All you need to get it to work is to get lobotomized. (already proficient Facebook users need no operation)

Even though if the intentions were to only use the data against criminals, terrorists and what not, the fact is that this data will be leaked again and again. How many more people than Snowden at NSA got hold of data, but did not go public with it, but maybe sold it? A system as large as NSA is running can never be totally secure. Just to running it, and to make any use of it it requires thousands of people to have access. This alone is an argument for not storing all data you can. Because it is not only you who will access it. Your enemies will too.

No rain today, just snow

lets try without poison this time!

Yes, since 1984

Actually, the amount of hydrogen used within a star before it starts to collapse is just a fraction of the total amount the star contains. It is only the hydrogen in the very core that runs out. Hydrogen in outer layers cannot get into the center, since it is blocked by heavier elements over time, and hence cannot fuse. If we (humanity) in the future could come u with a way to stir the star, so more of the outer layers of hydrogen could get into the center, then the Sun could run for more than hundreds of billions years. (Instead of a few billion we have left now)

There's a 78% chance we're not living on an earth-like planet. It does however support life. Are their models really that good?

The real question is, can it withstand fracking underneath?

You are missing the third category, the "Brillant" people. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx ...they are in a category of their own.

nope, 451 is the perfect number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

This is too good. I mean no coincidence it is the same number as Ray Bradberys dystopian novel "Farenheit 451", about censorship where books are outlawed, and firemen burn all that are found...

With digital voting it is really easy to sell your vote, or to force someone (like members in a family) to vote in a certain way. Since who's to stop coercion when nobody is around?

Here is one solution. (Slides are from 2009, but it still works.)

http://www.slideshare.net/eCommConf/26-brough-turner

This is the way it's done in Stockholm/Sweden. Lowest price and a ton of isp's to chose from (like 300 in stockholm)
I pay like 12 dollars a month for 100/100. Have been for 6 years... could get faster like gigabit but I'm lazy.

It sucks imho... at least for me it's more of an immersion breaker than anything else. Get it right or don't do it at all.

The difference between guns and knives is that guns make the slaughter really much more easy. You know like point and click easy. It's because guns were invented after knives as a way to kill with more ease. Don't present these tools to crazy people as an option to solve their demented problems, regardless of if they are resourceful or not.
It is simply not true that mildly resourceful people get what they want regardless. The harder it is to acquire or do something, the more likely it is that it will not be done at all. It works like that for all other aspects of human endeavors, not sure why you think this differs from it.