None of the news I've seen on this make it clear just what is going on. Is SSL/TLS compromised? Have the NSA simply gotten access to the servers of major corporations storing people's data? Is this simply about weaknesses in closed crypto implementations people trust?

IOW, which common encryptions can the NSA break, and is that because they have found ways to access the information before or after encryption, because they have found ways to get the encryption keys/seeds, because they've found flaws in specific implementations of some algorithms (which ones?), or because they've found flaws in basic assumptions of some algorithms (again, which ones?)

The more clued-up articles I've read make it sound more likely this is about the NSA having a wide array of coercive tools and backdoors at their disposal, not so much that they can decrypt, say, SSL on the fly at will.

I lost it when he climbed on the steps to get a better view... Beautiful!

When people wrote letters, they had a long history of tradition and etiquette to rely on for precisely this reason.

The natural instinct for some is to keep the head as far from the ground as possible. Collapse your arms and do it wrong, you'll end up ramming your noggin into the ground with your whole body behind it.

I've "instinctively" found myself doing both (at different times). Controlled falls hurt a lot less.

Nice, but viewing a design is not the same as creating and modifying a design. The jumpiness looked like it would really mess with any attempt to actually alter the properties of the model. "oops, no, I meant 1mm thicker - damnit - nngh - ok, that looks about right, doesn't it?"

I believe it's your first name you'd need to change. Something Jon Lajoie doesn't seem to know...

Can someone who watched this tell me if it's worth seeing? I can't get past the first 15 seconds. Call it prejudice, but I can't imagine any documentary done in that style, with that action-movie-trailer narrator, being any good.

Kitty like, but I kept dreading the nozzle accidentally enveloping the whole ear canal.

I offer no argument. I was just riffing on the Russians having dashcams because of insurance terms, and government institutions not bothering to insure their property because it's cheaper to pay for any losses out of pocket if it won't bankrupt them.

No insurance on government property! Certainly no insurance on Navy vessels...

@chingalera: Yes, fit, healthy people setting themselves on fire in the streets because their lives seem so hopeless!

OK, OK, that's an outlier, but Bulgaria isn't exactly paradise, either. They do seem to know a thing or two about weddings, though!

It's very meta, isn't it, this video about their "upcoming" unfunny lineup, which it itself unfunny, and even references that concept?

Probably, but OTOH... It's a bunch of motors, propellers and electronics on a chassis. People build and design their own already, it's going to be hard to stop.

I still lose my marbles when someone uses "it's a sin" as a political argument. Sometimes I feel like starting a real fire-and-brimstones old testament literalist party just to make the point religion is a poor basis for policymaking. Then I remember folks like the Westboro Baptist Church, and wonder if they didn't already beat me to it.

So is this going to be two astronauts, stranded on EVA after a disaster, having a profound conversation while they wait to die or what?