If it did, I'd have more encrypted communications.

I agree. Software should be made (and kept) fast and easy. Pretty screens with hidden functions are counterproductive, regardless of how clean it looks in the boardroom.

Does this mean the new menu requires an additional mouse click? I can hit alt-B for bookmarks today. If I upgrade, do I lose this functionality? Does anybody care about ease of use any more, or is it just looks?

Yet the White House has no qualms about discrimination based on lack of net neutrality. They can be bought.

It's bad for business to sue your customers.

Why all the Fox News links all of a sudden? Did Fox News buy Slashdot? I wouldn't bet a lot of money on the accuracy of this fine piece of journalism.

This might be good for splitting wood, but there are a lot more uses for an axe. This axe wouldn't work well for most other uses.

Fox News hysteria, now available on slashdot!
Starfish prime is interesting, though.

They should ban electricity in science fair projects. Electricity is highly dangerous. People die from electrocution every year, some of whom are not even enjoying capital punishment.

I hate to break it to you, but there was much more police and political abuse in the U.S. 40 years ago. There was just no efficient internet or cell phone communications that we have today. Most misdeeds in the 1960's and 1970's were largely unknown beyond a few dozen people. Things have improved immensely. Most police and even a few politicians are honest today.

Why not upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7?

In about 250 BC, the Greek mathematician Archimedes figured out that you could inscribe and circumscribe polygons on a circle, calculate the length of the polygon, and get an upper and lower bound of pi. He was accurate to 1/1000.

... in exchange for how many billion dollars in profit?

It takes more energy to make hydrocarbons from water and CO2 than you get when you burn the hydrocarbons. It's the law. Without a LOT if energy input, you'll never create the fuel.

It's too slow!