except that Italy uses a system of Roman law, not common law, where precedent judgments do not make law. If you think you have a case against Apple you can move to Italy, buy a Mac, try to get a refund for OSX and eventually bring the case to court. What will be decided , after two levels of judgment and one of appeal, will not depend on precedents but on the law, the interpretation of the law given by the judge, the large discretionary powers that he has and other circumstances.

It is sure that the NSA has at its disposable a ridiculous amount of computing power, but it is equally evident that they cannot only use it once at a time. I.e. they may well have a billion CPUs, if it takes one billion hours to crack a disk they can only crack a disk an hour. Also, even the best parallel cracking scheme is going to scale less than perfect on a massive parallel setup, let alone a cheap cloud infrastructure.

I don't agree on this. On a Linux box, if you used separate partition, it's as easy as save down a list of installed rpms (or deb), reinstall os, reinstall list of rpm. On OEM windows installation you normally only have a recovery partition that can only do automatic repair (that never works) or destroy everything and restore to the factory state.

I'm not talking about restoring the factory state, I'm talking about restoring your PC to a working state, with all your software and data as before but not fucked up

It will most likely take around 7 years and a child, then you won't be able to run BF4 on Linux nor on Windows because of lack of time.

You are right to some extent: There is a tradeoff. A strict sandboxing will prevent many useful features; a lax sandboxing will not be completely effective

Yet, even a lax sandboxing can be extremely useful. In an Android phone it is relatively easy to keep track of which apps are using a lot of battery, and you can uninstall them from the same screen, this is possible thanks to sandboxing keeping track of where every system call is coming from. If you decide to give up and restart from scratch, it only take 5 minutes to erase all user data, and you have a reborn phone; eventually add 15 minutes to copy your pictures back, if you really want to. Compare this to the afternoon of cursing it takes to reinstall windows and all the programs, redo all the updates, restore the backup. find out that some stuff was not backed up because it as stored in hidden directories scattered around.

I'm pretty sure the video author is not aware of it, but that's actually a limitation of physics, not of laser technology. The fact that you cannot focus a laser at long distances is related caused by momentum-position duality in quantum physics: Laser is basically a bunch of photons going all in the same direction, with the same color and coherent phases; technically with the same wavevector. However quantum physics dictates that there is going to be a certain spread, uncertainty, in the wavevector of each photon. This uncertainty is inversely proportional to the size of the chamber where the laser was initially pumped, namely the size of the laser gun.

It is really quite similar to projectile weapons: The longer the barrel, the more accurate the shot.

So easy, that it took you 3 hours to find out

They're not random people on the internet, hence they may be wrong

They only sell a few modem without operating systems, i.e. no laptops in europe.