Decay is caused by poorly written apps writing to the registry each time run. Windows treats it like a database with copies and forks and you have a recipe for disaster.

UAC controls and warnings if an app didn't install right fixes this

Like on a modern mobile device, sandbox your apps so they don't clutter the whole system and when they're erased, they're completely gone.

First of all, barely anybody lives in Saskatchewan. It has about 0.2% of the population of North America. If you plot a population density map of the continent, Saskatchewan is in the "unpopulated' part of the continent.

Second, I'm not claiming it never spikes or dips to those temperatures, just that nowhere inhabited actually stays in those range of temperatures for any significant length of time, except a few Siberian cities that exist for strange Soviet-related historical reasons. There is no month of the year in which the average temperature in Saskatoon is below 0 F. The coldest is December, which has an average temperature of 4 F (average high 14 F, average low -5 F).

Now Yakutsk, Russia, that's a cold city, which somehow has as many people as Saskatoon. Average temperature in December? -37 F (average high -31 F, average low -43 F). That is uninhabitable territory, but the USSR managed to inhabit it, go figure. However outside of Siberia, you don't find cities in such climates.

You may be forgetting the "genetically diverse" part of his statement. Is 100 women (and 100 men) diverse enough? Possible ugly side of this discussion: If someone was bent on ethnic cleansing, limiting who can travel to a new planet would have the same net effect.

Forget about sanitizing our spaceships - it proves very little. Spread life around the galaxy! It is our duty.

A rounding error from zero people live in such temperatures. Not even the inhabited parts of Norway have such a climate. Some parts of Siberia, basically, which were forcibly settled by the USSR.

It does vaguely fit North American weather patterns: 0-100 F is vaguely habitable, below 0 F is unlivably cold, above 100 F is unlivably hot.

* complex open source middleware

* for the cloud

A third option: run an extension cord to the neighbour's house and pay them a monthly rate, thereby evening out the connection cost across several neighbours.

Of course I could argue what kind of modern browser doesn't do ajax or webapps? Turning it off is like turning html off.

I use adblock and with malware blocking in addition to flashblock. Noscript reminded me of UAC in Vista when all the apps were XP compatible and required to constant beep for any task before developers started switching to services instead.

However, when scientists publish garbage, they can lose their credibility. You don't get a Nobel Prize for filling sheets of paper.

Same with news outlets - just look at Fox News.

My experience with doctor's offices has been that everything is kept on paper, and they fax things around if they need to transfer the data "electronically"...

$ python -c 'for x in range(3): print "One"; print "Liner!"'