"go a step further" (than the RFC)

Exactly. Some validators are already weak. Now we'll have a whole new generation of broken ones. Even more people can experience your frustration.

Numerous email address validations start with RFC compliance of the string. Some go a step further and make sure the TLD is valid and the domain exists. Some of those validators (rightly or wrongly) use arrays of TLDs (.org, .com, .name, .ca, .uk, ..) or REGEX for the TLD validation component. Now there are arbitrary TLDs? Doom!

Webmail:
To: complaint@mail.pepsi

ERROR! Invalid email address.

If it is their patent, filed and awarded fair-and-square then they have a government issued, temporary license for a monopoly on that technology as a reward for their invention. The damages would be lost profits that the inventors were deprived of for the unauthorized use of the invention. If the technology is so useful then competitors must either license it (if inventor allows it), buy the patent, spend their own R&D to develop their own alternative, wait for the patent to expire, or buy the company that owns the patent. That's fair.

Who cares if it is "establishment" or not. What if it were Joe Brown with his patented nose hair trimmer? Would he be wrong in asserting his rights because it "kills competition?" I know it is fashionable to bash big business, but c'mon. You can't play favorites here, its the law and applies equally.

In my best Keanu impression: *boggle* whoa! that's deep.

We wouldn't have such a vibrant black market for moon rocks, we wouldn't have our National flag on the moon's surface giving the finger to other nations, we'd have missed out on some decent Hollywood flicks on the subject, and the government would have blown the money on something else similarly unproductive.

Being paranoid, I cannot resolve the chain-of-trust for anonymous proxies. For all I know Big Brother, with his infinite budget, owns and operates all of these so called proxies anyway. Honeypots if you will. Not only are they well-positioned to see what you are trying to conceal but even collaborate among other owned nodes to see just how far you're willing to take it. So in the worst case you are drawing even more attention upon yourself. You cannot really know. Is it safer than not using a proxy at all? Possibly.

Your car has been uploaded to iCloud and the criminal can now access it from anywhere!

My understanding is that there is a very hot market for stolen whole cars in Asia, Mexico, and Central & South America. Driven across the border to Mexico for further distribution, sometimes by ship. Pickup trucks in particular are being taken for this purpose. You're right though. Most often cars are not stolen, only broken into for their contents or disassembled for valuable parts. Catalytic converter thefts have been very high because they contain various mixtures of platinum, palladium, rhodium and prices for those precious metals were very high. Just like there's been a huge rash in national copper thefts.

With the capability for devices to do remote start, or ONSTAR to do things like remotely unlock your doors, as well as wireless keyfobs. I figured we'd already have people with devices that can fake these signals to gain access to and start automobiles. Much like how there exist DIY RFID readers where you can just walk through a crowd and read all their passport RFIDs and so on.. CD, iPod, Bluetooth, and Cellular attacks. That's clever too.