Well, the big four utility companies had a 15% profit margin ten years ago, because they had a monopoly. So it's a good thing to see their profits drop.

You cannot move to a more decentralized model of power generation without huritng the big players, can you? And of course they are complaining about it.

Please read about HPV vaccination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine#Vaccination_and_public_health This is a cure for some types of cancer. In many countries almost all children are being vaccinated.

That is just wrong. If you look at breast cancer 10-year survival rates (Figure 3.4): http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/types/breast/survival/

They have come up from 41% in 1970 to 77% in 2007. While cancer is not cured, survival rates are a lot better.

When talking to the doctor three years ago, when my girlfriend had a breast-cancer operation, they had the latest studies and decided for a treatment based on them. The doctor only worked 4 days a week and took 1 day "off" to keep up with current research.

The chemicals used for chemo-therapie are updated all the time and also genetical fingerprinting of the tumor cells is used to decide which treatment makes sense. So there are lots of differences even compared to the treatment 10 years ago.

Most wind energy is produced in northern Germany. The current power grid is already unable to distribute the peak power to southern Germany. So storing it in Switzerland will not work. Norway would be a better place. But there is probably no single solution and having batteries helps as well....

I am not sure I understand. HTTPS with SSL/TLS only gives you transport level security. So nobody can listen on the wire. This might be enough if you manage/truest your own server, but for most people this is not the case. Then your mail is saved unencrypted on the mail server and can be accessed by anyone with access to the server (that probably includes government agencies).

Also using an "offline channel" is more hassle than most people are willing to accept.

It does not get you the whole way there. But I sure makes it harder for the NSA.

So on a technological level you can simply increase the time the javscript files are cached and have some external monitoring for changes. Since the whole page is static and the only dynamic element are REST Service calls this is not a big issue. Then malicious JavaScript will have to stay on the page much longer to be effective and will more likely be spotted.

On a political level: I live in Germany. The NSA cannot tell me anything. And Germany had two of the worst terror regimes in the last century. I don't think people here would tolerate being treated like you are now. There is e-mail monitoring in Germany, but it's based on laws and courts that are not secret. While running an service like this would not work in the U.S. it certainly works in most of Europe (probably excluding the U.K.)

Well, it is. But there is still a way between not trusting anyone and auditing everything yourself and sending unencrypted mails that everybody can read. If the NSA, BND or whoever wants to see especially my emails, they will. But most of my mails are really boring for everone to read and nobody cares about them. And what I'm writing to my tax advisor isn't really secret, too. Still I don't want anybody to read them. So for me its just important to make reading my mails enough hassle for the NSA to not do it.

Getting paranoid does not help anybody. It just prevents you from acting, because there is no completely safe way to communicate.

1.) This is not true. You can design a mail system to store the private key on the client (html5 local storage). See https://encmail.eu/ (shameless plug: Still in its infancy, but it will get there) or mega mail (if it will ever happen). Of course implementing everything on the client makes things harder. And losing the key is an issue for the user. And it will only be secure once the Webcrypto API is released and the Javscript code cannot access the keys anymore. But countries other than the U.S. usually cannot force you to hand over your keys and manipulate your server.

2.) True.

3.) Not true. See 1. If you authenticate using a private key you only need the password to decrypt the key and no username anymore.

Yeah... it's to easy to monitor all those unencrypted mails and web requests. Therefore the DHS spents money on things like http://polycrypt.net/ . So breaking codes becomes fun again for the NSA

This is true if you get "green energy" from a company that supplies "green" and "conventional" energy. But e.g. we have switched to Lichtblick, a company that only sells "green energy". So my money goes to lichtblick, and they have to supply an equivalent amount of energy to the grid.

While technically I might get nuclear energy, my money is supporting only green energy. So this actually makes a different (and this is actually a lot cheaper than conventional energy from the former monopoly companies.

The reason for this is probably that power saving is most effective for the "common machines", because most office computers do not really need high performance graphics cards.

On the other hand you do not want to prevent companies doing serious graphics work (movies, advertising) from operating. So I guess this makes sense after all.

Lance Armstrong has been tested for doping positively: "... had tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong#1999_Tour_de_France_urine_tests
Pierre Bordry stated: "Scientifically there is no problem to analyze these samples – everything is correct" and "If the analysis is clean it would have been very good for him. But he doesn't want to do it and that's his problem."

Why does everybody claim otherwise?

This has already been done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing

https://freenetproject.org/

Completely wrong: Main renewable electricity sources were in 2011: Wind energy 38.1 %, biomass 26.2 %, hydropower 16.0 %, photovoltaics (solar) 15.6 % and biowaste 4.1 %. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#Electricity_production )

Renewable energy excluding hydropower is about 15% of all electric energy produced. Increasing this Tenfold would give us 150% renewable energy. I guess we don't need all that much energy.

Same in Hamburg/Germany.

I like classical music. But this distorted mess coming from the speakers is just awful (combined with the fact, that highly dynamic music is not suited for noisy environments).
Probably all young people are deterred by this, because they can still hear all frequencies, while most older people (40+) cannot.

So thanks a lot. Either install reasonable good speakers or quit annoying me. The current situation will just lead to all young people hating classical music.

Memory Leaks in Java are not objects that are not freed, but dangling references to data/objects that are no longer needed (often static HashMaps that people use to implement their own caches and forget to clean up, or listeners that are still registered, even if the listening object could be discarded).

Also there are leaks in the Android WebView: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9375
So using the WebView (which many apps do) causes leaks :(
(not the fault of the developer though)