I used Evernote Basic (the free level) for several years but just switched to OneNote a couple of days ago when they announced I could no longer sync between my desktop, laptop, iPad and (Windows) phone.

I used Microsoft's conversion tool and it worked pretty well.

OneNote 2016 on its own is completely free - you don't need the whole of Office to use it. Evernote's tagging is better, but there are addins for OneNote that boost the tagging of OneNote somewhat (such as "OneNote Tagging Kit": https://onenotetaggingkit.code...)

Does this therefore set a timeframe of the order of 1,500 years for us either to colonise other planets, to defend ourselves against unknown aliens of unknown capabilities and intent, or to build the technology for at least some of us to flee?

There are illegal weapons in Europe too. Granted it will take some time, but there's no reason why gun control couldn't be introduced in the US, with guns withdrawn, amnesties held, illegal weapons slowly uncovered. It's not going to be a quick process, and there will need to be a change of mindset over one or more generations, but the fact that there are lots of weapons about now doesn't mean the U.S. could *never* get to a situation where guns are rare.

Could a warrant canary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary) be used to get around such gagging? Yahoo, MS, Google, etc., could have a page that you can go to that either says "You are not the subject of a state-sponsored attack via us" or is blank. When it's blank you can assume that the spooks are prying. You could even sign up for regular emails stating the same. When those emails stop you know to go check your page.

That would only hold if parents had some magical ability to effectively block all access by kids to mobile phones, handheld consoles, games machines, computers, and also access to those of any of their friends, peers, etc.

Will it be all repeats, just like the main site?

should be a barrier for neutrinos as well!

There are lots of things the law doesn't allow that governments and the military get away with.

Wouldn't this technology also allow working satellites belonging to others to be "harvested"?

Hasn't this idea been around for years? I know Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (http://www.withouthotair.com/) covered this back in 2008, and it wasn't new then.

Why this didn't go in the summary I really don't know.

I tried Soluto on my old laptop and was not impressed. I had lots of things in Startup that it either wouldn't disable or that I couldn't disable (lots of system processes, sound driver, etc. - basic stuff I'd need). I disabled tons of stuff but it didn't really seem to be any better (and, in addition, Soluto itself needs to start up, which slows things down quite a bit. I tried the "Delayed load" option, but that didn't seem to improve matters much, to be honest. Whilst being quite aggressive in what I turned off, there seemed to be marginal improvement at best. I think instead there's something fairly fundamentally wrong with a lot of Windows services, etc., and maybe the Windows scheduling, that just take an age to load.

It is the heated air near the laser beams that moves the particle around, so this would be no use as a tractor beam in space, alas.

I am about to buy this. , and will pay much more than I *have* to. Just because many companies are happy to screw me on price whenever they get the chance hasn't (yet) made me want to screw all companies when I get the chance. *I* still have some morals.

I find that my eyes/brain fill in the 3D of 2D movies quite effectively. If they show a picture of a corridor my brain seems to make it look 3D and when someone walks behind someone else my brain doesn't shout, "Hey, that's flat, he just disappeared!" Instead my brain reconstructs the 3D image and it all seems to work.

In 3D movies, if I look closely I can see that it looks more 3D than normal movies, but once I'm immersed in a good story I don't really notice the difference very much (unless the movie is full of "boo" gimmicks, which I can do without).