Actually, this is a clever sort of attack. It is the one where every public email address of the goverment becomes a spam bucket of inane email conversations, such that if you include them in the BCC field for every email you send, it overwhelms these in boxes with more stuff than they can troll through, making it completely useless.

We are already ruled by tyrants, they are the Bureaucracy. Try to fire them and see how tyranny works.

The problem is that our current bureaucracy is such that it inherently protects the ruling elected class from accusations of tyranny, while providing the services needed to be a tyranny. This is why the players change from Republican Tyrants to Democrat Tyrants, giving the illusion accountability. There is no accountability. The whole IRS, Benghazi, ObamaCare, Patriot Act etc etc etc going back to Nixon proves this. Nixon was held accountable, because he went beyond the Bureaucracy's protection.

The only fix I can see is that we need to get rid of the career Bureaucrats, which is, of course, impossible. We're screwed.

There is still yet another reason to trust OpenSource code, risk of being exposed. If you're the NSA, and you're inserting illicit code into Open Source, then you're at a very high risk of being exposed as a mole. This risk, being a known mole is too high for a "real" spy. If I were a spy agency, I wouldn't risk any assets for such a short term gain. Once exposed, a mole will have no trustworthiness AND all associations would likely become suspect. Basically, you're risking the whole operation on the assumption nobody is looking for you and therefore you won't be discovered.

Further, if I was the NSA, I would be looking at the raw code, looking for backdoors inserted by other agencies (Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Canadians), and I would assume that these other countries would be doing the exact same thing.

Combined with the above, these two assumptions (risk of exposure, looking for compromises) is sufficient to take the approach that the code is not likely compromised on purpose. This is not to say, that there are no risks, just that they aren't likely to be intentional.

Great, I expect you to work seven days a week, 365 days a year. The whole idea of a "weekend' is due to that "sabbath" rule. Same for holidays, I expect you to work, without overtime/double time. In fact, i suggest you protest against the whole idea of "holy days" since ... that is religious.

And while you're at it, protest the names of the days of the week. Because obviously the naming of the days of the week is causing you to worship Norse Gods, and Month names cause you to worship Grecko/Roman gods. Further, I also expect you to protest many of the products you buy since they are also named after deities (Nike, Mercury ...). And you better stay out of all the cities named after saints ... and lest we also forget Corpus Christi Texas.

No, the protests by Atheists has nothing to do with anything logical, just their fear of the imaginary sky-men ... except when it doesn't.

All Taxes are regressive. ALWAYS. Liberals always talk about "equity" of taxes, but they never realize that taxes themselves are regressive. The rich can always avoid taxes via their wealth. The poor can never avoid taxes. Targeting the rich at their wealth, does nothing but hurt those that it is designed to help.

If you want to punish the successful, reward failure, you're going to have a really backwards country. And since you are a liberal, I doubt you'll ever understand this simple little truth.

You want successful tax policy, tax things society doesn't want, like cigarettes. Tax the use of things like gas and use that to build public transportation, if that is what you want. But what you'll find is eventually those taxes diminishing as people quit the activities you're taxing.

There is a way to "self censor" the app, which is to download it, mark it 1 star and give a crappy review. Enough people do that, and the app fades into obscurity. Crappy apps should be named and shamed this way.

Wealth becomes decentralized, not the cartels. The cartels held centralized wealth. And I meant viability, mega super star acts are going to be increasingly rare, as good or even great groups compete for loyal fans.

I can see Nickelback for $100 or see two local bands that are equal or better for $50, guess which one I'm gonna pick? ;)

Sorry, Stupid seems more like Black Holes rather than anything based on the speed of light. With stupid, you send information in, and nothing much of value escapes; a black hole.

Indeed, why do you need an APP for this. My ROM (CM 10.2) has a "torch" function built in. Why would you need an app for it?

This is not an Android problem this is a problem with crappy carrier priorities. Must bundle crap nobody wants, and not include the obvious highly requested features.

This is just the beginning of the end for the corporate music industry. This has been going since the Napster days, and is just jumping from format to format. There is no profit left in corporate music (Labels). The number of good music acts is increasing as the wealth that was centralized by Labels becomes decentralized. Will there still be megabands and huge starts? Of course. However, the number of quality musical artists, who are able to reach a much wider audience, will spread out the available dollars to a broader selection of talent.

The real money will be made playing music live for fans to enjoy. Here's to hoping for the death of the "boy bands" and talentless whores who take off their clothes and call it a musical act.

Obviously you've never spent time with a pregnant woman who knows there is another "being" inside her, separate and distinct from her.

And my arms and legs are not harmed by drinking alcohol till I am in drunken stupor, something that would harm the "baby", which is why we have all sorts of warning labels on things saying "do not take while pregnant". You're the one playing games trying to dehumanize a being.

You do realize that a woman's right to choose, in most cases of abortion, were when she took off her clothes and had sex. Let's not talk about the exception (rape) yet, because that is a red herring and a dodge of the real issue. YOU say, you want a woman to have the right to control her body, and I am 100% in favor of a woman controlling her body. I only wish she would. Because what we are talking about here, is a woman NOT controlling her body and then expecting to kill another being while calling it "choice".

The next bit, is touchy because it requires logic that most "choice" people don't use, because it is painful to realize you've killed a human. This bit is called "dehumanization", which is what the "choice" advocates call the living being inside. They use terms like "fetus", "fetal tissue", "blob". Once you dehumanize someone, you're no better than those that dehumanize Jews (pigs), Blacks (monkeys) and so on. Then you make them your enemy (loss of freedom) and then you can kill them without conscience.

Lastly, as a Libertarian that has this argument with other (pro abortion) libertarians, my biggest point is, the REAL role of government is to protect the rights of those that cannot protect themselves. The purpose of strength is not to abuse the weak, but to use it for protecting the weak from those that would use their abilities to harm others. IF we, as a people, stop protecting those that have no ability to protect themselves, we have lessened ourselves as humans. I will always side on the defense of the defenseless unborn child, because that is what defines me as a human.

Those that use "choice" to kill the unborn, have defined already that they are willing to kill for convenience (birth control). And that is inhuman.

No, it is a police state, where the police shut down a MAJOR US City to look for one guy. Remember, they were going house to house looking (missing him completely) with full on riot gear, semi-automatic rifles, and tanks with guns mounted on the roof. LOOKING for one guy. If this is not what a police state is, I don't know what is. They don't flaunt this level of force as long as we are good little children and mind what they tell us to do. But they have it, just in case we don't.

That is threat enough for your average girlie-man to stay cowering in compliance.

Obama is wholly incompetent, worse than Bush was. Remember, Bush came across as stupid, but was in fact evil genius. Obama comes off as genius but has proven himself completely incompetent.

The problem is, any significant level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

I don't view Obama as evil like I do Bush, I just find he is completely incapable of paying attention to what really matters. Here is a perfectly good example: He has spend more time dedicated to picking Basketball Brackets than he has spent with Sebelius while she was rolling out ObamaCare (ACA), which is his signature "legacy". He doesn't give a shit about the ACA, and that is borne out in his actions. And his words mean absolutely nothing, because he doesn't know anything, yet talks with authority, which comes across as "lies". There is a reason the right thinks he "lies", because he is incompetent and it is hard to tell the difference.