You just need to look at the hardware market to see that there's no sign of a Bitcoin rebound. People aren't buying GPUs for mining anymore, they're selling en-masse. Since Bitcoin still has no intention of transitioning to Proof-of-Stake, that means if there *are* still people looking at investing in crypto, they aren't doing it on the Bitcoin blockchain.

So they want websites classed as common carriers, but not the ISPs?

There can still be differences, even in what should be large, professionally designed sites. I recently tried to order an Xbox off Gamestop's site. I was repeatedly told that my shipping address didn't exist... until I switched from Chrome to Edge. In Edge it gave me no problems at all. Both those browsers are based on the same engine, but compatibility issues can still crop up.

Google themselves are doing a lackluster job of selling Lollipop as well. Seriously, I see ads all over the place extolling the virtues of the new Nexus phones and tablets, the "first devices designed *for* Lollipop". You know what I don't see on those ads? Any device actually *running* Lollipop. It's always just a black screen. And to all those who say that there *are* device updates, we just haven't gone looking? The average user shouldn't *have* to root their phone. I will argue to the death for their right to do so, but if the manufacturer and carrier doesn't want to commit to a release date for the upgrade, then the average person using that phone is going to keep using KitKat.

Sony have already done this. Until I moved to the US this year, I was happily using the PlayTV accessory for my Playstation 3 to do basically exactly the same thing in Australia. It should be noted that the main benefit here isn't access to TV channels. It's the DVR functionality that comes along with it. Pausing and rewinding live TV, scheduling recordings, and live TV Guides.

One of the main problems I've always seen with top lists is that the ones who make it in there stay there, because people don't see anything else. One solution I would propose is that the requirements for listing in a top list change the longer you are there. Sure, you made 10,000 downloads in your first day. great. You'd better make 12,000 the next day. And 14,000 the day after that.... and so on. With that method, even the most popular apps will eventually drop off to make room for the newer apps which are just getting started.

Nope, pretty sure the floods we just had were in summer.

Isn't it obvious? It's got to be Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Pffft, I currently walk 45 minutes to work every morning, and 45 minutes back home every afternoon

The biggest problem I see with regards to the porn on the internet isn't its availability or controlling access. It's preventing people from *accidentally* accessing pornography, and this is something which is going to need cooperation on both sides. For a start, typo-squatting should be discontinued on the part of the pornographers. It is a deceptive practice, and is one of the more common ways that a child can accidentally find themselves looking at pornography. Secondly, searching should only return porn results when you *actually search for pornography*. The easiest way to do this would be to give all porn sites a tag, and introduce a porn-search option, say, for example, porn.google.com. Normal search would exclude porn sites, and porn-search would *only* return porn sites. This way, both the web at large, *and* the porn is freely accessible and searchable, but it is no longer possible to accidentally stumble across a porn site. Finally, pornographers need to ensure that their advertising in only injected into appropriate channels, such that porn ads are not likely to appear on otherwise PG rated websites. Controlling pornography *can* be done, if everyone does their part and the pornographers act responsibly.