I'm not sure you'd even need to vaporize anything. Ever seen one of these?

Moore's Meta-Law:
The number of people predicting the end of Moore's Law doubles every eighteen months!

Hm... if someone came up to me as asked me to buy them a lottery ticket, I'd be rather suspicious. At the very least, I'd buy a second one with the same numbers and keep it for myself.

You mean the ones that will probably never get hired because of their criminal record?

Or maybe just a straight-up heroin OD?

Really, we just need to ban anyone who wants to run for office from ever actually holding office. Pick the pool of candidates like we pick jury pools.

So, I guess we know where the cataclysmic meteor will strike!

This. We have reached the point where electronic security for most individuals is simply not possible. The problem is that it's "hard," and most people that aren't security professionals (and even some that are) will never understand how things like encryption, asymmetric keys, etc. work. Which means that in order to secure themselves, they HAVE TO trust someone to take care of those details for them. But any company these days essentially has to be assumed to be under the control of a government, or will instantly fold when pressed.

And even if you're comfortable managing keys and such, you probably can't write your own software (especially strong encryption algorithms) and build your own hardware.

Totally different:
1. In a proxy, the key used to sign MITM traffic is on a device not accessible to anyone but the admins, not stored on a PC (probably improperly secured) that other malware could access.
2. A good proxy will check certs on the server side of the connection. The one we use will either "pass through" certificate errors, or allow us to block sites with invalid certs entirely.
3. A proper setup will use the URL categorization to not MITM certain traffic. We decrypt anything that's blocked (you have to in order to deliver a block page without cert errors), but that's not a big deal since it never even talks to the server. We also don't decrypt healthcare, banking, shopping, etc.

Condoms? A 2% chance of failure isn't a chance I'd like to live with (not to mention the annoyance of using them)

Male birth control pills would have a similar problem. For a woman, 99.9% effective means that she's only fertile, on average, once every 80 years or so. THOSE odds, I'll take.

99.9% effective for a male means there's still almost 300,000 viable sperm every time.

Actually, I'd be curious how Revleap is violating the terms of service. Revleap might not even have to use Yelp's site directly to pull this off, and thus wouldn't be bound by any terms of service. The people actually posting the reviews might be in violation, but that's not who Yelp is suing.

Actually if you're comparing it to public filling stations, number of cars filled per hour or per day would probably be a better comparison.

A single gas pump can probably do about 12 cars per hour (5 minutes for the full transaction). If it takes 6 hours to charge a car, that single pump could fill as many cars as 72 charging stations. Or 7.2 or so 30-minute Supercharger stations (6 + 20%, since it doesn't fill to full, and you'd have to stop and tie up another charging station sooner).

But the GP's point still applies. Voice control is still just re-implementing the dumb light switch, making it more complicated and prone to failure (although it would be an improvement over a smart phone or remote, and definitely useful for mobility impaired, etc.).

The key is automation. If you're not doing that, the whole exercise is relatively pointless (IMO).

Essentially, yes, at least for any publicly traded company that has to increase profits every quarter or be lynched by the shareholders.

A better question is why the hell would you spend $3k on their stupid "navigation package" when that amount of money would buy a brand new Garmin every year (with current maps included) for THREE DECADES??