This will be ground zero when aliens get pissed about being spied on with space telescopes.

Police power? All they need are Terms Of Service. Copyright infringement = TOS violation = internet connection terminated. You'll need a lawyer to convince them to reinstate, assuming such is even possible.

There's a segment of the /. population that advocates open routers/TOR gateways/etc. as a means of legal protection ("Oh, no Your Honor, it wasn't me that done it!"). That may or may not protect you from RIAA et all, but you'll be internet-free long before you see the inside of a courtroom; your ISP doesn't require a judge's approval to cut you off.

Her statement is misleading - this is not a question of right vs. privilege, it is a question of due process vs. injustice.

Also - her last sentence seems to be a tacit admission that the state is, in a small way, stealing people's identities.

Oh, and now that I've RTFA, I see no mention is made of terrorism watch lists... bad summary is bad.

Interesting that peaceful activists would be added to the terrorism watch lists, no?

If this becomes a common means of detecting fissile material then any competent terrorist bomber would build in an anti-tamper trigger that blows the bomb when scanned...

My own view is more survival oriented: Cave man's friend walks under a tree and gets his face eaten by a jaguar. Cave man says, "why?". The realizes that he should look up to check for jaguars before walking under trees. Cave man lives longer and has a better chance of passing on his genes.

Most humans have a driving need to know 'why' - so much so that we make up "reasons" in the absence of conclusive evidence. We just aren't comfortable without answers and it's nothing more than a hardwired survival mechanism working overtime. Explains a lot about the world's religions, really.

Winning arguments could improve survival/chance to pass on genes, so I'd call TFA's argument a subset of mine. ;)

This has been out for a while now. http://www.dishnetwork.com/tveverywhere/default.aspx

Champions Online (paid version) has freeform characters.

The person you are ranting at was logically precise. People like you on both sides are part of the problem.

Gosh, that sounds like a lot!

Now how many legitimate transactions took place during the same year-long period?

Converted to Satanism to pray for heat.

I'm sure there are geneticists somewhere who can give dolphins opposable thumbs...

The problem has to do with faulty technology, legal hand-waving and possibly mouthwash. Study up on the tech specs of breathalyzers and their shortcomings if you're interested.

Aside from Synthale, every option on the list would require massive advances in energy tech. Hence my vote for Warp Drive - screw traveling to other worlds, we need it here for energy production.