If you're a famous movie star? Yeah, that might not be a bad idea. Or maybe get some extra security, the way pretty much all of them already do.

Uploading naked pictures of yourself to the cloud is dumb even if you're a fat and ugly nobody. It's completely idiotic when you're a celebrity who already has paparazi constantly trying to snap a nip-slip or crotch-shot.

It's not mayo, but it's also not her. Just because you got a whackload of pics all at once doesn't mean they're all legit. It's been pretty much conclusively shown that the "facial" pics are of some other chick, and were being circulated well before the fappening.

However many of the uses convert electric energy to things like formulation of chemical bonds that require energy for creation.

By definition bond formation doesn't require energy but releases it, since "bond" is something that requires energy to break and energy must be conserved. It's setting up the preconditions for bond formation that requires energy, possibly less than is released when the bond forms.

At one point when I was a system administrator and we only required 6-digit passwords changed every 90 days,

Why did you? Require the password to be changed periodically, I mean? The only thing it seems to accomplish is make sure the users will either pick weak passwords or resort to post-it notes.

They list all the things they don't like and arbitrarily assign some value to it and claim it as a cost.

If you have to make shit up in order to justify your cost benefit, there must be no real benefit.

I think you're confusing the US with China, the latter of which did increase its defense budget by 12% (and has for about the last 12 years), and is on track to exceed US defense spending by 2020-2025.

You opened the PDF but you clearly didn't read a single word of it.

Stop looking at the pictures. Its not a porn magazine.

Remove 'and not a hobo by choice,' and the last sentence becomes more true. Why exclude a group of completely daft people?

Have you ever lived/worked near a rail yard? 'Hobos' are violent criminal scumbags. The only thing good about them is what they do to college hipsters who red 'on the road' one time too many.

Much more cost effective ways to give someone cancer. CIA would do it the old fashioned way.

I was willing to accept your assertion that it's good now. But 'it's been good for ten years'. Bullshit on you!

How long does it take to 'forgive' a company that distributes almost ransomeware software that requires an OS pave-over to get rid of? Impossible to set in years. 100% management turnover is a prerequisite. Vendors can ether be trusted or they can't, those can't.

Remember the dual with the third party uninstallers? Norton and McAfee both kept finding new places to hide, kind of like a virus.

Especially when there are better free alternatives that have a decades long record of trustworthiness. No benchmark will make up the 'track record of trust' difference.

Face facts, (Norton/Whatever they renamed McAfee to) make their money from people too stupid to remove the crapware that comes preinstalled on their discount PC. When software companies have to pay vendors to put their crap on new PCs, that's a sure mark of quality.

Not trusting and paying known bastards is rational. Not going to put any Sony factory made disks into any PC anytime soon. Even with the best antivirus and autorun disabled. Once someone is known to 'go there' you can never trust them again. A tiger cannot change it's stripes. Never give scorpions rides.

Do you work for them?

When I open my hood, there is nothing there to assure me its "working", other than a rotating fan, some noise, some heat and a big chunk of metal.
How could I know its working? It could be all batteries and speakers and butane lighters inside that chunk of metal.

Does the car move, well, lets see....

Step 1 Open door, get in car.
Step 2 insert key
(You can see where this is going)....

Nobody I know disassembles a motor in their new truck to make sure the goddamed thing runs.
Even for new an novel things like a Tesla, nobody I know insists the dealer take it appart and show them every winding and bolt.

Ultimately it comes down to "Do you really Care"? If your are a motor head, you probably do, but mostly as a point of interest.
But on the other hand, if you view it just as transportation, and it came with some kind of warranty and performed acceptably on the test drive, then for transportation purposes who cares if its 40'000 well trained mice under the hood who eat gasoline and poop only tail pipe emissions, or electric motors or an internal combustion engine, or batteries and fans and speakers making throaty sounding roars.

Manufacturer said it would do THIS, and when I tried THIS it worked, or it didn't. And it worked for all the other people who bought it for many years, and none of them came around with stories about their mice escaping en mass and killing their cat.

I don't open my cell phones either. Not on purpose anyway.

3.995 million of them are currently collecting dust in the desk drawers of neckbeards.

Leaving 5,000 of them doing something interesting and useful - and probably something that couldn't be done affordably with a brain that cost $800 or more.

If the computer costs just chump change, who CARES if most of them end up gathering dust? The cost of that is trivial, which the benefit of those that DO get used is substantial.

It's like pencil sharpeners (back before cheap automatic pencils): They spend almost all of their time idle. But they're so cheap that it makes more financial sense to have one in every office than to have one for the company and a department scheduling its time-sharing.

(That analogy was acutally used, to get executives to rent a clue, during the transition from central timesharing systems to ubiquitus desktop machines. When a computer costs several million and needs a clean room and dedicated hierarchy, it makes sense to have one and spend a lot of effort rationing it out. When one costs a thousand bucks it's far cheaper to put them on every desk and leave most of them horribly under-utilized. Such a price drop creates a qualitative change to resource allocation strategies.)

I'm using BeagleBone Black. Not wedded to it - it was just handy. Any of several others would have worked, but this was available and had the right stuff available, too.

$55, half a gig of RAM, four gig of flash filesystem (plus a socket for adding more).

Runs Linux (and several other OSes with ARM support.). Comes stock with Agngstrom but I installed a port of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and an upgrade to the corresponding kernel version. (The stock Ubuntu port to BBB uses an older kernel, but there's another project that ports later kernels as drop-in replacements.)

The kind of capabilities you are looking for are out there.