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I think you're right. Run three lines with conspicuous fake bomb detectors on two, and all the bombs will pass through the third line.

Let the separate parts of the company innovate more freely from each other.

If postal mail passes through an IRS person's hands for some legal reason, I believe they are legally entitled to read all the postcards in your mail, as there is no expectation of privacy on them, given that they're postcards. Email is the same way: the contents are naked, written on the side of the packets for anyone on a given network segment to view if the traffic comes their way. Just as we put mail in envelopes, we should encrypt our email if it's not for anyone and everyone to read if they happen to be standing "near" it when it goes by.

And how do you tell if the hacker is "part of", or working for / at the behest of, an enemy state? The enemy state may find it beneficial to make it as difficult as possible to determine that someone is working for them, since it seems like it would benefit both the state and the hacker to do that.

Where's the video of someone with one of these on each foot?

A *company* can settle criminal charges with a load of cash. People cannot. So it's still legit.

If the target isn't moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light, laser weapons can fry most anything in their range.

I'll raise a pint of lager in the pub to this.

7. replace airbags with spikes, to discourage accidents.

In these parts, existing in a public place removes any "expectation of privacy".

If they're ex-employees, it's not called poaching.

You helped change the world a lot, as understood by most people who know anything about how the Apple computer came to be. What are you working on to change the world now, and why?

That's fine if you don't mind being hot on one side and cold on the other.

The sample size of your study is impressive. Were your conclusions peer-reviewed?

It was intended as a joke, not an insult, but you've just said that it's true, which either means it is an insult, regardless of how it was intended, or you're now creating an insult which coincidentally reads exactly the same as the original "joke". That's like people who say racist things but they only say them ironically, or they only intend them as a joke - not an insult.