Catching polluters, for example. We probably don't want them seeing every detail, but there's at least a useful tension between having a pair of eyes and seeing everything. I wonder if existing property laws (defining airspace above property) are enough. Might be on a state-by-state basis.

Depends on what you mean by conclusive, but there's a motive and there's a capability. For the capability part, see:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/backdoor_found.html

While I agree with your sentiments, I think your idea that this would amount to unreasonable search/seizure is off because we're not talking about behaviour of the government. The bill of rights don't incorporate to private behaviour, alas.

I am opposed to bitcoin based on reasons other than trust, and those reasons are more important to me.

Why do you think that?

That's not true. You can't sum up all of a diverse movement with such a curt dismissal and expect it to be convincing.

It'd be best to avoid phrasing this in a way that suggests that any other feminist would be the same; feminism is a very diverse movement, and there are flavours (like mine) that are very anti-PC-policing.

The bits in parentheses above are meant to clarify how to handle situations like complaints from someone who prefers being referred to by weird extra pronouns if people don't agree to do that. Or therians. Or "transsexuals". Or any other group that makes demands of the conceptual frameworks of others beyond "no malice".

Calling someone something they don't like, to their face and particularly with malicious intent, might be inappropriate but it is not harassment per se. Doing so after being asked to stop (refusing to stop if there is no malicious intent does not constitute malice) probably is harassment.

A joke that somebody doesn't like, particularly if it's not told *to* them, shouldn't be considered harassment and we should be wary of attempts to ban salty jokes.

Please figure out a way that doesn't make you stinky at work. Just because *you* can't smell you doesn't mean others can't.

Manga guys usually have big eyes too.

And the answer, as it always is when twisted in that libertarian way, is yes. Society has the right to set rules and enforce them. And I, as a part of society, can support such rules. Not as an individual, but as a society.

Perhaps if enough big players configure their nameservers not to resolve any domain names from the new TLDs....

Hopefully it will keep us on X11 for the long-term, where we have network transparency. No proposed replacement without automatic and reliable network transparency for most apps is worth considering. Let Wayland and Mir die.

Why are we considering new TLDs to begin with? We're taking a good, loose system of categorisation and throwing it away because... why exactly?