Your comment is alarmist.

One could use the same kind of argument to say that TV was stopping communication between them in the first place. "In my time grandma and grandpa sat by the fireplace and talked while she knat, that TV thing keeps both of them from talking to each other, watching images move, like mindless zombies!"

Wow. You're good at Govspeak.

It would work even better if non US citizens were not considered as subhuman.

It's becoming a trend that every time the US government strips your rights they find a way to deny your citizenship (anwar al-waki & son) so that no one can complain.

If you are american, you should stop excusing injustices if they don't seen to happen to "proper US citizens".

Anything can and should be joked about but I agree that the concept that ilegal assaults (of whatever type) inside prison are ok because they might happen to guilty people is completely farfetched.

The punishment is prison, containment and isolation. There shouldn't be extra violence and it certainly doesn't aid in the supposed rehabilitation.

Or worse, if companies block it voluntarily without apparent government intervention so everything seems fine and dandy.

heh, noted. I'll put on my list.

but nothing there prevents the cops or prosecution from "accidentally" losing or even altering evidence to suit their agenda

Not only *Can* this happen but there's quite a track record of it happening.

There's no transparency if surveillance goes only one way. That's total control.

Is there more than one Starship Troopers book? Because I've read that one a couple of times and don't remember any of what you're saying. I didn't watch the movie though.

When defending anyone who is on the opposing end of an abuse of power, you're also defending your future self.

The problem is that, if the first and popular comments address that as a relevant issue, people might get the idea that the personality of the affected characters actually matter.

That's why it's so easy to effectively use ad hominen against public characters sometimes, discrediting them completely in the eyes of many.

Does it matter? What matters is the law. If we change our attitude towards the validity of the law because we like or dislike someone we're going down the wrong path.

Well, you don't need BYOD to take the company's data home. You can use a portable hard drive, cd, use a cloud service, email, etc.

What the fuck. Entrapment of the worst kind. I guess they're following the FBI's game, catching made up criminals is far easier than actually catching criminals.

You can't patent Shakespeare either. Do not confuse patents with copyright.

So you've probably hate The Guardian's Live Blogging.

It's not about reviewing EVERYTHING, it's about the latest. If you're really interested, you can scroll down and move up.

I don't really see the average user struggling with this.