128 kbps? Audibly transparent?
Only on the promotional materials for MP3 players that came out at the beginning of the century (back when capacity was still measured in megabytes on most of them). That whole "64 kbps is FM quality, 128 is CD quality" was a huge joke -- even then.

You could image a real-world computer and use that to make test environment templates (obviously remove any documents that contain any real sensitive info).

Because currently a memory is only usable to the witness, and is often forgotten. It cannot be saved in perfect detail, duplicated (only described), or packaged and sold for monetary gain. When wetware comes to be, as you point out, these issues will need to be dealt with at an ethical and legal level, but the that's not coming as soon as you believe, I think.

Gimmie a break. You know how often I've heard "email is dying"? Generally it's from some stupid millennial, or the mouthpiece of a social networking company that offers a messaging feature that, for all intents and purposes, is email (except with formatting and picture/video inserting bells and whistles). What they really mean is "we wish email were dead, so everyone would be forced to become one of our users and we could become the new defacto email".

When those kids go out and get a job and have to communicate in a serious fashion, it's not Facebook they're going to be launching -- it's Outlook.

The Echo is a hit? Citation, please.

LOL. The only people saying the coming president is going to be an R is deluded R supporters. The Republicans thew away the Presidency the moment they made Trump their candidate.

You left out the part about it being developed and maintained by Microsoft. So it's a language that generally imitates something someone else has done and is already a standard, but adds it's own special new features that are not in the original, thus making a case you should use this new Microsoft technology and not the other.

Where have I heard that before...

Senate Panel Says "Get Your Ass to Mars."

Was this also "back in the day" when the only DSL provider you had was your local RBOC?
AT&T didn't have to worry about you taking their free-gift modem and switching to another provider with it then -- unless you were moving and would be out of their service area anyway.

Luca responded that it took "courage" to talk about his exploit and possibly withholding it from Apple.

Have you ever listened to people complain about price increases in their cable TV service. They will actually claim they "can't afford" the new price, even when it only goes up 50 cents a month.

Obviously a phone that is only going to be sold in developing markets.

They boast Internet connectivity with the Opera web browser but the phone has no wi-fi or even 3G connectivity, let alone 4G/LTE.
Specs page here, only shows GSM 900 and 1800 mhz band. Does not support AT&T legacy 850 or T-Mobile 1900 and isn't even reaching over a quarter megabit on EGPRS data rate.

Isn't this also the version that changes extension APIs so we essentially have to use Chrome extensions now?

Seriously. Where do I apply to get these high-end IT jobs that require so little actual knowledge?

Why don't they just lock the phone up for all but emergency calling instead of playing with the battery icon color?