About the shutting down traffic being rare in Europe, I beg to differ: it happens quite regularly here in Milan (basically we live in a natural cul-de-sac that accumulater pollutants.

Even better, the coordinates should be encrypted on Kryptos. Now THAT would be meta.

That depends on how persistent the missle's smoke trail is.

Neurotoxin will settle this.

We clearly need to create a Drone Patrol to guard our privacy!

Of course not, the same way Ayn Rand never used Public Health Care! *bald eagles*

Development cost and market price are not necessarily connected (see Android) and Apple is free to distribute R&D money among its divisions as it pleases her. Being the manufacturer of both hardware and software, it can freely claim that the market price for OSX is 0, but then restrict its licence to force installation only on Apple hardware. Plus, you're free to install whatever OS pleases you on Apple hardware.

If, say, HP or Dell claimed that Windows cost is 0, then they would have to demonstrate that they got it for free from Microsoft, which they didn't. The meaning of this ruling is that a contract with one party cannot force you into a contract with a third party.

This only applies when hardware and software come from different parties.

I wonder about Android smartphones...

I shamefully admit clicking on it at least 10 times and cursing at my browser before realising.

Hardware backdoors. See Huawei.

Not when it comes to encryption.

Hopefully better than the EU's economic predictions...

Are you seriously using Egypt, Nigeria, China and Thailand as a human rights comparison?

It would do nothing to curb criminality, it's just another excuse to privatize the circulation of money. Want a cash-free economy? Fine, give me my free State debit card.

Rich people, and a mass of immigrant semi-slave workers that built all of those slightly overcompensating skyscrapers...