If Motorola clearly states up front that you are not allowed to modify the phone and doing so may cause your phone to stop functioning properly then I don't really see what the issue is. If you want to mod your phone there are several models out there that allow it and to some degree even support it.

Zombies also live without oxygen, when is someone going to release a research paper on that?

This might be a cheaper method by far, but wouldn't it make more sense to send your customers an authenticator (fast one time key to enter along with your user name and password). It would be far less technical than the live CD and filter out the majority of key loggers. I don't know how well the live CD idea would stop phishing attacks, most users will simply click on the link in the email to "confirm" their account information rather than booting into the secure operating system only to find out that that there is no area of the site asking them to confirm all the information that was in the email.

No, because it's less filling

The world is in a sad state if a grouping of words could be so upsetting...

Also, I do not believe that there is not a human left alive on the face of the planet that has not heard a "swear word" Almost every language has the equivalent of fuck. Anyone over the age of ten has heard the word from someone other than a relative and most of those people have had the inclination to use the word.

Some of these seem obvious, I am not a researcher or professor not am I involved with any sort of grant so I could be completely wrong but... Blushing - When we become excited or anxious blood rushes faster to the face that it is pumped away so the increased oxygenated blood causes the reddish tint, seems like this one is more of a why does our heart rate increase when we are excited or anxious? Pubic hair, we have hair around every part of the body that has more sensitive skin, head, genitals, inside of the nose, etc... Most of us don't have hair on the palms of our hands (you know who you are you unclean slashdotters) because that would interfere with tactile sensation needed for more dexterous tasks Teenagers, apes don't have someone constantly trying to sell them a look or mood. Teenagers don't invent fashions and trends marketers do. Then a popular teenager decides that what the marketer said about it being cool must be true and their peers all wanting to be cool too follow. I am pretty sure my grandmother was not "emo". Again it seems like the question here is why do humans feel the need to follow the crowd. Superstition - Somewhere along the way someone had a bad experience that they linked with another event (most likely coincidental) and they shared that information, and just as stories are retold superstition is passed along as well. There have also been some early studies showing that belief in superstitions may be a mild form of OCD. Nose Picking, if your nose is clogged up you pick it to open nasal passages. Like any other behavior this can become habitual to the point of it happening unconsciously at inappropriate times.

Survival is an instinct inherent in all living things, and survival is not measured by one's own ability but by the predators around them. Very few species (if any save humans) will willingly destroy themselves or lie down to die when the opportunity to survive presents itself.