Would someone get rid of the caps lock key.

The problem for them is matching the data up, they will at best think you are friendless because you only ever phone your own house. The idea is to keep the data from being meaningful.

Set up a VOIP exchange at home connected to a landline. When dialing someone, phone your house landline; then use the exchange to connect via a VPN to one or multiple VOIP providers, who connect you to your recipient. This prevents meaningful metadata collection, unfortunately it does not stop tracking of the cellphone itself.

All it will do is prevent anyone who is not registered from using it, until it is reprogrammed.

If this goes through, there will be black market, which will reprogram or delete this system to make stolen weapons usable again.

All this technology is intended to do is prevent someone picking up a downed cop's/soldier's/etc gun and using it right away. The glaring problem is a well timed EMP can take out a police station and or army, if they use this.

Quick someone build a zip gun and film firing it, I want to see this senator try to ban plumbing. Unfortunately it seems law makers seem to think the only way to justify their jobs is to make more laws, rather than improve existing and remove old unnecessary ones.

Ammonium Nitrate is explosive on it's own, it is not as effective or as easy to detonate as ANFO.

Too bad all legal streaming services are having a hard time paying the protection fees required to operate.

Your argument makes it seem like it is impossible for anyone other than the rich to generate wealth. Sometime in the past the people that are now rich had to start at the bottom and work their way to the top. You forget the element of choice, especially when it comes to dept. Type of education really effects dept load and wages, especially currently as too many people go to university and not enough to trade school. The market for people with a generic university degree is saturated and the cost of working towards one is high. The same thing applies with a salary vs. a wage; on a wage it is possible to work weekends, holidays, and long hours to improve cash flow. Another is where you live, when renting the landowner has to make money so rent is usually a losing proposition. Buying a house on the other hand, it is very easy to buy on that is too big. Sure saving the legal fees by buying a house that you will grow into is nice, however the savings on paying off the mortgage faster, lower property taxes, lower heating bills, etc. will usually outweigh the legal fees when buying a smaller house. Buying a brand new car vs. a good used car, Starbucks vs. a coffee maker, the list goes on. There are always alternatives, you just may not like them.

I agree third world countries have it bad, until they stop having warlords, genocides, ... it is kind of hard to improve their standard of living.

Sure the country is free, until you embarrass the government. Then it becomes a police state faster than you can say donut.

I'm not saying Assange might not have legitimately got himself in trouble. As the girl getting arrested in Montreal shows, once the government and police see a person as a dissident they watch them closely. With the number of crimes that are vaguely defined, easy to make up, or just plainly something a reasonable person would not realize where a crime, it is not hard to put someone behind bars if they try.

http://rt.com/news/montreal-girl-arrested-instagram-370/
http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx
Aaron Swartz

With the number of politically minded prosecutions and arrests making the news, it is hard not to say that Western society has become a police state.

Considering my work has yet to upgrade from winxp and the most restrictive IT policy ever, yes.

Getting new software requires serveral memos, even if the software is free and the computer network is too slow and has no quality of service.

Instead we invest in $80,000+ telecom suites for our advanced telecom needs. The upside is the telephone network is great.

Rather than whine and complain about how every one is bashing Apple as you have repeatedly done throughout this page consider that for n people there are n+1 different stories. Apple is known for weaponising their patents and waging war against all that would stand against them. So in this case turnabout is not fair play? Sure they updated their product line, there has been much discussion/worship/bashing of the new iproducts this is a news site, this article was posted after the various product launches.

Consider also that the people that tend to visit slashdot are usually inteligent teck savvy people, some who like Apple products and some that detest them for various reasons. The moral of the story is put some content is your posts because all you sound like is the obsessed fan boy you accuse everyone else of being.

I regret not buying my latest cellphone in Saskatchewan due to the presense of Sasktel (crown corp) a 6 Gb plan is 15$ cheaper than a 1Gb plan elsewhere in the country. Becuase they have to compete Bell and Rogers have similar prices in the province. So much for the free market there are no incentives to compete elsewhere.

I would rather have a DIY hydrojet cutter. The consumables are cheaper and it is much easier to get one powerful enough to cut metal. To cut metal with a CO2 laser requires over 1000w of power which is a very large and expensive laser.

Sure, free speach means that they can say that film is intolerant of my religion and should be banned. Just like many people can say that Islam promotes violence and intolerance and should be banned. It does not mean either will happen.