Consensus does not make for good science. It just happens that the current consensus supports your personal views so you like it. If the consensus was against your views you would not be so happy. I prefer hard core science, consensus be damned. Science is not a popularity contest.

As to the other answers, they're just Me-Taoism: the argument that my culture did it to, did it earlier, did it better. It's as bad as political correctness.

Government doesn't get it. They don't control it. Sure, I would like to regulate the orbit of the planets but that is outside my realm. Likewise, the Canadian government is not just impotent but incompetent to think they could actually control foreign entities. Bozos.

There was a time when the scientific consensus was that the Earth Was Flat and that the Sun Rotated Around The Earth as well as many other things we now consider quaint or just plain dumb.

"- strings terminated by a binary zero rather than their physical size." ...
"I program in ... Assembler to avoid that mess."

I take it you never never worked in tight memory situations of the early processors. Just about everything people cite as example has an explanation related to the environment it occurred in. Very evolutionary. Things make sense when you understand the context. If you try you might.

Apple and other makers are screwing themselves up by obsolescing older software. I need access to my data. The applications that access my data won't run on the newer hardware on the newer operating systems. The result is I don't upgrade my hardware - I just keep making do with old hardware. I buy used computers for our businesses and family needs. I know of other people in the same boat. If the new hardware and OS can't let us use our older applications then we don't buy new. Apple and other vendors of hardware and OSs loses a lot of sales that way. They make nothing when we buy used.

Emulation is not that hard.

Keeping operating systems compatible so old software runs to give us access to our data isn't that hard.

We need backwards compatibility to move into the future.

This city sounds like an incarnation of Hell.

So Comcast won't mind refunding all those fees for over data use. Hello class action lawsuit and government sanctions!

Planet hacking is a very, very, very, very, very, very bad idea. Might I emphasize that a bit more? People don't understand things well enough, are too incompetent, too driven by greed and the risks are enormous.

LEAVE - IT - ALONE.

In this day and age of such powerful advanced hardware in our hands they should be offering emulation of all past significant processors including 68K, PPC, x86, etc as well as all previous OSs.

We have applications for accessing data that we still need to work with. Just because the processors change doesn't mean we can throw away our old data or tools. It is arrogance and greed of the industry that creates this problem. They've are on a disposable mentality.

The result as it stands is we have to keep older hardware running to use our old applications to access our long term data. That means we don't buy new hardware and that is a short sighted mentality of the hardware makers like Apple, HP, etc. If they made new hardware that would run all past stuff I'd upgrade my hardware in a heart beat putting money in their pockets.

I thought Kari was hired to be the nasty, vicious, cruel, inhumane, sadistic person on the team. They could drop her any day and the show would be better.

Grant they should keep. Grant is science.

Tori is a clown, a nice clown, but he doesn't add anything besides some fun and I would like him better without him being abused by Kari.

What they should do is bring back Scottie. Scottie, Tori and Grant are a good team.

It would be wonderful if the Mythbusters could recapture their 'youth' which is to say how great they were years ago. Too much personalities now.

This is just one more form of totally screwed up political correctness. Based on her logic you shouldn't say please or thank you either. Bogus.

" they are in another country and that country protects them, preventing anyone else from entering the country in order to get rid of them. Doing so without "permission" will lead to more trouble than it's worth."

This is really a non-issue. You really don't understand modern warfare if you actually believe that.

Time to implement the game App Wack-a-Terrorist. It shows you pictures from terrorist groups' propaganda. Recognize anything? Click it and describe it. Points for accuracy in time and space, people, etc. CIA takes notices when cards rise above a certain threshold. Then they send in a drone strike if needed. Cool game! Win an iPad!

Reading the linked article and looking at the graph I see that this is not even a good correlation never mind being causal.

Want to have your kids do better? Pay attention to them. For the best results, homeschool.

Sorry, no, we'll have to kill you first.

"Farming has been stuck in a bit of a rut, when compared to other industries. Businesses across the globe have been innovating for decades, while farming has been using techniques that have been handed down from centuries ago."

That was obviously written by a non-farmer. Farming is one of the leading places of innovation and technological advancement both at small and large scale farms. I take it from the writer's obvious ignorance that they live in a box in the city.