Ok, but most of these mechanisms using security questions don't just tell you the new password or allow you to reset it. They email you the new password. So unless the hacker has access to your email, guessing your security questions won't do much good. If a site is allowing you to reset your password directly, then that's obviously a security risk. But I don't think this is how it's usually done.

Of course! Every movie having anything to do with the internet should be an op-ed piece supporting net neutrality. That'll work.

The EeePc seems to vary in sturdiness based on the model. My 1000HE is rock-rolid and all-in-all it's the best-built laptop I've ever owned. My parents have the 1101HA and it's much flimsier.. the hinge for the screen is loose and the keyboard is spongy. Also, the graphics are noticeably slow, probably because of the extra pixels in the larger screen. Just have to pick the right one.

But every computer has the manufacturer icon in that spot, not just apple.

Here's the problem with your argument: the people you're describing are horribly confused using Windows too. All they can really do effectively is open programs and use them, and maybe hunt around in folders for files to open. They wouldn't be able so set up a machine with Windows or Ubuntu, but they can use both just fine. Seriously, what about the Windows UI makes intuitive sense and is missing in Ubuntu? What is hard to accomplish in Ubuntu that is easy in Windows?

Also, seawater is mostly NaCl, but this salt is NaNO3 mixed with KNO3. NaCl has a higher melting point and would solidify and gum up the works.

Yes, but Solar 2 used molten salt as an overnight storage medium only. This plant uses it as the energy collection medium, and is the first to do that.

Encarta? Sadly, it's no more. Here's a good place to read about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

You don't need any clicks. Just hover over the volume icon and use the wheel.

But you can do all that with links/shortcuts. Libraries are just a more confusing way to accomplish the same thing.

FTS:

"Imagine, for a moment, if we bought electricity the way we buy data in this country. Every month, you would pay a fixed amount of money (say, $120), and then you would use as much electricity as you wanted, with an incentive to use as much as you could. That brings price stability to the end user, but it's a horrible way to manage electricity load."

That analogy doesn't work, because the main constraint for electricity isn't network capacity, it's the fact that most current methods of production consume a resource irreversibly, so you're being charged for the use of the resource, not just the use of the power lines. Data doesn't get "used up", only transferred around, so it's relatively easier/cheaper for cellular (or land) networks to increase their capacity to transfer data than it is for energy companies to produce more energy.

This could happen in principle, but it won't because nobody else is threatening the mockers with violence. Only radical Islam takes it this far, so they get special treatment.