If you allow emails to embed URLs, you're asking to be mistreated. I normally look at an email via the ASCII text in it. On the occasions that I look at HTML, I render it with lynx, which ignores anything embedded. None of these tracking methods work on me, and if you use this method, they won't work on you either.

Our culture is erecting a myth of genetic determinism.

Note that it is clearer to make a clear distinction between a cell's genetic sequence and its epigenetic tagging. They are both found in DNA, but they are quite different.

CMU says that the FBI didn't pay for its Tor-cracking investigation, but refuses to answer any more questions.

Maybe it was paid for by some other US agency rather than the FBI.

The Paris attackers did not use encryption, it seems.

Meanwhile, a district attorney wants to require back door in all operating systems for mobile devices.

Doesn't he know that all mobile phones already have them?

Just as in 2001, the next target is our freedom!

Europe is suffering from a lasting housing crisis.

This is part of the reason I have not encouraged European countries to take in lots of refugees. They have not got enough housing or enough jobs for their current population. If they don't adopt policies to create a lot more housing and jobs, the refugees will have to compete with the poor for too little.