Let's turn this idea on it's head. Since NSA is scooping up everything, they most assuredly are "collecting", lots of copyrighted material. All we need is for some enterprising entertainment industry lawyer to see how much money can be made by suing NSA for copyright infringement.

I can't help but to hear Inigo Montoya's voice saying "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means".

George Orwell got it right. When you're free to redifine what words mean, you can justify and get away with anything.

No, he knows damn well what he's saying is complete and utter bullshit. Judging from the comments, everyone here realizes that he's full of it too.

A well-crafted phishing attack like this appears to be is going to snare a certain amount of people regardless of their intelligence or computer expertise. It's impossible to be viligant 100% of the time at any task, much less security.

Also I think the overuse of notifications and popup alerts actively condition users to respond without really giving it a whole lot of concious thought. I've caught myself clicking these alerts with "how do I get rid of this annoyance" rather than "what are the security implications of this" in the forefront of my mind.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Desktop effects are the second thing I turn off in a new install, the first being those fscking bongos.

... by Joe Biden. That's as compelling a reason as any to keep President Obama healthy.

There's a couple things in TFS that don't sound right. I'm still wondering about that machine that drills 20 meter holes in aluminum.

Conceptually, an email client is simple affair but the KMail devs have managed to take this seemingly straight-forward task and create a huge pile of shit. I switched to Thunderbird after the fourth time I had to manually recover my emails after a KMail crash or "upgrade" and from what I gather I'm not alone in abandoning that time wasting, file corrupting POS.

Find out what the chains are made of - you'll be all set :)

My definition of "cure "is when people stop dying of these diseases. My point was that medical doctors and psychiatrists in particular have but a tenuous grasp on the actual workings of the human body. Many doctors contend if you have a mental illness that it is not a medical problem. You have to go see a psychiatrist for that. As if the brain weren't part of the human body.

If you want to cherry-pick cases where where medical science reigns supreme, I'm all in favor of antibiotics. I will gladly join you in celebrating that success. However....

Remember Ted Kennedy? Great guy, guzzled Chivas and often pulled his pants down during parties on Martha's Vineyard? He's dead. Got glioblastoma, didn't last much more than a year despite having the best doctors in the world.

How about Randy Pausch? He was fully aware how well and truly fucked he was by pancreatic cancer, even made a video about it. He's now six feet under.

Let's not forget Richard Feynman, being blessed with two forms of cancer, liposarcoma and WaldenstrÃm's macroglobulinemia. Suffice to say it didn't end well.

Then there's Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcet, Gilda Radner, Peter Jennings, Sydney Pollack - I don't see much point in continuing this particular litany, having abundantly made my point already.

For the majority of medical afflictions being treated today there is no cure, so the best doctors can do is offer palliative care.

There is no cure for cancer, heart disease, athsma, arthritis, or even the common cold. So little is known about the human brain that zero percent of psychological disorders are effectively treated. Whenever I hear a doctor brag about how much they know about the human body or worse a psychologist remark about how much is known about the brain I always remind them how much there is they don't know.

I really think they will if it's the easiest option. It's up to developers to make encrypted, decentralized storage the default and easy to use. Build it and they willl come (pun half-heartedly intended.)

There's a group of Hollywood celebrities that have just been made aware of the need for decentralized and more private internet services. I think people will care, albeit only after a problem has occured.

Yes, we all know what's going on. "Medical usage is being used like a crowbar" because that's the only thing that has worked so far. It also has the added benefit of being a factual and legitimate use that people can understand. No one who has experienced pain (everyone has at some point) will question why someone else does not want to be in pain.

I don't happen to have a problem with being a bit disingenuous if that's what it takes. I personally want to see recreational marijuana use legalized in every state.