without null, I can't imagine what would have been the case for implementing so many programming constructs today. Most languages have some type of isempty() which can b seen as a continuation of null, and I for one wouldn't want to implement any sort of list without it. Programming in assembly, you don't get NULLs (at least not MIPS) and that's one of the difficulties (among many).

Related to this, try finding a gov't online form that doesn't require "IE or netscape". I know for a fact that security clearance online forms do. Some of them don't recognized IE9 either. After going through the hassles of that paperwork, I'll draw my own conclusions about the average IQ of the people who have to use IE exclusively... the forms are making them less smart!

So much of data is already given to the cloud, at least of the set of data that the cloud would be interested in. The cloud doesn't care about your diaries and personal documents, not enough to attempt to decrypt them. The most valuable data you possess is your profile to advertisers, which is available now unless you take measure to prevent it from being so.

One of the things at my is that it's the electrical and computer engineers that do most of the C programming - CS majors touch on it, and depending on the classes they take they may use more, but most of the CS department uses Java. And for all of the CS majors complaining, the ratio in ECE is significantly worse than in CS (closer to 90% guys than the 80% that is the ratio in CS). I'm a girl in CompE, and since my focus is algorithms and computer architecture there are usually no other girls in my classes. Out of my C programming class, only 5 out of around 200 people were girls. On the other hand, the top two students in the class was myself and one other guy. So no generalizing. But it means that at least at my school, the ratio of C programmers is almost no girls because of the lack of girls in CompE.