I'm not sure most people read past the 2nd Amendment.

If they want footage they should get a warrant. Period. If you think privacy is stupid you need to read more books.

I have been using ZoneMinder for a long time, thanks for your work on it. I've had good luck with H.View also. I just block them at a network level from doing anything that isn't related to allowing ZoneMinder to stream the RTSP off of them.

I have been using ZoneMinder for quite some time and it works great. There are quirks but it is VERY flexible and you can use so many different cameras with it that it's ridiculous. You can run multiple backends and run multiple servers to spread workload. You can complain about the way it is written or the way it has evolved but it actually works very well if you put a little bit of time into understanding it. The best part of ZoneMinder is that it is Free Software. If you're talking about security and privacy and avoiding cloudy nonsense and the like then this is what you want.

Implementing a work-around can be necessary but if there is a way to put pressure against this sort of thing we should advocate for people to do it.

This is terrible and I know governments are getting worse but people can speak up against this. I'm obviously not suggesting it can be changed overnight but I appreciate hearing about this experience as I obviously can only speak from my own experiences. Are there legal ways to fight this and are there organizations in your region that would have the resources and knowledge to combat this?

I'd rather have no phone than suffer through an iPhone or GooglePlay infested phone.

People need to quit giving in to the idea that in order to use their bank, pay their rent or use a public toilet that they need an app on a handheld computer. This is against basic human rights. You are not a second class citizen if you don't have a corporate identity disc! Refuse to be bullied into this type of thing and stand up for your rights!

Hydrogen storage is inferior in terms of energy efficiency.

Hydrogen is not a better way to store energy for electric drive cars. You need to do more research if you really believe this.

I'm sure we can all guess what it is...

I should be more specific about this statement. It's not so much each option such as Owncloud that dissapoints me, but the fact that syncing to a server is the standard way to deal with the problem. I'm sure owncloud does a fine job if that's the way you want to sync your contacts and I'd damn sure prefer it to syncing with google but it would be nice to be able to sync directly to a computer.

I was just looking into this myself so the timing of this /. artical is funny to me. None the less, I find all of the options to be inadequate. I think the idea of syncing to servers is nice and suits some people, whether it is your own server or someone elses but whatever happended to being able to just sync to the one or two computers that you use on a daily basis? Nothing I know of really seems to do that with an Android phone. Even Apple iThings have that capability!!!!! Why can't someone roll(google, I'm looking at you) a decent way for this to be done with a stock Android phone. Even if they just wrote a spec that all Android releases would conform to then that would give third parties the ability to write programs to interact with the phone in that way. There would no doubt be useful programs written that were both Free/Libre software and non-free. As of now though, my vote is to roll my own server to sync to for now. I don't want google/dropbox/RandomCompanyThatIsTheNext"BIG"Thing to have my data whenever they want it. I think there are some real privacy concerns with that idea in general. Not to mention to gives incentive to companies to take the user's control away from them just for the sake of maintaining subscriptions.

This isn't the first time that RMS has proposed something like this. He's talked about it since before he was aware of bitcoins and it stems from the problems presented by companies such as PayPal. I think that people tend to forget just how much coding RMS HAS done in the past. From what I understand he has problems with his fingers that cause him a lot of pain when he spends too much time typing. He even had(and maybe still has) a small keyboard that he would connect to his notebook because the keys were easier to press and it hurt less. A person with that problem probably isn't capable of much coding anyway. It's really easy for people to take stabs at RMS because he's quirky and doesn't always say or beleive the most popular things. It's funny because we want our politicians to be more real and honest but when people like RMS are real and honest we want them to be more like politicians.

If you feel this way then you need to let the W3C know. Join their mailing list and let them know how you feel. Right now they pretty much have a Netflix employee defending everything he can about DRM. The only people in opposition to it on that mailing list right now have a very small voice. Jump on and voice this opinion. Overwhelm them the way that we overwhelmed them with PIPA and SOPA.