My bit of pondering is whether that 0.6btc can be tracked/identified at companies handling bitcoins, and especially at companies converting between btc and real money?

Could you basically get the police (Europol/Interpol?) involved, and when a company reports that a user is trying to use/convert the btc you paid with, have that user charged with ransoming data, or taking stolen goods (i.e. either as the original thief, or as a fence)?

If the 0.6btc is acquired by the person via a laundry-service, charge him/her with engaging in activities meant to conceal the original crime?

WTF - Even Korea gets to have a KFC?

/me mumbles something about capital of Europe and lack of KFCs

It is in the ToS, which at least 1 party (the account-owner) has agreed to.

We can try all we want to compare this to 1984 and what-nut, but if we explicitly allows a company to rummage through our email, we have no basis for complaining when it happens.

(Note: I can think of at least 1 country where this part of the ToS would be invalid)

Didnt that require that the U,S, changes some laws regarding "spent" fuel?

Good thing they gave their nukes to Russia, in exchange for Russia not attacking them...

"The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;"

Just thinking... If you know your target has a missile-shield, launch 1-4 missiles* to test where they get intercepted, then set the next couple of nukes to detonate just before reaching the point of interception. Now your target still has to deal with EM, radiation, and a scared-shitless citizenry and military.
At this point, launch another to see if their missile-shield is still operational (and manned?)...

*: These don't really require actual warheads, if you're certain they'll get intercepted.

aaaaaallllllll of it.

simples

Or SyFy movie ... assuming the infected is also a Zombie, with tentacle-arms

As long as no-one shoots down the plane, while it is over some heavily populated location, like, Atlanta.

Wooooo ... 5% of the world didn't know of Nokia until they became the largest cellphone manufacturer.

(in fairness, since I don't use rubber-boots, or drive around in the snow, I didn't really know of Nokia until the 90'ies either)

I'm fairly convinced there are better options than what has been attempted so far - but I'm no politician looking for votes, so what do I know.

If Israel weren't so hell-bent on creating more supporters for Hamas and similar organizations, your dreams of disarmament might come true.

Meanwhile, every Palestinian child that dies during these events results in more people signing up to fight the Israeli, the Americans and all other non-Arab, non-Muslim out there.
(Yes, it SERIOUSLY doesn't matter who is to blame - the last 3 weeks have done more for the recruitment efforts by Hamas et al, than anything Hamas could do on their own, no matter the validity, or lack of same, in the actions taken by Israel.)

Only thing unskippable are the ads on Disney DVDs ...

I think I need copies of these banner-ads, and pay Google/whoever to put them on legit sites!

The Jolla has a replaceable back, under which there is an i2c connection.

3rd-party keyboard attach to where the back-plate was, and connects to the phone via the i2c bus instead of Bluetooth, making for a good, reliable connection, and less battery wasted.

Simples!