Pretty soon it'll be people who are suspected of having harbored lustful thoughts of girls who appear to be under age.

That and camera technology in the posters you see everywhere advertising clothes/makeup etc for young girls so that men whose eyes linger just a little too long on the poster are flagged as potential pedos.

Some people never leave their homes though! I guess the ultimate in defence against this kind of thing is being a shut-in!

It didn't work out that badly either. You don't directly spy on everyone; you give everyone a really good incentive to spy on everyone else for you. Kind of what 5 eyes does but on a more personal level.

PGP/GPG is much easier to use these days than it was in the 90's. Plugins exist for many mail clients that do the heavy lifting in the background.

Friends and family are surely tired of my tinfoil hat, they just do not seem to care about their privacy. Many say the "I have nothing to hide" line.

I'm sure that they have the best of intentions. The problem is with the underlying assumption that there is some kind of conspiracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenatchee_child_abuse_prosecutions

Once you accept that there is a conspiracy, there is no end to it.

If they were just interested in cataloguing the various cases then that could be done by scripts and Google news. If something is not getting media exposure then it is more likely to be because of lazy "journalists" than because someone is trying to bury the story.

1st past the post.

The problem with that is whether your promise would also apply to your heirs.

Once something becomes worth $X there will always be people trying to make money off of it. The larger X is, the more people like that there will be.

Slower photons in fiber optics means a slower, more relaxed pace for my web browsing.

http://lifehacker.com/ad-block...

I suspect that some of the people who matter to you do think like this.

Try to grasp this; one can be against something but not hate the people who instantiate/exemplify that thing.

I am against smoking, I have many friends who smoke. I am against monotheism, I can still have friends who are muslim. I think transgenderism is just a delusion, does that mean I have to hate you? I don't think so.

You may believe that I'm wrong-headed about your 'condition', or whatever you want to call it, but do you have to believe I hate you? Or I'm afraid of you?

Is Linux really aiming that hard at becoming a toy OS for thirteen year olds like Windows?

Speaking as an old-time Unix neckbeard, the best evidence I've got is that the answer is "yes". (cf. "systemd", "Network Manager")

... the oldest goatse in history.

So, in their quest to be like Facebook and Google by snapping up technology for obscene money, they forgot to do "due diligence", and now they are pissed?

At $10 BILLION I don't think there is any "forgot" here.

Even at the time of the deal the price was questionable. It was 10x more than Autonomy was possibly worth.

I would say "follow the money" but it is sounding like someone did not complete their part of the deal.

HP used to be such a great technology company, until they switched to the printer ink scam.

Yeah. This sounds more like an attempt to loot the company that didn't pan out.

Excellent! It took me straight to The Black Hole game. Thanks!

Of COURSE the world is run in the feelings of NTs because THATS NORMAL. NT's are normal people, not abnormal people, not people with special needs. Just ordinary, normal people.

Also, and this may be news to you, normal people aren't all the same and some happen to dislike oversocialisation. They can dislike oversocialisation and still be totally normal people and not in the least bit autistic.