The UK is about the size and density of New York + New Jersey + Pennsylvania. With the vast majority of access being through controlled ports. Both of those make black markets for guns difficult.
Contrast with Brazil, gun ownership is illegal for most private citizens (there's limited exceptions for certain things like armed guards). However, they are much higher on the list in your link than the U.S. One of the main reasons I've seen is that the large Amazon border allows guns to be smuggled in to drug cartels. How much of the Canadian and Mexican border do you think is sufficiently secured?

So back of the envelope math based on current die sizes, quoted thickness from the article (several hundred nanoscale layers) and $1600/troy oz price for Pt yields an added material cost of roughly $0.12/chip. So, cheaper than I was expecting.

Leptons, Quarks, and Gauge Bosons?

Except the pension thing is true, any company that can get rid of pensions has done so. 401K's are a very poor substitute.

They are still your property, but the police don't need a warrant unless it's within your curtilage, which if it needs to be collected it usually isn't.
The above statement does not take into account local laws, just what's protected in the U.S.A. by the 4th Amendment. It's also possible that you gave WM a key for your locked fence, and they need to enter in order to pick up the garbage, but that would be unusual in my experience.

I'm going to blow all my karma on this, but here goes.
I've been playing FPSes since Doom, and I've always felt that keyboard+mouse was an absolutely abysmal interface for that type of game. My problem was that there weren't really other options, but that changed with the advent of PC controllers designed after the PS/Xbox controllers. Shoulder buttons for strafing, independent joysticks for moving and looking, easy to use fire buttons, extra buttons available for things like weapon changes/macros. I refuse to go back to WASD hell.

I'd actually like to see the following as a system. The votes are tallied for each congressional district plus 2 extra for each state. So In Wisconsin, 3 districts would have voted Democrat, 5 Republican, and the 2 for state popular would go to the Democrat, a nicely split electoral vote. Of course, then they would be talking about the swing districts in addition to swing states. Since the swinginess of states would only be two votes, it would change where campaigns are conducted, not necessarily how.

10,000 sounds a bit high, where is that estimate coming from?
Just curious.
Although, maybe newspapers should become clipping services for blogs, i.e. let the blogosphere break the story, and use actual journalists to fact check the blogs, then publish a paper based on that.

Hope dashed.

From the article, the private activity being spied upon was growing marijuana.

If you thought cellphone coverage was bad...

You did not read far enough, 4K UHD is 3840 x 2160. It's not actually related to the rest of the article and goes off to it's own article talking about some of the history behind the development of UHD television displays.

I think that's a reference to Explorer only running in Desktop mode. Also, he was using a preview version, so this particular issue may be dealt with.

Maybe not, but I will not be able to use it's version of Excel for HeroForge or similar utilities, all of which are consumer-only. Since that was my primary use-case...