As far as encryption is concerned, you cannot trust anyone but yourself. So you can ignore anything your cloud provider says about encryption and focus on speed, reliability and cost.

You should make sure that your cloud provider only ever receives encrypted data from you, and if he decides to encrypt again, good for him, and if he decides to let the NSA listen in, well, it doesn't matter, your data was encrypted anyway.

If it is not stored somewhere on the internet, then both your devices must be online to be able to share. It is not different from using sftp or https or any other direct protocol that can transfer files. And I doubt that bittorrent is the most efficient one for that. But their real reason is probably to increase legitimate bittorrent use, to make it harder for ISP's to block it.

Yes, the operating systems themselves will probably be fine by then. But what about programmers who had to do date calculations in a language without a good date object? They put dates in an int, and added 3600 for each hour. What about databases where timestamps are stored in plain ints, instead of a special time value? And then there are embedded systems of course, from microwaves to airplanes to networking equipment

What is sending data over the network? There is no sending. It is not like google is holding me at gunpoint to download cat video's, or that they push it in any other way. I, as a client, request the cat video, and google supplies it. The whole internet is client-server based, and the client almost always initiates the data transfer.

That would be Doctor No

Just use this (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-OTG-Host-Cable-Adapter-for-Galaxy-S2-SII-i9100-/330752145575?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:NL:3160) or any of the hundreds of equivalent OTG adapters.

Pick up a usb SD reader (I bought one a couple of years ago for under 10 euro)

Root your device, and you have anything you want on your Nexus 7. I have tried USB stick, SD card, USB keyboard and mouse, and charging my phone. It al works.

The most difficult part is keeping your nerve while rooting. The process itself is easy, but still, your glad when you're finished and you have not bricked your device.

Please tell me where a high school drop out can apply for a position as a nuclear physicist? He cannot because he doesn't know the difference between a hydrogen and a helium atom? What, discrimination! The job is being sexy and looked at. Which most 40/50 year olds are not. It is only discrimination if the discriminating factor is not part of the job requirement.

Although competition on the ISP's here in the Netherlands is better than in the US (as far as I can tell from stories online), it is far from perfect. We have three mobile internet providers, and a lot of other brands using their networks. If all three providers decide to implement mandatory filtering in some way, consumers cannot choose. There are provisions in this filtering law that consumers cannot get a financial advantage if the choose for filtering, but the providers probably can find some loophole somewhere.

They win and end up with the chicks?

And you are playing right into their hands. THIS IS JUST ADVERTISING. They have made comments like this in the past, just to get people to write about them. They won't eliminate pilots, and their standing passengers was just as stupid. They want publicity, and they are getting it.

No. The requirement of at least 12 characters makes it a huge possible pool (about 69 * 10^21, assuming 80 different possible characters). Even if the other requirements limit this somewhat, there is still A LOT left.

And the interesting thing is: my ATM Pin code is much more important to me than any of my passwords (except perhaps for my electronic banking password), and it is only 4 digits long, and I haven't changed it for years. And still there are systems with requirements like yours

Yes. The porn factor is an urban legend. The real reason was that VHS had two hour tapes, and betamax one hour. People choose the ability to record complete sport matches over picture quality.