When "Trusted Computing" is fully implemented, expect to pay for software by the hour. That is why Microsoft is so hot for it.

rsync.net seems to use standard protocols--in their FAQ it says "SSH and HTTPS (webDAVs)" (I've been thinking about using them for a while, just haven't made the plunge.)

It took me a minute to figure out what you meant by "ID." Then I remembered "Intelligent Design." My question is: they let a kook who thinks space aliens created life on Earth on CNN? Usually that is reserved for Coast to Coast AM.

Ask Darren Bousman. It looks like he just made a great movie funded by himself--The Devil's Carnival. Here is a sample. I haven't seen the movie yet (they are touring through the country, but no where near me), but it looks at least as good to me as any movie from a major studio.

If they wanted to protect users from malware, why would they make a feature where the user could inadvertently run remote code from a link?

Worse is how game console mfgs, Apple and others use Digital Restrictions Management to control what you can do with your computing devices. Microsoft is trying to get this on general purpose computers with their "Secure Boot" initiative. In the near future, you may not be able to buy a device which you can install the OS/software of your choice (or programs you write). You will only be able to run what the mfg allows.

CBDTPA and "Trusted Computing" are blueprints for how we are going to be controlled.

Well, at least you can still download 3.6.x from releases.mozilla.org. Though I hear they will stop updating 3.6 soon...

You are assuming computers have psychic mind powers to determine the intent of people using the service. The company was running a Bayesian phishing filter, but even this wasn't perfect. What do you expect them to do?

What "search"? Unless I misunderstood the story, the Feds contacted the site's registrar (GoDaddy) and asked for it to be shut down. The website's database was obviously hosted someplace else as the JotForm registered jotform.net and pointed it to their host, putting their entire database back online.

Yeah, right. The whole of Usenet receives far more than 200 posts/hour. That is why it is divided into newsgroups, so you don't have to drink from a firehose.

When you say Slashdot (or other web boards) "works fairly well," it just shows you've never used a decent Usenet newsreader program. A threaded newsreader blows away by far even the most "advanced" web boards I've ever seen.

You mean like the CBDTPA? They already tried that ten years ago.

Actually we need to both "stand up against censorship in the streets" and create "dark unknown meshnets" which evade censorship and surveillance.

Which is why you probably shouldn't use your real name when posting on the Internet. Then again, the government probably has a way to track you anyway. Don't some of the major ISPs have government hardware running on site?

Considering most MS Windows lusers, they'll probably be comforted knowing they can't load any "rogue" software. Even though there will be plenty of security holes for malware to get through, including Microsoft signing it.

(Yeah, mod me down microserfs. I don't care!)