Or a single 16 year old charged with possession of child pornography and labeled as a sex offender for life for having nude pictures of himself on his phone.

No. I ask wherefore Romeo.

You know, Dell doesn't do laptop features to be cool. Dell is never the "cool company". If Dell is putting touchscreens in half their line-up, it's doing it because customers want it. And it is.

Macs come with a Python environment. Not PyCharm, but the command line environment. Fire up the Terminal app and type "python" All Linux distributions come with the Python environment pre-installed. Fire up the terminal app and type "python" On Windows, fire up your browser, type "python download" and you can have a Python environment installed in two minutes. Not as easy as having the Apple ][ boot into FP Basic or MS-Dos boot into a command line environment where you only needed to type "basica" or "gwbasic", but it's close enough.

What traps heat on the planet? First, there's water. one calorie per degree per gram. Second, there's the earth crust itself. Just 0.2 calories per degree per gram, but still nothing to sneeze at, and it's heavier than water. Third, there's the air itself. That's why the ambient temperature at the surface doesn't go near absolute zero at night, but stays only a little lower than daytime temperatures. Fourth, there's humidity. That's why in tropic regions, the temperature is only a few degrees lower at night than in daytime, while in a desert the temperature can go down by 20 or 30 degrees centigrade. Fifth? Well, I guess the other greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane also have some effect. Not nearly as much as the sun and the previous four.

Wikipedia is public, right? We all see the same thing - there's no personalized content. But if I show you a list of the pages of Wikipedia somebody browsed, you might learn quite a bit about their interest, quite a bit about them. And it's not just Wikipedia. What you choose to read in news, what you choose to view on Youtube, what you search on Google - it all says a lot about you - a lot of stuff that is nobody's business. Now there's no getting around the fact that Google knows what you are looking at and if Wikipedia wanted they could collect data about you too. But at least others might not. As an extreme example, consider a gay teenager in Uganda. Uganda has some of the most stringent anti-sodomy laws in existence. Suppose this confused teenager googles "what does it mean if I'm attracted to another guy". Without encryption, the government can easily know. With encryption, they have to break HTTPS. It's not perfect protection, but it's better than nothing.

A 9-pound hammer is replaced by a 5-kilo hammer. 9 pounds is for sissies. A quarter pounder weighs exactly the same and is called a "Royale" in McDonald's. When you buy it anywhere else, you'd never get such a small burger, but I have seen 110-g mini-burgers. What you are suggesting is to change all products to suit the new system. That doesn't make for easy adoption. Should all computer makers also change their products to have screens of integral number of centimeters? No, and you wouldn't want to. They measure screen sizes in inches all over the world.

Really? Where? Nowhere in Europe since Christianity took over has polygamy been tolerated. And even in the near east where it was permissible, the vast majority of men had one wife, with polygamy reserved for the very rich and limited to four women apiece. While some men in all society remain unmarried for a variety of reasons, nowhere has this been the norm.

Bikeshedding is about the material, not about the colour. Just so long as the choice is not asbestos, you'll be fine.

They are not real "team of theoretical physicists from Oxford University". They are simply NPCs designed by those who built the simulation to tell us that it's not a simulation.

People spend more hours looking at their phone than looking at the controls of their car. And yet we wouldn't think twice about someone paying $3000 more to get a nicer car. Nothing wrong with spending a little extra to get something nice if you've got the money.

Engineers drive trains. If you don't drive a train, you're not an engineer.

It's not 1%. Under 10% of sales are online. Less than that for P&G. Those ads are supposed to be driving the >90% that are done in physical stores or by mail order. They are evidently not doing that.

Anti-trust does not require an actual monopoly. It's enough to show that Google has market-controlling power, and that is quite believable. Gab is also arguing that Google is using its monopolistic power to prevent them from competing with Google's own social media efforts (Google+) and that of companies it is close to (Twitter). That is a tougher sell, but it's up to the court to decide.

They're going to need to use *your* wi-fi. What do you mean you don't have a password?