It's easy to turn instant off, but in doing that they've not made it possible to turn auto-suggest off like you used to be able to. That is one of the complaints in this thread.

The eternal cry of the power or semi-power user is that if you're going to add another feature, make sure you can turn it off. While granting this wish is not always wise, I think you should at least not remove previous options to turn other things off.

I quite like the idea of the password being the SSID name rather than 'free'. I think it's easier to adhere to (don't need to worry about capitalisation) and more likely to be adhered to as a 'standard' by all the random coffee shops who are out of their depth as it is.

Yes it does. Although you start out your session by connecting to the network with one password for everyone, your computer then negotiates an individual password for your connection to the wireless router. This means that you cannot see other people's traffic.

The argument by Roberti is not one of defense, meaning that Chris or others are wrong, it is one of problem-stating. Yes, these issues exist, but you simply target your attack/interest to deal with them.

The data on my mandated RFID passport isn't obscure and if you want it, you need only wait at the airport for me. Personally, I have an RFID-shielding wallet, but many don't.

Even for obscure information, there can be places where many people with such RFIDs come together - whether at the subway, shopping centre, airport, school, workplace etc.

Once you know where people will be, short range is a lot less of a problem.

I used to run my Centos install as root, being a stupid windows user, and one day i was playing around in thunar (which actually has red bar at the top, to warn you not to..), and I accidentaly deleted my usr/var folder. In all fairness I learnt a lot about bash and the LFS heirachy trying to get back to Init 5 though, I think in the end I copied the folder over from a fedora ISO, still a bit glitchy to this day though.

All the more reasons to applaud when they do NOT censure.
Yes, just as we should we applaud people for not stabbing us, or shooting us, or kicking people in the head.

A bigger threat than terrorists is arbitrary government restriction on competition in the electric grid, which is what led to the rolling blackouts in California.

In any case, this winter could be bad - probably a good time to get a generator.