I knew it was the spoons! They're after me!

You get 20% troll, 20% funny and 60% informative for this post... (at least, when I checked)

I would call that quite self demonstrating.

Keep it quiet! If we say it don't exist, maybe reality can be fooled.

It's understandable, based on the fact that most HR aren't techies and mostly look at popular trend... Iphone is still the trendiest smartphone, therefore Iphone devs are more researched. It really comes down to an advertising matter, not that it doesn't make sense from the employers point of view...

Works well if you do your hacking stuffs in a cyber-café :)

It seems to me it's not so much about giving up enforcement than pointing out that ip isn't a good way to identify law breakers.

It more like, a murderer used a stolen cars ( Or the murderer give/sell the car away) and the police arrest the owner of the car...

I think things really comes done to "who you are".

For a government or a company with sensible government contract, clouds are as bad as giving the information directly in the open...

For companies in general, you should be very careful going on "the clouds". Who does the cloud belong to? Is it related some way or an other to a competitor? Is it worth the price? The security issue is more or less pertinent given the situation. For small business, I don't really see a problem with clouds, unless your paranoid. ( Then again, it isn't because I'm paranoid that they aren't all after me...)

For individuals, I really don't see the possibility of government reading your stuff as an issue. I mean, I already have a facebook account... Anyway, if you have documents you don't want the government or anyone else to see, don't put them in the clouds... Don't mail them either. It's just common sens...

IA in games are ( except maybe a very few exceptions that I'm not aware of...) basically just automatons. They execute script given the situation and that is all. If the scripts are good enough, you have a good illusion of intelligence in the restricted set of situation of the game, but that's all. So, if in theory you could script enough situations to give a good enough illusion, you would have to do it for each NPC so that they don't seem the same...
So basically, even if possible, I don't see it being done, because it's too much work for uncertain result. And even a perfect result wouldn't be paying enough to justify it.

But all that depends where you put the threshold : if a NPC crying after being shot is enough to make you consider NPCs rights, then you're 20 (30?) years late...

Well, doing the same things that the "bad guys" isn't exactly a good way to legitimate yourself...

Perhaps, but most of the times I want my answers anyway. They might be irrelevant, but I don't like staying ignorant.

I don't mind unhelpful answers when it's my fault for not mentioning I already try that or that. (also I do mind being asked "Did you try to turn it off and on again?"... specially when it works...). It's absolute no reply that is frustrating, also it's not the fault of anyone, except maybe myself asking in the wrong place...

The problem is not being rude (also it's definitely not something I like). The problem is often the helpful guy will assume there is more to know that what you say, sometimes even assume your motives and answer to that instead of what I actually asked. They may have good reason to answer this way, but it annoys me. I stay polite, because I know they mean well and alienating them won't solve my problems anyway, but it nonetheless frustrating.

I'm not sure about that. All too often, when I ask a specific question I get solution to some problem I don't have, or when I explain what I'm trying to do, I'm asked why I would like to do that in the first place. Its annoying. Plus most of the time I don't get answers at all. (Cause, you know, before asking I actually do a google search first, so when I ask something it's often not trivial.)

Anyway, not getting the answer to your question is frustrating. I welcome advises of any kind, but I like to have my answers first. Then I can see for myself if my question was a good one.

I think W.E. Coyote believes in gravity because a lot of its plan rely on it. Mostly, he doesn't ignore it in purpose anyway.