Yes, and that's why I find it strange that so many people who are against being monitored and tracked all the time object to European style privacy rules. In Europe individuals have some control over how companies use information about then, and critically can ask for it to be corrected or deleted: the right to be forgotten. Yet somehow this is a bad thing in some people's minds.

US consumer laws must really suck. In the UK if you don't agree to the EULA you can return the hardware for a full refund at no cost to yourself. In fact, thanks to EU rules, if you bought the item over the internet then the vendor has to pay the return postage too.

The simple rule is that if some aspect of the product that was not made known to you when you bought it turns out to make it unusable, you can return it for a full refund. No restocking fees, the principal is that the customer should not be out of pocket, including postage costs if applicable.

That's actually a crime in the UK. Encouraging suicide or self harm can land you in jail.

As for the app, the idea is to give you early warning signs before they get to that point. It's a kind of expert system I suppose, providing the "expertise" of the Samaritans in recognizing words and phrases that hint at people being extremely depressed. I have no idea how well it works, but I can tell you that most people have little idea what severe depression is like or how people with it behave (fortunately for them).

Think back to the epic holy wars of the past. Emacs vs. Vi. Big vs. Little Endian. Motorola vs. Intel. Amiga vs. Atari ST. ASCII vs. EDBIC.

Some people go to war over which part of their dick they are supposed to cut off. Some people go to war over a text editor. It's human nature.

Seems odd that the bones would be found on a part of the island where they were unlikely to have been seen from the air (according to the article you linked to). Seems likely that both Earhart and Noonan would have been aware of that, and made some effort to go somewhere more visible or create some kind of sign visible from the air. Maybe they died before they washed up I suppose.

I'm somewhat surprised they have not found the aircraft yet too. These days with advanced sonar and knowledge of sea currents we are pretty good at tracing back things like washed up bodies, or if they swam the search area couldn't be that big.

They did bring in portable generators at Fukushima. They had battery powered generators, and they also had external pumps (fire engines) that were trying to push cooling water into the reactors. Neither worked because the plumbing for the emergency cooling system was damaged, and due to a lack of power for monitoring equipment they didn't know that some of the valves were in the wrong position. Basically they had the means to avert disaster but confusion on the ground and (at the time unknown) damage from the earthquake scuppered them.

Interesting how many of the comments on this story immediately look to blame anti-nuclear groups, instantly painting them as foaming at the mouth raving liars.

Why do you jump to that thought instantly? When drones are seen near airports do you think it was probably some rabid anti-aircraft group (they exist) on some mission to discredit air travel?

Sorry, but this is nuclear fanboyism.

So does coal and nuclear. No-one wants to live near those either.

Off shore wind, far enough out that no-one can complain, is getting cheaper all the time. In the UK it's already reached parity with nuclear, not sure about Denmark. Sure, there are challenges, just like there are with nuclear and cleaner coal.

If you are going to shoot down renewables because they are expensive or need some investment then you had better do the same with coal and nuclear, and get ready for the lights to go out.

So do the alternatives. Coal causes billions of dollars of damage to the environment and people's health. Nuclear costs billions of dollars to build, and in the UK we have to guarantee double the normal rate for the electricity produced during the plant's lifetime. There is a third option, which is spending billions on efficiency improvements.

No matter what we do we will end up spending that money, so the question is what do we want to spend it on.

Using a VPN to block spying is becoming just as necessary as using AdBlock to block advertising these days.

In the UK homosexual sex was a crime punishable by imprisonment up until the 1960s. Even those who refrained from sex were often forced to take medication or undergo "procedures" to "correct" their behaviour.

Take it off and give the strap a sniff. Turns out, you do need to take it off from time to time.

The amount of error varies from watch to watch, and it's a bell curve. You are just lucky and have a single example that is fairly accurate, but that doesn't mean mechanical watches are generally fairly accurate. Anecdotes are, as usual, worthless I'm afraid.

A basic digital watch can easily manage 1 second per day. 3 seconds per day is actually quite annoying, 1.5 minutes/month of error.

Proud because in his lifetime it's gone from being something people were ashamed of and could be fired for to something he can openly state as a matter of fact.

Unfortunately we waited too long to fix it democratically. All the realistic democratic options will keep spying on us.

Because we left it so late, we have reached the point where the only option is to fight back. Hopefully we can win by making surveillance so expensive that they can't do it any more. Encrypt and anonymize everything, and make it the default option. If that fails, using violence to destroy GCHQ will be the only thing left, and I really want to avoid that.

Not posting anon because it won't protect me, and I'm sure GCHQ already have a thick file on me. Just in case any dumb fucks from the police are reading this though: This isn't a threat to bomb GCHQ.