The jury of your peers is supposed to be representative of the community as a whole --- and that is essential to keep the system from being corrupted for "the good of the team."

Think of the rage that surrounds every police shooting or choke-hold death.

Rape on campus. Bishops sheltering priests who sexually abuse children. The "watchdogs" who presided over the physical decay and medical malpractice in our Veterans' Hospitals.

There is no tech and no system that can protect a geek from his own inflated ego. The problem isn't getting a geek to talk, the problem is getting him to shut up.

If it's not available you can always use simple English to send your love words to Bush, Cheney and all other American assholes who led to the illegal invasion of an Arab country, leading to 100'000s deaths and the total destruction of its social construct.

which may explain why you are single --- again.

How soon we forget.

Firefox had the money and manpower needed to develop the first credible open source alternative to Internet Explorer on the mainstream Windows platform.

The uncomfortable and unspoken truth about open source is that projects beyond a certain size and complexity need a formal organization, full-time staff and funding that rivals their commercial --- proprietary --- alternatives.

This is never more true when the target audience or market is not the computer geek.

The town meeting works only if everyone is willing to play by the rules. It is not particularly good at protecting minority interests, and can be quite short-sighted, stupid and irresponsible when emotions are running high, no matter how trivial the issue.

In-universe, the 3 Laws began as a PR gimmick to promote public acceptance of robots. Robert Heinlein, no fan of the 3 Laws, made short work of them in "Friday."

It's jarring --- but perfectly consistent --- to see how often Asimov used the word "boy" (=black=slave) in summoning a robot in his early stories. The 3 laws can be used to define a relationship that is neither healthy or informed on either side,

The modern fountain pen came into general use about the same time as the typewriter.

This is the rock where Freenet comes to grief.

The corporate data service can bury its servers in a salt mine or cavern tucked away somewhere deep in the Appalachians. When ISIS or the Feds are breaking down the doors, on-site physical security becomes their problem, not yours, or your family's.

The geek can become obsessed with the notion of "plausible deniability." [Not so much with thinking clearly about what is actually plausible, but that is another story.] The problem is finding someone who gives a damn one way or the other. "Tag. You're It!"

This is very old news.

The PS3 was sold below cost to built market share as a video game console.

It could be a purchased at an ever greater discount in wholesale lots. Taking thousands of units out of retail distribution. Meaning that your HPC was being subsidized by Sony and ultimately by the PS3 gamer.

Exit the "Other OS" in a firmware update for the PS3. Exit HPC-friendly Cell processors in the PS4.

Market economies are built on the hard realities of finance, trade and production. The pyramid scheme is a something-from nothing, get-rich-quick, fantasy.

Good for you. With google, I normally find five paid ads at the top of my search that aren't relevant. I have to scroll down to see the surprisingly small number of non-ad results that fit on the first page. Then there are another two paid ads underneath them. Bing is typically no better.

I went to a talk a few years ago by a brain scientist. His results were that the brain response to a physical injury is pretty much the same as the brain response to insults and swear words. Does the constitutional injunction refer to the suffering that's inflicted, i.e. a brain response? or does it refer solely to the physical injury even in cases or people where this doesn't cause any suffering?

I think you're arrogant and deluded. I base this on a talk I went to a few years ago where the speaker explained that the brain activity caused by offensive swear-words is pretty much the same as the brain activity caused by physical pain -- and went on to say that this brain response was apparently pretty much unavoidable. So when you claim to be immune, I assume (because "science") that the low level of your brain isn't actually immune, but you find yourself able to consciously suppress it and delude yourself about it.