As an alternative, both Cyanogenmod and ParanoidAndroid ROMs contain permissions managers. There are more than likely others, but those are two I've used.

Unless there's some fundamental changes to the OS that isn't included in the press reporting, I'm not really seeing anything that great about Blackphone other than the bundled services. My Nexus 4 has exactly the same protections: Baked-in permission control, including system apps, and VPN connectivity to my home / third party VPN service, or Tor network browsing. Kismet SWM is available on the Play Store store for free. Silent Circle services require a subscription, but available on any Android device.

Have I missed anything? I just don't see anything remarkable about "PrivOS".

The purpose of the Nexus line of devices is twofold:

1) You get the stock Android experience, not some third-party vendor bastardisation with bundled crapware
2) You can root and flash them in moments, there is no locking in place to prevent it

Making use of 2) above will allow you to run Android 4.4.3 on your Nexus One

Yes, it's sucky that Google abandon their devices like all other hardware manufacturers, but Google isn't a hardware company. Google produce Android so they can use it as an advertising and user profiling platform. The hardware is just a delivery mechanism.

Massachusetts has a pretty strong Castle doctrine

I'm not saying you should shoot Police officers, lawfully executing a warrant. I'm just pointing out that these guys don't seem to want to be considered Police officers.

That's why my ISP's router is nothing but a passthrough device for my own router, which in turn routes all traffic through a VPN out of the country. It's none of your fucking business what I do with the connection, just like as a Common Carrier it's none of my ISP's business. If you want to search my shit, get a warrant. Not wanting you logging at what I choose to read or watch online is not "reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing".

Hmmmm... I'm not so sure it's so unbelieveable. If you can be labelled an enemy combatant for wearing a Casio wristwatch I'm pretty sure you can be labeled a smoker for buying some cigarettes.

You're still thinking rationaly. You can't do that around these people.

One step further; You're with a friend and stop at a convenience store, he asks you to get a pack of smokes. Your insurance states you're a non-smoker. They use this data to refuse a claim in the future.

The kind of person who would benefit from this kind of tech carries a tablet in a jacket pocket or a bag, and has bluetooth headphones for their music. The watch then becomes a remote control device, or a means to check notifications on the tablet without removing it from where it rests.

Having bought a tablet a few months ago, I can see the appeal.

IANAP, but this seems easy to explain. We are observing our universe from the inside; To outside observers in other universes, our universe is crushed! We just can't tell because we, too, are crushed.

Is that how IANAx works?

I don't know, boycotting worked well for Modern Warfare 2 (JPEG, SFW)

Your numbers are almost as questionable as the ones posted by the iFind developers.

Almost.

Dude... http://hackertyper.net/

You're welcome.

I think that if a lady is able to leave her genitals on the bar while she goes for a pee, she has more to worry about than rape.

Inappropriate content, including pornography, should be blocked in schools, if not for the fact that it's inappropriate then because it's also likely that the site hosts malware (You don't think they make their money from those advertisements, do you?). Yes, you can get around the blocks if you are so able and willing to put in the effort, but that would also show intent.

Still, we all know zero-tolerance is moronic. I just hope the teacher was incompetent; He's likely now unemployable within his chosen career. It would be a shame if the school lost talent.

I can think of much worse days out than sitting in the sun with an ice-box of chilled beverages, snacks, and the guarantee that at least 10% of the people present also brought their Magic decks.

Of cource, there's also the chance you'll see a rocket launch.

Get ready for a shitty science analogy. Someone please chime in if this is just plain wrong.

You are sat on a boat in a pool, with a motor capable of pushing it at 5m/s, and this is the only force applicable to the boat because physics. You cannot observe anything outside of the boat's speed in the water; There is only you, the boat, and the water. Now, put a current in the water of 50m/s in the direction of travel of the boat. How fast is the boat going? You can't know anything about the speed of the water, so you think you're going 0.5m/s, and you are going 0.5m/s relative to the water. However, the water isn't subject to the same laws as you, and you'll figure that out once you've discovered a way to measure speed outside the boat.