"Created for a reason" is a very complex explanation for Earth's origin: because you have to explain the creation of the creator(s).

I have never confused a Samsung product with an Apple product; only a true idiot (or a German judge - same thing) would.

Please! Graham's number is something a kitten would play with. I prefer to use TREE(3) in a power tower that's TREE(3) high.

It doesn't matter how trivial it is since MAC filtering adds no security at all and is a waste of time. A "long non-trivial password" is the only security measure you can take (or need to take) with WPA2.

That's why the smart companies get themselves a fancy European office and do deployments at 03:00 am Eastern with wide awake support engineers.

You're generally correct, but your example of differences of 10^-70 seconds is way off (yea, I know, you just pressed the zero key for 'some time'). These relativistic effects are at about 10^-14 seconds and anything below plank time (10^-44s) is meaningless in current physics.

Why can't you write 255::1? The argument (by the OP) about hex being easier to convert to binary than decimal is lame. It may be harder for his 11-year old sister...

Why can't your visitors also enter by boat?

That the Philippines, Palau, Canada and Micronesia are the USA's bitches? Of course, the only true date format is the blessed monotonic one: yyyyMMdd.

Each of your premises is almost perfectly wrong. Wonderful stuff!

But fiber optic transmits information better. And information is power...

Nobody will be interested in stealing fiber. Sounds like a win-win (except for AT&T's insurance company).

It's not ridiculous for this reason: the LCD screen has a much lower resolution than the either the sensor or your eye looking through an optical path. You can't focus accurately with current preview screens, yet this is trivial with any SLR viewfinder (since you're experienced, of course I'm talking matte screens here rather than split image).

Well, we are talking about Java after all (and surely not 1.0 which only has historical interest). Mutable locals are easily achieved by putting them in a collection - the collection reference is final and immutable but its contents aren't.

Nonsense. In Java just wrap it in a class. E.g (Let's call the class lambda and have it predefined with a single func method, say in a library):

List<Lambda> myListOfLambdas = new ArrayList<Lambda>();

public void letsMakeALambda(){
    final String localContext = "A proper closure sees the local context";
    myListOfLambdas.add(new Lambda(){public Object func(Object o){
        return localContext;
    }});
}

public void letsUseALambda()
    for(Lambda l: myListOfLambdas){
        System.out.println(l.func(null));
    }
}