WITH a warrant, a pentrace is still available. That is, who did this phone call and where was it at the time. But note they're not complaining about phones that encrypt voice communication. Neither Google nor Apple are proposing to do that. They're complaining that they can't read your address book or paw through your email and photos. They're complaining that your papers might be secured nearly as well as Capone's (but not quite as well unless you have a tommy gun).

The thing is, most crimes eventually come down to some sort of physical activity somewhere that can be observed or to money moving from one place to another which can be traced (yes, including bitcoin).

It would be a bit cheaper to just reconfigure and re-paint a few existing USAF C-5 Galaxies, no? It would have the bonus of having more interior room, yet able to land on the same runways as the existing 747.

If only I had mod points...

The closest any third party has come to a presidential election was Ross Perot, in 1993. He had a very well-oiled hype machine and a shitload of money, which is why he got as far as he did. Even after he began stumbling and his campaign imploded (hard), he still got 13% of the vote... pretty impressive by most standards of the modern era.

On lower levels, Bernie Sanders (nominally a member of the Socialist party, but caucuses with the Democrats 99% of the time) is the only national candidate period to have made a national office since what, the 1950's?

It's going to take a radical change in attitudes, a really rotten national situation overall, and an even more radical amount of disgust with the current system before folks wander off to vote for a third party. Even when some ideological icon does run on his own (e.g. Ralph Nader), you will see the immediate (and dishearteningly effective) rallying cry of the threatened major party (in Nader's case, the Democrat party immediately started screaming "OMG you'll split the vote and then they will win!")

It'll take a lot to get a third party off the ground. Not impossible, but it'll take a lot to happen nonetheless.

Ask these questions:

How much competition is allowed for providing Internet access in any given US locale?

Why can we not have municipalities plant/string and own the local fiber/cable/POTS lines, then rent them out to competing ISPs for residential access purposes (see also Utah's UTOPIA initiative)?

Find the answers to those questions, and you'll find the root cause of the non-logistics problems that broadband faces in the US.

Nope - instead it'll milk the (soon to be announced) 'broadband improvement initiative' tax incentive cow for all that's worth.

Silly rabbit, corporate tax loopholes can be found wherever your lobbyists can dig them. ;)

Someone didn't read TFA

Maybe he wanted to be fired in a most spectacular way?

Then again, due to the federal workers' union I hear that it takes a *lot* to get fired as a federal employee... I mean, you practically have to murder some senator's kids or something.

Modern pacemakers are exactly that. They can detect when they need to pace and how much and can also act as internal defibrillators.

The part you're missing is selection. The harmful mutations either fail to reproduce altogether or they reproduce at a lower rate than the good ones. Actual experiments show that you can actually randomly mutate a program and if you have a good selection function, you can actually evolve new functionality.

The catch is that the evolution tends to 'find' really odd solutions.

I argue that they don't need it. They need it the way a 5 year old will claim that chocolate deficiency is an actual medical problem.

I could use a Ferrari but the price is too high. They could use the ability to snoop into people's phones and PCs but the price is too high.

Like your DUI analogy, we tried the ignition interlock, but they hot wired it and got another DUI. Now they will have to walk (get it? LEGWORK!). Back in the before time, they brought down notorious mobsters and bank robbers by pounding the pavement. Ness didn't hack Capone's PC. Capone kept his books locked in a safe in his office The office was guarded by men with Tommy guns. Many crooks kept the real books in code.

That kind of depends on the stylesheets, pre-compiler style enforcement routines, and the fact that a shit-ton of corporate code is often improved incrementally by multiple authors.

'course, there's still the comments that you could use, but who does that?