Exactly. Companies assuming they can just spy on everything we do is a ridiculous assumption that should be slapped down by every regulating body.

It has a âoe drive recorder which records footage from the car.â So itâ(TM)s filming what â" my drives, or the interior? Why do they think they can just do that? A notice in small print written in Japanese in the back of my ownerâ(TM)s manual does not indicate consent. Whoâ(TM)s ready for a class action?

As long as smug arrogance is the default response, you're not going to ever change anyone's mind. You might get a few Internet points, but why not, y'know, try to make the world slightly better? Calling someone a dumb hick is not the way.

* For the Ghost Who Walks.

Slashdot hasn't following through hiring an editor.

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Marvel Comics solved this question in their adaptation: http://www.cbr.com/marvel-solv...

Released right before Star Wars upped the game as far as special effects ... great concept, wild sets, including an ice cave patrolled by an insane robot, a domed utopian/dystopian city, and Washington DC covered in vines... wonderful stuff.

"Marshmallow, Eclair, Lollipop, and Marshmallow." News from the Department of Redundancy Department...

Several years back, I made the mistake of checking the option on my iPhone to "sync subscriptions" for podcasts. I later deleted a podcast from my phone, as I was all caught up with it and needed the screen real estate to make looking for other podcasts easier. When I next synced with iTunes, it deleted all past episodes I had stored on my Mac -- years worth of the science fiction podcast Escape Pod. No warning, no recycle bin. Gone. And I wasn't backing up audio files via Time Machine because of their size. Hundreds of files gone. I posted on the Apple forums about what a huge hole this was (seriously, deleting hundreds of user files without warning with no undo is a major UX/UI failing). Never any response from Apple. I'm still angry about it. Even if I were to download all those files again (and since they're no longer in the iTunes feed, I would literally have to grab each one from the website, one by one, and then import them into iTunes, which would probably take days of clicking...), I would still have lost the metadata (play dates, counts). Plus there would be considerable bandwidth for both the Escape Pod site and me, in this age of looming data caps...

Editors? We don't need no stinkin' editors? Let the interns just post whatever is submitted... now about our corporate bonuses....

At first, podcasts could be played in the iTunes app -- OK, I like having all my audio in one place. But then the iTunes app was renamed Music, so you can't keep your podcasts in there anymore. But here's a terrible Apple Podcasts app, which if you're not careful when turning on your sync options will delete years' worth of saved podcasts out of your desktop iTunes app with no warning and no recovery options (sucks if you exclude your iTunes library from your Time Machine backups because of sheer size... they're just gone...). And only the Apple Podcasts app will sync your podcasts back to iTunes (sure, there are other podcast apps if you want to sync to the cloud somewhere, but who wants their audio files all over the place?). Sigh...

A domed city with a shopping mall inside? How long til they implant the palm-flower and exterminate anyone over 30? Obligatory link for those who don't know Logan's Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

My heart's an iron fist ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Sigh. You wrote one headline: "WE HEAR YOU We did tell you we wanted feedback. Here's our response." And you left out a period after the first sentence. Can a "professional" writer (I assume you're being paid for this) at least get punctuation correct? Putting the sentence in ALL CAPS does not relieve you of the responsibility of proper punctuation. It's not edgy or hip or "how all the kids are doing it" -- it's just another sign of lack of attention to detail, a problem evidently permeating the new design.