There are a number of species of small fish that feed on the larvae. Stoking the ponds with these is a well-known method of controlling mosquitoes that's been used for decades. If they're not already being used in your area, it may be that they're not adapted to your climate.

...quake-free Texas...

Everyplace is earthquake country if you wait long enough. Deal with it.

I can remember people saying the same thing 20 years ago and it hasn't happened. And, I expect to be making the same kind of comment 20 years from now as well.

My understanding is that once he came to power, many Germans bought a copy because it looked good to have it on display. Very few of them, however, managed to read all of it.

"I'm not stupid enough to have done that" might raise enough reasonable doubt to get you acquitted in a criminal case, although the prosecutor would probably argue that it's just as reasonable to think that you might have done it simply because you didn't think that a jury would find you dumb enough to have tried it. Depending on how good your lawyer was, you might or might not get away with it.

However, as I pointed out in the text you quoted, this is a civil case, not a criminal one. Just making the jury think that you might be too clever to have used your own IP for something like this won't work; you have to make them think that somebody else probably did it. My guess as a non-lawyer is that about the only way you can get the jury to agree with you is if you could demonstrate that you were on vacation when the download occurred, and that it had to be somebody else. (Note that if you can do this, you don't, as has been stated elsewhere in this thread, need to be able to say who actually downloaded it.)

Remember, we're talking about civil suits here, where the burden of proof is "preponderance of evidence," not "beyond a reasonable doubt" as it is in a criminal proceeding. Even if you have an open WiFi hotspot, it's not enough to show that somebody else could have used it. In order to win with that defense, you'd have to show that somebody else probably did leach off your connection and download whatever it was. In this case, the judge ruled that the fact that the plaintiffs knew what physical location was using the IP address in question didn't give sufficient probable cause for a warrant. Without a warrant, they can't get any evidence to use in court, so this suit is probably dead in the water.

Not always. Aviation uses nautical miles, and 120 kilometers = 64.79+ nautical miles.

My thought exactly. If you're going to leak information about your company to a blogger, don't use either your company email account or an account with a service your company owns. Best, of course, is to find a way to get the data home and send it from there using an email address they neither know about nor have access to.

Why should I be productive? I'm retired, you clod!

And what do the drivers communicate with? The firmware.

Well yes, of course. However, drivers tend to be OS specific, and can be reloaded fairly easily if infected. TFA is talking about getting malware into the firmware, which has to be OS agnostic and is somewhat harder to disinfect.

No, what you're thinking of is drivers. Firmware is held in non-volatile memory and executed there so that it's ready to be used the moment the device is turned on, and so that it can't easily be modified.

I can remember when there was a jumper on the motherboard that had to be shifted before it was possible to flash the firmware. If all motherboards had that, the only way an attacker could get malware into the BIOS (or whatever other firmware they wanted to target) would be by tricking the user into changing the jumper. Not only that, many of the users who'd be foolish enough to fall for that kind of trick wouldn't have the confidence to open up their box and play with the hardware. Not all, of course, but then, no security measure is 100% effective.

I presume that the Alibaba Group has forty directors running it, and that every single one of them has "sticky fingers."

You might want to follow that link and see what I was suggesting. It's probably not what you think.

Depending on who's in control of the system, you might get your location sent to the OADS for "service."