"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." -Microsoft

Who didn't see this coming? Anyone?

A long time ago before the laws got stupid one simple thing was obvious: if you make hacking illegal, the only hackers will be criminals.

Well, now this is the world we live in. Hacking was freakishly stupidly made illegal and now most bugs are found by foreign hacking gangs running crypto extortion schemes. It's completely stupid. Your laws aren't making these computer systems more secure, they are making them less secure. Let the local nerds have a crack at it where using extortion would be illegal so all they can do is mess with you a bit. Make white hat hacking not only legal, but legally protected. If you want software to be secure, then there should be the assumption that from day 1 there will be nerds poking at it.

Chromebooks are the only laptop you can actually secure against kids who take them home. There is nothing else on the market. They are made for a market where they are given to kids who smash them for fun and they are only expected to function for a few years and barely function at that. They suck, but there are legitimate reasons they are the way they are and there aren't better options for what they are used for.

• * Literally this poll is the reason I am installing Chrome

Not that Google is much less pushy about switching to Chrome, but if you're going to force me to answer a question before I do what I want then you should at least let me answer that your question is the reason for my decision. The same as every app I've left a negative review for.

Me: [doing what the app is intended for and generally enjoying life]

App: [interrupts with a dialog box forcing me to choose an option] Are you enjoying App?

Me: No, I am not enjoying that you interrupted what I was doing with App to force me to leave a review for it. What I was doing with App happened to be time-sensitive and important. Your idiotic interruption just cost someone's life and/or inconvenienced me in some small but perceptible way.

This is such a pervasive problem. Here we are years later and we have yet another scientist clinging to old data when they have been proven wrong.

I think part of early science education needs to be the concept that you can never prove theories right, only ever prove them wrong and that's it's ok that things are that way. People hate this concept, because they like building rigid belief systems where they know for sure the things they believe are right and never have to consider alternate possibilities. It's ok to do that, as long as you know how to spot cases when you are wrong and are willing to re-think things when they occur. Some people are unwilling to do even that.

The prime example of this should be Newtonian physics' most basic formula, Force = Mass * Acceleration. It's been tested and experimentally verified for hundreds of years by millions of people, and it's wrong. It always was, and always will be wrong. It is so close to right it is still used extensively, but only when we know the margin of error it introduces is negligible, and we know how to calculate that margin of error now so we know when it will be small enough to ignore and when it won't. There is no proving things right, there is only knowing that things have been right so far. The second the real world proves you wrong, you are wrong.

The ocean has uranium 235 spread all through it. It always has. It's fine in there. The best place for things that emit radiation is in water. It absorbs basically everything that can harm people. Fukushima is harmless compared to the massive devastation caused by Deepwater Horizon yet we keep talking about all these non-events and non danger situations as if they matter because "nuclear is scary". It's just not. The coal power plant down the road from me releases more radiation into the environment than Fukushima ever will.and you've never even heard of it.

91% of the time, it works every time.