@Navin R Johnson: This has been debunked through thorough experiment. Any burger that is small enough, whether from McDonald's or homemade, will not rot since it dehydrates too quickly for mold to form.

@GranMastaB614: Because it's a lot easier to slap a VCR-sized laser box to a helicopter than to make sharks fly. Even with jetpacks.

@apeguero: The west coast is a lot better about this than the east coast and midwest. For example, here in Seattle, almost all of Seattle City Light's energy comes from hydro:

@trs: Nobody considers it today because if there was any sort of Challenger-like failure, you would end up spewing tons of nuclear waste through the entire atmosphere. It may also run afoul of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.

@Drizzten: Yeah, they already do this. Regular permission requests are grouped together and rolled up, and are in black. Permission requests which you might want to consider more deeply are highlighted in orange with warning boxes next to them.

Surely there are things that can happen that you can do a thing about.

You know, Windows does have a secure storage area that is equivalent to using EFS. If an application uses that correctly, your password is relatively secure.