"This libraries, holy damn. As a kid, my mom would take me to the library, and I'd get physical books. Was that convenient? Hell yes. I loved every minute of it, from the smell of the library to the heft of the book in my hands."

You mean the smell of mold spores and the billions of bacteria from previous readers, who not only took it to the toilet, but also licked their thumbs before turning every single page?

No thanks. I prefer illegally downloading a sterile copy.

http://popcorntime.se/ is dead already.

"So how does a 40 year old computer system get replaced and only doubles the number of flights capable of being tracked?"

VMS simulators are not that fast, after all only planes and trains and a few factories use it.

"sharing their disappointment over the newly discovered Apple flaw."

They also don't get hired by banks and other serious businesses, it ain't a 'bank flaw'.
It was just a bad idea to get a tattoo and now you pay for it.

Reality catches up. I had a nightmare once, where Microsoft Clippy and Bob were following me around.

"But there may be a solution to the disparity that is much simpler than targeted recruitment efforts"

The Bruce Jenner method?

Since nobody drinks tapwater anyway, it doesn't really matter.

" Its near-future design would also be able to avoid glare even when the high beam is in use, detecting up-coming vehicles and disabling the range of light that is directed at it."

Very near 'future' indeed. My 2 year old VW Golf has that feature. Benz has had it for years.

Unfortunately the AI has a tell, his hard-disk lights flash when he's bluffing.

"...technique called Subgraph Augmented Non-negative Tensor Factorization (SANTF)"

Obviously nobody speaks french there or they would have used a last word beginning with 'e' so that it spells SANTE which means 'health' in french.

"In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography"

Sure, for _convicted_ criminals, not those who commit suicide before any trial.

I'd like a search that actually searches exactly what I type and not what it thinks I might mean.

Including punctuation exactly as I type it instead of ignoring it.

Next thing they'll tell us that not all the tall people are good at basketball.

"What would happen if they scaled that same excavation technology down so that the tunnel was something like 2 meters in diamater for a miniature train..."

The word you're searching for is a 'mine'.

The last one to try to kill a pope was a Turk too.