Thanks very much for the information.

Universal Anodic Protection. It's got copper on all sides, so you can easily solder it on, but the copper is thin enough to easily buff off the exposed side when you're done - Instant Zinc Anode. When the ocean levels rise from our CO2 emissions, we'll be ready.

I was wondering about a solution to this problem, and I find that prepaid travel EMV cards are available for purchase to those who think to do so in advance. Do you think tourists could also buy such cards after arrival?

What if you build a Faraday Cage and put the jammer inside it? Then if the FCC shows up, they can help you improve your Faraday cage.

Or, if you're in a spy movie, you could have an array of jamming antennas that leave a quieter zone corresponding to a weakness in your Faraday cage, and right there you broadcast a signal you generate that interprets back to the random browsing of this fellow from India whom you pay to have spyware recording and sending you his online activities.

From the article:

It sounds like Mr Cameron wants microphones in every person's residence.
People who feel with absolute certainty that someone else is always the problem will always try to grab more power for themselves, and because of that, they can't be trusted with the ability to grab power, even though their current goals in using that power are ostensibly laudatory. They can't be trusted with power, because they will never consider any part of any of their own goals as being suspect. Citizens don't benefit when people who can't cope with compromising and feeling frustrated have a career in politics or public service.

But, it's a useful source of lobbyist funds for the Congresspersons who vote against it. They're American people.

I don't disagree, but I would like to point out that this "thug" has to work retail, interact with each voter, whereas your standard issue "corrupt election worker" can swap a box of voter secret ballots for a box of "election corrupter" secret ballots and change results in a more wholesale manner. One "thug" interaction per voter ought to make election corruption a little more expensive.

What if you made it so that the voting happened online, but the verification could only happen in a "vote verification booth" that is similar to (and monitored similarly to) a secret ballot voting booth. The number of people who would actually want to verify would always be smaller that the number who vote, so that might provide the beneficial convenience for the voting along with the security to keep thugs from seeing the verification. You could talk about a person bringing a camera into the verification booth, but that could happen with a voting booth also.

If you read the pdf from arxiv you might learn that this is the work of a theoretician. He does the math. He doesn't attempt to measure anything.

Have you heard anything about the adjustable focus (eg. adlens, eyejusters) reading glasses for mid distances? It seems like they'd provide a larger sharp focus field than progressive focus glasses.

Sounds like the rationalization behind drone strikes.

Read the Spiegel article and learn the security methods that might still work. Using these methods, secure all your communication all the time. If everyone does that, then the NSA has to hire more people to sort away the chaff. The more people they hire, the greater the likelihood that they again hire someone with a conscience.

Method 2. Live two lives, one that's fake and boring, and another that's secret and furtive. Hide the limited second life amongst the chatter of the first. This method will work better if everyone with boring lives are securing all their communication all the time.

I'm curious about the part where every member of your botnet has to buy a subscription from Amazon.

Ja, cobber! Tell 'em send us STEM women! Tousands and tousands of STEM women!

Bullshit. When a car changes lanes, they need to do so in a manner that leaves a safe distance both in front of and behind of them. It's illegal to do otherwise.

I was thinking about a product for that. With front and rear facing cameras accompanied by IR laser rangefinders, GPS and a data connection, one could have a button that causes this system to automatically send evidence of annoying violations from fellow motorists to the relevant police department. When I'm driving on the freeway, following at a safe distance and some (the stereotype that has developed in my mind is an SUV driving parent) other motorist decides to shoehorn their vehicle into that gap, I sometimes feel motivated to drive aggressively in response. I think a "don't get mad, get even" device that sends video of the preceding 40 seconds accompanied by location, speed, and rangefinder information to the appropriate police department might be a much better response. A similar setup in the rear could handle tailgaters. Additionally, the equipment could show me my own following distance in terms of both distance and time at my current speed, which information would be a useful reminder for me to keep my own driving correct.