Taking into account that their HQ is in Geneva, I don't think any of California's solar power comes from the world health organization.

You can't raise an army of slaves and then expect them to act as free men.

You have to put autonomous thinkers and obeying sheep on their correct places; and there are plenty of both. If you put a sheep on the wrong post, don't go now crying about a problem that you created yourself*.

*: Or your boss, if you're one of the sheep.

This arms race will go for the users. The reason being that there's too much money in play to allow the opposite.

Whatever has to be done will be done. If it becomes such a problem that the USA has to invent a "war on hacker" and start "bombing by IP", it will.

But we're talking a long, long time from now. Like many, many... weeks.

Transparent : tall invisible bars are aesthetically acceptable.

Fragile : make it seem easy and simple but fragile in a way that once broken it becomes hard to climb. If you break something and hurt yourself few people will blame the inanimate object.

Sticky: as soon as you touch it, it secretes superglue. The guards come with an innocuous solvent.

Hidden : fill the moat with a "non-Newtonian" dirt colored fluid. Doesn't look like a moat, but people do fall inside and it's hard to move fast through it.

You forgot the quotes over "fun".

So, basically, the cat is either out of the bag, or dead, and we won't know for another ten-fifteen years, time at which the cat wave collapses.

The problem with fighting tooth and nail is that it's strategically stupid to fight directly against a larger and stronger army.

The privacy arms race benefits the people, only a false feeling of safety and anonymity stops the people from making it practically impossible (or impossibly impractical) to spy on the general population.

A front attack, however strong it may be, will fail.

Some of us are accusing the agencies of being intrusive, but this is a different problem. This is about having been intrusive in a strategically unintelligent way.

Someone should make a query that extracts the Slashdot commentaries that have predicted this exact situation for a decade.

The prediction goes like this : "If you keep doing stupid shit like that, people will start encrypting their computers and communications to protect themselves from your unimportant shit and this will help the very few people who encrypt their computers and communications to hide serious crimes."

The more you turn everyone into a criminal, the harder it will be to find the actual criminals.

It's time to decriminalize the population, so people become once again able to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent.

Humans can do it better. It's a fact proven by a few thousand years of doing it better and so much faster.

I've lost too much faith in average intelligence to spend time in trying futilely to further explain to you why you're an imbecile.

Ok, that's enough slashdot for today. I'm tired of this shit.

Experiment result : "A squirrel fell on the azidoazide azide magnetic container, leveling the lab and leaving a 23 feet deep crater where the Dean's office used to be."

Conclusion : "Higgs Boson!"

So, in essence, you become the cheapest possible whore.

I don't think works as you think it does.

If you point your goggles to a spot and see a lion eating a gazelle, finding afterwards that your goggles had a dent won't make you doubt of the existence of that lion.

Or, in other words, short circuits don't conjure results that coincide with decades of theory.

If you don't have a crowbar on reach at all moments, you're gambling with your own life.

In case you are interested, I'll summarize for you.

A - Calculate daily kcal expenditure [via a formula, for example].
B - Count how much you must eat :
  B1 - ~1.5g proteins/day * 4kcal per gram of protein.
  B2 - ~1g of fat/day * 9kcal per gram of fat
C - Decide how much to eat. e.g. : daily expenditure - 500 to lose weight at 500g/week speed.
D - Calculate carbs by dividing remaining daily kcals/4
E - Eat those grams of protein, fat and carbs every day.

Everything else is either details for pro athletes or voodoo shenanigans.

It usually isn't so bad, unless you lower the filters to read ACs.