You've just unwittingly given a great example of the good stuff scientific research does. The "it was an evolutionary leftover" was the dominant theory for a long time. Only relatively recently have researchers discovered that the appendix quite likely is an actively useful organ, storing healthy bacterial colonies to re-populate the gut after various disasters (illnesses).
The point is that science is quite able to change the theory as new evidence and models come into play. The religious method would be something like "god made appendices because he's god." Self-contained and complete, but totally useless (oh, wait, that's Microsoft, right? :-) )

Or just maybe the designer wanted to build a structure that would withstand a 100-year storm and 300 year's worth of general weather and usage. Just because (most USA) homes are built of stuff that'll fall apart in less than 50 years doesn't mean that's the right way to do things.

Methinks your aluminum foil cranial cover is fitted a bit too tight there.

I seem to recall, back in the original People's Court series, some defendant using that same line, and the judge was both incredulous and unimpressed (in the legal sense).

That's easy to pronounce, and since part of the intent of the encryption software is to present a disk with no evidence of there being an encrypted file, the 'invisibility' part may make sense to the nontechies.

I was going to suggest Data-B-Gone but that's probably trademarked by QVC :-)

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That didn't used to be the criteria. Back in the old days (you young punk...), nearly all the IgNobels were given for completely daft yet published works. Like the Japanese fella who claimed to find microscopic homuncula, or the folks who sold DNA-free fragrance in a double-helix bottle, or measuring people's brainwave patterns while they chewed different flavors of gum.

Nowadays it's all "wait, that actually makes sense after all!" What's the fun in that?

First of all, it wasn't "communism," it was Soviet expansionism. And the USSR wasn't even vaguely socialist, let alone communist.

That is,

What Would Ender Do?

(You can choose from either his mindset in "Game" or "Speaker")

IIRC, it's in "Red Storm Rising" (Tom Clancy) that a weapons system fails because its algorithm targets incoming missiles based on range, so when two birds have identical range, the algorithm went into a tight loop and never produced a firing solution.

This (and the present "First law" implementation) has nothing to do with morals and everything to do with understanding how to deal with corner cases.

But on the bright side, they won't know how long they lasted.

Standard answers apply here:

1) Yet
2) You're not everyone
3) Many policemen would far prefer that their gun not be useable if someone takes it away from them.

In fact, to many (not all) of the religious folk I know, that's exactly what atheism is. They can't even comprehend the possibility of just plain NOT believing in a nonexaminable paradigm.

I see what they did there.

Sorry.

Just wait until they create Photon-Nine. The entire universe will freeze! aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

As TNY would say, "Block that metaphor!"

And BTW, it's "Kool-Aid," you insensitive-to-trademarks clod.