“retard” is a good word for this. For a server hosted inside the US, it makes things much more expensive (but not nearly impossible) for the NSA.

From the article you linked:

...there are other actions powerful adversaries could take. For example, they could convince the server operator to simply record all session keys.

So, the NSA cannot quickly pick out your server's traffic at their traffic hub monitors and decrypt it with the root SSL certificates they coerced vendors to give them.

What they can still do, if your server is in the US, is coerce the server operator to record all session keys so they can decrypt all traffic from that point onwards. This is much more expensive though.

The nice part about this is that a server hosted outside the US would only have to worry about less-powerful, less-funded government spies going through all of this. In Japan, the government may not do it at all unless your server's activity warrants a criminal investigation.

If you watch your server access logs, you will regularly see bots checking for common install URLs of popular website software. I'm blown away that vBulletin's hasn't been targeted for years.

They had better cover Peter's Evil Overlord List or your career is as doomed as all that came before it.

I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer—should learn a computer language, because it teaches you how to think.

— Steve Jobs in Robert X. Cringley’s “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview”

There is a new product in pre-production the does exactly what you described. It's nutrition shake, not a solid food though. They should be shipping regular orders by sometime this fall.

For something closer to what you described, and more relevant to this post, NASA is funding research on a complete daily nutrition solid that may use an insect source for protein. This may be licensed as a commercial product sometime in the future.

Based on another article I read, it only works in the Safari browser.

When I used to ride regularly, I had a rear-view mirror that attached to the end of my left handlebar.

It's not so surprising when you look at his username.

That also explains how he grabbed such a low user ID number.

I am not a French Lawyer, but I think that would be coercion.

In fact, we had it right here on Slashdot the day Gmail was announced. We panicked about Google reading our email. Then, if you follow to the bottom of that thread you will see the same conclusion we reached here today. No one is reading your email. An algorithm is parsing it the same way all spam filters do.

That was 2004. We probably moved on after that, but about 4 years later Steve Ballmer himself started to use this misunderstanding to generate fear, uncertainty and doubt. A year after that, Google was sued over it.

The people behind this new campaign at Microsoft either don't remember all of this, or they're smart enough to see that it's been long enough to sound like a new issue. Let's not treat it as one. This issue should not be news to anyone reading this site. The only news here is that Microsoft is trying to use this misunderstanding again, ie. that a person is reading your mail, not an algorithm.

I use a password manager to solve this problem. It stores all (or a large set of) my passwords in an encrypted database. I have one very strong password that lets me access the database. The passwords it stores are all strong (sometimes hard to remember) passwords that I do not have to store in my head.

I still have all of my eggs in one basket, but that basket is sealed in a solid iron box.

As much as I like how the game of Football plays, I will forever see it as one of the brain injury sports.

The Boston University School of Medicine studied 35 brains of former pro Football players. They found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in 34 of them. The disease can lead to sufferers experiencing memory loss, dementia and depression.

It's fun to watch and play, but I can't support a sport that knowingly puts hundreds of thousands of kids through that. I don't know how much of this they knew when they published it, but the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic about Headbrick was frighteningly accurate.

To make it safe, they would have to turn it into what we currently call “flag” or “touch” Football. It would be a different sport.

I think so too. The article from theatlantic also mentioned protecting proprietary technology.

The addition of high-tech components to everyday items makes production more complicated, and that means U.S. production is more attractive, not just because manufacturers now have more proprietary technology to protect, but because American workers are more skilled, on average, than their Chinese counterparts.

Aside from handing over patents, I've read that it is routine for Chinese factories to secretly sell authentic brand products to counterfeiters. It's hard to compete with counterfeiters when they're selling the real thing at a discount.