Uh, the intelligence sector is way ahead of what the public gets to read about. They've had it for some time.

Right, what they're really annoyed about is being left out of the spying loop.

It's practically a given that TEMPEST-like capabilities moved to satellites, decades ago. Combine that with ECHELON or something like it, and everything that everyone is displaying on their screens (Internet-connected or not) is probably being hoovered up by at least one intelligence agency. Including what's on the screens of those precious Blackberries.

It's

ReadWriteWeb blogged about FaceBook and was promptly overwhelmed with confused FaceBook users who, apparently, are in the habit of getting to the FaceBook login screen by way of Google. Read the comments - it's hysterical.

It won't get you "into trouble", but you may owe a 10% penalty on the underreported taxes if the amount is large enough.

In theory, you'd think this would be the case. In practice, most people filing on April 15th are filing to get their money back, not send money in.

There are actually no incentives for governments to make it easier for taxpayers to get refunds. Taxpayers can create those incentives by reducing their withholdings to $0 so that they owe the government on April 15th rather than the other way around. Given California's problems, that seems like a pretty good idea anyway.

Where's the money in that?

Whereas there's always money in war profiteering and the latest thing, security profiteering.

(Until the money runs out...)

use Trauma Based Mind Control to split off multiple personalities. Interrogate the terrorist all you want; you'll never get the information because the memories are hidden in another alter.

What if someone powerful or wealthy is an exact match, and really needs some healthy organs? Think accidents can't be arranged for the right price?

Assange and his staff are probably experiencing COINTELPRO style conspicuous surveillance and harassment campaigns (sometimes misleadingly called "organized stalking"). The agents would be going out of the way to let Assange's people know that they were being followed and surveilled, using techniques such as public messages that conveyed highly personal information from their lives. The highly personal and embarrasing information revealed in the conspicuous surveillance would be of such a nature that the target(s) would not want to talk about the details.

That would explain why they were being 'vague' and 'conspiratorial' in their explanations.

RF radiation affects tissues differently from, say, infrared or X-ray radiation. For example, the Active Denial System (at 95 Ghz) acts on water just beneath the surface of the skin because the extremely high frequency RF vibrates electric dipoles more quickly. A microwave oven's RF (2.45 Ghz) penetrates a couple of inches. 30 Mhz RF, of the type that doctors use to deep heat body tissue, penetrates all the way through.

The bottom line is that we have environmental hazards which have not existed except for the last 50 years in a very long evolutionary history. The upper atmosphere filters out most of the kinds of RF that we now willingly bombard ourselves with. There's very little data one way or the other. The fact that the cellphone companies are resisting even the tiniest concession to consumer demands for more information suggests that the cellphone companies are afraid of that information. Maybe they know something you don't.

You're wrong. Shielding which is effective against high frequency electric fields can also be effective against high frequency magnetic fields. The changing magnetic field induces eddy currents in the shielding which creates opposing magnetic fields, shaping and directing the intruding magnetic field.

Lower magnetic fields can also be shaped with high permeability materials.

Here is a helpful link which explains the issues surrounding electric/magnetic shielding in more detail.

http://www.cvel.clemson.edu/emc/tutorials/Shielding02/Practical_Shielding.html

There's some evidence that high frequency noise or high frequency RF has biological effects even if it's non-ionizing. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_pest_control

"A 2002 study by Genesis Laboratories Inc. does lend some credence to the ability of electronic repellent devices to repel certain pests in controlled environments. Preliminary study of white-footed mice behavior in the test apparatus demonstrated a significant preference for the non-activated chamber among both sexes."

Also, how do you think your microwave oven works? It uses dielectric heating to rapidly vibrate (and thereby heat) the water molecules in food. Guess what - dielectric heating works on you too, and there is no cut-off range; even low frequency RF has some dielectric heating effect on the water and some body tissues.

And dielectric heating can cause cataracts.

Just throwing some actual facts into this discussion.

The purpose of such clothing is not to afford the wearer absolute protection or provide a cloak of invulnerability, as it were. The purpose is to neutralize the weaponry - which is intended to inflict invisible pain on the recipient. If induction heating causes the shirt to burst into flames, the pain is no longer invisible. That sort of thing doesn't look good for the cameras.