Keep an open mind until you've heard that a cost/value analysis was done.

Have you heard the tale of what a car would would cost if you bought the parts individually and assembled them?

Is anyone surprised after 30+ years of LEO cosmic ray exposure?

And just what makes you believe that the local area hospital recently hit by a ransomware demand gives a damn about its reputation for cybersecurity? People care about its reputation for medicine.

I have no guilt about going the cremation route. For a first-world urban dweller, I'll bet my carbon footprint is in the lower 50%. Non-driver, don't travel, recycle where I think it makes sense.

I'm willing to splurge a bit on my exit.

After being hacked/breached, one would expect a major institution to call in a first-class expert team to examine their systems and procedures to prevent recurrences. The fact that 80% of the time these companies are hit again indicates that it is IMPOSSIBLE to prevent hacking! Whether that's due to the CIO refusing to implement the recommended strategies no matter how draconian, or simply that there will always be undiscovered 0-day exploits no matter how may eyes, can't be predicted just from that statistic.

Losses will never go to zero. They can only be reduced. It comes down the cost of the next 9 in the 99.9x reliability target.

It's all about costs. Part of buying a house used to be the title search. Your lawyer hired a specialist who examined the chain of title to that property. That can get pretty complicated, what with severances and liens. And how far back do you go? Treaties with indigigenous peoples? Last time I bought a house, they didn't do a title search. I bought a product called Title Insurance, which has slowly been replacing Ttitle Insurance in residential property transfers in Canada. This is some sort of offering that will pay out whatever is required to give the final buyer clear title to the property. Not that different from ransomware insurance proposals in some ways. Although If I discover a problem with your home's title, there's no way I can use that to screw you over unless I reveal it to potential buyers when you try you sell it..

This is an example of why I say to anyone who thinks we are magically moving towards a kinder gentler society without prejudice is kidding themself. Any time this sort of behaviour occurs, it needs to slapped down in thought, speech, or action. I'm proud to be labelled an SJW.

Trump didn't even want the gov't to post the time of day. I was really po'd when my "Atomic Watch" got untethered.

Restaurant owners whine about patrons with service dogs. I'm old enough to remember refusals to serve "Negroes" (as they were known then).

There's a solution for licensed cabs. I have blind friends. If they are waiting for a cab, I'll hail it instead and hold the door open. Then they climb in. I also jot down the cab # and date and time if they give any trouble and report if to the Toronto Taxi Commission.

Don't just wring your hands. Be THAT kind of a-hole, and do something!

Just search for a product called "Motorman's Friend". It was even shown in a feature film (I forgot the name) about some self-improvement get-rich cult.

Not false advertising though. "The world's most trusted marketplace for apps" is a statement about you users. Not one about Apple. If they'd said "World's safest marketplace for apps", that woulld be something different entirely.

I took a drive to Canada through upstate NY and Pennsylvania 50 years ago. On the US side, the further north you went, the more abandoned farms there were. But as soon as I crossed the border, it was all working farms each next to the other. (True, some of that is due to geologic artifacts of glaciation.) You Americans were indeed fortunate to forge a single country out of so many growing zones and so many different resource stocks.

In N. America at least, there's plenty of empty land. Cover it with roofed structures, put solar panels above, and garbage underneath. Solve two problems at once. I can't speak for how well this will work in Europe and Japan. They may have to rely on nuke and suck up the costs. India, Africa, Australia are up for grabs. Don't know about a Russian solution either.

Why can't I dump it into the ground? Works well enough for some % of lightning. Or are some people going to complain about "electrical pollution" causing everything from headaches to cancer?

Goes to prove one segment of the antivaxxers are correct in principle, if not in agent. The next step is to combine these nanobots with miniscule amounts of explosive, so they can be detonated in Enemies of the State. Thinking twice about those vaccinations now? /s