What about players that refuse to play discs that are not recorded in the blockchain?

You're right. If your iSP doesn't give you a routable iP address, you can get a cheap VPS, open an encrypted tunnel from your home server to the VPS and, with a bit of pf magic, forward all incoming traffic on the 443 port of the VPS through the tunnel. There you go, static internet iP address for your self+hosted ownCloud.

It depends on the use case. My personal ownCloud runs at home, on an OpenBSD machine behind another OpenBSD firewall, the static IP being replaced by dynamic DNS. The offsite backup is provided by Tarsnap.

But, as you said, once you no longer control the physical access, you can't avoid having to trust somebody other than yourself.

OwnCloud - I control both the client and the server.

You can also see the pilots shooting at unarmed civilians who tried to save a wounded man and you can see the pilots shooting at the van with two children in it. What kind of asshole do you have to be to justify that?

Yes, DTEK also has logs for the last 7 days. Just an example: On my BB KeyOne, the OpenSignal app asked for location 261 times while in foreground and 22562 times while in background (in the last 7 days).

DTEK by BlackBerry does exactly this. Plus it can alert you when an app tries to access a certain resource (microphone, camera). Plus it can allow/deny access to each resource individually, unlike Google's all-or-nothing approach. Even if you grant all permissions when you install an app, when the app tries to actually access any resource (camera, microphone, address book, local files etc.) you get a prompt to allow or deny access to each of the resources requested. And, yes, it comes installed on the Android BlackBerry phones. I don't have another Android phone, so I can't tell of it's only available for BB phones or not.

A friend has asked a butcher, while buying meat, where to get an industrial meat grinder. He spoke the question, did not write/e-mail/text/IM it. Same evening, at home, Facebook started showing him ads for industrial meat grinders. This happened last year. Coincidence, right?

My cat knows the emitter is creating the red dot, but he still chases the dot for fun. When I reach to get the laser pointer, he becomes excited (before I have the device in my hand) and stares to the carpet, one meter away from my feet, waiting for the red dot to appear. He clearly enjoys the play although he knows where the dot comes from. Also, the cat wants me to hold it and create the entertaining chase, why would he want the boring device? What exactly did you intend to prove with your example?

To consider that US did not nuke USSR out of morality is naivete. They did not have enough nukes to disable USSR in 1945 and, when the 3-4 nukes would have been gone, there was no way to defeat USSR at home. Second fail is to compare the 1940's USA with late '80s USA. The americans overturned democratic governement all over South America and Middle East in the meantime, so, no, US is not to be trusted, just feared and respected.

The sale allowed USSR to catch up to the US and made sure they don't have too much advantage over the USSR and don't grow too confident in their chance to disable the USSR with one swift nuclear attack. Basically, Toshiba ensured mutual assured destruction remained effective and, probably, saved the world this way.

Developing and improving tools essential to developing technology. Saying that tool makers are not needed is a catastrophic short-sightedness. My calculus professor used to say that we discover theorems, simplify them for use with computers and give to the engineers to use them for whatever.

... given that Windows Defender is a re-branding of Reliable AntiVirus, whose architect (Costin Raiu) Kaspersky hired from GeCAD before GeCAD sold RAV to Microsoft?

Wasn't that obvious for years now? "The law doesn't apply to us" sounds dishonest to me.

There is a Chrysler dealership in Calgary that offers just that: having their nails done while their car is being serviced.