But the reality is, most sites with ads are infested with literally dozens of third party crapware, places which sideload junk into your system (specifically through crap like Flash), and which want to collect collate and sell your private information.

This.

And you know what I've found out? The "serve ads" and "collate demographics to sell" industries have merged completely. There is probably nobody left that merely serves ads and doesn't track across websites. Go ahead and delete Adblock Plus and run /only/ Ghostery and Privacy Badger. You get nearly the exact same results as if you ran an adblocker that uses a popular list.

Why Privacy Badger on top of Ghostery? Because it gets the things whitelisted by Ghostery. You didn't think that Ghostery was pure as the driven snow, did you?

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...all I see is blond, brunette, redhead....

...A ZONE OF LAWLESSNESS!!@11!!1!11!!1!

Your move Uncle Sam.

Give up yours first, and then maybe we can talk about what Apple and Google are up to.

Which is hilarious considering that bible thumpers tend to be the "kill em all and let god sort it out" type. Why else are executions so much more common in the bible belt? The more moderate religious people are the live and let live ones.

Write a version of pretty-printer that rerenders your code into a different style.

Have a lexicon of mipelled words for each "personality".

Another lexicon of variable names.
a vs inta vs int_a vs x.

Refactoring and unfactoring for subroutines.

Run the comments through google translate and back to english.
ukrainian
japanese
chinese

Synonym and antonym substitution in the comments.

The mind dances at the possibilities to mess with this algorithm.

For the love of god, please just give us a half-way decent internet connection. Please?

Hell offer it to Glendale or some other "city" in Los Angeles. I'll bet they'll find a way...

It's all about style. Writing software is very creative and it needs to have the authors fingerprints on it somewhere. If corporations don't like that they can suck the source code into a parser and spit out perfectly mundane crap that loses the intonation and the thoughts the original developer had for it.

I don't even have to hit "winkey+L" anymore. I'm supposed to login with my Lincpass card, and when I leave my desk, I take the card out of the slot, and it locks the screen.

I agree that an update to 802.11 would be nice, unauthenticated management frames are a potentially nasty issue; but the rest of the argument is nuts.

All sorts of crimes can be committed by means of a speech act(indeed, many crimes are hard to commit without some means of communicating, fraud, extortion, ransoming hostages, etc.); but that doesn't give them constitutional protection, any more than the argument that your god demands blood sacrifice would provide protection against murder charges.

This is classic Locke stuff: a restriction aimed at restraining speech is illegitimate and illegal; but that does not imply that the mere use of speech to commit a given act necessarily covers that act under the protections given to speech. Same with religions. Restrictions targeted at a given exercise of religion are unacceptable; but this does not protect someone who breaks a law established for suitable unrelated reasons.

There's also the (only partially related) matter that 'radio interference' need not always imply "really loud white noise or other stochastic garbage at the appropriate frequency". That's often the easiest way, and for relatively primitive radio systems that have very few features to exploit it may be the best one; but if RF emissions specifically tailored to cause a radio system to fail aren't 'radio interference', what exactly is? Higher level attacks offer substantial advantages in power requirements, precision targeting, resistance to noise-mitigation mechanisms, and so on; but just because they aren't pure noise doesn't make them not interference.

That seems like a fairly slim bit of legal weasel-wording given that nowhere is "your airspace" in the slices of spectrum that wifi uses. I would certainly agree that 'containment' should only be performed in 'your airspace'; but there is no such space.

In private buildings that don't offer guest services or otherwise accommodate outsiders, you can certainly disconnect anything you don't approve of from the wired LAN, and ask anyone operating a hotspot to leave or be removed for trespassing; but the notion that you enjoy preferential rights to that spectrum by virtue of owning the building is simply unsupported.

And the feeling is mutual, so everybody wins.

If you can't cash something in without crashing it's value it's not a good asset. Regardless of left pocket/right pocket issues. It's about maintaining diversified holdings for risk management.

If an insurance company tried to fund one of their annuity's reserves with company bonds they would slap the cuffs on them. Same should happen to everybody involved with SS.

Anybody with money in US bonds should be aware there is no functioning market for those bonds. The fed buys all excess at low interest rates. There is no market clearing price or interest for US debt. The market is rigged at best, a completely broken charade at worst. No prudent fund manager keeps more in US bonds then the US government requires.

Ponzi scheme is an accurate assessment.

Not mine, when I get up the prox card reader sees that I am not near the workstation and instantly locks, it will not even offer an unlock until I am within proximity again.

Really cheap to put in place less than $10K for the whole company. and increases security 80 fold. Problem is most IT departments are not savvy enough to do it nor convince management that it's more important than a new Jaguar for the Director of marketing. Heck my old Dell laptop supported it.

It is. Chrome OS, which is Linux is in wide spread use.