Seriously, spending the whole day in isolation and, except for a lucky few, away from natural light is depressing. Being able to holler a joke across the hallway or look at sunshine through a shared window makes all the difference. There are always noise cancelling headphones for when you need total concentration.

If good science would be still available after a decade (Opportunity) or many decades (Voyager), at least light components like flash and electronics in general should be designed with good degree of redundancy. Or else if the probe has a limited mission and has accomplished it, there is nothing wrong with abandoning it and focusing money and talent on new missions. Would engineers working on attempts to fix Opportunity be more useful working on newer Curiosity mission? My gut feeling is that making existing missions last longer is much more cost effective than launching new ones. But I am not a space scientist. The point is that mission planning should have clear focus one way or the other.

I wouldn't put this laptop on my lap after lithium batteries have been abused to such degree.

If you take a chance at making a cutting age product, technology or culture may not be ready for it. Or another company, even a startup, may take your idea and manage to make a much more successful product. But if you stick to your guns, you are 100% guaranteed to slowly fade to irrelevance. Would you rather your company end up like Yahoo or IBM in 30 years? The later at least had courage to go big on Linux even though it was in direct competition in its mainframe business. They achieved a measure of success there, even as other, more radical, research projects went nowhere. But if they were not at least exploring where the future is going, they would surely be goners by now.

Say, I further "encrypt" my https sessions using ROT13. If NSA is on to me specifically, they will have no problem figuring it out. But if they opportunistically monitor main internet pipes for vulnerable traffic, I should be safe. What if web browsers encrypted data with one of hundreds of algorithms independently developed by smart people worldwide *before* standard https? At least some of them will prove resistent to cryptanalysis and even vulnerable ones will consume some of NSA's computing power and employee time to crack.

Nope, just a simple option to not generate a year inreview. What exactly are you proposing? Requiring the other billion people to opt in?

We don't need our presidents to know how to code, or to be scientists. We do need them to appreciate that coding and science are important, listen to the experts and encourage general public to do the same. I'll take one line of Javascript over "I am not a scientist" excuses right away.

The year in review is just a summary of what you yourself have posted. "Don't show me my own photos" seems like an unrealistic request for a mainstream service. I think the most that can be done is have a preference that people can check if they don't want their year in review. Facebook has plenty of ethical flaws, but this is not one of them.

In the end, this is what will get people to switch to e-books, like MP3 locker services were needed for people with big personal collections to switch to cloud streaming. Publishers should jump on this, because e-books offer drastically lower distribution costs and many more opportunities for impulse purchases.

Of Apple and major movie theaters. Don't watch this movie if it does not appeal to you, but know where to spend your money in future.

Or at least your company can. Any network is vulnerable in the sense of someone wondering around campus and finding an an unlocked PC, but what you can do from there varies tremendously. Ideally, the company itself doesn't have employees' SSNs or banking information anywhere on it's network. Rather, this is handled by a payroll vendor that specializes in handling just that task securely and nothing else. Now you have a much smaller and constantly audited target to hit. Likewise, highly sensitive projects can be siloed in a way that most employees or intranet can not access them any easier than a random outsider.

Every web connection needs to be HTTPs, to keep random people from snooping on which URLs you visit. Problems only multiply with every cookie that discloses information or correlation between different requests.

You can install a custom root certificate on your client and have your proxy work as usual.

Like not enough drinking water for everyone? This not at all what is happening. It's unsustainable agriculture, excessive urban landscaping and lastly, perhaps a need to adjust some social norms. People didn't take daily showers through most of human history.

5. Distribute proceeds equally to every resident.

This is morally sound, as natural resources belong to everyone. It also turns what would otherwise be a disproportional burden on poor people into an opportunity. Now if you figure out how to be especially thrifty in regards to water use, you can end up with net positive income and use it to improve your life.

I see what you did here!