One of the selling points of open source software is that if the company that provides it won't fix something, you can do it yourself.

Net neutrality stops your ISP from throttling your netflix to force you to pay for their streaming service instead.

So you made your bit torrent client look like a speed test?

This is why you want internet to be a government owned and operated service, like the highways. That way if you don't like your service you can at least vote for change, unlike now where your only option more money.

You already have a working system (OS + applications). So long as the software doesn't need access to public networks there is no risk in continuing to use it as is.

A directional ground based antenna with high output power will overcome the RX noise. The military use for this technology is obvious, you can re-target your balistic missiles (or abort) or use radar to see incoming interceptors and avoid them.

Japan was once considered a third world country, with third rate science and technology. They deliberately worked to fix both those problems, and now they are considered world leaders of science and technolgoy. Given strong central contol and plenty of dollars from their massive manufacturing industry they will achieve their goals.

So what happens if you send them a (poor) scan of fake ID? You're not impersonating a real person, and you're not interacting with the government, so I don't see any actual legal consequences of this. Do any lawyers out there have any idea on this?

The United States has this wierd thing called free speech zones. If the government doesn't like your message they will try to force you to use them instead of the public square.

It is generally believed that the earths magnetic field protects the atmosphere from being stripped away by the solar wind. Given that Venus has no (very small) magnetic field, this explains why the planet has such a dense atmosphere. Can anyone explain why a volcanicly active planet doesn't have a magnetic field? Isn't the liquid core what generates the field?

It's also much harder for the school bully to swipe your lunch money. Now he has to actually make you get stuff for him.

You leave your fingerprints everywhere you go, it would be easy for anyone to get it. Of course this way the taxpayers pay for the collection instead of the corporation.

Large corporations are risk averse. They avoid innovation because that is a massive gamble, and you don't gamble with the money of the rich. Many small companies is better for the market (and the world) than a handful of huge American heavyweights.

From a security stantpoint, "they don't know what he took" is the biggest problem. It means they don't have a logging file system. If you don't log access then you can't look for unusual patters of access, like some guy taking everything in the computer. It means the Russians only need to recruit 1 contractor with skills, and they get anything they want, forever.

If the robot was sentient, and if you couldn't get parts anywhere else or by 3d printing, and if the robot went through parts unusually fast because of poor design or designed obsolescence, then shutting down the spare parts supply would be murder. Miss any of those "if's" and it's just a business choice, just like shutting down the only hospital that can do organ transplants to extend the life of the rich. In practice someone will take up the task of making aftermarket parts, just like the car industry does when a car maker stops making parts.