I put "random crap" generated by my password manager, and store it in the password manager. Security questions are just secondary passwords to the same account. They need to have the same amount of entropy as the real password to be of any use whatsoever.

My Mother's maiden name is 52Vg8alTkWjJ92AXLq8c. I was born in the town of iyUJuoE5go9pWhylGHJT, where I got my first pet, 9DurEntFD7WU9lpZJCKI.

If you ever tell the truth with a security question, you've done it wrong. If you ever use the same answer to a security question twice, you've done it wrong. If your answers have less entropy than your passwords, you've done it wrong.

There's also the matter that better ECCs cost more overhead. You can detect single bit errors with a simple parity bit, but double errors will go undetected. And even something like Reed-Solomon can't correct all the errors it can detect. Spacecraft going to mars have very limited mass budgets, there are often better places to spend the extra mass than on an additional redundant flash chip (and associated circuitry).

No, it was that any of the clones would have the full version history of the entire source tree. You still want a primary repo from which you make your releases, but all the developers can have a copy of the whole thing. They can also make changes to their local clones when offline, then merge all the changes later. Anyone can branch from any point, and the whole thing works on snapshots of the repo instead of sets of incremental changes to each file.

64-bit isn't just about ram, it's also about the extra registers & instructions.

ChromeIPass + KeePass works rather well.

Specifically, the space shuttle didn't have a launch escape system. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Vostok, Shenzhou and Soyuz all do/did, though Vostok and Gemini used ejection seats for the purpose instead of taking the whole capsule. The shuttle test flights had ejection seats, but those were removed when normal operations started. After Challenger a method to escape the shuttle was added: get into a controlled glide, get to the rear hatch, jump out, and parachute to safety...

Or just heat the water in a kettle on the stove. Most (electric) stoves use 240V outlets.

If by "three-letter government agencies" you mean the USN, specifically the Office of Naval Research, then you're correct. But most people in the US call the USN "the Navy", so there are some extra letters.

Something like flattr seems to be the best solution. You pay a set amount per month, then it tracks the pages you visit, and splits the set amount among them all. (Flattr requires you to click a button.) While the transaction amounts from individual users to individual sites will generally be small the total amounts are large enough that payment processing fees are not a huge issue. (IIRC, flattr takes a 10% fee. I have no association with flattr, they're just the only service I know of that works in this manner.)

It's just a typical case of PNS syndrome.

HEY! Most of the ducks I've met have been more competent at running computers than your average MCSE.

You also mention one of the most common malware vectors: ads. Especially flash ads. Ad blocking software is security software.

The quantum black hole thing was never a real threat. First, because if they were the earth would have been destroyed long ago: cosmic rays regularly strike with far greater energies than the LHC produces. Since they would therefore also produce even bigger quantum black holes, if it were an issue it would have long ago destroyed the earth.

The second thing is that black holes don't suck material in any more than their constituent mass would. They also have charge if made from charged particles, so the proton-proton collisions of the LHC would produce positively charged quantum black holes. The electric charge is far stronger than the gravitational field, so you'd get something like a helium atom with a black hole for a nucleus. Even if it didn't evaporate it would be harmless.

It has several other values: Higher current capacity to allow faster charging of devices, and higher bandwidth to allow faster revisions of the USB spec.