Considering that a major selling point for the iPad Air is that it's slightly thinner, I wouldn't put it past them to add gift-wrapping as a standard feature on their products.

"I've only got a 12 volt battery, captain! I don't have the power!"

Good plan. It's not like it will find any updates after EOL, anyway.

Out of curiosity, is it a crime to refuse to give a password, or a crime to refuse to give the correct password?

Not that obvious to me. I imagined that it would be quite simple to have a microcontroller that takes a reading from a GPS module, runs a small calculation on the radius around a specific coordinate, and reacts accordingly.

Must make moving problematic.

Not to mention that I've yet to encounter a clock that compensates for the amount of time it takes for light to travel from the clock face to my eyes, as well as the time it takes for my brain to process that information.

When watching science fiction made a few decades ago, one thing that bothered me was that the technology had a lot of fancy LEDs/bulbs that flashed but apparently did nothing else.

See any console on the original Star Trek, or Al's handheld during the first season of Quantum Leap.

But now it makes total sense. They were notification LEDs! Notifying about EVERYTHING!

Maybe Thor recalibrated it when Nick Fury sent Asgard the repair bill.

The minions had minions?
Sounds like a tough career ladder.

An astronaut moves through space.
An aquanaut moves through water.
So does a robonaut... move through robots?

Must be a side effect from using the Bifrost.
Should have posted a sign: "Bifrost travel may be hazardous to your health."

Well, if the Asgard are essentially the masters of the Nine Realms (aka universe), and Thor was going to be made king... then the theme would have fit quite well.

Why stop there? Why not just get rid of the lights? While we're at it, why not just get rid of all intersections everywhere and make the road a large, continuous loop? After all, if there are no intersections, then nobody can stop at an intersection to get rear-ended.

It's legally 100% the following car's fault when rear-ending a vehicle, here in NSW Australia, anyway. The reasoning? If there is an intersection and you crash into the car in front, then you were supposed to have seen the car in front and had plenty of time and space to slow down. The driver is likely focusing on the lights and the intersection, making sure that it's safe and permissable to proceed, instead of looking in their mirrors. If you're driving along and you crash into the car in front, even if they braked suddenly, then it's still your fault because you were tail-gating, which is also illegal.

As an example to compare against, I chose a major bank in my country (Australia's Commonwealth Bank), and looked around their website. There is a page called 'Security', and the first thing I spot on that page is the statement: "100% Security Guarantee: With NetBank, the safety of your money is 100% guaranteed."

Putting aside the fact that the SAFETY of something is not necessarily the same as the SECURITY of something, what does this news mean to a banking customer? Does the bank have the obligation, under the advertised "100% Security Guarantee" to find and implement methods that hinder NSA/GCHQ access?

And this doesn't affect just Commonwealth Bank (I just chose it as an example). One of the main points of putting money in a bank is that it's SECURE. If a government agency (from another country, even) has the ability to reach into my bank account and make my money disappear in a virtual puff of smoke, then how is the account any more secure than, for example, hiding cash under a mattress?