How do they backup such insane amount of data?

Relying on NSA will not help as they do not provide an API for restoring data

I understand one have to abandon its MacBook to Microsoft to enjoy the deal, is that right?

What Microsoft will do with the MacBook? And the data it contains?

Certificate Authorities (CA) could help here: if a secured server was mandatory to get certificate renewal, things would be cleaned up.

Problem is: each CA has no interest into doing this extra work, and no central authority can force them to do so. Major browsers could push them, though, by telling users that some CA are more trustable than others.

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But UV exposure let the body produce vitamin D, which enables the immune system to fight cancer more efficiently, hence things are not that simple

In fact, avoiding UV probably means swapping skin cancers with other cancers. The nice point with skin cancers is that you have a chance to spot them early, so personally, I would choose UV exposure.

Please mod parent up.. From TFA:

In a healthy democracy, reform should come from the legislative branch.

The general interest is that smart people work to help humanity and make no profit.

The smart people particular interest is to work to make profit.

In other words, Gates defended his personal interest and now defends the general interest by telling people to do what he says and not what he did.

There is no way the EU parliament can push an amendment if the EU council disagree. We even saw the commission removing amendments when moving a draft from EU parliament to EU council. The only real power of the EU parliament is to reject.