Concur, again...we didn't get all of the Charlie Mansons out there locked up.

I certainly wouldn't disagree with you - in fact, I'd say that your comment is so very "common sense" that I am unable to see the actions of that filmmaker or those who distribute that film as being anything other than a conscious attempt to betray our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines as well as all overseas American civilians.

Perhaps...I won't bother to contest the definition of "plenty"; instead I would ask how many GIs are demanding that other Americans be sent off to risk life and limb to satisfy their lust for blood sacrifices in the name of religion while they stay safe at home?

Strange, how the blood-thirstiest Americans on all subjects Islamic are those who have avoided - or, all too often, evaded - wearing one of the uniforms of this nation's military.

Talk about an obvious use for a g-force sensor...what's next? Somebody patenting using a screwdriver for a chisel or to open paint cans?

FOSS ain't totalitarianism. The point, IMO, of open source is do it the way you think is the best way. If enough people conclude you're right, your way is incorporated. If insufficient do, you reanalyze and improve (at least a couple of times) until your approach gains acceptance. All while keeping an eye out for parallel development efforts that look "smarter", "better", "more efficient", or what have you - and then incorporating those ideas if feasible or abandoning your effort if the general direction you're going becomes a dead end/obsolete before acceptance.

To summarize, when you have complete freedom failure is a decision you choose for yourself - it ain't somebody else's fault. It can be a community's "fault" if you feel you must attribute fault (we call those who attempt to lay blame and isolate all power to themselves "Republicans" in America, and must constantly duck their accusations that community involvement in any and all things is "mob rule"), but hey - that's democracy.

Their mothers. Duh.

It would appear to me that you said that.

I said that once your data leaves your physical control, it is available to anybody who has physical access to the hardware infrastructure of the internet and/or - dependent upon link media - the ability to tap LOS and/or satellite communications. Which includes many multinational corporations and - dependent upon endpoints - many governments. And your data is additionally available to anybody who successfully breaches the software at an endpoint, whether that endpoint software is a website or a webapp. Said breach might be man-in-the-middle or simply leeching.

Roger that...there are still Telco lines out there that are wick...eh, I mean paper insulated "dry" core.

Depends upon whether you're serving your web app up "in-house", does it not? If data - even encrypted data - exits your premises, then it becomes accessible to others by definition as you do not have physical control over the communications links.

While it made me laugh, you should add that they should first get a white collar job or at least take the exams to become a licensed stockbroker.

That's where the free pass comes from: Whether you're associated with a mainstream "business" or not.

I.e., people were voluntarily saying "Here is everything that there is to know about me - snoop away, whether you're a government or a gigantic corporation. I'll content myself with just bitching about it as you put all that is me - all that I have given you - into your databases and analyze the best way to manipulate and control me!"

People don't seem to think of consequences when they scramble to ride the newest technology wave.

The success of such litigation is dependent upon all countries honoring the outcome of such trials. I don't think the 21st-century world is the same as the 20th-century world you refer to...the locking of all of the Western world's manufacturers behind Apple may be recognized as the great opportunity that it is in some countries.

Can you imagine the state of automobile development if these lawyers, judges, and juries had been around to rule that the first one out the door with a four-wheeled design incorporating an engine and a forward-facing screen owned the automotive universe? Even Henry Ford would have been "too late" to market. And the same thing for aircraft...the Wright flyer would have ruled, inefficiently.

On the other hand, war would have remained much more...personal...perhaps making it more difficult to invoke.

Made me laugh in that it embodies the ideology of and so links to the American right...who, for some reason, really, really want Assange and his sources silenced.

And since the difference between the American right and the British right can be encapsulated between ||.....