If a camera films you while you are on someone else's property, then I'd argue it isn't an invasion of privacy since there was no expectation of privacy to begin with.
Also, it would be nice if you would identify yourself as an employee of Density when you post comments.
No, the mantra is actually "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
And yes, one usually installs easy_install to install pip, but I don't see how that can create a "very long dependency chain". Even when both tools are installed, you can use either to install packages.
The RAM is ECC, according to the "dmidecode -t memory" command.