One way to find out is to do a promiscuous tcpdump of your local network traffic while using that app - if you can read personally identifiable items in plain text, you are simply not safe.

Not to mention lack of well insulated houses. Any heating won't do you any good (unless you live in apartments, but that too can vary). With the high energy costs here it's more economical to wear coats if it gets that cold.

Then again, Canadian winters have trained me well, I laugh at people who complain about the cold here.

All someone interested in breaking this system at a basic level needs to do is to gain access to some popular server to put some code (plain HTML img tags, or javascript if site is vulnerable) that will automatically do searches based on those "monitored" search terms when a user-agent accesses it. This will incriminate all innocent parties that browse those "infected" pages (as if something like is bad), which naturally flood the monitoring tools with garbage.

I think a number of slashdotters skip the summary also and go straight into the comments.

Why would you need to place cameras some specific distance apart to record what is essentially two constant stream of frames?

It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, all that is required are two projectors with a polarizing filter over each lenses turned in a way that so that it would work with the users' polarized glasses. Then synchronize the two streams temporally and spatially onto the screen (and play it out of the correct projector), and enjoy your 3D movie.

Just call yourself a programmer with a fluent understanding of proper programming methodologies (which is knowing how to separate out business/presentation logic, writing unit tests, etc.) The language you work with should be secondary to that.

Not that fast. Circumference of Earth (~40 000 km) / Speed of Light in vacuum. (~300 000 km/s) = 0.133s.

Also, speed of light in glass fiber is about 2/3 that, so it will take light 0.2 seconds to travel around the globe in a glass fiber. Don't forget most routers take the light signals they receive, convert it into electric signals so the circuits can route the packets, before converting them back to light again. At least this is the case until full optical packet switching becomes prevalent.

This joke is dumb, one could extend it to this:

There are 10 types of people in this world: those don't know number system other than decimal, those that think this is binary, and those that know this might be tertiary.