they are hopelessly incapable of spotting that corruption

To call out that corruption in a different situation is to deny yourself the very corruption you enjoy in your favored situation.

The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
- Frederic Bastiat, 1848

The patterning comes from young children not challenging their parents' misbehavior, for genetic fear of being left to starve on a hillside. The fundamental problem is American adults who are willing to allow themselves to be treated as children.

Why does "Nude" equate to "Rude"? Oh right, I forgot... we're afraid of our bodies and spooked by healthy sexuality.

Puritanism is the State Religion.

Can you make it snapshot anytime a file is modified? Also, can you easily find all the snapshots for a single file?

It sounds like you're looking for a versioned filesystem, not a snapshotting filesystem. The latter is a point-in-time of the whole filesystem tree, the former is file-centric. Windows derives from VMS, which did file versioning by default, so that's not too surprising.

Tux3 or copyfs on Linux might be ways to do it. A quick google said that there's a way to make Alfresco present an SMB share with versioning - I hadn't considered networking a document management system, but OK, why not?

Dude, you just got trolled by a guy stuck working for ULA. Just tell him to ratchet up the 401(k) contributions and go back to his expensive, late, old-tech rockets.

This hasty reaction to appease the angry mob

When the magician is waving his hand over here, you always have to look at the other hand to see what's really going on.

Turn your assumption on its head - cause and effect are reversed. The taxi industry paid the corrupt politicians to crack down on their competition. They promised a riot for the politicians to "react to" so that it wouldn't be quite so bloody obvious to the muggles that it's just corruption-as-usual at work.

Because what makes more sense - that politicians started to ban stuff to appease a mob? Or that they're corrupt and they got paid off? Obvious cover story is obvious.

"But look, bantha tracks, ghaffi sticks - it looks like sandpeople did this, alright."

Good luck crossing the British Channel with a jetpack while being tailed by the RAF... ;-)

Bond hasn't done a Chunnel rocket sled ride yet?

Anyway, there are much simpler ways to smuggle somebody clandestinely. It would be irresponsible to enumerate the options here, but the logistics aren't impossibly hard, so Assange must feel he's better off conducting his mission where is is right now.

possibly illegal to perform medical tests on someone without their consent

Well, here's another way for a male to do a medical test on a female for STD's - stick your dick in her and see if you get a disease.

Here's something else that's illegal: tell somebody you don't have herpes and then have unprotected sex with them. Or tell them you're on the pill and then have unprotected sex to "land" them. Or just grab the used condom out of the trash while he's in the bathroom and cram it up in there - "oops, must've been a hole in the condom".

It would be a much happier world if none of these things never happened. Given the extant State mechanisms, casual encounters have become fraught with risk and somewhat adversarial. Heck, in some US States, it's becoming necessary to have a signed consent form with a blood test first.

Maybe what we need as an invention instead is a "photo booth" with a portable blood testing microarray and legal consent validation, with results cryptographically signed onto the blockchain.

So much for just rolling around in the hay loft.

They'll probably use this to ban some app that's helping to get materials and supplies into disaster areas using the pricing mechanism. Whenever a disaster happens, demand for goods skyrockets past supply, prices rise to guide allocation and outsiders desire to risk capital and safety to get supplies in, seeking profit. Then State actors castigate them, threaten to imprison them (dog-whistle: "price gougers"), and so the supply dries up again. Every economist recognizes how this works, but politicians seek to dismiss economics reflexively.
I thought Google was smarter, though.

to play devil's advocate (for now anyway) can't State-level actors simply demand this information anyway?

I'd be happy seeing cryptographically-secure domain registrations, but I'm not sure the status quo does anything but lull users into a false sense of complacency.

People who want real privacy are using .onion domain names now, because of the current reality. Making the truth plain isn't always a bad thing.

no power, still doesn't work over water. lame.

A container is what used to be called a virtual machine running a single application which is fucking amazing, like a standardized cargo container on a boat from Hanoi to Wyoming.

TFTFY

hey, I think it's great that these particular crazies have a town to move to. I mean, to voluntarily live under radio silence already takes a special kind of person. This seems like really good news.

I'd love to see more towns concentrate all the gluten-free or GMO-free or nut-free or chemtrail-free or DHMO-free people. I suppose I should clarify 'tree nuts' to disambiguate word overloading on this story.

If the hardware doesn't work with default Windows or Linux distribution, it's shit. (think clean install).

Dude, we gave up interfacing everything through BIOS before the 80's were done. I recently installed an Intel NUC for the parental units with CentOS 7 and the WiFi didn't work until I had applied updates and installed the firmware package, and that's completely OK for new hardware. Hard-burned ROM's are extinct.

You're asking for a world without progress. Between that and Samsung's attitude here, it's no wonder people wind up sucking it up and buying Apple; they win when everybody else fails.

At least Samsung has their Chromebook line to show them it's not impossible to make a passingly-competent OS.

oh ... so your comment is clear, expository, and lucid - but I was planning to do some stabbin' with this pitchfork, so now what?

I'm sure his music was competent but it wasn't memorable. The masters can make them both. I could hum the tune of Jurassic Park, Superman, or Indiana Jones any day, but Avatar, Krull, or Wrath of Khan? No, sorry - no recall. I have a handful of movie soundtracks in my collection and Horner isn't on any of the labels. Sad news, still.