give up.

There are people out there who will NEVER be convinced; because they'd rather sit on their high-horse and morally judge people for being fat. The simplistic worldview that fat people simply overeat, and that there's nothing else going on, is too compelling, even if it is wrong.

A state spying on it's own citizens... shameful. I'd be outraged, unless of course they said it was part of the war on terror, or whatever China's current favorite boogeyman is.

I've had my Samsung S5 (Verizon) complain that TowelRoot was malware.

Also, after rooting, the update process seemed to fail from that point onwards; I can't install any vendor-provided update successfully.

What do we know about the security of systems such as onStar?

But will a wearing a dongle help?

If you can think of as many distinct sexual activities as there are symbols in your wrinting system, make a table and encode your secret messages as porn movies. (Spies will probably watch them, but probably also forget that they're supposed to be looking for messages.)

"...serious newspapers and comedy TV shows..."

Honestly, I'm far more afraid of DUMB programs, set loose by psychopathic human operators. Humans will do almost anything to fuck over other people, and make a buck. An antelope thighbone is a simple tool. One that can be misused. A program is just a much more sophisticated tool.

Why are we afraid of the moment when a tool decides to use other tools, when any human can do horrible things.

Again, it's really annoying that the bad actors screw things up for everybody.

Tragedy of the Commons, eh?

even in the nuclear industry, we regulate, and monitor - - obsessively. Yet, accidents happen.

In the drilling industry - we're FAR less strict. I think it's almost guaranteed that accidents in fracking are more the rule than the exception.

Free speech means it's ok for him to post when he's off his meds.

Which is something that knowing a programming language isn't much help with.

there's a utility for MBP's called "SMCFan Control" - however, it has been a bit "flaky" in my experience.

If you boot to either Fedora or Ubuntu, there are some great temperature/fan/CPU controls that can be used to moderate heat.

The MBP is absolutely fucking amazing hardware. You pay for it though. And there are trade-offs (no 3-6 disk slots, that's for sure).

but obeying laws is a PAIN. We're an online company! Waaah

yeah, cable news has gone down the shitter - but frankly, that's been a very strong trend since 1982 or so.