Here is a story about this very concept. The characters use encryption, get a local ISP with indie music sharing bundle to switch to encrypted traffic only in order to conceal their own encryption in the noise, thus inspiring google to make the switch to HTTPs. http://www.craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

Solving the question once and for all of the scientific validity of a very controversial topic: By voting on it!

And they don't want you to know it!

This command erases every file in every directory which your username is allowed write permissions. That's a lot of files.

I guess I'll be setting up separate users for my gaming versus other usecases of the computer.

This isn't new information. It's been terrible for a long time. Why are you posting it, let alone putting it in the mailout? I've heard catalyst is pretty damn broken for windows too. So I have an ASUS oc2 radeon 7790 for sale. Replaced by my gtx780. Bye bye ati.

Sounds to me that's all they're looking for. In data we already have. Someone's just looking for funding by sounding fantastic. Cloud computing lost its luster so we need to invent new catch phrases. Such as "A fool and his money are soon parted" By 'scientists' making up crazy things.

I feel the points drawn up in this discussion, and by this article are very moot. I've browsed the comments and many are very good, and the topics are broad and far-reaching. I've ignored the article because it is drivel, propaganda, and as many commenters have pointed out, self-serving salesmanship.
But there's a very important point that I'd like to bring up which casts all of this aside as moot:
Everyone is assuming that they want more programmers in the US. Everyone is assuming that they want the US to remain a technological superpower.
I don't believe they do. Example: The University of Florida, a couple years ago, announced the closure of its computer science department, with the intention of focusing more the liberal arts, and on sports. No matter that it was in the wake of anon-ops and similar hacktivist actions which sincerely pissed off the established powerbase.

Sounds to me like they've gotten a call from a now infamous Reverend from Mississippi who called a now infamous radio station regarding the foul language, despite the warnings preceding it, contained within a now infamous record of spoken word by the now infamous George Carlin.
It's no different. First it was radio broadcast, then it was Television broadcast, now it's cable and satellite, video games have ratings and restrictions too. Here comes books, and finally, the internet.
Then there will be nothing at all to stop the Ministry of Truth. Beware the thought police!
We now interrupt this post for the daily two-minutes-hate.

Hilarious that Boeing would want a self-destructing phone, because a phone that blows up would be the perfect thing to have on an aircraft!

At least, it will raise the sales of Boeing as airlines replace planes that blow up!

Just kidding! Obviously the phone won't physically blow up.

I think we can all agree that a columnist from the Harvard School of Business, where most of the same folks responsible for the crash of 2008 come from, has a bias and is obviously writing propaganda to discourage us from looking forward to replacing wage slavery with a mechanized labor force. I won't even read TFA nor even the excerpt. The credentials of the author say it all. We should be looking forward to a collapse of such a harmful and destructive system.

Find out what Project Prism is. This article is Full of Shit.

IF?? It's a lot more than 4% now. Companies are not properly regulated, and do not properly report when they blast a few thousand cubic meters of unprocessed gas straight into the atmosphere. All of your speculation and statistics is for naught. Get away from us. We only want news, not spin doctors. I thought this site was about InfoTech not people stupid enough to chain themselves to a tree and believe its going to stop big business. We all know what dollars can do to an industry because we all see what Microsoft and now Apple are doing to ours. Go back to your tree.

Let's also remember that the latest two major releases of OSX have cost zero dollars to upgrade to.

Why shouldn't Microsoft steal that too?

And yet the rest of us got it for free. At least if we had paid money we would have the right to complain about how worthless the drivel you spout is.