For services that have no damned business knowing my real birthdate, I always use the start of the Unix epoch: 1/1/1970.

It has two advantages; (1) most calendar picker widgets default to January 1, so it's fewer clicks, and (2), for me at least, it is close enough to being true that no one would ever challenge it, even in person.

In schools no matter how robust the hardware, the kids will destroy them. You'll have to buy a whole new set next year for the new kids anyway.

Apple started as a hardware company, with network services coming MUCH later.
Google were always a network first company.

There are also no shortage of concealable cameras...
A big pair of ugly glasses is obvious, you might as well be carrying a full size video camera. You can see it's there and behave accordingly. A pervert is more likely to use a small hidden camera.

The factual reality it ignores is that mistakes by the judicial system in cases covering petty crime, family court, domestic disputes, civil torts, etc., have nothing whatsoever to do with mistakes made in capital cases. Asserting that mistakes made in a local municipal court, which would never see a capital case, is grounds for banning capital punishment is like saying that worms in avocados imported from Mexico means the sale of all fruit grown in the US should be banned.

Conflating capital cases with non-capital cases works against your cause, not for it. If you don't understand that, then you are less likely to achieve your goals. Zealotry -- which is fundamentally a political pose -- is not an efficient means to create change.

Following is massively easier than leading...

If someone else has already done something, then you know it's possible and just need to work out how. And the more information you have about the existing implementation the easier it is to replicate it, as even very minimal high level information is going to steer you in the right general direction.

If you're leading then you can't be sure what is possible, you could spend a lot of resources chasing dead ends.

That is the most politically saturated comment I've read on Slashdot in years. It completely ignores factual reality in order to push a specific agenda.

Here's a hint: if you want your cause to be taken seriously, don't become blinded by zealotry. In this case, there are plenty enough things wrong with the death penalty that you don't need to make this sort of off-putting overgeneralization, and, by doing so, you are harming your cause, rather than helping it.

Most of the theatres here have extremely uncomfortable seats. A small handful of them have decent seats and charge a premium for them.
They also try to sell you large drinks, which cause you to need the toilet, so you either sit there in discomfort needing the toilet or miss a chunk of the movie. If the movie is long then your drink will go cold (or warm) and not taste good.

At home i have a comfortable seat, i can adjust the volume to suit my needs, i can pause the movie if i need to visit the toilet or get another drink etc, and there's noone else there to distract me.

That sounds more like a bug or dropped support for older hardware.

No it doesn't. Monitors already have standards for reporting their capabilities and this works just fine on linux and mac.

A structured database, with separate code to query the data and perform calculations if needed.

There are very few cases where a spreadsheet is the best tool for the job, in most cases it's the only tool the user was given so they came up with some frankenstein mess.

You can't that's the point.
If someone can view the data, they can copy it. The only way to "secure" it is to prevent them from viewing it in the first place.

Any attempt to allow viewing while restricting copying or modification is theatre at best and only provides a false sense of security. At worst it's actively harmful because users who naively rely on such systems often end up taking less precautions than they otherwise would have.
There are _ALWAYS_ ways to bypass such systems.

100% of good Mustang sales don't even have a transmission.

(Because the good ones are electric.)

eCVTs are for cars. No belts, just 3 motors and a planetary gear. More reliable than any other option than going pure EV and ditching the transmission entirely.

What lunatic elected a cargo trike?