The bottom line is "the tech industry" mines and sells your data (i.e., "every little thing you do"), so in order to keep their bottom line growing "the tech industry" must get the NSA's ability to mine for terrorist activity stopped before the American people force their (not "their" as in "the American people's", but "their" as in "the tech industry's") Representatives and Senators to again prioritize their Constitutional responsibilities above their bought-and-paid-for promises and outlaw all data mining as the invasion of privacy that it is.

The real power in America has been transferred to corporations; if you're serious about protecting chimpanzees, incorporate them.

Voila! - instant super-"citizens".

Maybe Google has decided "Why make it easier to pick out what our customers are interested in - or, for that matter, why reduce the volume of electronic transmissions that must be analyzed? Let the spam flow!".

I suspect that Doug Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been worded slightly differently had this occurred before he finished his book; i.e., when the reason for the destruction of the Earth (the construction of a hyperspatial express bypass) was given, I suspect the sentence "Doesn't matter, anyway; they chose to self-obsolete with something called 'patents'." would have appeared shortly thereafter.

Relying on people's technical ignorance is catching, it appears...spare printer parts are named weapons components (undoubtedly as a prelude for a campaign to make the printers themselves illegal)...and here in America, a $294 million (!!!!) secure website, the private contractor explains, cannot possibly be expected to work as it was never tested end to end...

And of course nobody says "What! $294 million (!!!) for a secure website, and you couldn't spare a few millions for unit testing?"...because they - both the American public and our Congress - either don't know any better or would find the truth to impair their intended political narrative.

If the Iraq War taught the world nothing else, it should lie in the example set by Tony Blair and George W. Bush: Just being a "world leader" won't stop an individual from lying...and human lives are among the stakes.

Now if you're really upset, then simply demand that the NSA share all of the conversations of the "world's leaders" with the world's peoples.

Then a possible negative is made into an absolute positive.

What are you trying to do? Make me miss the old BBS systems where a BBS owner would get in a snit because you laughed at his or her pet paradigm and toss you off?

(When you snuck back on and realized that all of the content that you'd typed or uploaded at 300 baud had also fallen victim to their wrath, it was a little depressing.)

OCZ's drives don't fail at an any higher rate than, say, WD's first generation SATA 3.0 drives, so look at the bright side: If the two vendors were sports cars, your use of OCZ SSDs would ensure that people emitted the proper "Wow!" when they read how fast you were going before your brakes failed and you hit the tree.

(lolll...personally, I bought some Vertex IIs, some Agility 2s...and stopped.)

lolll..and those seeking to "profit" can be individuals or groups of individuals like theft rings, political factions, religious entities, corporations, and states...

Somebody found it profitable enough to make an effort to stifle the spread of knowledge about the backdoor?

"Profit" can be anything of value, of course.

Ahhhhh...so I was supposed to assume "bad neighborhood", "these people", and "carry guns" referred to non-Anglo/non-Caucasian, non-native American Hispanics of recent Mexican origin?

My bad...see how simple it becomes if you clearly convey your definition of "bad neighborhood" by ethnicity and country of origination when you don't want to use more telling and appropriate data like crime statistics? E.g., this whole discussion on what people are supposed to infer from "bad neighborhood" could have been avoided had you used the term "high-crime neighborhood" instead...

And - and - you wouldn't have been forced to reveal either that you indeed were equating "bad neighborhood" to specific ethnicities and nations of origin (Hispanic Mexicans) or that you expect other people - to include me - to infer "black population" from "bad neighborhood".

lollll...nonetheless, I still reserve my right to mis-infer. And understand that I do not rule out the possibility that you have nary a bigoted bone in your body...but you have revealed that you do recognize that people of a certain character will choose to infer specific ethnicities are responsible for specific behaviors - so you should try to be specific else you'll find yourself quoted (that dreaded "Share" link makes it easy) somewhere on the web as "proof" that specific biases are justified.

No doubt, for example, your "Hispanics who came recently" will be interpreted by some as "illegal immigrants"...which I will assume (as dangerous as that is) is not what you meant.

Huh...Encyclo says:

Look up: Trans Love

transference love
Love expressed by the patient for the psychoanalyst as a manifestation of transference. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?transference+love

transference love
Type: Term
Definitions: 1. love expressed by the patient for the psychoanalyst as a manifestation of transference (3).
Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=93242

Guessing that isn't the meaning you meant...so - using the meaning implied by the conversation thus far - nah, don't think those were any more my emails than the ones on "Make her happy..." were yours.

Crap...now I have to look up "translove".

Equally funny...although I'm not sure why you jumped in to explain what I'm supposed to assume. Have you heard a Whoooosssshhhhh! lately?

Funny, to me...the reader is supposed to assume something from "bad neighborhood", "these people", and "carry guns"...so I did.