My credit card had to be cancelled due to fraud, and so the automatic renewal would not go through. I called to cancel and thought I had succeeded. A month later they called saying I owed them money, and that they had not received the cancellation. They said I had to call and cancel again and I refused and put the phone down. I am waiting for their next move, happy that they don't have a valid credit card number.

A detailed account of the development and deployment of nuclear weapons in the US during the cold war. There is a horrifying list of accidents, some of which only by luck avoided a nuclear explosion on US territory. The consideration of a pre-emptive strike on the Soviet Union. The military gaining control of the weapons from civilian control. All interspersed with a detailed account of the impact of a dropped wrench in a Titan silo, and the severe consequences.

Virtual desktops were one of the major advantages over Windows, until Microsoft finally caught up. One for the browser, one for email, one for my wife's email, one for VirtualBox, and the other 8 for whatever else I am doing. Couldn't do without them.

There will be no need for them to slow down either. To streams of traffic can just spread out a little and interlace as they go through an intersection, once most cars are autonomous. Passengers will get used to it after the first few times.

A public key can be just that - public - without loss of security. They can send it on a postcard, or paint it on the outside of their building, or even post it on their web site.