what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?

A red LED that glows when the 'glasses' are actually recording and is dark when they aren't.

Yeah, that one piece of malware is a real pain.

Yes, malware for OSX and iOS does exist. It is very possible. But the problem seems to be about the same size as malware for Linux at this stage. By that I mean there is very little of anecdotal evidence of widespread, active malware in the wild targeting OSX, iOS and Linux. The same can't be said for Windows.

So far I've never been hit on OSX, iOS or Linux. I've had plenty of Windows machines go down in flames though. I still have friends of family for which this is a fairly regular occurrence. Even myself, I had a fully patched Windows VM just for testing websites in IE. No antivirus installed. Visited some legitimate news and html/css sites... Boom. Malware installed.

I haven’t studied SMTP for a long while, but I think what you’re describing isn’t possible with ordinary email over the ’net. That sounds like something restricted to an internal mail system since it requires a centralized database of mappings between aliases and email addresses.

Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?

Just so you know: That "97 percent of all scientists in the world" silliness came from a rigged "poll."

Basically, an AGW-supporting scientist polled a number of his AGW-supporting scientist friends and co-workers - 30 or so - and asked them if they thought AGW was real.

That's where your number came from. Which should tell you something about the actual support for AGW among the scientific population at large...

They recently came up with another poll, where they cherry-picked a bunch of papers, and said "97% of scientific papers agree!" While not mentioning that only about a third of them actually addressed AGW, and they got their "new" 97% by only looking at 65 papers. Out of 12,000. Oops.

...that the money for this transaction ultimately comes from all of us. We bought the products and services of the companies whose marketing and advertising rely on Facebook. And those of us who have FB accounts, (along with those of us who don't do our best to stop FB tracking us all over the Web), have made Facebook at least look like it's worth the money those companies hand over to it. That's how Facebook can pay almost a thousand years' of WhatApp's current revenue for the fledgling company.

They find searches based on what people click on when they search things.

If chinese language users in the filtered system can't see those links then they will have a lower rank if that search system is combined with the unfiltered system.

Therefore, the real solution is to compartmentalize the two lists rather then combining them.

The most popular casual games for iOS are not Flash (unless you count AIR). Nor are the most popular casual games for Android.

How far away are we from gaining a critical mass of website who don't necessarily need flash anymore, with the arrival of HTML 5? How long before the scale tips?

no we're saying you're using a strawman: the story you're referring to was about a certain *version* of IE that was now in the single-digit market share.

You needn't use IE for it to be useful to attackers. It is the one thing present on EVERY SINGLE system running an OS from MS, and it is the one single thing on every MS OS operated PC that is not only well suited to making connections via internet but also the one that the MS firewall routinely allows to in the default setting.

The good old "we send the user a bogus EXE in mail" isn't really good anymore because of the MS firewall and UAC. Works like a charm, though, with a bogus script abusing an IE vulnerability since IE is considered a "trusted" application by default.

but could not hook into the OS because MS would not allow it to allow them a lead.

I mean you have Star Wars, Star Trek, Senerity, Farscape (I guess), Dune (maybe). A few movies from the 60's/70's (silent running, 2001, whatever).

What other sci-fi movies are there? It's all shit.

What I find amazing is that people who have such privacy problems with a voluntary service where you yourself fully control what information you choose to share,

If only it were that simple. Even if you choose not to share any information, your friends can tag you in photos,