Our government has become the biggest threat to freedom, liberty, and our way of life, far and away bigger than the Islamic terrorists could have ever hoped to have been.

The soap box certainly didn't work. The ballot box certainly hasn't worked. And, the ammo box is empty because government is buying all the ammo to keep us from getting it.

We're pretty fucked.

False dichotomy, even worse leaving out the option they actually want: anyone not a member of the elite liberal ruling class has to go back to living in caves.

In the cell phone market, Time to Market is EVERYTHING. Small things like this have precisely zero shits given about them when the release date is approaching. The phone WILL be released on the release date, PERIOD.

Anything that is wrong with it may or may not be fixed later in an OTA update.

This is why I never run stock carrier ROMs on my phones. I always use a third party "hack" because at least those are more or less continuously updated.

Indeed. Scientists are scientists. These people are politicians that claim to be scientists.

"Send wire, main office, tell them I said 'ow!' - gotcha!'

The display in particular is pretty shoddy. I've seen much much better out there in terms of DIY flightsims.

Oh, and to this line in TFA:

"He also has interest from a couple of major aircraft manufacturers who want to use his creation to simulate various scenarios."

No, he doesn't. Aircraft manufacturers have no interest whatsoever in this.

Cybercriminals HAS [sic] Heroin?

What is this, I Can Haz Slashdot?

This.

Same boat here. Nobody cares, really. I say it jokingly - at least I used to - that as long as the average American gets their daily dose of the Kardashians (or whatever other entertainment they fancy), the NSA could install anal probes in their sofas and they wouldn't think once about it.

Nobody I know really truly values their rights, or why we have them. "Who is King George?" is a question I get frequently in response to my explanations of the tyranny that brought this country to revolt.

People really, truly don't care that their government is spying on them because they really, truly believe they are doing nothing wrong - when the average person commits several federal felonies every single day and is none the wiser about it.

You need to read the Commerce Clause and supporting case law, which says that anything having an effect on Interstate Commerce is a business record and not a "Paper" or personal effect.

Bank Statements, emails, and so on, are all fair game.

There is almost no demand for computer scientists. None whatsoever. The result is that there are very very precious few computer scientists - real, actual scientists.

What there is an enormous demand for are code monkeys - people who can churn out code quickly that allows a company to meet their unreasonable product release target dates and cost targets - but who don't have any real idea what is going on or what their code actually causes the computer to do.

Sorry, but stealing classified information and disseminating it to the public is not "investigative journalism."