Just shows that the Internet can take care of itself, and government meddling is not needed.

There was a concerted effort on the part of some in the Internet community to raise money for his challengers in the primary this May, notably Richard Morgan. Unfortunately, the Internet is dominated by slacktivists, unwilling to put their money where their mouths are.

Not enough money was raised to mount a significant challenge to Smith.

Ah, a believer in the 'trickle-down' theory of economics.

As they are a bottomless pit of non-productive expense, they are where the money goes to die.

In those countries that block sites.

I am tired of sensationalizing politicians and the government using the fear of terrorism, or even perversion as an excuse to curtail freedom.

I'm not sure how reassuring it is that Canadian politicians are as corrupt as those in the US.

It only costs big IP about $100 million a year to suborn the U.S. federal government, administration and Congress. What are they spending up in Canada?

Possibly misdirection. MS can spell "PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY " with the best of them.

Whoever wrote Flame got legit certs from MS somehow. So it seems a bit hypocritical of MS to acting so innocent and violated at this point.

When I interviewed in the Bay area 23 years ago, the housing costs there were prohibitive and many employers had to make cost of living adjustments to get employees to move there. Sounds like this is a bit of the same old same old.

Not so much time travel as paratime (crosstime) travel. It was explorers from a timeline where the Thera supervolcano had not exploded, the Minoan civilization was not destroyed, The scientific method was formulated 1,500 years early and progress was not interrupted by the thugs of Assyria, Roman short-sightedness, nor the barbarians from the steppe.

Fortunately (or maybe not so fortunately) for us, they took one look at the state of the world then, and decided to stick to uninhabited timelines like the one where the Toba catastrophe had caused H. Sap to go extinct.

According to the WWII Japan, she was a U.S. spy. And if she was a spy, it may have been for the U.S. Navy. And the Navy takes care of its own.

Also, the higher the data density that any transmission has, the harder it is to distinguish from noise. And encryption will also make a transmission look like noise.