Valve's goal is to... crush and destroy Canonical's source of income? How? Canonical doesn't currently sell Steam games, and they never will. Therefore, the market that they're supposedly 'crushing' doesn't exist.

This article is bad and you should feel bad for greenlighting it.

'Internet sites, where reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are taught to consider what is told to them with skepticism and to seek responses to charges.'

I haven't laughed so hard in months. Thank you, PR lackey, for brightening my day.

She didn't "Make it illegal". It was illegal and has always been illegal - she just recognized this fact.

Great news for people who want the shit beat out of their cars by random strangers.

Or quite possibly after two world wars, people simply got so fed up with annihilating each other that they made an actual effort to avoid it for once?

Is it still right to punish those who in good faith believe there is a pressing need to leak certain information? Entrapment aside, this really will have the most damaging chilling effect yet known in the information age. First no whistleblower protection for gov. employees, and now an active campaign to make sure fucked people stay fucked. Proud to be an American!

1. The power company (very likely) already knows your power consumption habits. Lots of meters send automated reads every 15 minutes anyway. This is not new, at all. The processing power and manpower to actually mine this data does not yet exist, and if power companies wanted to put this in the pipeline they'd have to spend bazillions of dollars doing so.
2. The EM radiation emitted by smart meters (especially those in the 900MHz range) is comparable to a cell phone, except for the fact that it's not placed directly against your ear, and it chirps for a few ms every few minutes, as opposed to constantly against your head

The crazies who spout nonsense about cancer and privacy are of the same sort that believe in homeopathy. You will notice that they don't cite their sources, and make generalized, unsupported claims.

I sat in on a town hall meeting where JCP&L fumbled majorly in explaining themselves after taking a week or more to restore power in northern NJ. They gave all manner of excuses, and the meeting attendees pointed out endless examples of dead branches hanging over wires. Their policy? Then don't touch the branch unless the branch is *hanging* on the wire. How's that for foresight? The moment a strong wind kicks up, they lose power. They're so fucking cheap that they fired all their linemen, and now out-of-state emergency support has become the ONLY support.

Shame on them.

I own more than a few firearms. Google would not be my go-to for gun deals, or shopping in general for that matter. It's their website, they can do with it what they want. I fail to see the controversy here.

Motion blur can be artistic. It's mostly a matter of perception, but to me high frame rates remind me of handycam footage and generally low production value.

And apparently I am not the only one who finds this to be the case: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9225905/The-Hobbit-previews-to-mixed-reactions.html

In any case, it'll probably end up to be a generational thing, and I'll be screaming at these 48p weirdos to get off my screen.

It will also look like a home video and be awful and distracting