There is no easy to use, one click install solution for syncing all your calendars, notes and todo lists between Android and your GNU/Linux PC without having to give away all your data to third parties or having to pay monthly subscription fees.

Hopefully someone will develop this. Once Android has the same functionality as Palm organizers from the 90s, it will be more useful and perhaps even cease to being a mere toy.

Fuck you and all your fellow conspiracy theory crackpots! It is perfectly well known what happened. Some rebel under the command of Igor Strelkov alias FSB colonel Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin shut down the plane with a BUK missile system. There is no doubt about it because the rebels announced the news themselves to the whole world before they realized their mistake.

That's right, the US government would never lie to the press.

Nice theory but I very much doubt it's true at all. Hollywood was never known for sophisticated concepts and certainly never made lots of money from them. You probably say that only because you're not acquainted with cinema in other countries very well. My personal theory is that US movie makers have simply become dumber and the only good movies left are made by a few bright author/directors.

Be that as it may, it seems that the art has also declined with the rise of CGI effects and increased greed of movie studios. Hollywood movies nowadays are cut too fast while being too long (!), have lousy scripts focusing on cheap jokes and thrill, one movie is split into three (e.g. the Hobbit), and virtually any blockbuster title ends in a 20-30 minutes orgy of pointless CGI violence. There are severe problems with the plot development, most plots of contemporary thriller/action/sci-fi/spy/detective movies are simply not on a par with similar movies from the 70s. Interesting plots twists are sacrificed for endless action sequences. They want to maximize bucks more often than making good movies, and this used to be different.

For the vast majority of people their religion is merely a contingent by-product of their uprising, created by the mere chance of where they were born and what world views their parents have. If they scrutinize their religious ideas they will quickly find out that there is nothing at all to them, that they are illogical and untenable, not supported by anything besides what religious institutions tell them. In brief, religion is based on bullshit.

However, religious institutions and leaders of all confessions, from the shaman of a local tribe in Papua New Guinea to the Pope, have put and are still putting a lot of hard work in keeping people from scrutinizing their thoughts and world views, and it helps them that many people prefer to stay religious even though they are not really convinced, because they fear the wrath of supernatural beings. Only those very rare people who have been raised in a completely atheist and secular way are free of such fears (but of course that doesn't mean that they have no other fears).

From that crappy summary it's practically impossible to tell what's going on. Why does the police need to know who is in a house anyway? What crime are we talking about? Being in a house? Not being in a house? I really don't get it.

Even nowadays and certainly then the NSA would probably not pass anything in a public competition that they couldn't break in one way ot another. At least there is no indication for it. See e.g. the clipper chip debacle or the NSA's role in the development of bogus mobile phone encryption standards. Moreover, you presumably have no clue about what they use internally (and if you had, you weren't allowed to tell us).

So no, the only agency that can tell whether a given VPN is NSA-reistant is the NSA or another agency that has infiltrated the NSA very thoroughly - the latter being quite possible if not likely, given how easy it was for Snowden to leak so many documents.

If you buy a ticket there is no obligation to use it. It's called a free society.

... used, once enough other people have played the guinea pig.

You're an idiot.

You're too biased to be taken seriously. For example, among many other things, you forgot to mention that the US actively supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war. The US even supplied Saddam Hussein with 70 shipments of anthrax!

Hotbot was the best. I still miss it, because Google sucks.

This "cyber" bullshit is getting out of hand...

Or you could write the book, publish it at a large publishing company and get tenure + more money elsewhere.

It was kind of nasty, though, was it not? Muhahahahahaha... *evil laughter*