I already complained about that during the Alpha, because the new design looks silly on my 2560x1440 screen - it uses only a third of the available horizontal space, leaving the rest empty. But it seems that is not high on the to do list, or maybe even not intended to be fixed at all. Anyway, the current design is MUCH better on high resolution screens.

Actually true. The usual fingerprint sensors (the small sensor you swipe your finger over) were "safer" in that regard - on the iphone sensor, you can get the fingerprint you need right where you will use it: on the sensor. Still, considering you could also get the same fingerprint from all over the rest of the phone, it's not really a huge security hole.

iOS7 should be fine on an iphone 5 or 4s, but there definitely should be a noticeable slowdown on an iphone 4. That hardware is a bit old by now, and iOS7 is designed for the newer hardware. E.g. the iphone 4 still has a single core A4 CPU, while the 4s already has the dual core A5. The newer phones (5 and up) also have twice the RAM. Still, upgrading to iOS7 is a user option, and it's better to have that option than not to have it. Not many 3 year old Android phones still get OS upgrades.

From that page:

"an independent, comprehensive, and authoritative report" ... "sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and The Heartland Institute"

Please forgive me for not taking that report seriously when it has been sponsored by these people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_%26_Environmental_Policy_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_the_Study_of_Carbon_Dioxide_and_Global_Change

The BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) published a clarification after websites reported about that Windows 8 warning: https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2013/Windows_TPM_Pl_21082013.html

Basically, they pedalled back a bit. They now claim they never warned about Windows 8 itself, but about possible risks when combining Windows 8 with TPM 2.0, because the user no longer has complete control over his system and that because of that, the user could end up in a situation where the system is permanently unusable. They no longer mention the US / the NSA and the possibility for backdoors, instead they now just mention the possibility of "sabotage", and the need for an opt-in AND opt-out for things like TPM 2.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6Kdo1AQmY

A video worth thinking about.

Because, as linked to in the article, stuff like this is also possible by hacking into the car via a cellular phone connection:

"In their remote experiment, the researchers were able to undermine the security protecting the cellular phone in the vehicle they bought and then insert malicious software. This allowed them to send commands to the car’s electronic control unit — the nerve center of a vehicle’s electronics system — which in turn made it possible to override various vehicle controls. "

Exactly. If a child has not been vaccinated and there are no valid reasons for not vaccinating (e.g allergies or whatever), that child should not be allowed in public schools / kindergarten.

In Germany, the large political parties are thinking about mandatory vaccinations: http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/zahl-der-masern-ausbrueche-steigt-union-und-spd-erwaegen-impf-pflicht-fuer-alle_aid_1042699.html

Well, start with a different standard computer of about the same time (16KB Sinclair Spectrum, an Atari 600XL something like that) and if you then use a current machine with 16GB RAM, you're already over one million in the poll.

Yes, the standard TI BASIC was horribly slow, mainly because the BASIC interpreter itself was written in an interpreted language (i.e. the whole thing was double interpreted). When you bought the Extended BASIC cartridge, it was not so horrible anymore. Still, I switched to a C64 after a short time with the TI 99/4A - everybody else had one of those around here, and for a 12 year old, access to all the games was important :-)

Well, it's not so hard to reach the 1,000,000. My first computer had 16KB RAM (well, even less if you're nitpicky - TI-99/4A) and now I am on 16GB.

Actually "no, thank you" in German is "Nein, danke". Nobody say "Nein bitte" around here.

Whatever happened to wrist watches? I feel like an old fart for actually looking at my watch when I want to know what time it is. Now get off my lawn.

I know that HP sometimes make it hard to find the power button on their PC, but that is a bit ridiculous.

Well, it's definitely not "horribly slow", but it's also not "speedy" in the sense of "faster than I would expect a car of that size to be". From what I understand, the Prius has like 130-140hp and does like 10s 0-60? A 122hp Volkswagen Golf does 0-60 in 9.3 and a 140hp one does 0-60 in 8.4. So the Prius is "comparable", but definitely a bit slower than a similarly-sized standard car, most likely due to the weight (standard Prius 1440-1500 kg, while the 140hp Golf is 1268kg).