I'm still trying to convert 6 tiny robots into 'N' European swallows.

"Others follow us sell may be fake and bad quality.Pls check seller is makesdo" Why would I want to by that shit?

The establishment has too much power for the citizens to stop them. If you try too hard you'll end up dieing in a traffic accident or something similar. What they do in public is probably overshadowed by the secret monitoring anyway.

Hey, wait a minute there bub. Are you telling my that "donuts on a rope" isn't proof in the Aurora? Yeah right. Lets see you use you logic on this: tomorrow is 3/3/2016: 3+3 = 6, 6/2 = 3 and 2+0+1+6=9, 9/3 = 3!. Half Life 3 CONFIRMED!

I feel like this is the same as out import/export controls. If we make a unapproved export of controlled information/material we can get slammed too. Although our law do not, as I recall, state scientific/engineering "people" can't speak to each other(if that's what AU is saying). I expect it's speak to each other about the AU ITAR/EXIM controlled subject. I can understand why a government would want to control the export of controlled technology verbally as well as in a more traditional sense. We (USA) do the same thing.

I was thinking in a slightly different way: Free Internet anywhere in NYC?!?!? Provided by GOVERNMENT!??!!

Yes citizen your data is secure on the NSA's servers. Now we don't need Apple to decrypt jack MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

We win so there. signed: The government.

I remember buying a Macintosh Plus in the 80's on some kind of Apple furnished credit. I forget the credit plan it was called though.

How is being able to read encrypted data, with a court order, going to prevent anything? Are they going to get a court order to read it real time? How would they know who to snoop on? The gov had no idea this latest spontaneous act of terrorism was going to happen and could not have prevented it. All that stuff they have gotten to show what terrifying terrorists these nut cases were was gotten after the act. I'm also going to call that information "plain text" as I didn't hear how they got keys to decrypt it. I'm just not following how the gov can read minds with this new power to circumvent encryption and save anyone. You can't predict random. Sorry you just can't. Oh they may get lucky once in awhile but it was just a guess on the gov's part mostly and not enough to justify handing the keys to millions of peoples private information over. F. U. D. We want more power over your little lives. That is all it is.

If you have a third conversation about kitchen knifes today we're all done for!

You do know that Windows XP is not supported anymore? You're not getting any security updates (unless you paid a mess of taxpayer cash to extend the service contract). Please have your lazy ass IT department upgrade your operating systems so you don't get you asses handed to you by a 4-channel script kiddie.

Where's the FTC in all this? Didn't they just blather about holding the scofflaw no-security types up to the holy light of good IT practices?! My god man that site had lacking security AND they didn't notify their users.

I would just point out that if someone does something that they are later busted for and decides to kill themselves due to the embarrassment of it - it was immoral to that person (as you said). People don't normally kill themselves over simple embarrassment but rather in inability to live with the guilt of what they've done. Check and mate: it was immoral to that person. And you've just made you case.

Well there goes the whole brothel.com idea I had. I'm never gonna retire.

This ^, cops are not interviewing you so you can go on your marry way. The more you say the deeper in shit you'll be. Best advice I got from a cop is "zip it, zip it good!"

This is the year we'll see comments on Slashdot running on Linux!