IMHO, a true genius never dismiss things. Not reading Harry Potter is OK if the reason is "yeah, I may take a look later, but I have to finish this..." but saying "what will I learn from that ?" as a rhetorical question is a bit close minded.
After all, there *must* be something to learn from a book that made its author a billionaire, even if it is not evident at first.

The police shall then use a mobile app that simulates an arrest and the judge shall use another mobile app that simulates a trial.
A video shall then be posted on youtube where bars are overlayed over the kid's picture to simulate prison.

Just wait a few hundred years before saying this.
The 18th century probably produced a ton of barely musical crap, and most of it is currently forgotten. What remains are a few genius works, such as Mozart's that stood the test of time.
I have no reason to think that it isn't the same today. Maybe in a few generations, when all the crap will be forgotten, our era will be remembered for its own genius.

Getting fingerprint data is easy for a determined attacker, you are leaving them all over the place, and yes, obviously, you can't change them. That's the inherant weaknes of biometrics.
That's why, for high security, you have to combine it with another factor, which might be a physical key or/and a password.

If the EEPROM is not damaged and is a discrete component (usually a 8 pin SOIC) you can unsolder it from the old board and put it on the new board. It's not that difficult.

There are plenty of variations of feminism, but the most vocal are the kind that don't just want to be treated as equals, they want to be superior.

Also, none of the smart geek girls I know are feminists, they don't have to.
They usually handle working around men quite well while still being feminine. In fact almost all of them prefer that to all-women workspaces. And if they do a good job (and they do because they are smart ;)), not only they get all due respect but they are also defended by their colleagues in case someone gets the wrong idea.

I don't think that robots will make things worse.

The idea is that even if the 1% own all the means of production they won't just sit there and let the 99% starve.
They expect top class service and goods, and for this they need highly skilled people. And these people don't come cheap, they need education, enough comfort to concentrate on their assigned task rather than in survival and a good pay to keep them working for you instead of your competitor. They will become the 5%.
Now the 5% also want their little comfort too. They won't be able to get top class service like the 1% but they can still get moderately skilled people to work for them, which, in turn, can create work for the lower skill people, and so on...
You'll end up with a pyramid, exactly like we have now, and like we had in the past. The jobs will change, but the idea is still the same.

Don't forget the underground economy.
Many construction workers declare themselves as unemployed while they are actually working under the table.

Samsung manages removable batteries quite well.
Also, while most batteries can last for more than two years, they gradually decrease in capacity. Interestingly, people often blame software updates for the resulting decrease in battery life. By providing user replaceable batteries, it is possible to get back to full capacity and use the old battery as a spare. I did this for my last two phones.
As for Li-ion batteries that actually wore out and got replaced, it happened on 3 devices : an MP3 player, a laptop and a phone.
As for the safety argument, I don't buy it. Battery explosions are extremely rare and happen on genuine models as well.

I agree with you that most people don't bother with tearing down and fixing anything. But some others do, even if it is just for fun, and for these people, iFixit is great. Don't call something useless just because it is only useful for a limited audience.

Solar works in Germany because it is supported by coal, gas and a bit of hydro.
In fact Germany have a high peak power capacity mainly due to their fossil fuel power plants. As a result they can easily absorb the fluctuations of their solar and wind plants, they can also buy nuclear electricity from France when it is cheap.

AFAIK it is not an attempt at censorship.
Yahoo just don't want to pay for bandwidth and be associated to a website promoting suicide. They probably don't care about the contents of the website being leaked all over the internet.

There is enough data in these files to hold like 1000h of average quality 480p video plus the full text of the english wikipedia.
If this file is made of sensitive information, why not get a bit more selective and only keep the good bits. It would have made the sharing and usage easier.

What's the point of firing you ? You will quit anyways.
Anyways, the burden of proof is on your employer. So unless you clearly write "I quit now", sign it and date it, if he decides to fire you, then it's just that, he fires you.

In the case of Webkit / KHTML it is relevant.
Because KHTML is LGPL they are required by law to let Webkit be used by others.

I think the reason why there are competing systems (both in computers and human languages) is that both have their advantages.
- little endian simplifies addition (and most arithmetic as a result)
- big endian simplifies compairson (and searching, sorting, routing, etc... as a result)