Big Oil also told Norway that they wouldn't drill in the North Sea if Norway set their oil royalties where they are today.

If launching 5G networks works financially for the companies then they will do it.. With or without Net Neutrality laws.

From the sounds of things, if you "angrily hit the (F^@king) red 'x' to close the update window a second time, you'll be scheduling an upgrade.

It appears that Microsoft hasn't learned the 25 year old lesson that 'clicking on the close box means STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING -- RIGHT NOW!

Apparently, trump hired a rabid global warming denier as his energy adviser.; Supposedly, this guy is so anti-global warming that he believes that the earth is cooling and that claims that CO2 is a greenhouse gas are fraudulent.

I have no reports on whether or not this guy is also a flat-earther.

If you've got enough money, you can pressure the government into holding you harmless from any serious prosecution. It happened with the bankers on wall street after 2008, and it's happening with the Saudis after 9/11.

Rinse^w, money launder, repeat.

What makes Americans easier to recruit to ISIS is the fact that they have right wing yahoos who make a point of looking down their nose at the kid, calling him a terrorist and sometimes even spitting in his face, when all he's trying to do is live a decent life.

It really works well. Given all of the security problems with MS-Windows, if Microsoft calls something 'insecure', it will cause all sorts of CxOs to quake in their boots at the thought.

Just like the way that MS complaints about RPM compatibilities would trigger flashbacks to DLL hell,
or warnings about 'hardware (driver) hell' for Linux would cause panic attacks for specialists who sometimes spent days getting a proper mix of Windows drivers for machines they were building for customers.

etc., etc., etc....

If you're an MS hater, you're not going to be buying Nokia phones because they're moving to MS Windows. If you're an MS lover, you're not going to buy Nokia phones (yet) because they don't yet have Windows on them. If you're MS agnostic, you're not going to buy Nokia phones because the current crop is going to be orphaned a year down the road (actually -- they've already been effectively orphaned).

No matter how you slice it, Nokia comes up a loser until at least the end of the year.

Japan is the country which gave us the word "Kamikaze". Nobel self-sacrifice in the name of the greater good is a long honoured tradition there -- much more so than here.

You might be able to charge (and sue) the dentist for your time. You booked the appointment, took time off of work traveled to the dentist (if (s)he's not nearby), and the -- all of a sudden -- you're told "Sign away your free speech rights, or all of this preparation is for naught!" It's a complete hardball tactic. It's designed to pressure you into signing something you'd probably have walked away from if you knew before you made the appointment.

Well, it may now turn out that, beyond the direct antibiotic effect of sugar an honey, the sugars in both have the added effect of intensifying the effectiveness of the hospital antibiotics in the patient's system. It could make for an interesting research project for a graduate student somewhere.

For those of you who've never seen Mary Poppins, and, thus, don't completely understand the reference..

Natalie Portman immersed in honey would get my attention, well enough. .. and as she moved through the world, you would see the guys dragging along behind her.

Well, I'd laugh at that quote -- specifically, the presumptions it implies.

I could have sworn, the first time I read it that they'd been bought by the founders of Facebook, and my first reaction was 'There goes the neighborhood.' I'm much happier now that I've read it properly.

Normally, when one speaks of tracking click-through, one would expect to have a modified link on a page that, essentially, notifies the source server of the page that they're clicking on a link and then getting redirected to the final destination page (normally an ad, but not necessarily).

What Microsoft is claiming that they're doing here, however is having IE phone home with what a user is doing on a completely unaffiliated page. This, then, raises the question of where else are they tracking what I'm doing? Are they tracking what stories I'm reading on slashdot? are they telling the CIA/MOSAD/KGB when I use a proxy to read Al Jezera? This raises a huge slew of privacy questions about what parts of my browsing history are being tracked in one central place, if I were to use IE as my browser.

Even secure links and proxies become irrelevant if the surveillance is being done from within the browser.