Hi. I see you have never done any mechanical connector design so I'll explain how it works for you. The connectors need to be mountable on a PCB by flow/wave soldering. No wires, so that plan is out I'm afraid. I suppose you could add some to the connector itself, but that costs money. Ideally you want the connector to be made entirely out of stamped metal parts, like the Micro USB connector is.

Redundancy as in "one side now shorts so, so both sides are broken". Pins bent out of shape and shorting is the most common failure mode of small pitch connectors like this. Again, this is well understood by people who design mechanical connectors.

Micro USB connectors (PCB mount, the part that takes the strain) cost about 40c (Euro) for quality ones. Of course we have no idea how much lightning connectors cost, but I guarantee it's more. Might not sound like a lot but if a phone sells for 40 Euro retail then wholesale price will be about 20 Euro and BOM cost will be about 10 Euro, so that connector is maybe 4% of the total cost.

Well, we've never tried deciphering a language that anyone has made a genuine effort to make it so. Math has some really simple patterns that make it easy to distinguish from noise like 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 or in binary
000
101 000
10101 000
101010101 000
1010101010101 000
101010101010101010101 000
1010101010101010101010101 000
From there I'd probably just repeat [x,y,pictogram of x*y bits] with silence to space them. I'd probably start with "illustrated math" to show like
1 + 1 = 2
. + . = ..
2 + 1 = 3
.. + . = ...
I think the pattern should be fairly obvious no matter what kind of math they use. After we finish basic math then basic elements as pictograms, the "shell configuration" of electrons should be easily recognizable and universal. After that maybe try to derive the SI units (like kilo = hydrogen atom * big number) and start describing the universe as we know it. Honestly, it doesn't seem *that* hard as long as we aren't looking at a random scroll that may contain anything at all and makes no attempt to be decipherable by itself.

Actually there is evidence that they are worried about anti-virus software on machines they hack, except presumably for US brands which are basically elaborate trojans. In some of the slides that Snowden leaked they show how their automated attack servers usually back off immediately if anti-virus software is detected on the target PC because they don't want their malware and exploits to be detected and analysed by their targets. Even a clueless MBA who is their for-profit target is likely to notice his AV software screaming at him.

Nah, advertisers would never miss an opportunity to make you feel shitty about yourself and spend money trying to fix it. I imagine the screen would become one of those funny mirrors that makes you look fat, while a loud voice shouts "hit the gym, fat ass!" at you, followed by a little printer dispensing a coupon for the local sweatshop. Obviously the voucher will have a photoshopped barbie doll standing next to her photoshopped he-man on it too, just in case you had some dignity or feelings of self-worth left.

Well your complaint is probably just you. One of said religious groups can mean the whole church congregation, friends, family, coworkers and so on get pestered to stop shopping there. Sadly I think their risk assessment is spot on.

past $9 million a year then no. You're not 'working hard to earn more' any more then. You're riding on someone else's hard (that sounds dirty). Do you seriously think the Chinese billionaire that owns Foxconn 'earned' that? Or to go more extreme how about the southern cotton plantation owners in the 1800s? Yeah, I'm being inflammatory, but the point is still valid.

Outside a few outliers that are in the tinfoil hat category, feminists (esp 3rd wave) say no such thing. The ones who do are routinely ignored even by the 2nd wave and are actively criticized by most 3rd wave.

Last I heard, snuff films (even if they did exist) are not illegal (to own or sell)... and neither is 'revenge porn' outside some pretty narrow circumstances which are just extensions of anti-harassment laws.

The part that is more frightening is how small groups (almost always religious and conservative) seem to have disproportionate sway over how those companies behave. It does not help that people who support free expression and adult material are so easily shamed into not fighting back... but even when they do, the response they get can be pretty different. Tell Amazon you are upset because they have naughty stuff and they go banning. Tell Amazon you are upset because they are deleting content and they are pretty dismissive (I actually tried a while back).

And if they wanted to repeal the first amendment, it'd be different. But it's a pretty basic freedom to vote with your wallet and boycott stores that engage in whatever business practice you disagree with, whether it's installing rootkits (hey Sony) or animal testing or dealing in "smut" whatever your idea of that might be. The rest is just business, there's no law against having an sex shop in your mall or showing a porn movie in your cinema but if you're a profit-maximizing business you might go for the "family friendly" profile instead. The smart businessmen simply split the front-end while sharing the back-end, totally different name but same warehouses. I'm sure this will work out the same way, the charade seems to keep everybody happy.

Okay, but just to be clear, you can't compare the exposure on a 12 hour flight to solar/space radiation to living near Fukushima long term with radioactive material getting inside you, right? So why did you bother to mention this again?

That is a rather strange number to pick, I don't know why he bothered pointing it out when it's basically meaningless. What matters is who much radioactive material was absorbed into the bodies of people in Tokyo at the time (myself included), and how much the total dose over the remainder of our lives will be.

Of course, no-one really knows what this number will be, but some children living near Fukushima have already developed malignant growths believed by doctors to be related to emissions from the plant, so perhaps once the analysis of their removed thyroid glands are in we will have a better idea.

The key difference is that swallowing a bee is an unfortunate accident that probably couldn't be foreseen, where as getting cancer from the entirely preventable Fukushima disaster, a facility which was designed to generate profit for a private company on the understanding that they would run it safely, is clearly a case of negligence.

In any case, even if you only value a human life at $1m you can't really expect the people affected or their families to accept that monetary assessment, can you? They are clearly going to demand compensation for things like lifetime earnings, the suffering of that person's family, medical costs associated with treatment and the reduction of pain and so forth. Given that it makes sense to spend more than $1m trying to prevent such an accident, especially when we are talking about a potentially large number of victims.

The key difference between say flying or eating a banana and the material released from Fukushima is that it does not accumulate in your body. When flying the radiation mostly bounces off your skin, or hits your organs once and then is dissipated or passes on through. Similarly when you eat a banana your body maintains a fairly constant level of potassium, so you are not increasing your long term exposure.

Fukushima released a lot of stuff, most notably caesium. It accumulates on the ground, in the water, inside animals and plants, and inside human beings. It then sits inside your organs (so no skin/flash to shield them) and irradiates them for decades. It's particularly bad for young children who are still growing quickly.

In short you can't make a direct comparison.

The current legal limit in Japan is 1mSv of ionizing radiation. This is not the same as background radiation and affects the body in a different way (because it tends to accumulate inside you). It appears to already be affecting children living near Fukushima.

It seems that the Japanese government has a better understanding of radiation than you do, which considering how much they cocked-up management at Fukushima Daiichi is saying something.