Does the current administration not see the risk of a brain drain? It is a historical fact that the advantage the US/allies had in WWII was in no small part caused by the exodus of scientists/technicians/&c from Germany to the safe harbor that was the US and its academic environment.

"Uh, excuse me, Dr. Einstein*, but I need to do a full cavity search and peruse your every photo and tweet before I let you in; or you could, you know, just board a plane to go anywhere but the US."

Agreed. Technically, any number can have an infinite number of zeroes before the decimal (and a lot of numbers also have an infinite number of zeroes after the decimal. Perhaps you meant "significant zeroes after"?

Except for, umm, you know, up-to-date facts. https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

This.
Unless you only read in a dark environment, you usually can go with the light setting at 0. Even at night, a nightlight will provide more than enough light to read with the backlight off. This makes a great difference regarding battery life, even if you try to match it by lowering the tablet's display as low as possible.
As someone in the thread has pointed out, you probably haven't got a Kindle. You really should try it, it's an amazing device and you can get A LOT of reading hours without a charge. It's amazing if you travel often or find yourself without an outlet for extended periods of time.

I really should. Would honestly thank you if you pointed me to cases where the USGov't has actively gone after someone for deleting a canary, or done anything other than sealing cases made against NSLs. (other than the Calyx case). Thank you.

The thing about NSLs is that USGovernment is the least interested in having them challenged in an -actual- court (not FISA). NSLs are made to sound super scary, and they actually work that way. It will be interesting when someone stands up to them clearly and unequivocally (FBI v Apple started to ring a bell, but FBI backed out).
So it's very doubtful that the gov't will try to go after someone for erasing a canary, since that will take them in a road that they very much want to avoid.

It'll be interesting to pit this AI vs itself for some millions of rounds as training. Maybe it'll come up with different openings ("Huh, turns out it's actually better to go for the center at first" kind of thing, for example). Fun times :)

Well, you silly rabbit, that's why we use SSL! So corps won't be able to listen to our passwords!
Of course, this being a geeky site, it fully supports https.. oh wait...

I used to do this, except that if one of those sites ever leaks the passwords plaintext, you re screwed everywhere, since it'll be trivial to add 'ReallyHardPassword' as a prefix for the site. Ditto if you cleverly change google->G0o9Le.
As for 'salting', most* people use some variation of uppercase first letter, uppercase last and/or leding/ending "1" as their password. (Clever ones use 0 instead of 1) so if your password is "1ReallyHardPasswordGoogle!1" well, congratultions, you can now open my luggage ;)
As many people point out, you really should have unique passwords for every site. For the really paranoid, you could use your password manager's password as salt, provided you trust their rnd genertor (spoiler: you must). It's trivial to just -manually- add the site name to the password form, so if you want to log in as me to slashdot, you'd use "aeCxXAk&+5a_s1&&Slashdot"

Would it have been too hard to have ONE LAST POLL in the right side?
What do you think of polls in-line as stories?

[_] Fucking sucks. Who sold out?
[_] Meh. /. had polls?
[_] BRILLIANT! Give the genius a raise
[_] Fuck it, I'm cowboyneal and will put the polls wherever the darts land.

I'm certain he'll lead the way and will soon post details of the system he installed in his own home and other relatives.

Are they sure? Maybe they just lengthened the meter :P

I'm glad karma took the quick route for once. For islamic fundamentalists to die in a kosher store and in a printing press after attacking a magazine. Can't beat that.