"As an Australian, my biggest objection to this is the huge waste of money to set this up, maintain it and enforce it."

And the amount of money to a\work around it. Like in France, where people are massively shifting to VPN.

The US is to blame for stirring up the conflict in the first place. Together with the EU.

" Reports claim he was traveling at speeds of "nearly 100 mph"

So, is that so special in the US? I drove much faster than that this evening on my way home from work on the highway (180 km/h on GPS = 113 mph), But then, I don't drive a Tesla.

I'm looking at her pictures right now. Unfortunately Pinkmeth is SLOW right now. Might have something to do with all the fuzz about it. :-)

" has the NZ public eating out of his hands as the caped crusader for justice"

You have to admit the FBI is making this quite easy for him.

You also appear to be in the unfortunate circumstance to live in the police state the US has become. Kim DotCom lives in New Zealand, and has therefore a little more protection from laws regarding to due proces.

And even if they do, the ISPs can go to the EU supreme court. The UK could of course bluntly refuse to obeey their orders, but the Tatcher method of threatening to leave the EU could these days trigger a response in the way of "then leave if you like".

"PrivOS’ main innovation is its Security Center, an interface that allows the user to explicitly control just what bits of hardware functionality and data each application on the phone has access to"

Those of us with a normal but rooted Android can do these things already with XPrivacy, an XPosed module. Fine grained control per system call, also for system apps (yes, that includes keeping pre-installed Facebook out of my address book and gps data). And I can choose to simply refuse, or tell it the address book is empty and I'm on the south pole.

Yes, we exported our religious zealots and criminals to the US. Clear example of GIGO.

The logical conclusion is that, because the current universe clearly exists, there is something wrong with either the BICEP2 measurements, conclusions or the theory of the Higgs field. IMO the first 2 options seems the most likely to contain an error. This kind of measurements is extremely complicated and a lot of assumtions are made to get from the raw data to the conclusions. The Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BICEP2) already states that they are backing down a bit and investigating alternative explainations.

Then what is that Blackwater company (or whatever it calls itself now) doing?

More like not updated over almost 2,5 years. My copy of 7.1a is from February 7, 2012.

TrueCrypt doesn't use public key cryptography. The most likely possible flaws that are non-obvious would be a faulty random number generator but that has been audited and nothing suspicious was found like in the NSA toolkit. Further, the changed source of 7.2 contains of not only omissions and additions with warnings, but also other work in progress that had not been hecked in yet. So it likely does come from the original developer. My 1st guess is problems with a government, my 2nd guess is personal problems of the developer.

So what? The author of TrueCrypt is not known and does want to remain anonymous. So suppose I create a fork and distribute it under GPLv3, who is going to complain? A lawyer has to represent someone who can prove he has the rights to the code, he won't be able to do that while representing someone who wants to remain anonymous.

Yes, and new hard SF series are hardly produced anymore. After the premature cancellation of Stargate Universe it died more or lesss out. :-( (and no, swords and dagger fantasy, while entertaining, is NOT hard SF).