It's not just the cabin that needs to be heated. The battery heating system consumes a fair bit of power on very cold days. You'd think they would heat up enough from just being used to power the car, but apparently heating is still necessary and affects range quite a bit.

You cheated using tachyons.

That's not true, it's perfectly possible to access EFI and pretty much anything else. All you need is a rogue Thunderbolt device, and...

Yes, this is really only a problem for those who download and 3D-print USB devices from the Pirate Bay. Honest people who pay for their stuff will not be affected.

Water is H2O, methane is CH4. You can certainly have seas of methane on Titan, but they are not "bodies of water".

How about fake rhino horn laced with a drug that reduces sexual appetite. That might work.

Yep, and they also promote things that hurt the environment. Here in belgium they were actually encouraging people to burn woord for heating, since wood was renewable. Then they suddenly realised how much fine dust and smog was being created by those wood stoves. Oops.

And don't get me started on nuclear power. New designs are perfectly safe and produce almost no waste, yet we can't build them because nuclear power is supposedly dangerous and creates waste that will poison the planet forever. So, for lack of alternatives, we keep extending the life of older plants until they blow up. And we try to replace them with renewables that actually pollute more. Those solar panels don't grow on trees. More people have been killed in the construction of wind turbines than in nuclear accidents. Oh, well, looks like I've gotten myself started. I'll stop now.

Nah, it was a genuine mistake. They've already laid down a new set of big yellow letters saying "We are truly sorry for disturbing your national heritage site. Greepeace."

And then get sued for violating the DMCA.

If you have to send more data (bigger files), you need more servers. A single server can only handle a certain maximum amount of data transfer, right? I thought that was pretty obvious, but maybe I'm missing something?

If you're running a server for a big company (say, Google or FaceBook) and every image is only half as big, that means a huge reduction in the number of servers you need, power consumption, etc. Less congestion on the internet, more responsive servers, less wasted energy, etc...

I imagine you also have a car that guzzles up twice as much gas as other cars, but who cares since you can afford it?

PNG is used extensively in Apple products. It's the standard format for non-compressed images in iOS apps, along with jpg for compressed images. Apple recommends using png for user interface elements, and jpg for pictures. Which makes sense, since jpg can compress a picture to 20% of the size with very few artifacts. Size does matter for mobile apps. And I wish people would realize that it matters for servers, too. Yes, available bandwidth is enormous these days. But if your server is serving pages that are twice the size and your audience is large, you're going to need a bigger server room and use considerably more energy. Servers are on their way to becoming the biggest power hogs on the planet. Smaller images mean less hard disks and less data pipes.

Woosh...

It's not a joke about the Irish, it's about using Watson's own flawed (or at least ill-researched) logic in an ironic way to link negative properties to his Irish DNA using silly stereotypes.

And some of the smaller websites will just mail your password to you on request. Just had one like that last week. Unbelievable in this day and age.

And another website I logged into last week, a frequent flyer program for a major airline, had a maximum of 6 numbers for the password. Not characters, numbers only! No idea how they store it, but something tells me they're probably not using MD5 and have never heard of salt.

Until people start using the freedom of information act to get access to all the footage of people on their worst days.