I came here to mod and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum. And mod points. Well done sir.

I'd hardly call it irrelevant, think about it for a moment. Let's say the authorities (pick your country) decided that anyone installing a specific application (for example, the Bitcoin wallet app, or even a specific political party app if you're more inclined to believe in conspiracies) is a 'person of interest'. It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture what a little data mining could do from there.

I'm talking use a pun go to jail level of enforcement.

That's awfully punitive.

TFA just says they aren't doing anything with the information... for now. That doesn't mean the FBI or whatever 3 letter agency can't put a shunt between the Internet and their SmartScreen servers. It's a sniffing vector.

"Fair enough, but in its essence, teaching is a performance art." - Amy Farrah Fowler

After all of the newspaper headlines reading 'MARS IS DEAD, NO LIFE FOUND!' killed public interest of Mars back during the 70s after the Viking probes' questionable experiments, I'm not sure firing six small static probes at a sizable planet to look for DNA is a good idea. If history is any indicator it seems like a big risk to the entire exploration effort.

I agree 100% about the ending, but honestly I had problems with the whole thing. The writing in Mass Effect 3 with the Crucible was one big Deus Ex Machina (the plot device, not the game of the same name) and the ending was a tacked on, rushed out, last minute hack job similar to Deus Ex:Revolution (the game this time, not the plot device).

I'm a little shocked more people didn't have issues with the ME3 storyline considering the whole Crucible plot device was never alluded to or foreshadowed in the previous games. Bioware has fallen from where they once were in the pantheon of gaming development companies that would consistently produce tightly written, well thought out stories. Perhaps EA is to blame and based on what came out of Bioware after Dragon Age 2 was shoved out the door that's not a bad theory.

BioWare strongly believes in the team’s artistic vision for the end of this arc of the Mass Effect franchise. The extended cut DLC will expand on the existing endings, but no further ending DLC is planned.

Translation:

EA believes we've spent enough money on an ending. We're getting dinged on fan review sites like Metacritic so we're going to throw another bandaid on it for as little cost as possible.

You could potentially help Rowdy Roddy Piper stop the alien invasion!

The movie made money. Not a truckload, but it did make a profit in theaters. Factor in DVD sales and they did alright.

2) Biometrics is not authentication, it's identification. Any system pretending otherwise is ripe for abuse.

What if you got really sick?

I call this the 'Hit By A Bus' scenario. If you're hit by a bus in the next five minutes can the business carry on without you? If the answer is no for any reason then the business has major problems.

Greetings. Once upon a time I was fortunate enough to ask you about IPv6, way back in 2002. The phrase '6 by 6' (for IPv6 by 2006) was the goal, but it seems we've missed that target. Do you ever foresee mandatory widespread adoption of IPv6 happening? Should IPv6 have been designed to be interoperable with IPv4?