Obviously we need to ban rabbit's foot keychains and retractable pens as well.

If you don't notice that your snazzy Best Buy 3D printer is churning along for two full days and printing out a gun that junior sent to it, then you fail as a parent.

Honestly that has a lot less to do with religion than people being dicks to each other. Your math hating mullah for example was just a dick protecting his own power from the perceived threat of tech wrenching it from him. Short sighted and stupid? Yes. The fault of religion? No.

The problem was that information used to be exceedingly difficult to pass on. If something didn't have immediate practical use it was discarded. The steam toys of the Greeks were chucked when their leisurely (relatively speaking) lifestyle couldn't be sustained anymore. Ever since the invention of the printing press though you have an explosion in cheap mass-producible information. This has only gotten cheaper in the digital computing world of the information age. Now we only have to discover something once and it's locked down forever. How many cavemen had to discover spears independently before it became widespread? Fire? Bronze? Ironworking? The archway? Heck, even calculus was discovered twice and that was fairly recently!

Nowadays a researcher in Russia can publish his work and everyone in that field can know about it in seconds. Processes and discoveries are passed on in exacting detail. We should never again have to endure another dark ages with our current information sharing abilities.

Protip: products often have more than one use. It can kill your little swimmers so I imagine it is also good for killing other microscopic parasites. If you read your own link it also mentions its use in shaving cream.

Strictly speaking soap just traps the natural oils in your skin in which a great many bacteria live which allows your hands to be much cleaner than otherwise. It doesn't make the bacteria directly "slip off" but it makes it so that you can get the nasty oil off of your hands. Also, washing with alcohol would likely be as effective or possibly more so, but the downside is dryness. Bleach, as you said is bad for your skin for multiple reasons.

So...to protect your privacy you would first completely violate your privacy. Good plan.

Until your front left tire blows out at 90mph and wipes out that happy little family of four driving in the opposite direction.

Only if you have the metabolism of the Flash. An entire bottle of wine solo is 5 drinks (at 1 drink = 5oz. serving of wine). At that rate your theoretical 180lb person (we'll say male to lower as much as possible) should be floating right around 0.14 after two hours. At around 6 hours he should be down around 0.08, but I would imagine he'd still be buzzing pretty hard. But 0.14 is jerky eyes walking is awkward drunk. Hell, you're 1/3 of the way to LD50.

TIFKAM - The Interface Formerly Known as Metro. Also double minus points for requiring the use of a contextual acronym translator that had to be adjusted for phonetic acronym reductions.

OTOH I think we may have found a new question to feed into the Turing test. Watson! Translate the acronym formerly known as TIFNAM!

Teenagers.

*slow clap*

Very nice job walking the razor's edge between incisive sarcasm and trolling. I feel that you succeeded in making an insightful point (just no mod points left this week). That was positively channeling Jonathan Swift in short form right there.

I need to get their customer list, I have a whole yard full of tiger rocks to sell that are specially crafted to protect them from tiger attacks. I know they work because my family has never been attacked by a tiger.

Because algorithms, like mathematical formulae are not so much developed as discovered. The same algorithm would've worked in caveman days on a rock-based Turing machine, it's just that we hadn't gotten around to finding it yet. It would be akin to patenting diamonds the first time they were discovered, and equally absurd. Now, you don't have to share your discovery with anyone, and you can certainly copyright your specific implementation of it, but patenting discoveries does the opposite of what the patent system was supposed to do which is to foster innovation. In point of fact the patent system fails pretty hard in fostering innovation right now, as quick as science is progressing.

Umm. RAW format is pretty standard. I mean it's essentially an uncompressed bitmap. The only thing that changes is that the resolution keeps going up.

Heck, that's not even your biggest problem. The hardest part of this scheme is piping all of that data into that storage in real time. And then maintaining backups, redundancy (do you lose data or re-route to another regional center if an outage occurs? Do you have multiple shadow trunk lines to account for the inevitable backhoe incident? how do you repair equipment that isn't supposed to exist?), power management, *cooling* - all of this costs time and money. An operation to store even 1% of all internet data being passed over the wires in real time would run into the trillions of dollars and would easily employ 1 million+ people. Wait...I just thought of a solution for the current jobs crisis!