So basically what you're saying is "Haters gonna hate," then?

Even worse is that that's exactly what the DVD subtitles say. Makes no sense to me. "Merry," as in "happy," I get, but wtf "married."

TFA mentions that they actually make 30 of them. Still seems like there would be some waste, though.

Isn't that kind of like "You make me do this to you! Why do you keep making me hit you!?"

Not denying that they did / would say that. I just thought it was funny noticing the parallels there.

I just switched from Trac to Redmine. The last straw was when I wanted to start making tickets depend on each other, or at least relate to each other. In Trac, this can't be done. Users have been requesting it for years and there is at least one plugin that mostly implements it but the general attitude I discovered when reading up on this was that a.) the main developers have no intention of implementing this officially and b.) plugins are a bad idea because they tend to break over time.

The extended discussion of this one issue and its lack of implementation (info here), as well as posts like this, give me the impression that while Trac may work well for a "simple" tracking system (as intended), it may be quite near end-of-life and future support and enhancements will be limited. Based on that, I can't recommend anyone start on it. Instead, why not just start with something that does more and is still under active development (i.e., Redmine)?

I never said abuse didn't happen before, only that the cameras could be potentially abused, and easily so.

So basically you're saying that it's ok for power to be abused in this manner now that it's obviously being abused? Or is this just more along the lines of preferring a known evil vs. an unknown one?

Though I personally am not particularly concerned about traffic cameras, I think I can address one of your points.

The difference between cell cameras and traffic cameras is that traffic camera video is all pooled together and can be used to track someone (by license plate) with relative ease (compared to cell cameras). The issue isn't that the pictures are being taken, it's that there are so many being controlled by one organization.

It's not so much the threat to liberty that's an issue but rather the fact that it can be potentially abused by someone with access to the data.

Of course the problem there is that your average Internet user doesn't know or care about the difference between the levels of service / verification provided by the different authorities.

For them, if the browser lets them in without a warning (or maybe, at the absolute most advanced, they actually look for the "little lock icon"), it must be ok to be there.

As long as browsers keep letting the little $14 "Turbo" (or whatever) certs through with the same level of confidence as the "real" ones, SSL certs will continue to do nothing but encrypt the connection between the browser and server.