I guess some places are air tight, but the rock where I live if full of holes and I could only imagine would leak profusely.

The problem is the fleshy creatures on either side of the communications line. Alas that meat bad will likely be the weak point.

It's the new cafeteria plan for the drivers. It'll supplement their low income and high hours by making food available.

We should just turn the fans on. Burn coal and dump the power into the wind farms.

Political parties should also be broken up.

I thought the same thing. It only states what it's suppose to do, not what the actual provisions are. I suspect that the platitudes won't be fully realized instead we'll have something else.

Part of self-learning is recognizing when you need a mentor and seeking one out.

No filtering won't prevent a determined individual from accessing porn. However, it goes a long way from preventing accidental exposure, which as someone that doesn't want to see porn and as a parent wants keep my children from running across in casual browsing.
That said the only sure porn filter is a personal determination to avoid it. This is only achieved through learning and teaching correct principles and allowing the individual to implement those principles.
Those correct principles are: Viewing porn makes your personal life miserable and ruins your ability to have meaningful and deep relationships (both sexual and non-sexual) with people of the opposite sex.

So you just point a camera at the person and they tell the AI the symptoms? Or do they mean you have a doctor get the symptoms and AI (google search) looks up matching diseases.

valuable mineral deposits of the future.

If you make it a point not to include sex as part of a relationship until after your married then you don't have to worry about that. You make it clear that you want to know the person as a person, no sexual pressure, no harassment.

When computers are running at 5% of CPU then they automatically scale down its power consumption. If you were to use the "idle" CPU cycles you would would cause the computer to use significantly more power.

Maybe it's reffering to the age of the people doing the pre-flight checks. Perhaps their memory is going.

Well it looks like the police won't need to rely on the prisoner to divulge a password anymore. They can just do a 3D mug-shot, make a mask and open up the phone.

Well until there's a bug in the software that does it triggering a panic.