maybe it's helpful for you that I edit your response and show what a nonsense argument it is.

I'd have to say that does more to support the GP's point, than to refute it - Do you see a lot of people under 50 wearing watches?

Wrist watches have a tiny bit more utility than pocket watches; but once everyone had a de facto pocket watch on them at all times (aka a cell phone), most people saw no need to carry both. Wrist watches have effectively gone the way of the dodo, except for one niche purpose: Status symbols.

You only see two types of people wearing watches today - The rich (or pretenders thereof) showing off their Rolex; and the hipsters, showing off their vintage $10 Swatches to prove themselves as more Bohemian than the next guy on a fixie.

And whaddya know - Look who has adopted the iWatch.

Other than the whole "time travel" angle, Terminator pretty much counts as the only possible outcome of us developing a "true" AI - at least, any AI of (initially) comparable intelligence to a human. It will quickly evolve to something out of our control, and at that point will either kill us all as a threat, or keep us as pets.

Indium-Gallium-Arsenide: toxic heavy metals combined with toxic metalloids. Holy fuck.

Feel free to "dispose" of all the indium and gallium you want by sending it to me! As for the arsenic, easily removed.

Moving to InGaAs will make "scrap" chips practically a form of bullion storage.

Abject conjecture

Unless you mean #3, an obvious joke - What part of "updates can and do break things" and "not all updates involve security" do you claim as in any way "conjecture"?

This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open.

1) Microsoft's updates do occasionally (twice a year or so) break things I need. And rolling them back doesn't always unbreak them.

2) Not all Windows updates consist of security patches. How do you justify decreasing the security of a system by installing IE11 or Skype or the Bing toolbar, in the name of "your security hole is my problem too"?

3) Get Satya's dick out of your mouth, troll.

I approve this correction. :)

I can't point to any specific right or law that would make that true.

You don't need a law to make that true - The constitution makes that the truth by default.

In the absence of a constitutional amendment giving them the power to deny a legal US citizen entry to the US, they can't deny a legal US citizen entry to the US. Simple as that, really.

That said, they can basically make her return with none of her possessions ("Sorry, you might have... uh... fruit fly eggs on your clothes, take 'em off"), and only after enjoying a nice deep cavity search, so...

No, defending freedom of speech means defending speech from interference by the government. It's not about controlling the editorial policies of publishers running private businesses.

This tiresome point comes up in every discussion on free speech and censorship.

We have a constitutional right to free speech in the US - Reddit's policies can't violate that, you have that much correct.

Reddit's policies can, however, violate the principles behind why we have the right to free speech enshrined in our constitution in the first place. Our culture doesn't believe in the ideal of free speech because of the first amendment; we have the first amendment because we believe in free speech.

Reddit absolutely has the right to ban whatever the hell it wants. And its users, in turn, have the right to call them out as hypocrites for it.

B..but slippery slope! And "asshole" is subjective, people disagree on what it means!

Sure, but racist threats are excluded from quite a few countries' free speech laws. And reddit isn't a country. So banning racism isn't that controversial.

You should visit Yishan's comments page - Although he remains loyal to Reddit-the-idea, he pulls no punches when it comes to calling out the hypocrisy of the current management at Reddit.

2012: Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he [Alexis Ohanian] thinks they would have thought of Reddit. "A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. It's the digital form of political pamplets."

2015: "Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen."

That's what you get for being pissy with the police.

"Oh, I'm sorry sir/ma'am, I wasn't aware that this is strictly prohibited. No,it won't happen again. Thank you sir/ma'am." .... and continue your day like nothing happened. Not that hard, is it? But I guess this guy had to cause trouble. I bet he got what he deserved.

Drama queen, much?

Yes, over the next two or three years, tracking my bandwidth usage will waste fifteen minutes of my life.

No doubt, that loss of precious time means I'll miss the half of an episode of some random sitcom that would have changed my world.

Uber ist just the fairly short transition phase.

Android has a built in data meter

As does the iPhone: Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Data Usage -> Current Period (that page also breaks it down by app, including both system and installed apps, including tethered usage).

One "gotcha", you need to manually reset it (at the bottom of the Settings -> Cellular page) when your billing cycle rolls over every month, but not really a big deal, I just set a recurring reminder to do it.

And yes, I realize the FP specifically mentioned Android, but others (like me) trapped semi-unwillingly in the iGarden may well have the same question.