What's betting rights holders go nuclear and mandate NZ IP block blacklisting or they'll pull their content from the streaming services?

My snark detector needs retuning.

Certainly there are far fewer reasons a person would want to go to the USA anymore. Or, rather, people value their dignity more than US culture; That you continue to have a tourism industry is beyond belief. Further, with Germany setting the standard for tearing US businesses out of their public infrastructure I'd be surprised if the US continues be a player in international business for much longer.

Anyway, to answer your question about why my phone would be discharged, it's because I'm forced to wait for three hours in the damn departure lounge because getting through security takes an age. I pass the time by browsing the internet, listening to music, watching streaming video... On my phone.

I have my pi running a Tor relay 24/7 (not an exit node; I'm not suicidal).

Because fuck the NSA.

Perchance, does your gastric repository conceal a recently masticated pulp of wood fibers, previously incarnated as a tome of alphabetised antonyms and synonyms?

Your "burn safe" is vulnerable to denial of service. Say you lose the key, or the keypad is damaged; How do you get your documents? What if someone just hits it with a hammer until the system is activated, just to piss you off?

This only applies for the US, where anything they say "... can be used against them..." Sworn testimony, or evidence given under caution or arrest, in the UK for example, can be used by both prosecution and defense.

Still, you're definitely supposed to talk to a legal representative prior to talking to Police in any jurisdiction.

Email could be secure, but PGP is still too complex for the average user. Key pair generation and storage within AD / Exchange during account creation might help with this in the enterprise, but there needs to be an easy key management scheme for the SME as well. You'd think it would be baked in by now. Public key sharing could be as easy as automatically attaching a small XML formatted file when emailing a new contact, parsed seamlessly by the recipients email server / client.

Someone with programming knowledge get on it.

You're absolutely right.

Now, if we were talking about wearing a balaclava while driving...

By allowing that jackass tailgating you to pass, you are an accomplice to his speeding.

Pick up that can.

This will likely end in their favour; You have no contract, you can be fired at will.

Then again, I hear that there's parts of the US where this can happen anyway. Boggles the mind...

Not having five highways intersecting at one point would also solve the problem.

Check out Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham, UK for a nightmare of a road design if you're not a local, and that's two "highways" (motorways) and two major roads (A-road). I can't imagine what your five highway junction looks like.

Without even reading the article I can grok that this is about vehicle-vehicle collisions increasing, by the fact that vehicle-pedestrian collisions are excluded by being the reason for the safety system in the first place.

This is almost certainly about cars charging out into intersections to "beat the timer" and losing control, or cars stopping safely when they should, only to be rear-ended by some knob who looks at the timer and thinks the guy in front will try and the race the lights.

As an alternative, both Cyanogenmod and ParanoidAndroid ROMs contain permissions managers. There are more than likely others, but those are two I've used.

Unless there's some fundamental changes to the OS that isn't included in the press reporting, I'm not really seeing anything that great about Blackphone other than the bundled services. My Nexus 4 has exactly the same protections: Baked-in permission control, including system apps, and VPN connectivity to my home / third party VPN service, or Tor network browsing. Kismet SWM is available on the Play Store store for free. Silent Circle services require a subscription, but available on any Android device.

Have I missed anything? I just don't see anything remarkable about "PrivOS".

The purpose of the Nexus line of devices is twofold:

1) You get the stock Android experience, not some third-party vendor bastardisation with bundled crapware
2) You can root and flash them in moments, there is no locking in place to prevent it

Making use of 2) above will allow you to run Android 4.4.3 on your Nexus One

Yes, it's sucky that Google abandon their devices like all other hardware manufacturers, but Google isn't a hardware company. Google produce Android so they can use it as an advertising and user profiling platform. The hardware is just a delivery mechanism.