Ideally they'd be retrained for other positions within the company. Some companies prefer to hire from within to save training costs because existing employees will already be more familiar with the company's practices.

By backing up the entire contents of the disk before formatting. This could even be done in place by making a compressed image and storing it in a file on the freshly formatted volume. A "trim" or "shred" command that FF's out all unused blocks (assuming that the previous contents were in a known file system) would improve the performance of this compression.

By "buy a license" do you refer to an arrangement like the iOS developer program? A paid license is required to install self-made software or wireless network troubleshooting software on an iDevice, and it self-destructs after 365 days. Do you find this desirable? If so, why?

Malware social-engineers users into enabling the feature.

I agree that unsubscribing from a service should take two steps:

1. Close your account.
2. Wait twenty-four hours.

Logging in between step 1 and 2 would show a button to keep the account open.

In some environments, "You're about to disclose business-critical confidential information by allowing an unsecured element to modify the behavior of a secured element" is in fact more important than "You're about to delete something that you can restore from your backup repository".

It still is. The OS takes up half the SSD space on Windows 8 tablets.

Then perhaps the next step is to build user interfaces that aren't based on scrolling or other smooth motion, so that something with a laptop form factor and an e-ink display becomes viable.

When I browse the web on my Nexus 7 tablet, "Screen" already takes at least 67 percent of the battery. And that's with ARM, which already sips less power in general than x86. What CPU upgrade will fix that?

I thought the Y-shaped capacitor was what allowed time travel.

With or without data plans?

Yes. I'm aware of geolocation. But after exchange rates, businesses in the same city still might not be able to afford high enough ad rates to sustain ad-supported services.

Cable television and satellite television form an oligopoly on live sports telecasts. Or they pay for cable TV because they get it for free or nearly free with the purchase of high-speed Internet access.

There is magicJack for $2.50 per month provided you already have low-latency Internet access. But then customer service costs labor, and the wired last mile costs labor, and cell towers cost land, and the price of land and labor will only go up over time.

The vast majority of terms that bind the end user "survive termination of service".

Provided that the target platform allows one application to modify the private data of another application.

Provided that the target platform even has a command line.

Puzzle adventure game fan?

Even if it isn't a defense, it could be the beginning of a plea bargain for someone willing to turn state's evidence against the one giving the orders.