Crackers can take over a Hello Barbie to listen to the kids in the room. They can listen all the time.

It's a lot like a portable phone.

This is what you must expect from devices with proprietary software and a network connection. It's the Internet of Snooping Things, Telemarketers, Cheaters, and worse.

The UK government is determined to bomb PISSI in Syria as a symbolic gesture of commitment — never mind that there is no strategy for actually defeating PISSI.

Britons are planning protests against this bombing.

A proper campaign to defeat PISSI militarily would probably include air attacks as well as artillery and infantry. I would support the bombing of PISSI fighters. However, bombing with no strategy and few militarily justified targets will achieve nothing and tend to kill civilians.

The cultivation of cranberries in Wisconsin pours fertilizer into the nearby lake. This pollution kills the fish and makes the lake water unsafe.

Would diverting the waste into a holding pond solve the problem? Would the pond have to grow each year, or could it be used to separate the fertilizer and apply it again?

By banning the public parts of the climate meeting, France decided that the people hardest hit by global heating should not be heard.

Bravo for the Swedish government official who wasn't totally distracted from impending global disaster by a crime that killed 130 people. The danger of climate mayhem, perhaps 100 million killed by 2030, and far more afterward, dwarfs that of terrorism.

Indeed, the terrorism is a part of the effect of global heating's climate mayhem, which created the impetus for the Syrian civil war, which in turn led to PISSI.

I urge those in Paris to defy the French state and march anyway.

On the significance of Turkey's downing a Russian plane.

The article doesn't mention it has been standard Russian practice for the past few years to probe many countries' borders persistently. In a way, that's asking for a violent response. However, that changes things only slightly.