Because they don't need to "be on" to "hear a gunshot"?

We see an increase in SSL connections to Sweden.

what about an HP Probook? You don't want to play games though

I am curious: do you intend to install a Firefox plugin for each one of the 900+ tracking cookies that Ghostery references?

If, like most people, you don't live in a Faraday cage, and if your country hasn't built a giant one around itself, you're most likely "in danger", aren't you?

"When I was your age, Vesta was an asteroid"

This seems quite complicated! The right way to do stuff is to first do it, and write your hypothesis afterwards according to your results. The same goes for engineering: you make the product, and then write the specification. Otherwise you would be wrong / request for deviation too often, and that would be depressing!

Actually, no; we count on people who designed a rocket launcher the proper way (read: under pressure during the cold war) many years ago, and nowadays they don't know how to do it anymore. This is one of the reasons why the modifications to the Soyuz rocket launcher were kept to a strict minimum before launching it from Kourou: they wanted to keep as much as possible the old design that we know worked quite well.

You sir, have a very peculiar definition of your friends... As people I know started to sign up and use telephone services more and more, I started getting less and less letters from them. Now I only get letters from a few of them. Don't get me wrong, its not a bad thing as it lets me know who my real friends are!

Apple: PCs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'

Maybe "Open access" should not be understood as "anyone submits anything, Wikipedia-style", but more "anyone can read any approved publication"?

Whoever he is, he always specializes in horror and suspense scenarios

Maybe 90% of people who sell their old drives before they stop working know how to properly wipe them... Do you sell your drives that still work?

So... Androids are biophobic?

Exactly. The less words, the simpler. One of the reasons I am switching to DuckDuckGo: instead of typing 'wikipedia something' (previously with Google in my address bar, I just type '!w something'. I don't see the advantage of going back to a full sentence in natural language...