In the computers that manage the wallets, not so much.

I think there is a classification for drugs that can only be administered in tightly-controlled, supervised settings.

Perhaps this drug should be classified this way, at least for the first year or two.

Media providers may start charging "ISP shipping and handling surcharges" to cover their actual costs (plus a "small" markup of course!) to customers of ISPs who insist on charging peering fees.

The alternative is to spread this cost across all customers (like most manufacturers do now), effectively having the customers who have ISPs with free peering subsidize the costs of those who don't.

Personally, I think "last-mile connectivity" and "wireless connectivity" should be billed on a per-unit-cost basis with some minimum monthly charge to cover "paperwork." ($X/GB for data, Y cents (or tenths of a cent) per minute per "classic" cell-phone call, Z cents (or tenths or hundredths of a a cent) per "classic" text, etc.) then allow multiple service providers (e.g. back-haul TCP/IP-data-providers, "classic" phone/text providers, specialized data providers like VoIP, latency-sensitive streaming service providers, etc.) to provide services up to the "neighborhood box" or the "provider-interface box closest to the cell tower" etc.

This way, if I wanted to get VoIP from Comcast, regular internet from Time Warner, and television services from AT&T, all over my local cell tower, I could. I'd pay basic connectivity-fees to the company that ran the tower and pay service-bills to the other companies. They wouldn't pay the tower owner anything, or if they did, it would be at a regulated fee designed to cover costs, not provide a profit to the tower owner. I'm the tower-owner's customer, not the data providers.

For nerds? Check. News? Not so much.

"The simple equations here make it easier to understand that improbable things really are not so improbable," [emphasis added]

Almost everyone who had birthday parties in school growing up knows SOME pair of kids with the same birthday. Anyone in America knows that "big lotteries" usually have at least a few winners a year. Helping people understand that such events happen isn't a big issue.

Helping them understand why they are expected to happen on the other hand....

As a Rube-Goldberg device, I'd like to see a Lego printer that assembled "Braille movable type" using "Letters" made of 2x3 legos with selected dots shaved off.

Call it the Legotenburg Press.

For arrest warrants and fugitive investigations for people whose underlying crimes that have a statute of limitations, the police should have to either drop the charges when the statute of limitations would have run out, some point before that date, start making continuous, real (not merely "pro-forma") efforts to find and arrest the person, or at a minimum go to court every few months explaining why they don't have enough information pursue the person.

In other words, if the police want you, they can't be allowed to just put your file into a computer and forget about it forever. At some point, they either have to keep spending some effort on your case or drop it.

For cases where the underlying crime has no statute of limitations, like murder, this would not apply.

In most U.S. states, theft of a DVD is going to be a misdemeanor and in some states its a fine-only offense if the value of the DVD is very low. The statutes of limitations for such crimes are typically 7 years or less, depending on the state. In some states they are 3 years or less.

... minus the "TV." Just look up. It's been in continuous production since well before you were born and barring divine intervention it's not expected to be cancelled any time soon.

We need to use optics that closely approximates the technology of the time. If we still have the ability to create the glass that Galileo created then we won't even need to approximate it, we'll have the real thing.

If that happens to be "modern" optics, that's fine, but insisting on using modern glass-production techniques is unnecessary.

Cows ... methane ... end of the world?

OMG, Eat mor chikin is a secret plot to poison the environment!

Perhaps its time to put certain applications, such as web browsers in their own "VM appliance" to isolate them from being spied on or misused by other apps.

In the meantime, get into the habit of using your browser's "privacy mode."

If games and other apps that don't "need" to work with your other applications can run in a VM without an unacceptable performance hit, consider putting them in such a box as well.

If your OS supports running apps in sandboxes/jails and your favorite games work well in such an environment, that may be easier than putting them in a full-blown VM.

If you are an independent contractor then you are obligated to live up to your contract.

If you are an hourly employee (in the USA at least) the answer is a definite "no" or your boss is going to get into trouble with the IRS.

If you are salaried (in the USA) then you are paid by the month/year and the definition of "your time" vs. "company time" is fuzzy enough to be meaningless. Is staying late at the office to fix a mistake you should have easily avoided as a point of professional pride/integrity a moral issue? Is going home to be with your family a moral issue? Is this one of those run of the mill bugs that is just "part of the cost of doing business"?

Are debunked/junk sciences like phrenology considered "science"? If so, maybe astrology can be called a science, but ONLY with a proper qualifier like "junk" or "debunked."

Science deals with what is at least theoretically testable.

Science can be wrong.

It might be the case that the universe began "In medias res" 5 minutes ago or 5000 years ago or 10 (not 13+) billion years ago. These are all theories of how the universe works, and any one of them might actually be correct. But they aren't testable, and therefore have no place in "science."

Such a theory is also not useful, in that it doesn't tell us anything of practical value. At least the Bible's creation story (and other religious creation stories) provide practical utility: If they are correct, they show us that 1) we are not alone in the universe, 2) we are created beings, 3) animals, plants, and the Earth (and sky and sea) are created by the same Creator. The "In medias res" theory doesn't even provide that much. If it happens that the universe is 5 minutes old, "so what."

Most of the various flavors of biological evolution of life on Earth and the smaller-scale theories that follow from it are at least in principle testable without time-travel, but only if we "get lucky" and the evidence is not lost forever. Some, such as a theory that such-and-such long-extinct animal evolved from another long-extinct animal, may prove to be un-testable if we don't find proof by the time the sun engulfs the planet Earth. When that happens, that theory will no longer have a place in Science either.

The pass/fail line should be based on whether they sufficiently mastered the material, not on how well other students did.

If by some fluke everyone sufficiently masters the material, everyone should get a passing grade. If nobody does, nobody should.