A technologist is the same thing as an ethicist.i .e. someone with an opinion on a subject who wants to create a false sense of credibility

Citation needed.

Disclaimer: I don't agree with the following, but here are the counter arguments that I think would apply. To an extent described in the article.

1. Willing suicide bombers are rare. This means that if there is a significant chance they will be caught pre-explosion, they will seek another avenue. So the goal of TSA measures is not to catch 100% of smuggled weapons, it is merely to make airplanes too risky a target. If the bomber/hijacker is caught, the expensive resource is squandered.

2. These tests are performed by the agency's own 'red team' who have extensive knowledge and resources to draw on. It is common practice to have training tests far exceed the level of threat one is likely to encounter in the real world. In other words, the real world adversary is nowhere near as skilled and capable as the red team.

The school is doing its job. Is there a better way to educate students about the value and practice of privacy?

Reading the article about Cyanogen, I realize I need to be as wary of them (and their Microsoft partnership) as I am of the other big players. Time to check out some other Android variants.

I am sure gene tests for conditions that are 100% due to genes are accurate. But how does one determine if an estimate of risk is accurate or not? If the lab tells me I have a 10% chance of getting cancer, and I do, that doesn't establish anything unless I can live the same life repeatedly. The article doesn't say anything about tests being 'often wrong' instead it is about different labs judging risk differently, and the need to share information to try to narrow that variance.

I expect parent was saying that OpenWRT has bugs fixed regularly, and was not making a claim for free software in general. Also, free software is not the same as open source software. :)

I presume you are talking about the USA. How much does policy change in nations where voter turnout is higher?

With base interest rates at effectively zero, it isn't hard to predict that asset values like this would inflate. In other words, financing is so cheap that things that wouldn't get it at higher interest rates now find it easy to come by.

That's one bone of contention in the whole mess. While Greece borrowed money it could not pay back, shouldn't the lender also take some responsibility for giving the money to them in the first place? I keep waiting for Greece to say something like 'all these banks are going to take a haircut or we drag all of you down with us'

This is a false dichotomy. What is often overlooked is that fiscal 'austerity' is only a small part of the bigger issues afflicting Greece. If half your economy is dependent on government spending, and government spending goes down, well there goes your economy. So what happened to the rest of the Greek economy? They are crippled by a huge list of counterproductive regulations from some dreamland they have been in for decades. I don't mean regulations like 'dont dump poison in the river' I mean regulations like 'there can only be one pharmacy in each town' or 'all freight has to be driven by a Greek driver'. Getting rid of all that garbage is the other half of the austerity program that is typically overlooked.

Just a few years ago Poland was looting retirement funds and pensions, so it can't be far behind Greece.

If there is one pump and one line, that would be true. Usually there are 8-12 pumps and one or two guys manning them all.

And do they have a a successful antivirus business?

The whole idea is just DRM on meth. It is just information, and you can't lock up information.