Wow, you kids with your high uids.

This kettle is calling your pot out. I'm a noob.

Intel is selling an awful lot of Atoms, for a processor who's market supposedly disappeared. FYI, they're embedded in all kinds of equipment.

Because of the architecture, you have to implement a timer using the processor's built in precision timer/counter. There's one there... You can get sub-microsecond control resolution if you implement it right. The risk is that if you're running a multitasking operating system your timer might get interrupted. Of course, another way to go is to have a secondary I/O processor handle the task and act as the interface -- this is very common when dealing with Intel processor platforms.

Too many kids show up with nothing, or nothing of any nutritional value, because the parent can't or won't prepare a lunch..

Then you risk having two copies...

Scan you, destroy the original, transmit scan data, reassemble you at the other end. That's the only way to be sure... and would explain all the "transporter accidents"

Yes, maybe they're all genetically modified self absorbed drug addicts... Eventually they'd get bored and come on over to see if we had better drugs here than they had; something they hadn't tried before. Or maybe they'd just get the munchies and come here looking for better snack food. Or get tired of us bringing down their high with all our fighting; and come by to tell us to "mellow out, man."

Yes, yes it is. The retina does the edge detection and detects changes in intensity. What the brain gets is not full streaming video.... It's more like lossy, high compression data. The brain fills in all the missing data as needed.

Of course I know where it comes from... It's extracted from natural gas as a byproduct and initially helium comes from alpha decay of radioactives, as you say. Producing it through radioactive decay, that's the slow way. Helium is produces in a number of fusion reactions. They don't have to be energetically favorable to produce helium. Now... if you want cost effective, then that's another problem.

No... but a big CME, as it interacts with the Earth's magnetosphere, can generate an EMP. That's what actually causes the overload in electrical systems, not the charged particles.

Get rid of your dictator and adopt a representative democracy and it will be over. Indeed, nobody could have thought it would go on this long.

Apparently stock Moto X and Moto G are not supported.

Helium is the second most common element in the universe. OK, there's not a lot on Earth... but it's easy to make.

Just fill the datacenter with helium... That way as much will leak into the drives as leaks out.

over think it. We have removed the rights of groups of people before.

Not at all. There are plenty of examples in history. U.S. was formed, among other things, over an argument about unequal representation and the rights of citizens. Slavery in the U.S. was justified by categorizing a group of people as not being equal. Japanese internment camps were created during WWII as part of a knee jerk reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. What I'm saying is that once modified humans become common, all it might take is a seemingly simple series of events for the populous to push for a distinction to be made, which might, end up limiting or removing the rights of the group through legislation.