This is just stupid. The entire Triple A over spending is about putting in intrusive DRM that makes me not want to touch their games. I'm find with traditional DRM since the old school NES Cartridge is DRM, but not this Project 5 Dollar theft, and not this Always Online nonsense. The only reason the Indie's are getting any success is because these big companies are trying to eat themselves out of house and home. Just give me my periodic RPG's and I'll be happy. As it stands I'm starving for content that just isn't coming.

SimCity 2014. Early Modding and get banned. All possible due to Always Online DRM.

We're talking about the compatibility by a Turning Machine. Which puts Pi into the realm of Non-Computable. It is really a choose your own adventure of definitions, but any number that cannot be represented to an infinite precision is not actually computable. A Turning Machine will always run into a rounding error when it try's to output the value. You can use the other lax definitions that say you can reduce it down to a function that can output the value to the "desired" precision, but that's hardly infinite precision when you look at the output.

The Universe is Natural
Irrational Numbers are Supernatural
The Universe is Dependent upon The Cosmological Constant
Pi is an Irrational Number
The Cosmological Constant is Irrational because it contains Pi which is also Irrational.
The Universe Must be Supernatural.

Irrational Numbers are Non-Computable.

Ok, take the memory of reading this statement. Then remember it, and remember it again. Have you started to forget the statement? Keep doing that until you do. Giving up because you're board isn't forgetting.

It easily could be that your mind is simulating everything a few moments into the future. Trying to anticipate the actions of others, your own actions, and the possible events that could occur. Occasionally it could find something's going to fall, but can't insert an action far enough ahead to prevent it from starting like tipping a cup. The result is you responding to a falling cup prior to you knowing it was going to fall.

You say that it's "optional", but it's not. If you view it as a scam investment like Tulip Bulbs that can bankrupt people you warn people away from it in some vain attempt to save them before they are ruined by it. It's not optional because when friends and family are dupt into it, and loose their shirt it's going to hurt you even if you didn't personally invest one penny in it.

No, it's not security though obscurity, it's security though not being on the internet, not needing the internet, and not wanting the internet. The older tech prevents someone from even being able to hook it up to the internet even if they wanted to. The internet is one big security hole, and if you don't need it then anything that prevents you from having it is a plus for security.

The machine margin is probably fairly exact, but measuring humans gets a bit fuzzy. What is the margin of error on that 97.53 percent for humans. If it's 3% then I'm going to doubt the claim.

IPv6 is the re-engineer the network solution.

I know they can be a bit cost prohibited, but psudo RNG's always look like you're just waiting for them to eventually become broken. Are the real RNG's out there so cost prohibitive?

Worst case scenario is every plane in the air falls to the ground like a rock. That is were the half million number gets a large bump from. It's unlikely you'd hit the entire US with an EMP at the highest point in the day for air travel, but that would be the worst case initial conditions. People who make worst case scenarios out of what is most likely to happen shouldn't be writing up worst case scenarios.

TFA is kinda small on any details, but what do you expect from Fox News. How exactly does 2 Billion "protect" everyone from an EMP weapon? Have we found something as good a what we currently use, but won't break? Old Vacuum tubes are a nice protection against a system that could go down, but you never want it to go down. You can't really use the good vacuum tubes ether so you're stuck in 1940's tech for a lot of stuff. How exactly does this 2 Billion stop the pace makers from breaking, the planes from falling, and every hospital patient from dying in those few initial hours. That money might help for long term protection by setting up a process to recover from such an event, but I don't really see anything that says it will protect us from the massive initial death toll.

At this point I view eugenics as nearly always bad. With most "improvement" we'll most likely reduce our diversity, and that's pretty bad. Then there is what we view as good for us, and what is good for us is sometimes two different things. There does seem to be a form of what I'll say is epieuginics coming about were instead of tampering with the DNA in a way that removes diversity that it just turns off the currently undesired gene, but could later be turned back on in a future generation. What I've read of it being used for treating down syndrome looks promising, but we'll have to wait, and see.