Well, when you buy from a Marketplace seller you're not buying from Amazon, so...

Do Avast developers really have such bleak social lives?

Only if you're working at the right place. At my employer (IT field) only 5% of the workforce is female, and most of them are older married HR/secretarial people. There are literally zero single women here.

So I guess Mozilla is going to think about dissolving in the next few years?
I mean, if they are going to stop developing their own technologies and Firefox is to become just a special skinned version of Chrome, there's no need for all those developers -- of some well-paid (but productively useless) board of directors.

is reaching its tail end. /duck

I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with LXDE. I bit plain, yes. But certainly not ugly and it was without confusing control widgets some other desktop environments have.

For most people cell phone service coverage is more pervasive than wi-fi network availability.
I can't drive down the highway and connect to a wi-fi network.

I missed where we were forcing China to run their industry the way they do. If they care so much about the Earth they can institute pollution controls and pass on the costs to their customers (the U.S. and other countries). We can, in turn, pay for the higher cost of goods down the line to the end consumer.

Maybe this will make having Chinese factories build our goods less lucrative for the Companies in California that do it.
Maybe this will reduce the demand for Chinese exports and cause a resurgence in domestic manufacturing.

Either way, no one is holding a gun to Shenzhen's head and forcing them to poison themselves. They've made it clear what matters more.

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...