Correct, and as demonstrated by the USA, rouge police officers don't need warrants or probable cause in order to access all records held by facebook.
Especially, not if it's related to "terrorism" or "national" security...

This is why the surveillance programs are so bad, they legitimize the same conduct in countries where abuse is much more likely.
Not that we don't know the US already abuses it's powers for industrial espionage.

Ha ha, yeah what you need is another reason for the corrupt police to shoot you...

I didn't care to read the article... but they are probably replacing the A/Cs with new units etc...

last.fm did a great job half a decade ago using qt, they were multi platform with a decent app, having a somewhat native feeling everywhere.
It's not hard, it's more that everybody wants their app to special (it's particularly bad with commercial apps, and music related apps in general).
AmaroK didn't have success because it had a ton of unique features, but because they made a music player that wasn't designed for kids. Just think of winamp, designing a music player to look like an actual physical music player, it was awful. (IMO; I know others love it)

Web player is better than the linux client...

I know the US is an adversarial system (crazy), but when your own govt plays tricks it's not super cool...

I/O, there has a been a lot of effort into moving all I/O off the main thread... I know because I refactored part of the code that hooks system calls on windows, to intercept not just our own I/O calls, but I/O calls for all system-libraries/libraries/plugins etc. Someone else finished this up and made a lovely dashboard of data that I won't pretend to understand :)
Have a look: http://mozilla.github.io/iacom...
So a lot of the threads are I/O related. But there is also a ton of other things that are moved off the main-thread, I won't pretend to know half of them.

You don't even have to go that far (opt-out is too far). Just make it a requirement that once you turn 18, you file a form opting either in or out.
Most people who aren't organ donors are so because they haven't made up their mind.

You could also make a requirement for a drivers license that you "make up your mind". Ie. on the form for application for drivers license, make an organ donation yes/no field and require that people pick one. Sort of appropriate as considering how people drive in the US, they are likely to donate organs :)

There most likely no need to push people to do anything but make up their mind.

[citation needed], see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

I agree, but the only serious competitor at this point is go.
Honestly, js on the server be nice... If you code it right, and declare things rather than code them. Also babeljs rocks.

I know you are being sarcastic...

But in countries with strict gun control, some might consider this...
That said; I think it's sufficient to just declare it illegal to print fire arms... Well, funded criminalswill always have fire arms, gun control is mostly about increasing the effort required to get a gun (and to keep one, as you must keep it secret). It prevents idiots from getting their hands on guns, 3d printing a gun certainly takes a lot of effort.

I would love to see you stop bulk collection in foreign countries too...

Hello is a good one... I might that... because the domain is [firstname][last name initials].com

Unless you know the intend of the person you're selling a passport to, you can't really be part of the next crime that follows... and yes, that is a non-violent crime, there is no violence in selling documents.

But as I understood it silk road on provided contact. So he is basically guilty of no moderating his site, knowing that a lot of criminal activity was organized there. I'm not saying that isn't a crime, but it's similar to how the pirate bay was guilty of copyright infringement by ignoring the fact that their "legitimate" file-sharing service was mainly used for illegal distribution. Granted silk road organized things worse than TPB, that said, life in prison is a hard sentence (one you can't even get in many other countries).

Compared to guns I would strongly prefer people to allowed to have strong encryption.

Maybe America should start by regulating arms... Before you regulate strong encryption which has many peaceful civilian applications.

Please do leave your crazy "guns-are-more-important-arguments" in comments... I read them sarcastically and find them most entertaining :)

Hmm, it would be fun to build an arduino based router. I suspect someone already did... But I think this would be the only way to reduce the amount of silicon.
Hiding a generic backdoor in an atmega chip that plays well with a generic backdoor in say an ethernet and/or wifi processing chip would be an accomplishment.