They can't figure out how to allocate bandwidth to prevent starving out the critical users of their network and they want to run their own ISP?

Not at all. You asked the question "How many movies do you have to download to make the economics work?" (Note that you are the one that said "economics" not morals) and I was pointing out that it is completely dependent upon the individual situation. Not only that, but there may be other than economic factors that drive people to do this. I didn't say anywhere that it was morally or legally justified.

You don't know why each person does it.

Is it financial? How many people are going to watch it? How many times? Do they have time to actually go when the prices are cheaper? Do they already have the computer and high speed internet for some other reason so the delta cost is just time? Or is there some other reason that makes it difficult to go to the theater? Do they have kids that are of an age where they can't behave for two hours and you have difficulty finding babysitters, for example? Do they just hate being around people?

If data were only provided to doctors and legitimate research institutions I would be fine. Google would never do that as there would not be enough money in it. If the data is going to be sold to the insurance industry, then no, I'm not fine. If the data is going to be sent to the government (CDC, HHS) without being aggregated and having personally identifying information removed, then no, I'm not fine.

The difference is that a locked file cabinet is trivial to circumvent without the cooperation of the key or combination holder. Once they had the warrant the police wouldn't bother with the courts, they would hire a locksmith or some other such expert to break open the cabinet or safe. Apparently the encryption on the hard drive in this case is much more difficult if not impossible for anyone at the state level to break it within a reasonable time period. So to avoid waiting 5 years and spending lots of $ on super computer time, they went to a judge to see if the threat of jail would shortcut the process.

Oblig: http://xkcd.com/538/

Does anyone else find that 94% figure for professionals working more than 50 hours a week rather high? I know it isn't anywhere near that where I work and we are relatively well paid.

Wow. You might want to slow down on the Kool-Aid. China is making a sea grab. Do they have a moral or legal right to control of that part of the ocean? It doesn't matter, they don't care and aren't interested in the debate because nobody is going to stop them. China is using the fact that the US has spent most of it's political capital over the last decade and even if it hadn't it would be in no position for any kind of trade war and neither is the rest of the world. They are going to gradually ramp up their presence until there is nothing that can be done short of embargo or actual military conflict, which aren't going to happen. I do give them credit for creating an artificial island. That is a bit of genius. They are able to stake a claim and nobody else can claim prior possession of the land.

I actually know someone who did just exactly this and I know someone else who became a pharmacist. So while this may not be common, it does happen.

How about "why is ~50% of the country not pursuing early primary education?" Seeing as a good early education is key to successful education later which is key to a strong economy and a health society, and half the population isn't interested in taking part in it, it seems like something that should be investigated. Particularly since boys are falling way behind in primary and secondary education in the last few decades.

How is that exactly? Everywhere I turn it's girls and STEM, women and STEM. There are school programs everywhere to get girls interested in STEM, universities are actively recruiting females to STEM majors, corporations are actively engaged in programs to encourage females to pursue STEM education and then actively recruiting them as employees.

Last time it was leakage would prevent us from breaking 65nm. Before that it was lithography wouldn't get us below 120nm. Something will happen like it always does.

True, at least where I work, although I wouldn't say it is "retardedly-high." In the Software Engineering ranks, females account for 17% of the total staff, however they account for 38% of 1st and 2nd line managers.

1st, you need to root the phone. 2nd, the easy way is to install a 3rd party permissions manager, there are a number of them in the Play Store. Once you root there are other things you can do like edit your hosts file so you can block some communication without blocking an app from the internet entirely.

The world I live in includes fine grained permission controls and even spoofing information so that apps don't crash. Yes, it requires extra work to set up, but I don't mind and even enjoy the tinkering. Yes, that isn't everyone, but I need most of you to stick with the stock business model to keep the ecosystem healthy anyway.

I think what Verizon is saying is that instead of Netflix paying Verizon for a direct link between the Verizon (tier 1) network and the Netflix servers, Netflix is using a different Tier 1 provider which probably has a peering agreement with Verizon and therefore Verizon isn't making any money off the supply side, only the consumer side, which just isn't good enough for them.