I imagine that it's to give parents and licensed teachers the exclusive right to educate children about sex, under the assumption that they'll be more responsible at preventing STDs and pregnancy among teens who cannot yet afford to raise an infant than some for-profit company exploiting the public's prurient interest.

When, on what search engine, and from what country? I did a search today on Google from the United States, and the top 10 results were about Gehrig's: ALS Association (3 results), the US National Institutes of Health, Wikipedia, Mayo Clinic, Discover magazine, The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, ALS Therapy Development Foundation, and the ALS Association Greater New York. News results included ESPN and FOX News, both about Gehrig's. Seven of eight "Searches related to als" were also related to Gehrig's, with the exception being Al's Auto.

It claims it thinks... Experience tells us that this is false. What symmetry? "Any technology that could neutralize all weapons would be most welcome."?

As the AC correctly stated, "We were punching people in the face long before we ever hit them with a stick or throw a rock at them. We will still be punching people in the face long after all the lasers, nukes, mines, grenades, and bullets are gone."

Again, you're blithering, the only way to stop humankind from using aggression is to kill us all off.

Mozilla is whining anyway; when they switched search providers from Google to Yahoo I had to go through and specify it on EVERY INSTANCE of Firefox I have. Since I use --no-remote and segment my web browsing this was actually a royal pain in the ass. Granted, Google was the old "default," so I had never changed it, but it was still an undesired change in behavior. If they're going to whine about Microsoft doing the same thing then they ought to look at their own behavior.

Firefox is still my browser of choice for personal use but for others I've started to recommend Chrome. It's just less hassle to support it for your luser friends. The future of Firefox and Mozilla is not an encouraging one, which is a pity.

But it isn't unnecessary light pollution. If the council have removed the street lighting then your neighbour has reasonable grounds for installing suitable lighting of their own for security, safety and access purposes.

Councils can make whatever argument they want to justify removing lighting for which they are responsible, and all they really have to fear is the next election. However, taking some sort of enforcement action against someone else would be much harder. They'd have to provide actual evidence and cite actual rules instead of just making policy to match their current political goals. Moreover, taking formal legal action in a case like this but then losing because someone beat their argument about lighting in court would be very embarrassing for them, so it seems unlikely that most local councils would really stick their neck out in this way.

In reality, you'd probably be better off just getting a sleep mask and/or thicker curtains if the external light is causing that much of a problem in your particular case.

Fallacy of relative privation.

Xbox probably lacks the metered connection control because Xbox is designed to operate with wired Internet. Not only are the most commonly metered connections (cellular and satellite) unsuitable for bulk downloads, but they're also unsuitable for Xbox Live online gaming. Windows 8 and later have it because Windows is designed to operate with either a wired or wireless last mile.

Sorry, but I completely disagree.

Just for background, I live in one of the most cycling-friendly cities in the UK, with half a dozen bike shops within easy reach of my home. Everyone in my household cycles, with decades of combined experience. We all have some of the most powerful lights you can buy from those shops on our bikes, often in multiples, and none of the flashing LED stuff for primary lighting. Obviously this is significantly more than a lot of people cycle with (or than the law requires for that matter).

You might have thought you had adequate visibility on your dark country roads, but in reality you certainly had blind spots all over the place. On a mostly empty and level road, with a bit of natural lighting from the moon and stars, you'll get away with that up to a point. But on a poorly maintained city street covered in potholes, debris, painted-on road markings, irregular kerbs and so on, you won't.

Let me guess: You played mostly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game for NES. Most other games had UUDDLRLRBA.

On Compact Cassette decks with mechanical controls, the pause button actually lifts the pinch roller from the tape. The motors have inertia to ensure constant tape speed, more than the tape reels, and stopping the tape by lifting the pinch roller reacts faster than by lifting the motor.

That's why, when I (soon!) become a genocidal conqueror, I will be asking people for their voting records before I line them up against the wall.

Curses! WTF is this "secret ballot" my advisors are bringing up? *sigh* There goes my invasion plan. (If I can't have the executions, then I don't see why to bother.)

IF it was cheaper (or even close) to manufacture than NAND, then they ought to forgo profits and gain Marketshare and put the NAND business out. They would make more money in the long run. This is unique process, nobody else has, Marketshare means long term (this is electronics, which means 7 years max) profitability.

I can see charging a premium for early (beta) testers, and as they iron out the bugs (there will be a bunch) but as they ramp up production, the cost WILL come down, quickly.

If I were in the market for faster more durable short range data storage, I would be a heavy better and get in on early adoption, just so I can see what it can do and how useful it could be.

And let's also hope that nobody ever actually commits rape and gets caught and convicted.

Censorship is always a two-edged sword. I have never heard of any form of censorship where you couldn't rightly cite some examples where it's a good idea, but freedom-lovers can play the examples game too.

Loose lips sink ships, but the king is taxing us unfairly. Which side are you on?

I've been saying this for a long time. There is a definitive hierarchy between all the different memory locations. Unfortunately we don't have an OS that looks at all these levels as one. We have abstarcted all the CPU Cache, RAM, NAND, Spinning disk, clout etc as separate levels, rather than a single level with varying degrees of capability.

When we have an OS that can view all the levels as one, intelligently, we'll have a much more efficient OS. It might take a whole new design from the hardware up to accomplish.

FTFY

Once the production scales, the price will drop, and we have no idea how much. At some point, the price will become low enough for "mainstream" consumer products. In the meantime, expect to see this sitting in front of NAND and Spinning Disks on very large SANS as high end CACHE.