No one is in control of your computer. The Android market is hosted on Google's servers which is managed by Google employees, providing a service to you free of charge. By agreeing to use their service, you're signing away any rights that you think you have. I'm a privacy buff as well, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking I'm somehow entitled to anything when I'm on logged onto the internet. You're at the mercy of the legal terms you agree to. Nothing more, nothing less.

I wouldn't say "demise". All you have to do is disable Windows Defender and install third party AV alternatives, which is the first thing most power users do anyway.

The Android market aka Google Play is home to apps that seem to have been made on a lazy afternoon. The amount of pings they make to various web servers ( I checked it via a request sniffer) is astounding. This isn't a problem specific to the campaign apps, but a lot of Android apps in general. Google has been hesitant to enforce a strict set of standards akin to Apple, and the results are beginning to show.

It's not a hacker tool, it's a learning tool. RPi was originally ( and still is) geared towards educational institutions where access to affordable computers is limited. So while this might be a minor inconvenience for some people here in the states, it *is* a big problem in places where supplies and the budget are limited.

Assuming the Voyager and Pioneer probes don't get flung into a star, plummet into some super gas giant, or captured into orbit by any other celestial object, these probes may be our fist step in preserving our legacy into the future. Assuming Voyager is still intact with its present trajectory, it will reach the star AC+79 3888 in about 40,000 years .

In 40,000 years, there's a good chance that humanity would have gone extinct for a plethora of reasons. It comforts me to know that we would not go the way of the dinosaurs, quietly into oblivion on a lonely corner of the Milky Way. Damn it, at least we tried.

In this case, it does. If you lose control of the aircraft at Mach 20, even the lightest directional change would instantly kill any humans.

It seems like EU and the international community is injecting politics into the world's economy. God knows that this is going to have disastrous consequences if this becomes a norm.

Pot, kettle, and the rest.

The first batch is set to arrive from the factory two days from now. There's no need to whine and moan about it.

They're using Subversion to manage the code: http://hjt.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hjt/

We need more articles like this. It's an encouraging progress in neuroscience.

What makes you think they can't request your government to extradite you?

You have the freedom of choice. If you don't want to store your data on the cloud, then don't No one is forcing you to. There's no point whining about privacy when you still have free will over the matter.

...or lack thereof.