Yeap, also a nice little monoculture for Apple

The monoculture of the public-school programs set for the entire nation by the federal Department of Education does not bother you, does it? It is only the fact, that one particular city is advancing it using a particular family of devices, that you find troubling...

By accessing the material they might accidentally leak further information. If I want to know your IP address and I have your email address, all I do is send you an email with an image in it or some other "click here" net thing. I tag the image or link with a unique ID. As soon as you load the image or click the link I now have your IP address in my server's logs. Or maybe I post a links on my Facebook friends' walls -- again with the unique ID. I might learn a bit about their friends who click on the link. Maybe I seed the pages that the links go to with other types of enticing links, pretty soon I can see that all of so-and-so's friends clicked on the "anal sex" link but ignored the "help starving children" appeal. I might even get some of them to leave comments on articles that reveal even more information, like correcting "mistakes" in the linked article or revealing their own email address to "sign in to comment" or whatever. Before long I know enough to mount a successful social engineering attack on a group of interest to me, possibly netting even better access to more directly useful information.

"Anybody who gives control of their "business" to a third party is probably foolish."
that's all business name one that doesn't depend on some 3rd party.

"Do you see where I am coming from here...?"
That you are obtuse?

Since google is aware it can't be perfect, and has a history of adjusting filters to try and narrow it in, i'm not worried about it.

Clearly you lack the ability to think about things and prefer to jump to meaningless hyperbole and non relevant examples.
It's sad really.

No ,it isn't over broad. It' vague becasue you can't really define all the situations. The world is full of rules like that.

One involves sex, one involves killing people. yeah, I can see how you would mix that up.

IT's not racist by any reasonable stretch of the imagination. Stop forcing things to fit into you narrow, preconceived, notions.

Speak for yourself.

You only draw a line to make yourself feel superior.

Star Trek has almost no science, it has 'magic' devices they use to move the ship and create plot devices.

A great quick start is to just kill a random 70% of all people. Now you have gotten rid of the most unlucky ones.

I can only speak to how my local hackerspace handles it, I don't know how others do.

At this one, most power tools are owned by individual members. If someone gets hurt and wants to sue someone, the only person they can sue is the individual owner. On one hand, this sucks because it puts all the burden on individuals' shoulders. On the other hand, it decreases the chance that someone tries to pay legal fees from prospective damage awards, because damages are likely to be very small, so it reduces the chance someone will lawyer up.

Our hackerspace hasn't had any incidents yet, so I don't know how well this plays out in practice.

It's bullshit becasue of the power requirements, which thanks to Einstein, we can figure out.

no duh. However, you can create a generic tasteless substance and then inject different types of flavoring.

Soylent Green is people..tasty, tasty, people.

To bad similiar things already exist on the store shelves, and they are cheaper.

"That is a huge amount of material to put into space. "
I would like to point out that all the aluminum that exists is already in space.

It may be expensive at the current moment to get of this island floating through space, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

After installing the Star Trek deflector belt, I have become interested in hygiene, interesting conversation and moving out of my moms basement.