Why aren't doctors allowed to give people sugar pills instead of antibiotics? Of if they are allowed, why aren't they actively doing it instead of sending people home empty handed (which leaves them unhappy so they go looking for a 'better' doctor)?

There should be organization at a national level to produce nicely packaged placebos in important looking boxes. They could even change the name every few months so people don't figure it out.

If there's anything that's in world/national interest, this is it.

Maybe they could stop using tents to store people/computers.

Something insulated might cut the power bill....

I thought Brazil was also upset about this:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow

(Government harassment of Brazilian journalists who expose NSA mass surveillance for the non-clickers).

Huh?

How is spying on foreign diplomats the same as mass surveillance of the ordinary citizens of your own country?

Mr Bernoulli might have something to say about that.

...and it was never a "law", it was an observation of a trend in computing power.

Yay!

I'm thinking more of a pair of glasses with built-in video projectors. It can project a Guy Fawkes mask onto your face as you walk around town.

You may laugh but it'll probably sound like a good idea a couple of decades from now. I should probably patent it.

So... if I want to know what sort of stuff Jeremy Clarkson buys I can just print his face on some paper and wear it at a gas station.

Yep, that sounds like they've sorted out all the privacy issues.

I especially liked the part where they told him that he did it wrong, that telling the newspapers was bad.

The correct course of action was to call the people in power and let them know they're spying on the population.

Oh, for mod points.

Uhuh, that would make them primary targets.

Maybe they're not so dumb as they look.

(Or maybe they're the sort of people who watch far too much guns-n-ammo TV where phrases like "primary target" are part of normal conversation...)

Hint: "Armed security officers" can also be untrained overpaid mouthbreathers with power trip issues.

All it takes for them to get involved in a situation is a nod from one of the currently employed untrained overpaid mouthbreathers with power trip issues and one of the the newly employed untrained overpaid mouthbreathers with power trip issues will be right there to help.

If we follow the logic through to the end, everybody, everywhere needs an armed guard; just in case the lunatic-du-jour decides that's where he wants to kill people.

Marathon runs obviously need an armed guard every 10 yards along the course. We have proof that terrorists see marathon runs as a target!

These days we use Arduinos. Try writing a software TV output or SID chip emulator on one...

A Raspberry Pi is a bit too much like having a real computer.