Does that mean, nobody can distinguish him from a real human?

Can't be.
I just ran a dBASE III test with my first harddisk I ever got, a full height 20MB Seagate and memory always won.

Ignore, despise and loathe your fellow robots.

"For instance, during a meeting with an Oakland city council member, Ars was able to accurately guess the block where the council member lives after less than a minute of research using his license plate data"

Couldn't they just get the address from the same place they got his license plate data?

'Junk Science is us' is the motto of the TSA, so why so surprised?

"They are using a novel technique to achieve something unexpected"

Infrared data exchange is decades old. hardly a 'novel technique'.

But machines with microphones, cameras, wireless mice and keyboards are vulnerable, everything can be used, the nut before the keyboard included.

I'll wait for RenderWoman.

Hands up! And don't drop your phone!

"Agri is 60% of all water used in california, if you simply make it illegal for them to use freshwater but MUST use greywater and wastewater effluent then you solve the problem."

Using stuff containing human waste on crops has been discovered a no-no quite some time ago.

"See, I'm a gluten-free vegan and the alomonds and almond milk were one of the few things I could eat and drink."

Spoken like a true gluten-free vegan, they always tell us that fact with the 5th word they utter.

"I was actually thinking more of the hazards of the solar panels:"

There's a large switch on the outside of the building that the firemen can reach with a special staff.
Just like the neon-sign covered buildings.

"Their firefighters are going to love that."

A wet roof that will not gas out toxic fumes when burning? Sure!

"What if a business wants to have a pool on the roof? You know, for employee morale."

In France, when workers have low morale, they go on strike, 15 times a year or so.
It's their thing.
Also, _no_ business has a pool, roof or not, when the 7 hour workday is over, people go home.

"you will always need a backup power source just in case of extreme outage cases for solar and wind... nuclear?"

No, nuclear is out in the winter because the river is frozen and in summer it's because there's not enough cooling water in it.
Nukes got hit by climate change as well. During those times, France has to rely on the coastal reactors alone.

But the wind blows day and night.

Easy, just create a default boot partition with nothing on it and boot the encrypted bomb-making partition when you are in your hotel room.