As it is now, the greatest tool(weapon) we have lies between our ears, more powerful than the fastest jets and the biggest bombs, and anything that improves it to perform certain tasks better is an option. So genetic manipulation, chips in brains, anything. Because if you don't, then someone else will and then you lose.

I'm guessing most of this is done in secrecy to prevent public outcries.

Ad Hominem much?

Turn the ship around and go back to the floating iceberg, board it, and wait for help there?

Galaxy. It's another galaxy in someone's bag.

there was no significant difference
        in symptoms
                between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo
three days
        after starting the pills were administered.

Humans are bad at understanding nested stuff, luckily for me, I'm a programmer.

Nah, It'll probably be something like:
It's a new propriety format! Proprieeeeeetttyyyyyyyyyyyyyy format!

What we need is a simple webpage with links to complete tutorials of how to protest this for each country, where people can edit the tutorials, like, a wikipedia for protests. I don't know how to create such a website quickly, but I'm sure some guys on Slashdot could whip out something like this in a couple of hours.

Don't forget to bill my ISP!

I have no attention span.

This guy explains things pretty well:
http://profmattstrassler.com/

Just don't buy from amazon and you won't be tracked!

Movies are much more realistic, why not start there first?

For those who are interested, there is a kind of prison architecture that allows the prisoners to think that they are being watched all the time:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Encrypt the ram as well :p