I think it would be a good idea to have helicopters flying above the whole city the whole, constantly covering every square inch and monitoring the behavior of the citizens. They should be painted black, and in order to keep noise levels at a minimum, it might be a good idea to make them special stealth helicopters who are hard to hear.

But we shouldn't stop there. LAPD should use portable brain scanners to question citizens randomly in some sort of improvised lie detector and loyalty tests. Another useful idea would be to implant RFID chips under the skin that allow LAPD to track the movements of all citizens in realtime. That could e.g. be done during vaccination campaigns. It would be very useful for tracking supects via helicopter.

Oh, and death squads would be cool.

Just some ideas in order to fight the spread of burglary and petty theft.

Is there already some personal backup software for GNU/Linux that encrypts all data and can use this as storage?

I'm looking for large offline storage but strong client-side encryption is a must.

Possibly, but for 25£ they are too expensive anyway.

Your assumption is wrong, because I'm using European debit cards for daily payments whereas the credit card stays safely locked at home. There are many ways of stealing the PIN code of debit cards those, e.g. tampered terminals or fake base stations, but none of them is as easy as making you download "Fart App 2.0" onto your Android or iPhone.

Nothing is special about it, except that it's ugly. For the same money or even less you could get easily an Arturia Minilab or a Korg Microkey or one of the dozens of other, better options.

Never. (Except if cards count, which I already use daily.)

Reason: Mobile payment has no advantage over paying by card but lots of disadvantages.

Or the black people who were infected with syphilis and intentionally left untreated as part of a long-term goverment study.

I want my symbolic AI back...

Exactly this, what else would a security company say to the public, "We suck at security and all our keys where stolen"?

I agree, and I think that people who harrass others online or make inappropriate 'troll' posts should be sentenced to death.

What's even more sad is that he has most definitely not "personally overseen the sending out of several thousand emails". At best, he has sent some memo around that said something like this: "Send out emails now! That's an order! Yours sincerely, your boss. P.S.: Fuck you!"

I'd go a little farther and suggest that AdBlock Edge is the most useful plugin. I highly recommend it.

Then again, I'm a doctor of philosophy and I agree with the original poster.

The crackers are going to love breaking this in 1, 2, 3 ...

I'd ask the other round, why do they not have access to Facebook?

Is there any reason besides assholery to not let them use social media? Is the goal of the US prison system to guarantee that inmates become 100% sociopaths with no friends or acquaintances except for criminals?