Laugh all you want but the dinosaurs will tell you, oh wait, they wont ;D.

Best method is to reduce expectations and use hard copy. How much of that stuff do you really need to keep, how much is best served as memories, that simply pass when you pass. How much will simply be binned, when you do pass or failed to be properly backed up there in after. The best back up method is to focus first on what you are backing up, you only need to make the choice to delete where as backing up is hard to do and must be verified and repeated again and again and again ad nauseam. If you created it once you can do it again, if you could not be bothered doing it again, did you really need to back it up in the first place. Want something carved in stone, then you carve it in stone, want it to be flexible in digital then you are going to have to work at it, verify it, audit it, do backups of backups, change media over time, change hardware over time and expect back up failures no matter what you do because time not weeks but decades makes for real effort and often as you never end up making any use at all of that backed up content a waste of time that could be better off spent on creating new memories.

The problem with any new infrastructure in a crowded although crap infrastructure market is the ability of incumbents to temporarily change in order to financially cripple newcomers (drop prices, provide better services) and once that is done, the very second it is done, go immediately back to it exploitative practices. That includes buying out the newcomer which is facilitated by corrupt mergers of corrupt businesses to create a corrupt mega business with the cash reserve and the credit ability to buy out anyone. Want better business don't pray for new businesses get rid of the psychopaths in the existing businesses they do not belong there and are enormously destructive.

Colour me confused but aren't police meant to be visible on patrol, reassuring the public and obstructing the criminals by their presence. Being a police officer is not meant to be about being a revenue machines on the clock but a peace officer assisting the public in upholding the law and providing a first response emergency service. So shouldn't police be more like, hmm, great app, let's try to be everywhere on it and not just sitting down on our doughnut munching lard arses, as mobile revenue machines targeting the poor and middle class.

The issue that terrorist activity uncovers of course is what other countries are doing when they discover mentally disturbed individuals with a bent towards violence. Are they recruiting them as willing dupes to carry out acts that achieve desired political and economic goals of the controllers and not the crazy goals of the dupes. Deeply disturbing stuff, like were the Boston Marathon bombers actually set up to purposefully conduct terrorist activities in a foreign country (an act of war) and when that was denied did they retaliate, after all Russia informed the US of the nature of the individuals prior to their attempted return to Russia. How many of those acts of terror in recent years have had far deeper and much more malignant purposes, you know the bullshit of psychopaths, their sick means given value by their pretend ends. How many Islamic terrorist attacks have favoured the political goals of Israel, for example, some, many, nearly all? Does Israel have the patience or do they have a history of rushing things along, how do they treat Palestinians and how would they treat the rest of us in that light. Let's not forget Saudi Arabia that has the declared intention of becoming the capital of a Muslim Empire, otherwise what point forcing the worship of Mecca. There are a whole lot of questionable government and spy agency ethics or the lack there of going on.

Focusing in on other government spy agencies seems the far more logical and sensible choice. PS Russia you do not covertly spy on the US you overtly spy on the US, simply pay lobbyists to do you spying for you, it's allowed and in fact even demanded. Never heard of AIPAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... a public in your face agency of espionage and political corruption, allowed because of course campaign contribution through a pretend US organisation all remotely administered from Israel.

The self targeting computer payload is the dangerous part. Just get it near the target and let it go. Countries of course will be able to do more with drones or more accurately aerial mines. For example incorporating the explosive within the battery, so that between individual storage cells you have a layer of explosive material and so that you can incorporate the battery metals in the high speed burn, creating a very high compression, short range detonation. There is nothing wrong with having quad copters with wings, all you need to do is to be able to rotate the back rotors through 90 degrees in order to be able to substantially alter flight characteristics and range.

In a defensive deployment you send out a few hundred networked and feeding information to each other about terrain, targets and counter measures being applied and specifically target those counter measures before penetrating deeper, each time one is destroyed it sends out a cloud of detection obscuring material, which others can hide behind. So in short and medium range applications they do represent a substantial change and test the willingness of a government to kill every bird in proximity to the defended locations and of course where the missing munitions end up. Very effective against the concentrated and exposed forces of invading armies.

So yes, smart drones do present a real security nightmare likely best solved with diplomacy and the proper application of justice rather than just inciting terror with terror.

It should be hard and it should be difficult and it should require real effort and expenditure of resources. Otherwise the idiots will bury themselves in bullshit and chase imaginary cases whilst the real ones go unsolved. A full search warrant from a judge is required in order to prevent lying short cuts. They must have a real case to investigate and not be on some self serving crusade for personal reasons. Lets just ramp that up a bit whilst we are there and make disclosure of all warrants to it's target compulsory once it expires as they have a right to know and to be able to defend themselves from accusations. This is all about perverted douche bags seeking to gain greater power via extortion, that is the reality and they want to be able to hide that activity. GCHQ does not want to be an investigatory agency for the government it wants to become the government just like there buddies in the CIA and NSA. So how stupid will the poms be, just as foolish as the yanks or not? How long will it take for Americans to get the CIA and the NSA back under control by the government rather than having them control the government? Will the poms be able to pull GCHQ bank from the brink as it is pretty blatantly obvious it is teetering over the edge?

I kinda smell an OS that generates internet hits each it time it boots up and continues to do so while it is running. Need all those internet hits and have pretend balmy bing hits to be able to sell advertising. I would have deep concerns about how invasive it is as an OS and how much advertising it will be looking to start to sneaking in.

I would hope that M$ofties does not choose to be idiots and the default is secure and mind your own business and not insecure and invading your privacy. Better make sure some features have to be accepted and turned on twice to emphasize them and most definitely are not required to use your computer, else there will be a big price to pay.

There are better market areas to head off into rather than being douche bags in their advertising market war with google, now is not the time to double down on the stupid and pay attention to customer preferences that are never expressed in bean counter spreadsheets, those pots of gold at the end of the rainbow that turn out to be just full of angry customers.

You want to know who also agrees with you, terrorists agree with you, which is why they use terror to force people to do things that the terrorists want them to do. Democracy ie representing the majority and informing them sufficiently so that they can make sound decisions was all about putting an end to the rule of the minority who kept power and maintained power via terror, the terror of public executions. Whether they call themselves kings or emperors or gods, we just call them all terrorists today and their descendants are just narcissistic ass hats or worse psychopaths who should be behind bars.

So yes, the majority of people support the mandatory labelling of 'ALL' food. What exactly is in it. So what is so new about that. So some smart arse sucks in people who don't know what they are talking about thinks they win. So why didn't that same shit for brains ask people simple questions in a foreign language and laugh at their ignorance. Seriously give a few people a little more brains than average and they think they are geniuses.

It is pretty damn obvious that people want to know what is being put in their foods and screw all those that want to lie and deceive so they can stick shit in it because it is cheap and then add artificial flavours to hide the taste of that shit.

So you oppose representative government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., hmm, interesting, have you been investigated lately because I am sure that there are a few people that would like to talk to you after that kind of statement. So you oppose the idea of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, interesting.

So democracy is mob rule, hmm, OK.

I am sure all the kings and queens of this world agree with you. All the leaders of police states. All those self serving autocrats.

Reality is of course, that it is not like any thing of this planet is ever going to be permanent. Some localised environments well end up doing not much more than providing knowledge that can be used in other areas and many will disappear without any human ever being aware of them, let alone try to understand them and the knowledge they can provide about the rest of the environment we live in. All things in balance, the quest for knowledge and what it provides and the quest to preserve. Of course there is no balance in ignorance so that is no goal at all.

When it comes to a 3 or more button mouse, I find I like to keep my thumb busy and that seems to work pretty well. Want to test control ergonomics ask gamers.

Everyone has to keep in mind that the big screen high definition display is still far, far cheaper than a picture window with a good view and it can do far more with out disrupting the insulative affect of walls by putting holes in them. So one for every room, price being the driving issue.

Of course when it comes to content distributor, (buying the same content again and again under new marketing) and manufacturer (you must upgrade) PR=B$ and the latest double vision, the actors with botox and plastic surgery look terrible and their facial expressions are farcical (another new secret, exactly how much does Hollywood spend on animation to cover up bad acting and trying to keep up with photoshop levels of attractiveness) and every scenery defect shows up on 3D High Definition content, that content fails on better displays. The cinema warmly fuzzy look was not without reason.

It depends what they are actually saying when they say they want to security audit the devices. I take that to mean complete access to the source code for all software supplied with the device and complete access to detailed hardware designs. So yep, a security audit will allow the Government of China to hunt down bugs and make use of them "to access secure information stored on confiscated iPhones from activists, dissidents, journalists, and other troublemakers". Likely it goes deeper than this and they want to access all possible associated Apple devices with or without the users permission upon a global basis and Apple is like 'meh' profits first. Apple users in the US better watch out, it's not like the Government of China's investigatory agencies are even slightly free of corruption and many of the 'er' hidden features they find are pretty much guaranteed to become available to organised crime.