SVG and WebGL with Javascript.

I care. The death of Flash will be celebrated by many. Once YouTube stops using it there will be no reason to even install it any more. No more annoying updates, no more vulnerabilities.

Agreed. I keep my precious rare earth magnets in a safety deposit box, wouldn't want anything to happen to them.

I thought this was a news site.

BluRay is hard to beat. The discs are durable and not worn by use. The drives are cheap and will almost certainly be available in 30+ years time (like you can still buy drives to read CDs), and the filesystem will be readable.

I don't speed but I also use it all the time to know when to slow down. I was recently doing 29 and a mobile trap claimed I was doing 35. Fortunately I have video camera evidence from the car to prove that I wasn't, but it means I have to go to court and argue it. The only way to safely avoid that is to do about 10 MPH under the limit around speed traps, even if it pisses off all the other drivers.

Ubisoft aren't as dumb as you think. They know that when they ban these keys most of the people who bought them will blame the vendor for selling them a dodgy copy. They know that when the next POS hype-fest is released those same people will flock to buy it, only they will be paying full price instead of using eBay or a discount website.

Not true. You should have heard the reactions when Snowden broke in the UK. There was a woman on a national TV debate programme who was upset that GCHQ had access to her Facebook profile which she had set to "private".

It's not that people don't care, it's that they don't understand. How many people still using Skype or Yahoo webcam chat with their girl/boyfriend do you think realize that that they they flashed something was recorded and reviewed by a GCHQ officer? When people realize this, when they realize that their "private" profile isn't really private and that it isn't just machines looking at their nude selfies, they care.

This threat is always made whenever new rules or regulations are talked about, but it's nonsense. People already try to keep their money out of the US to avoid paying any tax on it, and only bring it in when they have something to invest in. Since Silicon Valley is not going to move to another country any time soon, along with all the tech workers that make it what it is, the investment will still happen there. All new rules will do is prevent people hiding as much of their wealth off-shore.

Japan has stricter rules. Germany has stricter rules. They still get massive amounts of investment. Better investment in fact, because they don't have as many scam artists or as much anti-social investing going on.

The problem with boiling down a complex report to a single factoid is that you end up missing the point entirely. The problem is inequality, and even if you are in the top 10% you are still being held down by it. Equality is massive and increasing at all levels, from global to within each country to within most corporations.

Decreasing inequality means you get richer, even if you are in the top 1% globally. As you point out, it isn't a particularly exclusive club, and people at the lower end tend not to be doing so well anyway. $800k... well, in the UK that means you own a house in the south east somewhere, not that you are well paid or living a comfortable life.

It's not 150 smartphones a year, it's 150 distinct models. Often the only difference between models is the default language, or some minor variation in the case (far eastern models usually have a place to attach a strap, western models don't but otherwise the hardware is identical). Often it's just a different modem driver to support different regions LTE, that kind of thing. The core software is the same, and sure enough when they do release updates they tend to be for all models in a family at once.