Excellent break down, thank you for the clarification! ^_^

What in the world is a sclerotocracy? I had never heard of it before, so I tried looking up the term on DuckDuckGo, Google and Bing and I'm coming up with nothing.

...but I'd rather not add any more attack vectors than absolutely essential.

For anyone who (like me) didn't understand the reference: Colossus

Thank you for that, it was an interesting read and quite pertinent to the subject matter. Someone throw some mod points at that person!

Chocolate rain...
Some stay dry, others feel the pain.

Lockheed Martin also has a D-Wave system, so let's not forget that's already churning away for some three letter agency somewhere.

Setting up Mavericks:
- "Oh, hey, sign in with your AppleID for everything iCloud!" No, shut up, I don't need your crap.
- "You really should turn on location services so we know where you are at any given time!" No, shut up, you don't need that.
- "Hey, in order to update the applications that come with the OS by default, you're going to need an AppleID with a credit card attached." No, shut up.

Please, tell me again how Apple isn't trying to tie me into a million services that track me.

...something, something, punishment fitting crime, mumble mumble...

They're crowdsourcing the R&D of accessories. Why pay for it when you have hundreds of devoted followers who will do it for you?

Rather than just calling someone an idiot, here's some actual useful information to provide a real rebuttal to that point:

http://www.steegle.com/google-devices/chromebooks/faq#TOC-What-storage-options-do-Chromebooks-provide-

Local Storage Options
Chromebooks provide a limited amount of internal storage: the amount of storage available depends on the model of Chromebook you own and start at 16GB and rise to 300GB of internal, local storage. All Chromebooks provide an SD card slot so you can extend storage using SD memory cards.

The above is a link to "Let Me Google That For You" with a query of "Co3 Systems".

I don't trust URL shorteners and figured I would save everyone the time that I wasted in expanding it.

Stoplights?

Thank you for assuming that I haven't ever suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. If anything, you've just insulted the very group you were trying to "defend". When you believe that every person in a crowded room is watching you and can read your thoughts, then you can talk to me about the suffering. When you're afraid to turn on the radio because the advertisements are specially crafted secret codes trying to tell you the secrets behind reality, then maybe you'll understand what I've suffered from. When I went to DefCon and could hear people whispering my name as I wandered through the crowd, being scared to the point where I needed to retreat to my room, is a pretty recent reminder of how constant a presence this mental illness has in my life. So please, don't belittle me.

So every person with a cameraphone has it recording at all times? What person goes through life assuming that every camera in existence is recording their every move?

Hint: It's called paranoid schizophrenia, and it's no fun.