While the author does cite a number of actual scientific reports, the text quoted here and the failure to consider the entire constellation of improvements wrought by technology over the last century render his entire report ridiculous.

Even ignoring improvements in medical technology, mean lifespan is probably the most useless single statistic I can think of. The fact of infant mortality is enough to throw that entire argument in the garbage. *facepalm*

In what fantastic realm of economic theory does the Free Market provide the solution to existential threats? that is frickin' cuckoo.

because a bot already has a one-in-nine success rate by selecting a model randomly. *facepalm*

Um, keeping data private across a wire is a solved problem: public key encryption. And if, further, you don't want someone to see where your packets are going you can use TOR.

People need to be educated about how the internet works, but there is no reason you can't communicate privately if you want to.

Why update unless you have a specific reason to do so? Just change your repo to 'etch'.

It would absolutely tickle me to death if someone found and exploited a buffer overflow in any of this packet inspection software.

So the common user can install Ubuntu, and someone else can use Gentoo. What's the problem again?

Not sure when this functionality was added in Debian, but all of a sudden after typing 'man [tab]' i would get options from man pages (instead of the commands in my path) and after typing 'sudo [tab]' I get options for commands requiring root which don't show up when not prefaced with sudo.