"Four U.S. senators Tuesday called on Apple to yank iPhone and iPad apps that help drunken drivers evade police..."

The police and the private companies that make breathalysers should open these devices to public scrutiny to prove their reliability, until then people should be able to do everything in their power to avoid being forced to use these black boxes.

So now I'm a law abiding citizen who can't enter a stadium that my tax dollars helped pay for?

And I AM forced to pay my taxes.

I'd say that makes sense, except that there are so many tools available to a user to reduce (or even eliminate) spam in their Inbox that would compensate for any lack of natural constraints, like the one you refer too, thereby eliminating the need for the criminal justice system to be involved at all.

So basically you're saying that this guy went to jail because he was wasteful and not because of the effect his practices had on the recipients?

As a recipient:

I pay for the trash bags to put the junk mail in
I pay for the trash service to take the junk mail away
I pay with my time having to sift through the junk mail to make sure my real mail hasn't been inserted into it
I pay in time when I have to track down a bill that's been thrown away when it's stuff into junk mail

Regarding hijacking servers, that's illegal and it focuses on a specific action. Charge him with hijacking a server.

The fact is, as one another person posted, the reason junk-snail mail has not been outlawed is because it server an economic purpose by feeding money into the postal system. That's why one in illegal and the other is not. IT's not based on right or wrong, it's based on economics and who benefits from it being legal. And that thinking corrupts the law.

Why should I be forced to receive something that I didn't ask for? Whether that be spam or junk-mail? Making one illegal an the other illegal creates ambiguity in the law because the law is no longer about right and wrong. Spam vs. Junk-mail just being a small example.

I still can't believe this guys was given four years for doing the same thing that companies do to my snail-mailbox everyday. Laws should not be based on what medium was used to perform an action; they should be based on the actions themselves. Either outlaw electronic junk mail and snail-mail junk mail or don't do anything at all. Doing the former only serves to corrupt the law.

Renouncing your US citizenship isn't as straightforward or as easy has you make it sound. You usually must first become a citizen of another country before the US will allow you to renounce your citizenship and that can take years or decades. During that time, assuming you find a country that will let you stay while you await citizenship, you're obligated to pay taxes to the US and you new home country. No country likes to give up give up a source of revenue.

Electing to leave: A reader's guide to expatriating on November 3
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/10/0080240

"The bill would clarify U.S. law by saying that it is an act of espionage to publish the protected names of American intelligence sources who collaborate with the U.S. military or intelligence community."

Anyone who would want to create a classification of people who are immune from public scrutiny is definitely an enemy of United States. That's you Rep. King.

I'll bet it won't have a camera!

This study was obviously funded by dogs.

And the flight actually serves a purpose and gets you to your destination.

Body scanners are just security theater and offer you nothing positive in return.

Incidents like this demonstrate that when the Government says they'll keep your data secure and private (body scanner data, for example) that it's representatives are either intentionally lying or naive, or both.

But they still demand more "tools" (ie- power) and insist that they are competent custodians. No government should ever be trusted this much, no matter how just and righteous it is.

Closed Source and Open Source are a bad idea as far as voting is concerned. It takes a process that should be open, transparent and easy to understand and makes it complicated and something that only a programmer can understand.

Electronic voting will probably be on of the biggest internal threats to American Democracy that our generation will need to address.

An interesting article written several months ago about Duke Nukem Forever and what the developers at 3D Realms went through

Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1

So you're taking away the my freedom to have legal anonymous communication in order to catch only the stupid criminals?

Sounds like a bad trade-off to me.