The comparison is disingenuous. Those things aren't anything alike, and you know it. The behavior of government actors is neither inevitable nor incurable; all you have to do is change the regs.

No one should be subject to a trial of public opinion, period.

I don't like that, either.

I am 100% for body cameras on all police. But when that footage goes public, it becomes a possible intrusion into my civil liberties. What if I get arrested on a bogus child sex abuse charge? Facebook provides a good model of what will happen. The perp goes up on a police blotter for mug shots, it goes viral, and even after he is cleared, FB stalkers turn into real life stalkers, pulling up into the driveway in the dead of night and flashing their brights into the living room, or publicly commenting that if they see them on the street, they're as good as dead. Such a thing happened to a friend of mine, and this bullshit mob justice has to stop.

The only way to protect the rights of the accused is to hide police-public interactions behind an wall of secrecy. Want body cam footage? Or a mug shot? Or an arrest history? Get a subpoena, and it better be relevant.

Probably shared a Nickelback album on KaZaa back in '03.

No one in tech does that. But the insinuation that Apple is a worst offender here is demonstrably false. Backward compatibility for both iOS and Mac OS X go back as far as the hardware itself will allow, and Apple is, for all its other faults (and they are many), a role model in this particular instance.

The smart watch market is really nascent, Pebble notwithstanding, while the TV market is saturated and cut-throat. A low barrier of entry makes the watch market, while niche, possibly more profitable than trying to crack into they hyper-competitive TV market.

Not down-the-line. Fox News is solidly propagandizing immigration amnesty and aggregation of police power to the state. It is not pro-conservative; it is pro-business, and a thinking conservative does well to be wary of considering it a friendly media outlet.

Alternatively, it's easier to switch now, because there are too many wedge issues for any one person to be ideologically wedded to a single party unless that person is a single issue voter.

Sure it is. Just int he case of Cuba, that corporation happens to be the State.

Oh. Dear. You had it right, after all. I'm going to go crawl into my "I was wrong on the internet" hole and die now.

You got that quote backwards. "Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Georges Clemenceau

My first thought was Dice clickbait; but on second thought, I realized that Slashdot's readership is becoming more and more hyper-political and hyper-partisan, and that's why pure science and nerd culture posts have only the title displayed on the front page, and political, religious, or other contentious posts go in the "Top of the..." list. I blame an influx of people from 4chan and Reddit.

Or we will start an international arms race that will make the Military Channel of 2050 way more bad ass than the one we got right now.

No mirror is 100% reflective; a fraction of light energy is absorbed by the material making up the mirror. The reflective portion of a mirror is a metal film. A high-energy laser will overcome its reflective properties and burn the metal film. There are metals (like beryllium) that will reflect up to 98% of light energy, but the cost to cover an entire vehicle or structure in thick enough beryllium to negate the effects of the laser would be stupendous (and you would have to cover everything; lasers are intended to be surgical weapons; an operator would strike un-mirrored targets when possible, assuming mirror armor becomes a real thing).