I'll concede that, and I'm not sure if I want my social network data to be used in finding a route (unless I am actually looking to visit my social network contacts). We could base the data on publicly available crime statistics with real-time updates?

I don't know, if the titanium plates were mounts for a multi-optic cybernetic implant (and a laser), I might go for that.

There is definitely a fine line between utility and racism in this case. How does one overcome cries of racism while still maintaining accurate data? One could of course discount race from the algorithms but I imagine having a user rate a neighborhood as 'safe' or 'not safe' or even 'dangerous' does from a technical point. Of course, the wetware inserting the rating could be using race as a reason for the rating.

Unfortunately they were too busy making tea to be smug about this latest development.

I thought technology and features were supposed to increase - not decrease - with each successive generation of product? Is Amazon trying to kill sales of it's own e-reader? To what end?

Government boundaries? This is the same government that continuously gives the Constitution the finger with all the new exceptions to laws that congress critters pass for themselves, with all the new powers they grant for themselves, etc. ad infinitum. I'm not sure he'd have it any better, but it certainly wouldn't be the same.

I was thinking more like 1863, but sure.

True enough. Unfortunately there isn't much one can do about him. I think right now he's doing more harm than good to Wikileaks. They need to go back to leaking stuff unredacted and w/o the threat of blackmail.

We already lost them. It's only now that the illusion comes crashing down around us.

It seems like it is.

You obviously do not have the 1.4GB "wikileaks insurance" file.

Now to get that key.

It has indeed begun.

Those who said NAT wasn't the answer: You are correct, unless you are a spammer, in which case this is a windfall.

In the first sentence: alleged.

Whether true or not, there are consequences for theft.

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