From TFA: "Against a sufficiently skilled, funded and motivated attacker, all networks are vulnerable."

Sounds like a good followup to Schneier's Law

That depends: have you posted countless link-spamming comments to my website?...

Regardless of what dysgenic fate a particular rabbit may suffer, rabbits are lifeforms because they can reproduce in general. Compare to the Energizer Bunny: definitely not a lifeform, even though it has big floppy ears, and keeps going and going.

I forget what the exact definition of "life form" is, but IIRC, one of the factors is reproduction. Using just that criteria, a robot that builds a car doesn't qualify as a life form, but a robot that builds another robot like itself does. Likewise, any 3D printer that can print a duplicate of itself qualifies. We may be getting close to that without aliens even becoming involved. I, for one, welcome our new printed overlords.

How can people who perpetrate misnomers have the nerve to call themselves "journalists"?

I guess I look at it the other way around. I have a very nice 10-year-old Seiko electro/mechanical watch whose battery is a royal pain to both buy and change every year or so (in this case, at least.) Alternatively, I've used a GPS fitness watch in the past few years that needed to be charged every few days, though it only lasts an hour or so if you actually run the GPS. However, once I got in the habit of just charging it every night along with my phone, that's wasn't a big deal.

I honestly can't understand why it's so much harder to charge a phone and a watch every night than it is to charge a phone alone. If there were such a thing as a phone that ran for two years without charging, I could see your point. What an inconvenience to have to plug in a phone every night! But everybody's used to that by now, because it's just a reality with current battery and phone technology.

And note that using your notion of "archaic", one could make the point that the current smartphones are archaic compared to the old feature-phones that only needed to be charged every few days. But even when I had one of those, I charged it every night just so I didn't have to think too hard about whether it needed charging or not. Not a big deal once you get used to it.

While we're at it, don't you just hate it that teeth need to be brushed every night? - that's why I'll never own teeth again!

Every night, I set my (dumb)watch next to my phone as I plug in the phone to charge. It wouldn't be a hardship for me (or most folks) to plug in their watch at night for charging right alongside their phone.

Then again, the smartwatch people evidently think it's too much trouble to pull their phone out of their pocket whenever the poor little thing gets upset about something and demands instant attention. So, maybe you're right.

"In the future, every cryptocurrency will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

- Andy Warhol

No wonder: the quote was from A. Hitler, not the Hitler..

This reminds me of something that a Coke executive said following the New Coke fiasco regarding the conspiracy theories that appeared when sales of Old Coke subsequently spiked: "We're not that dumb, and we're not that smart."

Whew! It's nice to hear that they can only hit nearby countries with nuclear weapons. Those of us on other continents can breathe easy now. ;-)

I interpret this quite differently. This can be viewed as a childish act of vanity by a child and the country he happens to rule. Or, it can be viewed as a preemptive strike against future DVDs of "The Interview" raining down upon the country from balloons in order to create unrest among The People. Or, it can be viewed as a message to enemies of all kinds, including other nations. Basically, if they're willing to put their (cyberattack) cards down for a mere movie, the message is, "Don't mess with us." This is particularly ominous coming from people who have nuclear weapons and missiles.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be real surprised if one of the principle actors in the film were to suffer some sort of unfortunate "accident" in the very near future. If so, we can interpret that as part of the message.

-- Nixon

Coincidentally, I ran into some text on Wikipedia yesterday that gives a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License">some interpretation by Richard Stallman of the "GNU Free Documentation License" (GFDL). I've seen miscellaneous other interpretations of the GPL attributed to him over the years. His opinion - whether you agree with it or not - has generally struck me as irrelevant from a legal point of view: lawyers have more expertise in this, and courts get the final say. So, the value of his opinion, if any, has seemed to me to be only that of a spiritual leader of his movement. The True Believers of any religion should, of course, carefully study and heed each word given to them by their prophet. Fortunately, with Stallman, and Apostle Eben Moglen still around, True Believers need not interpret things for themselves, as they necessarily must do in older religions.

For example, years ago when the license for Python 1.6 was being formulated, it was repeatedly revised in one section until Stallman declared it to be "GPL compatible". Since he's neither a lawyer or a court, I wondered why it mattered so much to Tim Peters (who, as in so many things, seemed to speak for Python's creator, Guido Van Rossum.) I eventually realized that Stallman's opinion was highly important in terms of swaying the True Believers - who Tim/Guido did not dare offend. And of course, on a more practical level, none of the conventional legal authority knew or cared anything about the situation, so perhaps Stallman was the highest available court to adjudicate the issue.

I figured such points would be made. Anyway, I don't see any advantage in using a security product from a country that is increasingly at odds with my own. Russian folks (that is, the ones who still live there, unlike my friend) may feel the same way about the American companies.

My Russian friend makes the point that everybody thinks they're the good guy, and that everybody else is the bad guy. So in reality, maybe everybody is the bad guy. Oh, except that my friend has many positive things to say about Putin and even Stalin. Go figure.

One striking and objective difference between Us and Them is that Them has a dictator whereas Us has a lame duck. I much prefer the lame duck system, regardless of the particular lame duck involved. The lame duck system also saves folks like Mussolini and Gaddafi the indignity of having their corpses mutilated after their term expires.