great, so every time someone follows a link from your site (or you include an external image) their session key is transmitted via the referer header...

Is there anything more to say than Don't share them between sites?

If you login then of course you need a cookie. And using them for stats within one site is not much different to using IP addresses. But it's when you start including invisible images from a 3rd party site that shares the stats between multiple domains, that most people think crosses the line into creepy surveillance.

Login cookies = fine. Telling one site that you visited another site = not ok.

(or to phrase that another way: don't exploit loopholes in the security system)

that's exactly what the cellphone companies want to make sure you can't do, so if you want to route calls over wifi or USB on your phone then you'll probably want something like OpenMoko which doesn't impose restrictions on the software you can run.

The Neo only has one SIM card though, so if you want to route over multiple cellphone networks then you might want a phone built in batches of 10 in a garage in hong kong.

p.s. don't forget you can run your own GSM base station and route that over the internet. http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/OpenBTS

interesting idea.

most people I know are happy to take a gasoline car out on a trip while its fuel-warning indicator is lighted

i.e. the reserve on a tank is more than enough for most journeys. a half-tank could take you on holiday and back.

so the half-of-gasoline-tank threshold would actually be a pretty extreme huge amount of storage to put into an electric car (how often do you drive 300 miles without seeing a fuel/recharge station?)

"Yeah, people do snoop and overcharge. It's a fact of life, but it's a fact of life that can get you sued, put in jail, or worse."

Alternatively, they could say that they were doing legitimate police work, where the government expects or requires them to snoop on peoples' PCs?

CSS has the awesome advantage of View -> Page Style -> No Style, which is invaluable when someone calculated that an absolute-positioned div would work *just right* with their computer's default font-size, or decides to use small green serife text on a black background

Uhh, we already did that:

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

hexadecimal digits?

uhh, they already did that.

(well except for the '£billions' part, which they passed-on to the ISPs so it wouldn't appear in the budget defecit)

hopefully not giving taxpayer-funded houses to 15 year-old mothers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

and you get to choose school before or after you're introduced to the homework assignments on a particular class?

we have rules like that too. they're not much related to actual security problems, but they are damned useful in circumventing employment discrimation laws...

that's just for grunts. Once you get really senior, you can show classified documents to press photographers in public

Is the Pope a Hindu?