Come on. The article is a joke. " A chess facilitator brain implant would be wired between perception and cognition. You would just look at the board and know if it is checkmate." Did the original poster not realize this?

Since it sounds like he really hasn't been in touch with her it looks more like he dumped his girlfriend. Why hasn't he invited his girlfriend to Russia?
He has stated that the only reason he took his "cushy job" was to steal classified documents:
      Snowden to newspaper: I took contractor job to gather evidence
Snowden couldn't be found in the airport for long stretches of time. Perhaps he was resting in a Russian supplied suite?
The simple truth is we know next to nothing about Snowden's living conditions in Russia, other than he is being protected by the FSB, who has no doubt had many chats with him, and his spokesman is on the FSB's public committee and a friend of Putin.

You'd have a great point if there was any reason we could trust Snowden, a man who lied to friends, family, girlfriend, coworkers and the government to steal top secret documents and flee the country. The fact that he as leaked top secret documents doesn't make him trustworthy.

Obviously.

Now can you pretend that George Washington was a spymaster that ran a spy ring that spied on both the British and other colonists, and that Benjamin Franklin opened the mail of other colonists for intelligence purposes to aid the war effort? Well, you don't have to pretend, they actually did it.

You seem to "know" a lot of things that aren't true.

The gathering of phone metadata by NSA may be disagreeable, but it isn't a "general warrant." Since a court is supervising it and Congress has authorized it, you seem to be on weak ground as to what is constitutional. I disagree with you since you are making a variety of fundamental errors, including the suggestion that I would rather be living in North Korea.

I'm still waiting for this list of "fundamental freedoms" that have been lost.

You should look into the history of privacy in the Constitution. It is just one more thing you don't have a good handle on.

The Right of Privacy

It gets this property from its fine surface structure, which is a forest of tubes. Incoming light has to be reflected many times before it gets back out, so a black material is effectively made even less reflective. It's the optical-scale version of the pointed absorbers used in anechoic chambers.

It probably is not going to retain its blackness when exposed to water, dirt, or wear. Superhydrophobic coatings such as Never Wet have the same problem - they work because they're composed of tiny points, so droplets of liquid don't have a surface they can grab. But after some wear, the effect stops working. (See any of the many "NeverWet fails" videos on YouTube.)

This is likely to be great for protected environments, such as inside optical systems. It should be useful for optical sensors in space, too. But it's probably an inherently fragile surface. That limits its uses. (The "stronger than steel" probably refers to the individual carbon nanotubes, not the bulk material.)

This s a problem with a lot of surface chemistry stuff touted as "nanomaterials". They have interesting surface properties, but the surfaces are fragile, because they're some very thin surface layer with an unusual structure. If you protect that structure with some coating, you lose the effect.

Hmmm, looks like a (-1 inconvenient question) mod.

Let's look at what I wrote:

No moon or cheese there, and you have no answer for it, hence the name calling by you. Ta ta.

And you'd be wrong. Pay up. (Donate to charity of your choice.)

That can't be good for your eyes.

Blacker than the blackest black, times infinity.

Civil rights prosecutions or lawsuits often take place against private individuals or organizations.

So you don't have an argument? Just call names? Typical.

This is going to be useful for the insides of optical systems, lens hoods, and such. Other than that, probably not that significant.

Snowden said he wrote emails that he can't produce despite taking almost two million documents. You can't explain that away since you are directly challenging him.

And yet it occurred to him to steal documents on intelligence operations by Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Sweden, and other places? All this while intending to make the claim that he was a "whistle blower" on the US? And he forget the whistle he claims to have blown, repeatedly, while there? That doesn't wash.

Maybe because they don't exist? Or they discuss classified programs that are still classified?

I expect that the NSA has done that in the proper forums for discussing classified matters: in meetings with the administration, in closed sessions of Congress, and before the courts in closed hearings.

Which "general consensus" is that? The one on Slashdot? Do you really need me to answer that for you?

Yeah. That would be best. Them stop lobbing rockets and such; however, that is never going to stop with the current status quo. Something needs to change. What that something is, is totally irrelevant the question that I asked from a personal point of view.

To answer my question to you, I would do it in a Biblical manner: I would kill all males of combat age and slay all non-virgin women. I would keep the rest as slaves.

Not politically correct for this day and age? The whole situation over there is straight out of prehistory and should be solved that way. The Israelis want to tear down Palestinian owned buildings? The Palestinians, as the weaker group, should send rockets back. Should this state of affairs be tolerated? No. One side or the other needs to crush the other side until there is peace. Or, one side has to make zero aggressive moves for long enough (5 years?) that it is demonstrable to anyone who is unbiased that one side is clearly abusing the other. At that point, we get back to the Biblical solution but without fingers being pointed.

I can understand if you do not feel like answering freely in a public forum. It is a highly charged situation and you are in the center of it. I personally do not care in the slightest if everyone assumes that I am a bloodthirsty monster or an asshole. I speak truth instead of hiding behind weasel words so I do not have to defend myself. The situation over there is just insane and political correctness does not seem to solve it.

Yes, Genn is a very busy man.

Glenn Greenwald enraged that Muslims with terror ties under surveillance