There's a reason I play this song to my kids a lot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI

Very good point. I heartily agree.

Great, by the same logic, we can outlaw abortion.

And yet I would suppose he supports the use of force against me if I'm not persuaded that paying my taxes is justified.

I see on Wikipedia that he supports funding universal healthcare by aggressive government action, though, as well as government aggression towards activities that are perceived to promote climate change. It's a shame he's not more rigorously consistent about this.

No, this will never be seen by governing officials. They want you to believe government will never do anything wrong, at least as long as you pick the right people in office. If anything wrong happens, it's because you didn't do the right thing in the last election.

It's basically a religious faith with no evidence.

I was thinking a pair of 128 GB microSDXC, one for each leg...

My 1985 VW Jetta GLI had an accessory position. It was the point in the turn where the windows and radio would be powered, but little else.

Actually, with enough pigeons and big enough storage on them, you could have great frame rates, just horrible latency :-)

It's not really. I run an open-wifi (outside the DMZ, filtered to prevent spammers) as a "public service" in case anyone nearby needs wifi. That means that there's nothing to stop nefarious code on the TV from using it... And even if I didn't, there may be easily hacked neighbor's wifi as well.
A 'dumb' TV is really what I want, but I haven't seen much in the ~70" size we're looking for, and the Seiki 65" looks interesting, but the experience I've had with the 39" isn't great...

Yeah, I _really_ should have been more specific, but I was in a hurry...

I've got a 4K Seiki 39" that I picked up when it touched $299 at Amazon for a day. It's doing temporary duty as our TV while we complete the remodel, then it'll become my 4K computer monitor and we'll be replacing it with a ~70" TV. It doesn't seem like there's a very large selection of 'dumb' TVs that come in that size.
And rather than the general comments I got, I really was looking for recommendations on what device I should buy today/soon based on Slashdotter's personal experiences. I figure I could look at A/V sites for recommendations, but they would be very unlikely to take the privacy/network security angles seriously.

I run an unencrypted wifi for public use, and so I imagine the TV could just use that. I suppose I could do MAC blocking, but that would involve me swapping out the original Apple Airport I use for the open Wifi, as it only does MAC whitelisting.

I think he's thinking of DMZ like the checkbox on consumer routers that opens that whole machine up to the public net.

I have been in the market for an HDTV for a while now, but haven't been convinced that any aren't massive security holes. Yes, I could leave it unconnected from the network, but then I'm just pushing the problem to another device.