.. for ones menthal health? I sincerely hope that Jony will take the time to review what one can do for mankind without commercial thoughts in mind. Maybe there are plenty of benevolent ideas that could spring to mind of his well-functioning-design-kindness that would be useful in this Greta-world of aka awareness..

This is a school example of how [not] to use synchronization mechanisms. A total lockup of a trillion-core system is easily achieved if the programmer doesn't understand the implications of when to use locking and when not to. Of course it's appealing to use sometheing like a semaphore to solve some problems. But when thinking BIG you have to employ a different way of thinking. Not an easy feat.

At the rate of lacking water accessibility we should consider the obvious need that people have: *) Water Yes, one simple thing - water. Should we deprecate gold as being the finite value of things and replace it with water? /J # # #

.. If they are optional and opt-in. Country/federated id's can be a great tool for simplifying access to various services that you feel that you should trust. In a democracy these are typically run by the ones that you voted on as trustees. Having a unified id does simplify access to many services, as proven by many years of service in European countries. Privacy concerns are definitely warranted when using such a system. Legislation for a no-logging of association with id and obtained service (prescription, opinion, financial-info. etc..) should take care of current, and near future aspects of faced fears of universal ids.. Or..

Tell me if I'm wrong. I thought SSL certs are valid for one HTTPS session only. Where the temporary certificate bind the endpoints with a [short] revocation period and a negotiable re-establishment opportunity within the certificate lifetime. - Anyone knows about the lifetime expectancy of client-side SSL related data?

Seems to me that Microsoft is becoming more and more desperate to keep up with others' innovation and market-making. They do have the technology to drive things like this. But fail to become market-makers. Microsoft usually fails in the early stages. Apparently due to a lack of failure of understanding of what consumers want: timing, technology, hype and ease-of-use.

This doesn't come as a surprise for us way up north in scandinavia. Regular, year-around, baths in forest lakes and the baltic sea are common treats here. Diving into cold water really takes the every-day-stress out of you. If you ever get the chance to do this, I suggest you take it. Enjoy!

What worries me is the statement "underpaying taxes or not paying parking tickets.". - withholding these things may cause your stuff to be removed from you for years since impeachment can be called upon if you are a US visitor (and probably otherwise..). - And so much else ..

These specs tickle some of my nerdy genes. Any phone-maker that use these chips definitively attracts my attention. At least with a decent SW support to make good use of the hardware. Without it; a phone with these chips would be just a slightly faster [UI-wise] phone.. - Has competent software become a more valuable commodity than it used to be a few years ago?

I would say smarter _and_ dumber. Dumber in the sense that information can be searched for; found; and copy-pasted into various forms without being subjected to intellectual scrutiny. In my book that's a bad thing. Smarter in the sense that one can find and leverage information provided that you are smart enough to understand the difference of the above and line of reasoning and this line. - The internet is absolutely full of truly useful information that can be accessed by people blessed with uncensored access. But still, many people just aren't skilled to understand what to do with this alexandriatic access .. Too bad ..

I wouldn't dare to use a site using this system. Just imagine what you would 'buy' whenever you've got a cold ..

Good analogy. But I still do see this as a introductory step into a world of censorship where governments and alike like to enforce ban-of-the-day legislation on any issue that's locally uncomfortable. By applying the "porn" taxonomy of whatever level of nudity and physical activity is highly personal, and/or offensive for that matter, this is in general not compatible with everyones' (the world population) view of what's negative or generally bad for society. IMHO. Banning is bad. Classification and general distribution of classified material to any authorized audience is compatible with managed democracy in general is a good thing. [Isn't this regulated by US constitution and implicit common sense ..]

Seriously, what data do you absolutely require to be encrypted? I would speculate that most data that one transfer across the net will impose no harm to yourself or your peers. Sure some data will eventually be picked up by some services and may, or may not, be used for commercial uses (ad's maybe). If you don't want that you can often opt for other services or use encrypted protocols.

Absolutely! Getting this info and put it together with site-category data would be like candy for advertisers. It would be useful though, if you could mark your private bookmarks as private and be guaranteed (by license or otherway..) that the browser provider honor your privacy.

What's with the New Zealanders, the brits and aussies? How can you agree upon suppression act one after another being implied on you? Soon there will be no freedom left, and the entire populations being locked-in, controlled and completely managed like pets.. A very sad ending to some once being great nations.