If it takes 64KB to communicate link navigation request using voice input, and ~1KB to do the same with a hyperlink, then yeah, that will have a pretty big impact on data usage. Of course, if you're shelling out up to $400 just for a phone, you probably don't care about the data cost.

From TFA, the passer-by went to the community center and complained, who reacted by calling the police. That makes little sense. Why didn't they just mutter, "oooh, those kids!" and call IT to change the access point config? Speaking of which, presuming this wasn't done by an IT staffer, how in the world was someone else able to hack in and change the name? What, no password?

The problem with hate speech laws is they are focused on the wrong end of the stick: the words, not the hatred itself. If you forbid the speech, it drives the hateful thoughts underground, and makes it harder for us to know that it exists. By allowing the speech, we let the thoughts come to the surface, where the rest of society can react to it and respond with their counter-arguments.

Free speech is the API of an open, civil society.

Drew Huston wants his service to become the Internet's file system. What would that look like? A lot of the features you'd want are already in Dropbox: cloud storage, privacy (at least from other users), 30-day versioning, and de-duplication. What's missing are APIs to get to your content without the clumsy requirement to sync locally first. That'd be something.

IEEE-USA's analysis is http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/eyeonwashington/2011/documents/IPprotectAct.pdf

The WWII version was the Military-Industrial Complex, and President Eisenhower had some pretty choice words to say about it. A brief excerpt:

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I hope you spoil your ballot by casting an undervote (i.e., not selecting any of the candidates), and not by defacing or harming the ballot in any way, which creates a lot more work for us poll workers. Undervotes are usually reported right alongside the normal votes, too, so you'll get a tally after the vote, just like a regular candidate. YMMV as each State has different rules.

creating new blocks against foreign content and stepping up surveillance of browsing habits.

. OK, which Satanic US corporation has the contract to deliver this technology and support it?

You and I know perfectly well that there is no invisible friend running the universe

Prove it, then. Is your faith any better than theirs?