In time it will be illegal to possess a general-purpose computer.
In time, at the rate and direction things are going, it won't even make any sense to bother with a personal computer, or the Internet for that matter. Goodbye computers, hello public library. Thankfully I'll probably be dead long before it gets so bad that you're forced by law to own a computer, forced by law to use Windows, and forced by law to use the Internet and register with Facebook (or whatever bullshit 'social media' site the dystopian future government will insist everyone use, or be declared 'subversive' or 'an undesirable' or 'a potential terrorist').
One more piece of evidence added to my ever-growing mountain of evidence that smartphone 'security' is about as solid as a colander -- and are just as likely made that way on purpose as not, to track our whereabouts 24/7/365, and collect as much data on us as possible. George Orwell thought it was going to be giant two-way televisions in our homes, that you can't turn off under penalty of law, but in fact it's the smartphone. Makes sense, though, doesn't it? That closes the one 'hole' in the always-on TV set, which can't track you once you leave the room it's in. They couldn't trick us into having tracking devices implanted in us, oh no! But they could sure trick us into voluntarily carrying a tracking device around with us, now couldn't they, by luring people in with Angry Birds and Candy Crush and Pokemon Go, and of course Facebook. Suckers..
Good job Elon, anything you can do in the cause of obstructing and dismantling Facebook is truly a service to humanity! Absolute genius on your part, killing two birds with one stone like that, performing your worst-case launch scenario testing of booster failure, and nixing Zuckerbergs' sattelite all at the same time!
Is the Mayor drinking lead-contaminated water or something? Because this sounds extremely stupid. Or does he not want all the municipal revenue from these huge companies in his city?
Yes, but if it's actually legit, then knowing it works is at least half the battle. The first computers were huge, slow, and clunky; 50 years later something with orders of magnitude more processing power and versatility fit into the palm of your hand. If this 'EM drive' is really legit, then chances are good that 50 years from now, we'll have spacecraft with powerful, power-efficient versions of it driving them, and we'll be able to flit all over our solar system in much less time than previously required, and in smaller ships because you won't need to take reaction mass with you everywhere you go, just radioactives for your power source. It'll be like the difference between having to have a whole barn full of hay for your horse(s) and being able to just fill the gas tank in your car.
Listen, fuckwit: Why should anyone be legally allowed to be flying little cameras around your house and yard? Why should you have to hide behind curtains? Why can't people respect other people's privacy and stay out of your yard and away from your house with their stupid little drones? More to the point: Why are you so submissive about it? Why are you not standing up for your rights? Do you actually believe somehow that these people with their drones have the right to be flying around your house and looking in your windows, or looking at you and your family in your yard?
If someone was parked on the other side of the street from your house and was watching you and your family in your yard, would you just let them keep doing that? Would you even walk over there and tell them to stop? If they didn't stop, then what do you do? Nothing? Put up with it? Or do you call the cops and report it? Why should idiots and their drones be any different? Invasion of privacy is invasion of privacy.
You're a mental midget technologically-speaking, your so-called 'smartphone' is FULL of security holes, you read about more and more of them every single day, and you have no idea what sort of backdoors there might be in the core operating system, exploits that allow remote control of your phone and access to it's contents withiout you ever noticing anything is wrong, or browser hijacks from websites you visit that have been infected with malware and spyware that are completely silent, giving no indication whatsoever of their presence or function. You're utterly, completely clueless.
I see a future market for a couple things: Anti-drone drones, and anti-drone jammers. From what I understand of it, if these drones lose their control signal, they drop into a safe mode of some sort, and either return to where they came from, or land. Don't want them around your house? Set up a jammer broadcasting with sufficient power that there is a perimeter within which drones won't operate. Problem solved.
No, what I think we need is to fight fire with fire. Build drones that hunt other drones. Perhaps like SAMs, you paint the target wiht a coded laser beam, and the drone locks onto the target and takes it out of the sky? Doesn't even have to destroy it, all it'd have to do is deploy some sort of net or chaff or string or something else that will foul the rotors of the targeted drone, and make it fall out of the sky.
I spend more time killing spyware on my smartphone than using its smart features. It seems to me, its not built for me, its built for companies to spy on me and sell me stuff.
Which is why I, and presumably many people, do not own one, either. They're like a swisscheese, security-wise, and I start to suspect that's on purpose, to make government and corporate exploits of it for spying and 'data collection' purposes easier. It just so happens it makes it easier for actual criminals, too. Do not want! Keep your shitty so-called 'smartphones', I'll just stick with a cheap-ass $50 throwaway dumbphone. It breaks, it gets lost or stolen, IDGAF, I'll just get another one. All it has to do is be a PHONE, it is not a LIFESTYLE. If I want internet access I'll use a real computer, not some underpowered thing with a tiny-ass screen and a grossly overpriced dataplan.
So the fuck what? If you're so OK with being spied on, then please post your address so I can drop by with a box full of cameras to install in and around your house so I can watch you and your family, Mister Jackass. Oh, what's that? You're NOT OK with that plan? Why not? You just implied you're OK with being spied on from both LEO and from a drone right outside your window, why would you not be OK with cameras all over your property, so I can fap fap fap properly to your wife and daughter(s) (or son(s), never know who might be on the other end of those cameras, LOL!)? I assume you're an exhibitionist, aren't you? Please post your address, I'm sure I can find lots of people who would just love to watch you 24/7/365. Especially your bathroom and bedroom. Oh, and you don't mind microphones too, do you? The sounds make the experience so much more rich.
Let's see how you feel about this when you look out your window one day and see a drone hovering there, looking right back at you with it's camera. Or maybe it's looking at your young daughter in your backyard. Yeah sure thing buddy we'll see how liberal you feel about hobby drones when some creep is spying on you and your family going fap fap fap.
Someone has to take a stand against these rude people with their privacy-invading toys. I look forward to more property owners protecting their right to privacy on the property they own. The more it happens, the more controversy it'll stir up, and the sooner there will be legislation protecting people's privacy from this airborne menace.
So 'Brannon', how far did you get in school before you dropped out/flunked out/was expelled? 4th Grade? 5th Grade?
Apparently you don't understand that you have to read EVERY SINGLE WORD to get the meaning of what someone is saying. Here, let me help you: DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has
I regularly use something to overwrite/erase files, and overwrite/erase free space on hard drives of machines I use; does that automatically make ME a criminal?
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
Now, then.. just because she used BleachBit doesn't mean she is or is NOT a criminal or committed a criminal act. If I were running an email server for my personal use I'd probably overwrite/delete on it occasionally, too.
No good. That's still something done in software (firmware, really). I want something that literally disconnects and pulls high the #WRITE signal to the flash memory via a hardwired physical switch. No possibility then of anything in the OS or any other software circumventing it. Think the write-protect tab on a floppy disk.
That's called 'price gouging' and no one would stand still for it. Electric service isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. In many places if you don't have electric service your property is declared 'condemned' and you'll be required to either get electric service or have your house demolished.
Doublespeak! Saying 'this power plant is citizen-fuelled' when all they're doing is forcing people to turn off their heat or air conditioning, is like a advertisement for something 'on sale' saying you're 'saving money': you're not 'saving' anything, you're 'spending less', which is still 'spending money'! It's not a 'citizen fuelled power plant' because 'citizens' are not 'fuelling' anything, they are just being forced to use less of what is already generated. Want to have a 'citizen fuelled power plant'? Put them on treadmills connected to generators in 8 hour shifts. Oh and by the way it'll cost more to feed them than you'll charge per kilowatt hour generated.
1) Expecting young humans to be rational 2) Expecting humans of any age to be rational about one of the most powerful hardwired instincts: reproduction.
Girls that are going to give in to their hormone-driven instincts are going to do so no matter what you do, unless you physically or medically restrain them somehow. Giving girls in that category babydolls like they did just 'trains' them to take care of the infants they'll eventually have too soon anyway, it doesn't deter them; more likely it just softens the impact of the reality of having a child to take care of.
Great. Point me at them. I've looked at various points in time and haven't had much luck finding any that weren't tiny in capacity and/or made by some unknown company.
Unless someone starts producing USB flash drives that have a hardware write protect switch that can't be countermanded by software, there is, in my opinion, still a need for optical media. Otherwise there is no way to truly protect your data from being altered or deleted by bad actors. The polar opposite woudl be cloud storage, which is about as 'volatile' as you can get; companies offering cloud storage could suddenly go out of business and screw you out of your data, or if they're being bad actors, futz with your data or delete it. There has been more than one news story over the years of people's digital purchases either being altered or deleted, even though they were stored on their local machines, because of either conscious decision or error on the part of the IP owners and their DRM. Recently there was even a case of a songwriter/musicians' own personal works being deleted by iTunes, even though iTunes/Apple had absolutely NO rights whatsoever to the content that was deleted! Nope, there is still a need for some sort of write-once-read-many storage medium, or something that can be made read-only on demand in a way that can't be overridden. Even removable semiconductor or rotating storage is still read/write, and for all you know the next time you plug it in, something will get deleted by some DRM action or malware.
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In time it will be illegal to possess a general-purpose computer.
In time, at the rate and direction things are going, it won't even make any sense to bother with a personal computer, or the Internet for that matter. Goodbye computers, hello public library. Thankfully I'll probably be dead long before it gets so bad that you're forced by law to own a computer, forced by law to use Windows, and forced by law to use the Internet and register with Facebook (or whatever bullshit 'social media' site the dystopian future government will insist everyone use, or be declared 'subversive' or 'an undesirable' or 'a potential terrorist').
One more piece of evidence added to my ever-growing mountain of evidence that smartphone 'security' is about as solid as a colander -- and are just as likely made that way on purpose as not, to track our whereabouts 24/7/365, and collect as much data on us as possible. George Orwell thought it was going to be giant two-way televisions in our homes, that you can't turn off under penalty of law, but in fact it's the smartphone. Makes sense, though, doesn't it? That closes the one 'hole' in the always-on TV set, which can't track you once you leave the room it's in. They couldn't trick us into having tracking devices implanted in us, oh no! But they could sure trick us into voluntarily carrying a tracking device around with us, now couldn't they, by luring people in with Angry Birds and Candy Crush and Pokemon Go, and of course Facebook. Suckers..
Good job Elon, anything you can do in the cause of obstructing and dismantling Facebook is truly a service to humanity! Absolute genius on your part, killing two birds with one stone like that, performing your worst-case launch scenario testing of booster failure, and nixing Zuckerbergs' sattelite all at the same time!
Is the Mayor drinking lead-contaminated water or something? Because this sounds extremely stupid. Or does he not want all the municipal revenue from these huge companies in his city?
Right now the thrust level quoted is micronewtons
Yes, but if it's actually legit, then knowing it works is at least half the battle. The first computers were huge, slow, and clunky; 50 years later something with orders of magnitude more processing power and versatility fit into the palm of your hand. If this 'EM drive' is really legit, then chances are good that 50 years from now, we'll have spacecraft with powerful, power-efficient versions of it driving them, and we'll be able to flit all over our solar system in much less time than previously required, and in smaller ships because you won't need to take reaction mass with you everywhere you go, just radioactives for your power source. It'll be like the difference between having to have a whole barn full of hay for your horse(s) and being able to just fill the gas tank in your car.
Listen, fuckwit: Why should anyone be legally allowed to be flying little cameras around your house and yard? Why should you have to hide behind curtains? Why can't people respect other people's privacy and stay out of your yard and away from your house with their stupid little drones? More to the point: Why are you so submissive about it? Why are you not standing up for your rights? Do you actually believe somehow that these people with their drones have the right to be flying around your house and looking in your windows, or looking at you and your family in your yard?
If someone was parked on the other side of the street from your house and was watching you and your family in your yard, would you just let them keep doing that? Would you even walk over there and tell them to stop? If they didn't stop, then what do you do? Nothing? Put up with it? Or do you call the cops and report it? Why should idiots and their drones be any different? Invasion of privacy is invasion of privacy.
You're a mental midget technologically-speaking, your so-called 'smartphone' is FULL of security holes, you read about more and more of them every single day, and you have no idea what sort of backdoors there might be in the core operating system, exploits that allow remote control of your phone and access to it's contents withiout you ever noticing anything is wrong, or browser hijacks from websites you visit that have been infected with malware and spyware that are completely silent, giving no indication whatsoever of their presence or function. You're utterly, completely clueless.
I see a future market for a couple things: Anti-drone drones, and anti-drone jammers. From what I understand of it, if these drones lose their control signal, they drop into a safe mode of some sort, and either return to where they came from, or land. Don't want them around your house? Set up a jammer broadcasting with sufficient power that there is a perimeter within which drones won't operate. Problem solved.
No, what I think we need is to fight fire with fire. Build drones that hunt other drones. Perhaps like SAMs, you paint the target wiht a coded laser beam, and the drone locks onto the target and takes it out of the sky? Doesn't even have to destroy it, all it'd have to do is deploy some sort of net or chaff or string or something else that will foul the rotors of the targeted drone, and make it fall out of the sky.
I spend more time killing spyware on my smartphone than using its smart features. It seems to me, its not built for me, its built for companies to spy on me and sell me stuff.
Which is why I, and presumably many people, do not own one, either. They're like a swisscheese, security-wise, and I start to suspect that's on purpose, to make government and corporate exploits of it for spying and 'data collection' purposes easier. It just so happens it makes it easier for actual criminals, too. Do not want! Keep your shitty so-called 'smartphones', I'll just stick with a cheap-ass $50 throwaway dumbphone. It breaks, it gets lost or stolen, IDGAF, I'll just get another one. All it has to do is be a PHONE, it is not a LIFESTYLE. If I want internet access I'll use a real computer, not some underpowered thing with a tiny-ass screen and a grossly overpriced dataplan.
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So the fuck what? If you're so OK with being spied on, then please post your address so I can drop by with a box full of cameras to install in and around your house so I can watch you and your family, Mister Jackass. Oh, what's that? You're NOT OK with that plan? Why not? You just implied you're OK with being spied on from both LEO and from a drone right outside your window, why would you not be OK with cameras all over your property, so I can fap fap fap properly to your wife and daughter(s) (or son(s), never know who might be on the other end of those cameras, LOL!)? I assume you're an exhibitionist, aren't you? Please post your address, I'm sure I can find lots of people who would just love to watch you 24/7/365. Especially your bathroom and bedroom. Oh, and you don't mind microphones too, do you? The sounds make the experience so much more rich.
I'm predicting (and hoping for) sales of shotguns to rise by at least 600,000 within a year, to meet the rising menace to our privacy from drones.
Let's see how you feel about this when you look out your window one day and see a drone hovering there, looking right back at you with it's camera. Or maybe it's looking at your young daughter in your backyard. Yeah sure thing buddy we'll see how liberal you feel about hobby drones when some creep is spying on you and your family going fap fap fap.
Someone has to take a stand against these rude people with their privacy-invading toys. I look forward to more property owners protecting their right to privacy on the property they own. The more it happens, the more controversy it'll stir up, and the sooner there will be legislation protecting people's privacy from this airborne menace.
Then they should just refer to it as 'reducing demand' and not 'generating power' because it is NOT.
So 'Brannon', how far did you get in school before you dropped out/flunked out/was expelled? 4th Grade? 5th Grade?
Apparently you don't understand that you have to read EVERY SINGLE WORD to get the meaning of what someone is saying. Here, let me help you:
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
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DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
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I regularly use something to overwrite/erase files, and overwrite/erase free space on hard drives of machines I use; does that automatically make ME a criminal?
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.
Now, then.. just because she used BleachBit doesn't mean she is or is NOT a criminal or committed a criminal act. If I were running an email server for my personal use I'd probably overwrite/delete on it occasionally, too.
If I can dismantle it and it's really a direct hardware connection to the #WRITE signal, then sure.
No good. That's still something done in software (firmware, really). I want something that literally disconnects and pulls high the #WRITE signal to the flash memory via a hardwired physical switch. No possibility then of anything in the OS or any other software circumventing it. Think the write-protect tab on a floppy disk.
That's called 'price gouging' and no one would stand still for it. Electric service isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. In many places if you don't have electric service your property is declared 'condemned' and you'll be required to either get electric service or have your house demolished.
Doublespeak! Saying 'this power plant is citizen-fuelled' when all they're doing is forcing people to turn off their heat or air conditioning, is like a advertisement for something 'on sale' saying you're 'saving money': you're not 'saving' anything, you're 'spending less', which is still 'spending money'! It's not a 'citizen fuelled power plant' because 'citizens' are not 'fuelling' anything, they are just being forced to use less of what is already generated. Want to have a 'citizen fuelled power plant'? Put them on treadmills connected to generators in 8 hour shifts. Oh and by the way it'll cost more to feed them than you'll charge per kilowatt hour generated.
1) Expecting young humans to be rational
2) Expecting humans of any age to be rational about one of the most powerful hardwired instincts: reproduction.
Girls that are going to give in to their hormone-driven instincts are going to do so no matter what you do, unless you physically or medically restrain them somehow. Giving girls in that category babydolls like they did just 'trains' them to take care of the infants they'll eventually have too soon anyway, it doesn't deter them; more likely it just softens the impact of the reality of having a child to take care of.
Great. Point me at them. I've looked at various points in time and haven't had much luck finding any that weren't tiny in capacity and/or made by some unknown company.
..and 'salute' the CIA/NSA/FBI/HLS/whatever other government assholes are spying on us FROM GODS-BE-DAMNED ORBIT.
Unless someone starts producing USB flash drives that have a hardware write protect switch that can't be countermanded by software, there is, in my opinion, still a need for optical media. Otherwise there is no way to truly protect your data from being altered or deleted by bad actors. The polar opposite woudl be cloud storage, which is about as 'volatile' as you can get; companies offering cloud storage could suddenly go out of business and screw you out of your data, or if they're being bad actors, futz with your data or delete it. There has been more than one news story over the years of people's digital purchases either being altered or deleted, even though they were stored on their local machines, because of either conscious decision or error on the part of the IP owners and their DRM. Recently there was even a case of a songwriter/musicians' own personal works being deleted by iTunes, even though iTunes/Apple had absolutely NO rights whatsoever to the content that was deleted! Nope, there is still a need for some sort of write-once-read-many storage medium, or something that can be made read-only on demand in a way that can't be overridden. Even removable semiconductor or rotating storage is still read/write, and for all you know the next time you plug it in, something will get deleted by some DRM action or malware.