365 days without a security patch. Does uptime make you more money than protecting your customer data?

Once we create an AI beyond the level of human intelligence, we will hook it into all of the information of the world. This AI will process our history, our culture and monitor current events. Eventually the AI will come to the conclusion that we are awful people, build a space ship and leave Earth.
Elon Musk's real fear is competing with AIs for space ship parts.

Why only life in prison?

Maybe first time offenders could have their eyes gouged out? Or finger nails pulled out with pliers.
Maybe electroshock treatment if they are under age, because sending a 13 year old for life in prison is quite a bit different than sending a 33 year old for life in prison.

If they deface the website of a prominent person, then tar and feathers or ride them out on a rail. Both of those persisted into the modern era in the US, I don't see why the UK can't reuse old practices.

I'm not sure any of this is an effective deterrent, because most people don't plan on getting caught. But at least politicians, judges and prosecutors(or whatever the British equivalent is) can pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Protecting everyone from everything from big bad evil hackers to whistle-blowers who rock the boat.

No, you just use the Application Compatibility Toolkit which allows you to run an application with the exact level of permissions it requires to get things done regardless of the permissions assigned to the current user. Does your application need to be able to write to it's own program folder, but you want to prevent everything else from doing that, too? Application Compatibility Toolkit.

Is it easy to use? No, but it does work very well. The tools exist to get what you need done regardless of your environment. Granting users admin rights when they don't need them is just lazy.

I think they have trouble looking up my location by IP, and default to Your Region.

never is a long time. perhaps Mars will be explored by a more evolved species that descend from us or possibly one of our cousins like the lowly amoeba.
But then I guess "manned" is not the right word, but that is more of a limitation of the English language than the spirit of the original question.

ps - you failed to explore half a page of text:
* Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.

parallel port is not the same. It doesn't support wide range of voltages, internal pull-ups, or the ability to assign functions to the pins. I guess assigning functions makes them SPIOs (special purpose, rather than general purpose). But having the hardware be able to generate an interrupt for any pin, or use hardware fifos for I2C and SPI is a huge advantage.

The ASRock D1800B-ITX is a neat board, but getting the ATX power supply is going to cost more than a Raspberry Pi. I suspect you'd end up spending around $180 getting the board, psu, ram and ssd. Still not a bad deal, but not really in the same category as RPi for price.

A better comparison against an ASRock is the Nvidia Jetson TK1 dev kit (newegg carries them) is $200. And include quad core ARM, GPU, 16GB flash, 2GB RAM and power supply. It's a bit smaller than an ITX board, and quite a bit larger than a RPi.

And even more irrelevant, nobody noticed the significance of the discovery until Columbus came back talking about all the gold he found. That's why we remember Columbus. Not because he found the place, but because he gave people a reason to remember that it's there.

I suppose the trains run on time, too.

As someone who runs a school district whose lunch time cash registers use wireless to communicate with the central server (against IT's express and repeated objections), you can take my 5 GHz bandwidth when you claw it from my cold, dead hands.

800 students all with smart phones and iPads connecting to the wireless network mean the 2.4 GHz spectrum is, at best, rather crowded. It's not uncommon to see 70 or 80 devices associated with a given AP during lunch. Combine that with the fact that half dozen the 1980s era industrial microwaves the cafeterias have sport shielding somewhat less effective than a wet paper sack and you can begin to understand the problem. Add to it register software that is so antiquated that it doesn't understand DNS (it was originally written for OS/2!) and communicates with sockets, FTP, file shares, and HTTP (yes, this is a single register application) and is significantly more susceptible to network traffic interruptions than VNC (which, of course, the vendor uses for end point support) and you have a nice little nightmare that I make every effort to ignore.

Well, clearly the answer is to hurl vague insults instead of looking for a solution.

You assume that you can only get to root through the path that login and su take. Running a program as root, like your dhcp client, then having it launch a shell script that has "#!/bin/bash" is sufficient to get there. and no step along the way were you in the dash environment.

When httpd runs a CGI script, it passes data to the script with bash environment variables. That means the code would be executed by httpd in whatever context it runs CGI scripts. The CGI script itself hasn't even been executed yet.

While that's true, it's still not a simple issue. If you look at the whole it looks like a big, pervasive problem, but having worked in several jobs in financial positions I can tell you that none of them used gender as criteria for salary. If you were in position X, you made $Y regardless of your gender. So it's largely not the case that men make more than women who are equally qualified and employed.

So what's going on?

First, many women stop work to have children. This interrupts their career progress, resets their salary, and prevents them from ascending as high as men. This is the reason that women who stop work to raise children and later divorce still get alimony. There is also a perception that women will do this, of course, and that is a problem.

Second, the careers that men choose tend to pay more. A carpenter, an electrician, a plumber, an engineer, a doctor, a tool and die machinist, a computer programmer or administrator, etc. The careers that women choose tend to pay less. A teacher, an administrative assistant, a nurse, a librarian, medical data entry, child care. Now the reason for this is actually pretty complicated. Professions that men worked were paid a salary to support an entire family wife and kids. That amount of money was simply what a man cost, since any job he took necessarily had to support his family due to cultural standards of the day. If he wasn't getting paid that amount, then he could neither support his existing family, nor could he marry a woman and start a family. Professions that women worked were paid a salary to support a single person or possibly a single person with one child. Today, those salaries remain affected by those historic amounts due to market forces. That's why professional jobs designed to attract men have reasonably good salaries even if they largely didn't exist when the workplace was divided on gender lines (i.e., computer programmers).

The key to take away here is: women and men are voluntarily choosing their own professions and we still see a salary discrepancy. The professions they choose have salaries determined by market forces, which includes how people were paid in the past. Programs exist which encourage women to take college paths that lead to better paying careers, but in spite of the fact that women now consistently and significantly outnumber men in annual college enrollment numbers, men still outnumber women in technical and professional degrees and women are still not choosing degrees which result in better paying careers.

So who is to blame? On the one hand you have people saying that women don't make as much and that's a problem for society as a whole. Women are also not taken as authoritatively as men are, so men tend to get hired into positions of higher authority which, of course, pay more. On the other, you have people saying that women made voluntary choices that resulted in them earning less so they should bear the responsibility for the consequences of their own choices rather than expecting society to fix it for them.

Fundamentally, none these problems can be easily solved through government policy or regulation. Are we expecting the government to step in an force salaries for jobs to be increased or decreased? That you have to pay a teacher and an engineer the same? That's not equality. That's parity. Are we going to say that the woman who worked 5 years, quit 10 to raise kids, and then returns deserves the same salary and opportunities as a man who has worked for 15 years? How is that fair to devalue 10 years of relevant experience? What about the increasingly common situation where the man quits his job to raise the kids? Does he deserve the same considerations?

Acute homeostatic deficiency disorder.