And then in a big cat and mouse game, all the teenagers move to a different social media site.

If I understanding it correctly, in the US, your clearance is deactivated when you leave but can easily be reactivated by another employer with a certain period of time. Otherwise, you have to start the whole original expensive and time-consuming process over.

http://xkcd.com/1022/

Mobile devics are not better for all consumption. General internet browsing is still much better on the laptop/desktop because of screen size and fine manipulation. I only browse on my phone when I am out and need to browse.

I don't know. The function visualization feature looked pretty cool.

At this resolution, yes probably. At a much higher resolution, it could be quite possible.

Hence a major reason not to federalize a lot of power.

This is what needs to be done. The problem is I don't know how to be successful getting this types of laws passed:

We need to make it so that the government cannot request the data without a court order. The court order should be required to be put into public record within 48 hours of the data transfer. This gives the government enough time to deal with time sensitive arrests while preventing abuse since their actions will shortly be revealed to the public. We need to them make it illegal for corporations to share the data with the government without a aforementioned court order. All employees in charge of gathering the data must see the court order before sharing the data. Breaking these laws should cause all involved, both government officials and corporate employees/managers, to be arrested pending a trial and all data gathered to be useless for prosecution.

The fallback would be to sue afterwards.

While I would hope this is true, I would find it more likely that the news media would play the deaths up for their own gain and cause masses to have unfavorable opinions of the technology. A four year old dieing in a firey blaze because of something that the majority would probably already by distrustful of likely cause the technology to be banned or highly contrained, statistics be damned.

I noticed the mispelling after I hit submit. Unfortunately for me, there isn't a edit feature in Slashdot.

So going to a gun range is illegal now? While I realize this guy didn't go to one before flying, it shows this shoudn't be enough to detain him. It might justify running his bags through one more time but not detaining him. If I was him, I would have waited for the police to show up and then asked the officer to arrest the TSA agent for theft since the agent wouldn't reliquish the bag when he said he wanted to leave.

That is why states need to have a majority of the power. It essentially makes them 50 counties with unifying treaties. The closer the government is to the people, the more likely that those people are under a rule that they agree with.

I think Canonical's mistake was limiting the campaign to a single month. I am sure there were a lot of people that wanted the phone but did not have the liquid cash to purchase one with only a month notice. If it was a three month campaign, I could see them reaching their goal.

How did they loose credability? They told us up-front that if the campaign did not reach is funding goal we would get our money back. Meanwhile, everyone gets to see how much demand there is for a Edge-like phone with only a month notice and little paid marketing. In the end, I would say the campaign was successful and we will probably be seeing Edge-like phones being offered within a year or two.