All telecom carriers on Brazil must block access to WhatsApp servers. 3G/4G, and cable are affected. The only Brazilian users still with WhatsApp access are those using a proxy or VPN server outside Brazil. Like me.

If his phone charger is only 50% efficient, it will be very hot. And it will be on the top of the list of the most inneficient charges ever built.

A few years ago you would be saying "You basically have two major players in mobile OS, Symbian and BlackBerry OS. I don't see that changing..."

Blackberry is dead, Nokia is dead. Android and iOS will die someday too. Ubuntu may be a very very small player, but the licensing and cost will appeal to very low cost hardware makers, and maybe someday Ubuntu phones can flood Chinese and Indian markets. Or they could die as Windows mobile.

I use Avast firewall. On it, I can select what kind of internet access all my programs can have: Wifi only, data plan + Wifi, or none.

For me, is good enough.

Yes, it will protect you. The government will still be able to intercept and listen to your calls, data and text, but they will be encrypted and they will not be able to know what you were talking about.

Expect NSA to hack Silent Circle to obtain the keys, though...

I think they meant "the first laggon power plants in UK, not the world's first.

No, it's not that horrible. England have about 16.000 miles (kilometers? I don't remember) of coast. The proposed generators will take about 30 miles. There will be plenty of coast left to all marine species. It's not a full perimeter siege, it's just a few barricades here and there.

Bonus points: it wont flood any place in land that is not actually flooded twice a day, it won't send more carbon into the air, will not release any radioactive isotopes, does not need a lot of rare metals, will not increase temperature.

They don't need storage. During the peak production hours of the tidal generators, the coal and oil plants can be shut down, decreasing pollution and cutting production costs. They output will be ramped up as needed, when the tidal generators stop to work.

That's called addiction...

Exercising increases the release of endorphin on the brain, and some people got addicted to it.

The expression adrenaline junkie is to be taken literally sometimes.

I don't think aging people on their 70's will care much about fertility...

Too bad you must pay the shipping...

He knows what he is saying. He said that if you are targetted in a high-skill, high-focus attack, it's basically game over.

It's like defending yourself from a random mugging on the streets and surviving a professional hitman. You can make it harder to be attacked by a random hacker or a unfocused hacker, but it's impossible to defend yourself from all kinds of attacks of a very skilled hacker focused on attacking you.

No, this will not solve the problem. The main issue is at protocol level, not cellphone level. Even with a secured phone, the attack can be silently executed.

The only defense is using encrypted calls and encrypted text messages.

You go to the gateway (there are two banks in the US, IIRC), and get your money.

It's because you are using the cryptocoin wrong. They are not means of holding wealth, but as means of transfering wealth.

If I need to transfer EUR from USA to France, I will have to pay my local bank in USD, convert to EUR, pay the transfer fees, and my counterpart will have to pay some fees there too. Depending on the amount, we both will have to explain something to our governments too.

Using bitcoin I just buy some coins, send them, and my counterpart sells them. Nice, easy, fast, and no taxes, fees or government explanations to give.

People keeps bitcoins on hand because it is increasing in price, but they were not intended to be used like this. You can use as you wish, but if the market breaks down, it's all your fault.