Maybe it would have been good to give at least a brief description of the game itself?

From a philosophical or pure cause and effect approach, sure, the makers of an app have some responsibility for the effect it has on people and what they do as a result. From a legal/liability standpoint, generally not.

The article writer is just saying to keep in mind that how your app behaves, how it looks, how it presents data, can have a real effect on its users, so you should consider the implications of your decisions.

All the restaurants are full of mothers and their children on Mother's Day. I'll be taking her out next Saturday.

With the decline of civility, asking a woman out and being rejected is no longer, "I'm sorry. I appreciate you asking but I'm just not interested" to, "Fucking loser! Why would you talk to me? Get the fuck out of here."

It is?

Just create a script on a computer somewhere that has it every so often send an update consisting of '[date] Still dead.'

Yeah, it's the easiest thing in the world to come up with an encryption scheme that you can't break.

95% of climate models 'have been found to be in error'. Of course, if he's defining being in error as having any sort of mistake in the model, it's not only true but 5% low.

No. Please also list the ones you don't know about.

What I want to know is where in the world the word 'city' came from in the article's title. There's nothing anywhere close to a city mentioned in the article itself, with the goal of the challenge being to 'establish a technically achievable, economically sustainable human living space'. I don't know about anyone else, but to me, that sounds like an outpost rather than anything like a city.

Well, if they do things in a way that makes sense, they could be accused of doing them scientifically, and that would be a clear conflict of interest.

It has to be explicitly illegal if we want there to be even the possibility of punishment if there's ever enough evidence that a company has been systematically rejecting people on the basis of age.

From another article:

He is currently facing a Class 1 misdemeanor charge of harassment by computer, which carries with it up to 12 months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.

I'm kind of surprised they aren't threatening him with much harsher penalties. Not that I think they should. I'm just surprised they aren't.

They were probably dreaming about what an impact it would have when they showed everyone they could do it in Texas.

"Worst happy hour ever."

Is this a sore subject for you? Who said these things aren't meaningful; if anything, the idea seems to be that the societal significance of these things should be emphasized to make the subjects more interesting to women. Don't you think we can convey it better than this exciting description of Civil Engineering:

A program that generally prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of structural, load-bearing, material moving, transportation, water resource, and material control systems; and environmental safety measures.

It's not about putting down the existing programs. It's about better presenting their true significance.