"some kind of market research or focus group or whatever suggested"
Yes, it is market research. When you are out of beer and 70% of your neighborhood is too, the price of beer in you local supermarket will go up by 20%. And you are paying for the tool to do so. Prost!

Butttt.... what about the revenue that our speed traps bring to our little town? My $270000 salary as police chief depends on it!!!

So they spend a frivolous amount of money for their fun and expect us to cough up 200 Million as an excuse for them?

n<<1 instead of 2*n

I usually start with my check book and it makes me cry, so I don't read on.

"They're meant to seed genetic traits -- one that stops mosquitoes from carrying malaria, for instance, or hampers invasive rodents' ability to reproduce -- in a population, and with terrifyingly high odds of inheritance. "

The inability to reproduce is not inheritable.

There is a way that often works: You join in and improve the idea until it becomes absurd and dies by itself. Then you blame the original inventor for the failure.

because I always pay cash

Me too. It could tell my ankle bracelet that I am at home when I am at the air port.

at the top of the list and Cowboy Neal at the bottom. That needs to be reversed!

So if I set up a robot that calls all political parties and members of the house once a week urging them to stop robo-calls then that is also free speech. If 10000 others follow my example their phone lines are clogged.

The default ubuntu installation has a guest user without password. This feature can be turned off but I noticed that every once in a while the configuration changes (move from /etc/lightdm to /usr/share/lightdm without removing /etc/lightdm for example) so that if you don't pay attention the guest user is back. In my opinion the guest user removes one barrier for an attacker and is a bad idea.

or the right half?

There is no reason not to have different ISO sizes. I would love to have an ISO that fits on a CD AND one that is 32GByte big.

The caps lock key is necessary when I have to type a password with upper case characters while holding my coffee mug. Don't get rid of it.