Which is fine. They can still get a warrant. If they think John Doe is a suspect in a kidnapping, they can go swear an affidavit before a judge and get a warrant to search John Doe's stuff, including his phone. Nothing has changed there. If John Doe isn't too cooperative, that may present an inconvenience, but it's not one that didn't already exist back before Apple or Google announced their intent to encrypt things. Where, or even whether, encryption happens has zero to do with warrants.

So why would the government suddenly be upset if nothing has changed with regards to warrants?

Because lately they aren't getting warrants.

They've become accustomed to going on all sorts of extrajudicial fishing expeditions, whether that's digging through troves of data illegally intercepted by the NSA, or seizing and offloading the contents of peoples' phones without any legal basis, etc. What rustles their jimmies is that now they'll have to actually get a warrant for John Doe and his phone, as opposed to just sending some dubious administrative subpoena over to Apple.

According to whom, and what reason do you have to trust them? I'm not sure where you are, but for me, duckduckgo.com resolves to an IP on Amazon AWS and is hosted in the United States. These days I have no choice but to operate under the assumption that any server in the US is logging everything, whether by choice or under force of some secret court order from the US government. Giant providers like Amazon in particular. Unlike Lavabit, they can't afford to just shut everything down when presented with a dubious government demand.

In the meantime you might look at QuickEdit mode for the command prompt, if you haven't already. I've spent so much time in PuTTY over the years that I've grown accustomed to right-click being paste when I'm in a shell. This also works in cmd if you set it to use QuickEdit mode (having to hit Enter to copy a selection is just plain unintuitive, though).

It's not really a feature of Windows if you have to use a third-party utility, is it? That's like saying Napster has been a feature of Windows since 2000.

Pants are optional, but recommended for you.

As Steve Jobs would say, you must be holding it wrong (or maybe holding it too long?).

I agree, but I don't think you'll find that anyone at 4chan truly wishes death or bodily harm on their opponents, at least not in a quantity that's meaningfully different from society at large. Sure there are psychopaths walking around out there, some of them do have a desire or a compulsion to harm other people, most of them have never heard of 4chan or /b/.

When you provide people with an anonymous or quasinonymous platform for speech, interesting things happen. You'll get a lot of "niggers should be lynched," for example, but hand those guys a rope and they aren't going to do anything. You'll get a lot of "female game dev should be bound and gagged," but put any of those guys in the same room as her, they're not even going to make eye contact.

These are not real threats, not even real wishes or desires, it's a bunch of people venting steam on a message board. Go to a sports discussion forum (or sit down at a bar) and you'll get a slightly more socially acceptable variation on the same theme. "Romo's a homo, someone needs to sack him good and break his fucking neck." Those guys don't wish real physical harm on anyone either. Nobody pays them any attention, though, because there aren't buzzwords like 4chan or hacker to throw around and make a big scary news story.

Yes, they do, and they're hoarding more of it than ever; "members of this global elite are stashing an average $600 million each -- 10 times more than a year ago."

Never "misunderestimate" the average idiot. Hundreds of people have been happy to pour rubbing alcohol on their bodies and light themselves on fire this year, and there's no shortage of YouTube/Vine/LiveLeak videos to prove that this is going on. Believe it, there are people who are putting their new iPhones into their microwaves. They just can't prove it because they're too busy nuking the only camera they own.

No, BBB is far worse.

Medical and dental boards are at least state sanctioned and have some level of certification and verification involved; you have to actually have a degree and a license to become a member. BBB, on the other hand, will happily sell you an A- rating for a nonexistent business called "Hamas" (yes, after the terror group), or take $395 to upgrade your listing from C to A+ overnight.

The real problem is that millions of consumers, especially seniors, look to BBB as some beacon of fairness and respectability. People will threaten to "call the BBB" as if they're part of FTC or some other government agency and can actually step in and take enforcement action or correct a perceived wrong. This is absolutely bogus, and that message needs to get out as far and wide as possible. When I was working retail 20 years ago and someone would say they were going to "call the BBB" over something, we'd hand our phone across the counter and ask if they wanted the phone book (nobody ever took us up on the offer).

Back on topic, there are tons of not-entirely-substantiated anecdotes of Yelp behaving this way as well. I wish someone would catch them in the act like ABC news got BBB on camera.

Thanks for the link, I was curious about that, too. "RapidScat" sounds like what I do after chili night.

They don't! So please, buy an iPhone! That way we can make sure you get Bono's new music. Then we know you like it, because your iPhone automatically downloaded it over your expensive cellular data plan without your authorization, er, um, I mean, you intentionally downloaded it! On purpose, because you like it! There are hundreds of millions of fans of U2 and iTunes!

Love,

Apple+Bono

It's even that way in some parts of the US, but only the very few places where municipalities got the ball rolling before Comcast and friends could lobby for laws making it illegal. Chattanooga has awesome municipal fiber, for example. In most states, the ISPs have bought and paid for legislation or entered into heavy-handed agreements that prevent other cities from implementing a similar network. Washington DC has miles of fiber sitting around dark because their agreements with ISPs don't allow them to sell service to residents. A 100 gigabit network is already there, it would cost very little to turn it up, but no, Verizon might lose some FiOS money and we can't have that.

I believe you're referring to Java Anon Proxy/JAP.

Take off your pants and stand in traffic and you, too, can meet new grateful friends!