I think Mega was singled out as dangerous because they tried to put Kim Dotcom in jail, and so far, he isn't in jail.

If you want to engineer people at that level, it's probably better to make sex distasteful but have a desire for the continuation of the species. Think how much better the circumstances for children would be if people had to overcome their dislike of sex in order to get the children they want.

Walmart is also now supporting swipe with no pin or signature for transactions under $50 w/o cash back. I was frightened the first time this happened to me. http://www.reddit.com/r/walmar...

At the evil ISP monopoly conspiracy meetings, I have to imagine that ATT will get as big a head slap as Verizon might have for suing the FCC into its Title II declaration. Now when companies say "our merger will be fine for those customers," two sets of gigabit providers in Kansas City will be the perfect counterexample.

And, if you really want that trial, you can wait in prison for a few years until they get around to having it.

About how Google doesn't try to do better than break even with Gmail and Android and Google fiber, etc., because these things put more eyes into Google's advertising. Now I read about how Google has seen "little return on its investments" but is maintaining 20% growth in advertising.

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.