Yep, that's called a browser. Arbitrary code is exactly what a webpage or video is. This is the exact reason driveby malware via ad networks still happens. If you have ISP level access and can inject malicious code in unencrypted pages, you win. The solution to this, from a web hosts view, is to encrypt everything.

They can question all they want, but if they want to disprove it, they'll have to provide some evidence to counteract the evidence that's already there.

No, you used the term "slippery slope" correctly. The very premise of your slope is flawed. As a society, we've had mind altering drugs that directly stimulate our reward centers for as long as we've been a society. Nearly everyone takes some kind, but we still have an incredibly small percentage of people looking to use the harder stuff (antidepressants, ADHD drugs, street drugs). Given this history, it seems highly unlikely that we're heading toward a future of "mechanized work/play" any time soon.

You know typical ADHD drugs would actually make neurotypical children worse, right? ADHD drugs tend to be stimulants, care to guess what that would do to normal children? Give a five year old some coffee and find out. It's a far cry from "drug them into zimbified submission."

ADHD meds are no more a slippery slope than Antidepressants before them. And they were no more a slippery slope than the Tobacco/Pot/Alcohol/Coffee before them. Arguments like yours are why Slippery Slope is considered a logical fallacy.

Nice try. Not quite right though. It's more like:
1. We observer some people having concentration issues across the board.
2. We hypothesize disorder X with prediction Y
3. We run brain scans and find out prediction Y is right
4. We hypothesize that stimulants may work differently on these people
5. We run tests and find out that stimulants work differently on these people
6. We conclude disorder X exists and stimulants can treat it

So, back to scientific method 101 for you.

Hardly an invented condition when people with ADHD respond to stimulants differently from others.

Good work, but you forgot to add a sentence railing against the feminists. Not quite a perfect troll.

Probably, you won't even see NAT go away as ISPs are still going to want to charge for each IP they give. I have a feeling, at least on the residential side, that things will stay exactly as they are, just with an IPv6 address instead of IPv4.

It's not toxic. It's stupid. In a generation, if it's still around, it'll sound less stupid. If it's still around after that, it'll just be a normal part of the language.

Most important things, like water heaters (and cars), need to be robust enough to function without internet, else they'd have lawsuits on their hands. You could, I don't know, not connect it to the internet.

Anything is economical if people are willing to buy it for more than it costs to make. There are already internet connected fridges and dog collars and cars, what they make internet connected next is only a matter of what people are willing to buy? Internet connected toilet paper? I bet you can get some health nuts on the bandwagon. Idiotic seeming gadgets will be internet connected, and there's nothing you can do about it. The biggest question is, are we going to pay attention to security now, or wait until it's too late? Also, he said "internet of things" because that's the idiotic term the industry/media has chosen for this particular fad. He could use something different, but everyone already knows what it means, so, why bother? That's how language works. Deal with it.

Why does somebody always have to trot this out? IPV6 does not mean no need for firewalls. It means no need for NAT. These are not the same thing. Please, please stop spewing this crap.

Congratulations, you just describe the typical news organization.

It's so you can run your AMD SSD with your AMD RAM brought together by your AMD CPU and your AMD graphics card inside your AMD case. Now all they need is an AMD motherboard and an AMD power supply and you'll be able to build a computer with nothing but AMD.