Just as a driver's license can be annotated to show the driver needs glasses or cannot drive at night, perhaps they could create a category "allowed to use hands-free cell phone" & require a separate test for it.

Most modern displays also tend not to be able to show anything over 1920x1080 (or thereabouts, often much smaller), & yet we still use formats that support much larger images. Just as you can zoom, you can change the display exposure with an HDR image. I suspect the lack of support is more related to most cameras not producing HDR, while they do have resolutions higher than monitors.

My applied cryptography professor was fond of saying that biometrics are just a password you cannot change.

...unless you have a head-mounted display & a supply of webcams.

Would those be flying sharks?

If you could push data to it at 2GB/s continuously, 120PB would fill in about 1.9 years.

We actually had this problem on a class project trying to process brand names & part numbers from English text, where spaces are separators or not at the whim of the manufacturer. Compound words make English word demarcation not quite so clear-cut, but granted, still easier than Chinese or Japanese.

Well, you eventually get a black hole if you pack them into a 2- or 3-dimensional array (not to mention heat problems in 3D). & if you put them in a line you start having problems with the speed of light. So miniaturization is important even if funding is unlimited.

Quantum computers give a square-root speedup to search operations (of which bitcoin mining is one). So all that would happen is that the difficulty would be roughly squared once most miners had sufficiently large & fast quantum computers. Since the square of the difficulty is nowhere near the limit, it would still be safe for a long time.

But yes, the first person to do it (if they had a powerful enough quantum computer—not the one in the article) would probably get all the blocks for the next few difficulty adjustments (assuming no one else noticed & did the same) pretty quickly.

Since bitcoin accounts use public-key cryptography, they might not be safe in the long run, though (depending upon which variety they use, which I do not know off hand).

Switch it to vertical sub-pixel rendering (if your OS supports it, which I thought they all did).

Well, there are some silly places around here where the limit is 5 MPH...

Oops, I meant for that to be a reply to the next comment. Oh, well.

1 meter is the distance light travels in 1/299792458 seconds. Yes, that involves the speed of light, but the constant is based upon the previous standard (a meter rod) that was in turn based upon the size of the Earth.

Likewise, a second is based upon Cesium, but I forget the constant or exactly how it relates off hand. It was chosen to make it be very nearly 1/86400 of a day, of course.

Just because there are nice prefixes does not mean the base units are any less arbitrary.

Not too heavy if paid in antimatter (at current rates — if you made that much antimatter it would drop a lot).

Huh, I was taught there are 14 tenses in English. Perhaps you (or some past teacher of yours) did not include the past & present emphatic tenses ("did"/"do" + verb).