And let's not forget that even "e-diesel" is going to release chemical composites of some sort into the air, which means the whole city pollution issue is not solved with any of those alternative fuels. To me, that's one of the key advantages of moving away from internal combustion engines beyond global warming and sustainability. The only technologies so far which do not have this issue are hydrogen and electric.

Sorry, you're probably the one in a million exception in that case. There are many reasons Google+ failed, but that's most certainly not one of them.

You try lugging that desktop around in a bag and we'll see how that works out for you. Hint: laptops aren't desktops for a reason. Also, the M3800 sports Haswell CPUs (another hint! i7 indicates relative strength within a series, it's not the series itself), which were definitely not introduced 7 years ago. Better luck next time.

This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.

This is one of the few cases where I'll just go with "Yeah, throw her into jail for a solid 5-10 years, see how she likes the opulent lifestyle there."

That's funny because IQ is defined according to the population's statistical distribution of intelligence, so in doing so you would effectively cull half the population every generation. I don't think you'd survive very long either with a comment like this.

Yes, the notion of a stop sign is enshrined into law. This proposed law would do the same for vaccines. That's not what I call a difference.

Yep. And if you want your children to go to school, you agree to play by the rules that keep everyone safer.

Why yes, because herd immunity is still largely intact. This could change if the anti-vaxxer movement keeps going though, which is exactly why it's good to handle this now rather than later, when a new, larger outbreak happens.

Comparing the 147 who got infected to the entire population of the US is disingenuous and you know it. Might as well compare it to the population of the Earth for how little it matters. What matters is that a significant number of children were infected by a deadly disease. This time around, everyone was safe and nothing bad happened. How many times do you want to roll the wheel of fortune?

By that logic, SSL is also broken, and so is any form of encryption: if you have the key, you're shit out of luck. Thankfully, getting the key(s) is a lot more complicated than you make it sound.

You're severely misrepresenting things here: the notion of putting IT staff in control and removing privileges from users is a fundamental part of how corporate IT is supposed to work. Linux does the exact same thing in that context. You are using and working your employer's hardware: they, not you, get to decide how it's run and what happens on it. You're free to ask them about something, but you don't get to install your own shit because you wanted to. A dumb user installing a cat screensaver trojan doesn't risk losing their family photos, they risk exposing their entire company to a leak or a hack or whatever else.

You can directly trace the slow uptake of many consumer platforms in the corporate sector to how little support they have for central management.

I think the only potential weaknesses would be Java, Flash and browsers which now run a bunch of apps of their own. Java still only ever shows up as a single executable and is easily the biggest security risk in that context. Mind you, you might be able to get away with not having Java installed in a corporate environment, depending on your in-house platform of choice.

It's not questionable at all. When devs actually use in-game footage, they'll rub it in your face in every way possible. In-engine footage is marketing speak for "We wish we could do something like that, but right now it's running at 2 fps on SLI Titan Xs and all the animations are static".

To be fair, they did give one good justification for moving things to the GApps package: updates. They initially put everything in the OS and expected that manufacturers would, in good faith, keep their devices updated. As it turns out, manufacturers are complete shit at doing anything beyond pushing a device on market and dropping it like a hot turd six months later, and so thanks to them Android has been called "fragmented" and every new OS version takes years to see significant adoption. Their solution was to push as much stuff as possible into their GApps package, which is the only thing they control absolutely and which manufacturers cannot meddle with or delay. It's not the full OS, but a lot of key functionality gets ported over, allowing for instance to develop for 5.0 and still be able to backport to 4.x or even 2.x thanks to GApps providing a compatibility layer.

Because the plugin outputs a JPEG, thus completely eliminating the data that makes RAW attractive in the first place. You don't use RAW because it's cool or practical (it's not), you use it because it gives you more bits per pixel without any form of irreversible compression or as little as possible, depending on the camera. You use it because it lets you set the white balance in post. You use it because you have far more latitude in adjusting exposure, bringing up or down various parts of an image, etc. JPEG conversion completely eliminates all of that and shows that the developers don't really understand why you want RAW in the first place.

I just hope any connected device that can heat up requires manual intervention to turn on... I don't want to think about what'd happen if you could turn up the oven remotely.