taken alot more seriously today and things like pocket knives are considered deadly weapons.

I thought the whole purpose of 4chan was that "anything goes".
If they start censoring it then all the people that are there will just move somewhere else that is not restricted.

I can think of 970 million reasons why they might have decided to sell out. They are at the top of their game and growing so can currently
command a premium. This is an all cash option so this money goes straight to the bank. Now, even if someone does run them out of
business they are still set for life. If I had to choose between being like Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates, I would chose to be like Wozniak
and exit early. Yes, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world but Wozniak still has plenty of money and plenty of fun because $100 million
is plenty for that. Wozniak didn't get hurt by selling out early. He's probably had alot less stressful life than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
There is no way Bill Gates can spend all his money himself. That's why he has a huge charity. People like Rockefeller eventually realize
that they have more money than they can reasonably spend and then are forced to donate it but some people like Steve Wozniak learn that earlier.

Um, no. That's not how credit cards works at least in the US. In the US, credit cards don't have float that they can invest in the stock market.
You can't invest "debt and interest" in the stock market. You can sell "debt and interest" to other people but you can't invest a negative.
Insurance companies have float and some (like warren buffet) are grandfathered in and allowed to invest in the stock market.
Credit card companies have "reverse float". They are giving away float to their customers so they have nothing of value that they can
invest in the stock market. They give away this float to their customers with the hopes that the customer overspends and they can
profit from the fees/interest.

People are expensive because money is "stored people". It's basically a store of labor.
People pay money to let someone else do the labor when they can't or don't want to.
Your new iphone if followed down enough steps is almost 100% labor. The raw materials cost
money because of the labor required to create them. We have things like robots, machines,
animals, etc.. that reduce the amount of human labor at one step but all those still require
human labor to maintain them.

Yes, a plea bargain is basically:
          "you might get 5 years for this and 20 years for this and we'll try to pin these other 3 random things on you too so why
              don't you just accept 3 years and save us both alot of time and money"
but it still comes down to either what the police think they can pin on or what they can make you believe that they can pin on you in a trial.
At the end of the day it's still both sides evaluating "what are my odds of winning and what do I get" vs "what are my odds of losing and what do I lose".
If there is a video tape (or a missing video tape that should be there) then you have alot more negotiation power even in the pretrial
and there's a good chance that if the video tape is missing or doesn't make the cop look good that they are going to quickly try to
drop the charges or settle out of court.

You make it sound like plea bargains and trials are independent events.
Plea bargains are based on what each party believes is the most likely outcome of a trial.
An attorney could easily argue for a different plea if the tape was damaged or missing because
both sides know that this will change the odds in a jury trial. A police officer that "lost" his
video would be much more likely to want to strike a plea bargain as it puts him at a great
disadvantage if it comes down to a trial. And as the original article states, many times the
officercam might not be the only video of the crime.

I'd agree. Halfway automation is a disaster waiting to happen. You could possibly have two buttons though:
      1) a "try to stop safely" button which would attempt to pull over to the side of the road and stop (similiar to a computer's shutdown command)
      2) a "full stop" button which immediately powers down and comes to a complete stop. (similar to holding down the power button or pulling the plug)
A third option of ejecting the passenger would be a nice option too if there was a way to do it safely. This could possibly be done automatically
when a collision is unavoidable as well.

Because even if YOU happened to do that, you're in the minority.
In the US, they might (sometimes reluctantly) sell directly to the consumer but it's a small fraction
of their overall sales. Their actual customers (att,verizon, etcc) do market to the consumer so they
do need features that consumers want but the phone service companies still have a large say on
what is and is not included.

Are you sure about this? I think alot of it is selection bias. Men tend to prioritize money more than women. Men are probably more likely
to chose a job that pays better even if it hurts their family life. It's no wonder men on average make more than women because they
are choosing their jobs based on pay. Women chose children, helping others, less stressful work, etc... more than men.
One main reason for this (besides biology) is that women are less likely to be the bread winner. When you compare single childless never married
women to single childless never married men then on average WOMEN ACTUALLY MAKE MORE THAN MEN

I've actually met more male accountants than female accounts. The rest is still a matter of taste and/or pay. Men can many
times find other jobs they like better that also pay better. Women like to take care of people. I know many women who chose
social work, nursing, teaching, etc.. because that was their passion. Not near as many men have that as a passion and although
lots of men like children alot of men don't want to spend all day with them. No gender preference is absolute but alot of it does
seem to be genetic and there is enough of a tilt one way or the other to slant different professions without the need to bring
conspiracy into it.

I think quantity is a perfectly acceptable metric but not as "total number of women who played a game last week" but rather
"total minutes played by women last week". I would define someone who is playing games 4-6 hours a day as a gamer even
if those games only consist of candy crush, farmville, and word with friends. And as far as advertisers are concerned the
candy crush, farmville, and word with friends group is more valuable as they are exposed to alot more ads than the person
playing mario on an xbox. The world doesn't care how stupid and mindless the game is as long as you're spending hours
doing it.

Why did you bother to use "on occasion" for trekkies but not for gamers. I would define a gamer based on intensity.
I would define someone who is playing games 4-6 hours a day as a gamer even if those games only consist of candy crush, farmville, and word with friends.