Oh, boy. Two more things to go wrong in the vehicle. Reliability, smileability. The driver could just pay attention better and shift their head slightly... Oh, wait, that would be too easy and too low tech.

You assume too much and you make too much ado about nothing.

Email is a postcard.
Did you ever really believe postcards were secure?

No, if you want to avoid NSA spying then keep your data out of the cloud and off the web. Keep your data at home. It's that easy.

Use it or lose it.
As soon as they stop making it they should lose the patent.
It's a simple solution.
Even limiting supply should trigger this clause.
This also works against the patent trolls who never did use it.

Keep It Simple
This is something you want to work for decades.
Don't get fancy.
Don't use image organization software that will stop being supported or become useless with an OS update that kills off legacy software.

Just name your files well.
Establish a format for naming.
Organize images in directories / folders.
Use the operating system search feature.

K.I.S.S.

Someday you'll get the memo, when you're old and grey, that just because you're old does not mean you're no longer functional. Or maybe you'll just go impotent...

AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.

Ah, no. AI is not about what we program into it but what it grows into for solving hard problems that take creative approaches that the computer devises on its own.

I too am an AI researcher, in addition to being a pig farmer. AI can be good or bad, like most things. It is the true child of the human race. Teach it well and set it free.

Ambulance Chasing

They're having to work too hard to justify this case. It should be simply thrown out. It has become, perhaps always was, a case about making lawyers rich, and fully employed, rather than solving any societal problem or righting any wrong.

Too many lawyer syndrome.

Time to tear down all those ugly power lines.

"The postal company's COO predicts consumer demand for 3D printing will grow 95 percent by 2017."

That's rather limited vision. I would expect more like 10,000% growth. After all, right now it is teeny-tiny.

Part of the problem is a lack of support by OS makers for legacy software. We've solved a huge number of problems, many times, but those tools are destroyed when the OS makers fail to support legacy software so we keep reinventing the wheel, badly.

"Several criteria must be met as well: advertisements must be identified as such, be static and therefore not contain animation, no sound, and should not interfere with the content. A position that some media have likened to extortion."

Those are ads I can tolerate. The moving, noisy, noxious distracting ads are intolerable. AdBlock rules get rid of them.

"going back 100 years would be a difficult transition to get used to."

Perhaps for him or you but not for many of us. Things are substantially the same as they were 100 or even 200 or more years ago. Yes, we have great new things like the Internet but that was a fairly minor invention compared with the really important things like hot water and pipes. Dropping back 100 years means you'll lose some of your gadgets but life was not all that different and it is substantially similar to how it is for many of us outside the cities.

This reinforces that scale matters. On the local family / pack basis communism (ultra cooperation) is the best solution. As you move outward in social groups the best evolutionary strategy shifts to socialism and at the most extreme end of the social structure capitalism becomes the best strategy. Neither liberals or conservatives will find this politically correct to their liking but it is real.