Constitutionally they don't really do anything.

EO's have no real weight to create policy. They are simply instructions for federal agencies (which the President is in control of since he is the executive) to do.

Congress then up until now allowed it and the blame lies on their shoulders alone for creating the surveillance state.

Such lack of history.

Look into why the drinking age was raised to 21 nation wide: Failure to comply cut highway funding. It was blackmail.

So, stick the shitty memes elsewhere.

Consider how many people die on the roads every year in the United States alone, the biggest factor is humans.

Then, consider how many people die every year due to firearms in the United States alone and look how CA reacts and tries to limit access to firearms, through laws and technology. Basically, "remove the problem."

Shouldn't CA be pushing hard for driverless vehicles? Removing human error from the equation would save countless lives.

Think of the children.

[Besides Snowden] The largest data breach in recent memory was due to an internet connected HVAC system at Target. The electrical grid is a small sliver of the equation, the next decade is going to be a massive shit show.

Yeah, paper is much safer because you can't just walk in and walk out with the folder.

Yes, great solution. Seeing as agencies take a year+ to hire a new gov hire, it will really help to get things rolling. Instead of a contractor that can be brought in that day and fired at an instant.

AFAIK all of blackphones source is in the public.

Golds is a cancer. I was a member there for awhile. For whatever reason, they stopped charging my credit card. I was looking over my bills and noticed they hadn't billed me for 3 months. Contacted the gym and fixed the CC. A week later, a call from collections for non-payment. No one ever contacted me. The CC was fine, hadn't expired. Because of an internal problem, they sent me to collections. Insanity.

You do realize there are several flavors of encryption, right? Microsoft SQL Server TDE is an example. You can login, perform queries, update data in any table, but all data is encrypted - it is - transparent as the name indicates.

That also ignores things like encrypted volumes, etc. Just because individual files aren't encrypted with unique keys, doesn't mean that encryption isn't there.

While i see the "point" in this Bot, the fact is a lot of the editing is probably bored staffers and interns editing things they find interesting.

uh http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/483/894/463.jpg

Never go full potatoe [sic]

Aussies have voted themselves high taxes on all goods. If they are tired of paying the high taxes on them, well golly do something about it.

Perhaps it is because people don't find those companies do anything worth note. Google and Facebook try to recruit me once a year and I simply have no interest in working for them - I don't find anything compelling that they do for me personally. Perhaps females want to work somewhere that has a better mission than what they offer?

Everyone is looking for the discrimination angle but I think it is simpler than that.