A couple aka "a pair" seems the right anount to me.

Everything is just a number. A Matroska movie is just a big number. But parts of the IPv6 address have meanings, some of them complex, albiet not really "inscrutable". :-)

Whomever wants to serve a lot of pages, for instance, without breaking the bank in the process?

8-bit spreadsheets used to present 40x22 or less... :-)

Oh, I *am* illiterate. Albeit I'm a little bit less illiterate in Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish, and German than in the other languages. ;-) Fica frio! do na lebna nei tai junri

Can you realize that linguistics does not work the way you seem to want it to work? Just a hint.

In my case (divorced guy in my forties) it's to boink twentysomethings (std creepyness rules x/2+7 says I shouldn't boink under-25) and extract some extra hardness for the second and third rounds. No risk of prison for that.

This, for me, would be a lot of high-quality drugs and a lot of high-quality sex. So, let me get my blue pills, and count me in. I don't want to live to be 50 anyway... :-)

I'M Not A Lawyer? seems really obvious

Yep. Every back door is an open door.

No need to reconcile, just imagine how many of those bugs lurk in closed systems like Windows, where no-one can see them.

LMFTFY:

Number of BIOS updates I've knowingly installed on my computer (bear in mind, your vendor could have it pre-installed, the NSA could install it on transit to the store, the evil maid on the hotel could have installed it while you were at the pool, etc)

Number of processes from the BIOS that I know that are still running after the boot process finished (you don't think a spy process from the BIOS would be visible to your OS's pstools, do you?)

Batteries usually explode more (*) if you heat or short circuit them. Connecting a heating element to a battery seems like both to me. (*) more often, more espectacularly...

People are responding to you aggressively, I'll try another approach: in some urban regions down here, a marked police car (or even an unmarked suspicious car) is fired upon entrance. But a Google car mapping the region is at *less* risk of being shot, because mapping is considered a *good* thing by the poor communities (enables mail to get to the addresses, etc). However, if cops start using Google-marked cars for their surveillance, when organized crime lords have notice, they will fire upon all Google-marked cars. AND, as a collateral, the poorer regions will be forever worsely mapped. Got it?

Unix is exactly "the little Multics that could". In case, could run in cost-effective hardware.