Startups thrive where accountability is grey. Like Google.

Or just use Freenet.
You can be sure that just like you, your data is also at sea.

I heard that professor was fired for trading his internet password for sexual favours from his female students.

So, I don't think this option will work anymore...

If you are going to spend most of the time over the Mediterranean sea, you could ask your ship's captain to drop his anchor far down enough to make contact with those broken undersea Internet cables which were in the news recently.

Once he does that (which must be easy, since ship captains seem to be doing it all the time these days), just connect a wire from the anchor cable to your laptop and voila! free Internet...

If he is not able to connect to any existing broken cables, just ask him to break one for you. Bribe him with enough rum to last your entire browsing time...

"Apparently new facial recognition software being employed by the state fails to function when the face is distorted by something as innocuous as smiling."

Perhaps they need to use facial anti-distortion software before using facial recognition software ?

Boy: Do not try and search for the code, instead realize the truth.
Geek: What truth ?
Boy: There is no code.
Geek: There is no code !!! ?
Boy: Then you'll see, itt is not the code that produces Monalisa, it is only your mind.

With this invention, the old phrase "Talk is cheap" is out of the window. Shoot whoever came up with that in the first place!

Also, as the technology grows and becomes widely adopted, the phrase "Power-talk" will make an entry into the English dictionary.

"The Oxford English Dictionary, 2012 Edition.

Power-talk(1) (n, adv) - The crude, despicable act of shouting into a mobile phone to power it up using piezo electric technology.

Power-talk(2) (n, adv) - The act of talking high and mighty with those less powerful than you to intimidate them or to display an apparent sense of superiority. As in, The power-talk by Barack Obama to Muhammed Ahmedinejad apparently had no effect on the Iranian leader, except to light up his mobile phone's display briefly.

Perhaps this will open up a lucrative new market for vibrators... ?

Girl (coyly): Honey, why are you fooling around with that vibrator thingy ? I am really not in the mood you know...
Dude: Darlin, this ain't for you. Just recharging my phone...

The economy must be surely in a recession if it takes a team of economic experts a FULL YEAR to figure this out!

Now go and tell this to John McCain...

Obama, on the phone to RMS...

Obama: Hello Dick
RMS: Stallman here, who is this ?
Obama: Dick, this is Obama, your president-elect. Could I have your resume for a very important post in my administration ?
RMS: Perhaps, what is this post ?
Obama: It is the post of the "Copyright Czar". You will be in charge of making important decisions regarding Copyright and I.P regulations in this country.
RMS: It sure sounds interesting, but I will consider the position only after you rename it to "Copyleft Czar" and release the text of this conversation under GNU GPL.
Obama: Er..., maybe not. Bye Dick. Have a nice day...

In other news, trailers of a new, to-be released Sci-fi movie has hit the theatres in Taiwan.

"Honey, I Flexed my iPhone!"

This gives credence to the theory that aliens are right on Earth, living under water, disguised as giant elbowed squids. SETI is wasting time scanning the skies. Now, we only need to find the MIBs...

Isacc Asimov treats this problem of rearing and caring for a Neanderthal boy in his short story "The Ugly Little Boy". In the story, a scientist brings back a Neanderthal boy from the past through time travel to study him.

The nurse who is assigned to care for him develops an emotional attachment with the boy. The scientists treat him just like a guinea pig. In the end he is banished back to where he came from, but the nurse decides to go back with him.

In the story, the boy is pictured as quite intelligent and sensitive, as much as a human offspring, though his feelings are not reciprocated by the "handlers", except the nurse who he grows to treat as his own mother.

Though the technology here is cloning and not time travel, the ethical issues remain the same.

How come none of them run DOS ?