Questions about government overreach and whatnot aside, the analyst's manual is quite a nice read on how mundane intelligence analysis can be. They've apparently got a very nice application for establishing persons of interest and automatically creating a directed graph of who knows whom based on address books / calendars, but the rest is still human analysis. I particularly liked the pictures which clearly showed location information as being "somewhere in this two block radius".

So, the punchline is now reality? "Assume a spherical driver."

I don't see the need for a tinfoil hat here. If my phone is actively searching for a network, and the airport is using that information in a way that doesn't identify me, doesn't make my phone think it should be sending any other data, and generally makes my experience better, I don't see a problem. They're even letting me know that they do it.

I love my privacy, but this use seems perfectly sane. Yes, they could hire a Walmart greeter to sit on a stool and watch the line, periodically holding up a chalk board with an estimated wait time. But then we'd be decrying the creepy guy who keeps staring at us in line.

How about we actually see how some innovations play out before deciding that the airport is going to stalk us?

Without information as to which race you're representing with the poodle, I can't ascertain exactly how offended I'm supposed to be.

You must be new here. We use car analogies, not luge analogies.

Delorean, along with a flux capacitor, please.

Along with a flux capacitor, please.

I am the man who arranges the blocks that descend upon me from up above!

Tetris, the documentary

It's the alphanumeric ones that suck.

I'm holding out for Windows !

My Sony smartwatch does that, though perhaps not intentionally. It buzzes when it loses bluetooth connectivity to the phone. It's great, except for when I intentionally set my phone down and then wander around right at the edge of where it can connect.

But you can't then just leave the printed document in the tray. That's not secure. You need to have a shredding module attached so that after the email is sent the original can be destroyed.

Oblig: http://xkcd.com/385/

I think you meant something more like "Yovtvbvs".

As Red Dwarf proved pretty clearly, everything in your premise is completely wrong. The Cat was none of those things.

I loved that movie, but I found the ending too predictable.