What about the Americans arrested by local police based on intelligence provided by NSA, where parallel construction was subsequently used to hide the fact that ubiquitous surveillance is what got them caught?

I wish I could shell out 300 euro to have my next million-euro commercial product crowdsourced

We have a video conferencing device that does the exact same thing. Nothing new here.

That is always the problem when you socialize the cost of using a limited resource and artificially increase demand by controlling the cost. You get people who waste the resource because "someone else" is really paying for it.

All goods and services purchased as utilities are limited in their quantity, but since consumers don't pay the "real" cost directly, they use more.

But, your obviously trollish tongue-in-cheek solution is not what is called for. Simply removing ALL government subsidies from basic utilities and requiring that the real cost be paid by the end users is sufficient, along with removal of barriers to adjust cost to be appropriate to the available supply.

Hyperbole would be more accurate than Satire.

The point was the fact that we have a telecom monopolist running a major executive branch agency when we were promised it would not happen, but the liberal elitists on Slashdot predictably latched on to the obvious hyperbole and decided to attack that, lacking anything substantive with which to argue against the facts.

Chess
Settlers of Catan
Axis and Allies
Cards Against Humanity
Go Fish
Battle
Checkers
Connect-4
Candyland
Sorry!
Hide and Seek

And, twice a year, pin the tail on the donkey.

I love how Obama signs 100 executive orders a day ordering various federal agencies to implement his radical agenda, but he can't be bothered to ask the Cable and Telecom Monopolist he appointed to chair the FCC to do anything.

Fucking ridiculous.

http://change.gov/agenda/ethic...

        "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."

        -- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
        November 10, 2007

Cameras can only work in a finite range of ambient light. All you have to do is have enough ambient light to saturate the sensors and people won't be able to take meaningful pictures.

A few tens of kilowatts or maybe just make it a nice, round 100kW of supplemental ambient lighting should do the trick.

You could even advertise it as a feature. Free Tan with a Limo Ride!

My phone gets a real IPv4 from AT&T.

1) There was never a crisis, and
2) Carrier-grade NAT