Amen. I've been to Sea World (regrettably) and it made me want to puke. These majestic animals trapped in small pools being forced to flap about while thumping techno music plays and a sleazy DJ whoops the simpletons in the crowd into a frenzy because "omg, I'm getting wet!"

Thanks for regurgitating everything that has gone wrong. It's easy and popular these days to prognosticate that BlackBerry is doomed because stock price, market share, bad press, blah blah. Unfortunately for your ilk BlackBerry is under new management and is executing a number of moves that are different from anything in the past.

Partnering with Foxconn, introducing the Z3, the device management moves described here, BBM on all platforms, etc, are just a few.

BlackBerry remains unrivalled in device security (for sure the facebook crowd won't care), has awesome battery life, and has the smoothest mobile operating system I've ever used. Yes, full disclosure, I own a Z10. Literally the only drawback is that it doesn't have a few apps that might be handy (my banking app most notably). That written the support for Android apps grows and you can now install 'droid apps right out of the play store.

Certainly it's true that BB could still be doomed but commentary like yours is essentially the chatter of the Monday morning quarterback.

A phone that puts security first. No ifs, and, or, buts about it. Not to mention 2-day battery life and a seamless OS experience.

It really is stunning how the asses in Congress will name a surveillance law "Freedom Act"

It's not. But he's a politician and part of a Government that excels at saying one thing and doing another. All this bullshit talk about "transparency" is laughable. The only reason we are having this "talk" is because of Edward Snowden.

Nevermind, of course, that any reasonable reading of the Constitution makes much of the NSA's activities illegal. But no, that's not important. What's important is that we're talking, having "conversations," in a "transparent" manner. Meanwhile the NSA's vacuums are running full tilt and the FISA rubber-stamp machine is printing "Approved" on anything that comes near it.

Although everyone seems to rejoice at Blackberry's troubles their new Z/Q phones are not only the most secure on the market they are also a pleasure to use. I've had an android and used iPhone's before and they do not compare. The ease of multi-tasking, the Hub, and the generally reliable performance are a pleasure. With the latest BB OS they also run Android apps with ease. It's not 100% compatibility but I've gotten Google Navigate and others installed with one click.

It's not a shameless plug. Theo has been openly critical of the OpenSSL team's development practices. By forking in-house he's essentially saying that they will put their proverbial money where their mouth is by doing their own development.

Yes, gotcha.. by the time we're ready to colonize distant star systems we'll still not have unravelled the mysteries of the genome. Brilliant.

It sounds like a harmless game of Duck Hunt but it's hard to say just how insane that erratic dog Kim Jong is when it comes to retaliations for any of his tin-can missiles being shot down. Japanese take down missile? Fire a single artillery round into Seol!

Indeed arguing the higher moral ground can be difficult when you're an American but I can't help but feel China has blood on its hands by essentially supporting the North Korean regime. I can understand that they don't want a democratic Korean peninsula but what that fat little piglet Kim Jung does to his people is nothing short of an atrocity on the scale of the Holocaust.

We're not far from being able to check-box for all the SNPs and phenotypes we want in offspring. The idea that we need to ship around tens of thousands of mouth-breathers just to maintain "diversity" is about as ludicrous as saying we'll need stout men to construct shelters upon arrival at the far side.

"First time accepted submitter "

Umm.. applause? Seems kind of high and mighty for a site most use as a time killer.

But I can't help but feel that the very nature of our Government has morphed. Institutions like the NSA aren't bothered by public perception -- they have grown into their own. They are beholden only to their own agenda and will do whatever it takes (lying to congress, fabricating effectiveness) to maintain and expand their power. Obama will do some hand-wringing on TV but in the end nothing will change.

I hope this is the beginning of the end of RSA's conferences. That they can not categorically deny any modification to their encryption routines at the behest of the NSA is proof enough that their products can not be trusted. It's farcical that all these researchers, striving for maximally secure systems, would present their findings at a conference hosted by a company that sold everybody out -- and for little money at that.

It's so sad to see these sociopaths consolidate power and further desecrate the Constitution. But I just don't what to do about it.. give money to the ACLU - check. Support Rand Paul - check -- but he doesn't stand a chance.

I feel like I'm watching a friend die from inoperable cancer.