" How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers?"

Simple, don't turn them on.

Since I was born in 1960 my high school computer lab was very interesting. We had cards with little ovals on them and a soft pencil. We wrote our Fortran or Basic program on paper in a notepad until we thought we had it right then copied each line to a card by shading in the appropriate oval with pencil. The cars were sent off to a nearby college which had a mainframe. The hand filled out cards were passed through a reader that generated punched cards. We got the cards back the next day and corrected errors by hand using a light blocking sticky tape to cover holes in the right place and a hand operated punch to make new holes. The punched cards were shipped off and read in to generate a printout of the program that was shipped back with the cards. We compared the printout with what we originally wrote and if it checked out the cards were shipped back and the program executed. We got back the cards and the result of the execution in the form of more line printer output. If there were no syntax errors and all went well it was the best part of a week between starting to write the code and getting the execution results back.

Nothing like a little instant gratification...

This is such an obvious idea that it isn't right that it should be patentable. There are only a few ways of slowing an orbiting object down so that it de-orbits. The way nature does it is by putting gas in the way, called the atmosphere.

And the orbiter's stare, though there was no air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

Yes you are missing something. If the sea water was of exactly the same density, which varies with salinity and temperature, and was dead calm, and the rock under the sea was a uniform density so gravity was the same everywhere then what you say is true. Also the sea bed rises and falls too. Just off the East coast shore, we have the Gulf Stream which is a flow of warm, and therefore less dense water moving North. Not only is it moving North but the East coast juts out and it has to flow around the coast. So, the sea level at Cape Hatteras (where the East coast juts out the most) is a complicated combination of the mean sea level, the mean gravitational pull at that point, the flow of the Gulf Stream and probably 1001 other things.

What the article is saying is that MEASUREMENTS show that the sea level there has risen three times more than the world average. If you subtract from that the known motion of the sea bed and various other known contributions to the rise you are left with something unusual that needs explaining. The best explanation that fits the facts is that the difference is due to the Gulf Stream. That is particularly worrying because any change in the Gulf Stream is a big deal.

The problem with TV advertising is that it's like firing a shotgun into a crowd. You know you're going to hit someone but whether it's the right someone is, literally, hit and miss. In the good old days (if they ever existed) the products advertised were relevant to a large fraction of the population and the hit to miss ratio was high. Now most of the advertising is for cars that I can't afford, investment banks (you have to have something to invest!), drugs with terrible side effects for diseases that I don't have etc etc. I'd have to view hours of advertising to see the one or two that are relevant to my lifestyle.

Ok, the cable companies make money from advertising, I get that, but forcing me to watch irrelevant advertising is a waste of everyone's time.

It's so miserable dark and cold for half the year that there's nothing else to do in Canada.

Sometimes I read a comment and think, I wish I'd written that!

Well done Sir.

One of my kids actually had this. He had been wearing jeans most of the winter and spring so we didn't see his legs until the outdoor pool opened in summer. He had this discoloured patch on one leg. We took him to the doctor who couldn't figure it out. Then we realized that was exactly the spot where he'd been putting his laptop for hours on end while playing WoW. Took him back to the doctor, who agreed that it was probably caused by heat and gave us some cream etc. Now he sits with a laptop cooler under the laptop and it hasn't happened since.