I'm sure your windows phone totally doesn't have any legacy Win32 bugs hiding in your Windows 10 mobile OS. That mantra you're using from the 90s only applied because Linux didn't have as large a legacy codebase in the field. Taking your argument to the absurd, I can claim my BeOS machine is one of the most secure on the planet because nobody uses it and it's a beast of a different color.

Seems like the major virtualization vendors (VMware, Citrix, Microsoft) should have been all over this already with their end-user computing portfolios.

Finally I can make my own version of Clippy!

Pull your Jazz/Super floppy/5.25"/Zip drive out of the closet, make copies, and put them in different physical (preferably geographic) areas. Security through antiquity. A software raid array of floppy drives is actually kind of funny.

It wouldn't be the first time this has arisen in history. There are rules in place already on how traditional TV/News outlets provide election candidate coverage.

Bullets that don't shoot civilians in the background, nice idea. But if ammo is made for a given distance, in what circumstance will someone using a weapon have the time to perform the reload required to change their clip based on their distance to target? If you're going into something like a hostage situation, it's a valid skill to be able to assess friend/foe and pull a trigger faster than the guy who doesn't hesitate before shooting.

Now we just sit back and wait for infected ad servers to deliver 0-day malware....

If companies can be granted quasi-personhood status, why not a car AI? Are we ready to deal with the implications of car AI rights and car AI voting?

That would make sense but there are two things to consider. First, you may be using a different compiler or even language all together for a dll versus your main application. Second, there are legal implications with OSS licenses when it comes to dynamic versus static linking.

Another fun one to play with is Intercal. http://catb.org/esr/intercal/

I find Piet particularly interesting. http://www.dangermouse.net/eso...

So my 90's era cordless phone will disrupt my wifi signal more than it already does, great!

Additionally consider what marketing people do to wifi standards. I foresee a new line of wireless routers claiming ridiculous ranges with higher price tags. Average consumer says higher price tag = better, and buys it for their apartment. Consumer is angry that 3 other people in his entire apartment complex bought it too or have the previously mentioned cordless phones and their internet stinks again. It's fine as long as they would clearly specify why you might prefer one band over another, but since they didn't do that so well with 2.4 versus 5 I don't have high hopes.

This also means that every new decide would have to get a new radio installed. Only in the last few years are dual band wifi radios becoming more standard, yet still are a premium. It would be sad if we had a repeat of 802.11a adoption.

If you're hand typing MAC Addresses, you're doing it wrong and should get a better captive portal setup.

Not only is cramming omnibus bills a scummy practice, but doing so right before everyone leaves for a holiday to add pressure not to read things and just pass them is double scummy.

At the moment the code requires both Matlab and Lightspeed. Until someone ports the code to an OSS library or alternate language, it won't see significant adoption.