What do you gain by copying the 50k emails elsewhere? (I used to keep old email, but in the past few years I burn almost everything older than a year or so if I haven't already trashed it. It can be liberating.)

"We don't want false information out there." - he had a mouse in his pocket?

The voice reminded me of the narrator for "Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky". Several people have asked in that channel's comments section if it is computer-generated, but it's claimed to be a woman named Kira. AFAICT, it's a voice actor, Kira Vincent. It makes me wonder if Google had her pronounce things, and her pronounciation just happens to be somewhat synthetic-sounding :) (though I looked quickly at the research paper and didn't find a mention of "Kira" or a name for the voice).

The hands of God - Flash or 400 APM for example.

There's another option apparently becoming more popular recently. (Skeptical me thinks it's probably an advertisement.) I can't say I appreciate worrying about the carbon footprint of cremation, though...

Maybe not the best example. Being assaulted by your neighbor is something you definitely should call the police about (so number 1 it is).

Security people won't be happy until everyone has chips implanted and nerve stapling capability.

thanks, disabled

I'm not sure it's a good idea to block it, since you give them a piece of data (this user blocks canvas fingerprinting). There's one called CanvasDefender, but from what I read it's noisy with popups.. I would like something like could periodically change the fingerprint, though I'm not sure if it's really feasible. (As far as I know, the website can also change the "canvas challenge", so it's not like you can just send a particular fingerprint per website for a while. For example, they could send 10 different canvas detectors, and if you send the same response to every one, aha.)

How to tag someone not on facebook.

Exactly. My first thought when reading "We worry about technology because we lack confidence in ourselves, and imagination for the future" was "I worry about it because billionaires are saying not to..."

When mobile/cell phones started becoming...popular (? enough that I saw them), I thought it was really weird. Someone would be walking down the street talking to themselves. It's normal now (though I still think it's weird. Then again, I'm a programmer who's never owned a smart phone, heh.)

How is this not fraud?

Like many said or implied, we have to distrust our information sources. With that in mind, I can easily imagine why a magazine like The Atlantic would be against unfiltered information, in favor of its idea of intellectual, curated content/editorials (I imagine they would at the same time be upset if they didn't show up in search results..).

"We value your request for information. Here is a page explaining that, ahem, frivolously-asked question: http://gov.gov/faq.html#faq867..."