thousands of online stores, flea markets, shops/boutiques. Crap, this will incite a whole new revival of cottage confederate flag making just to piss people off.

A nutjob walks into a church and shoots 9 people. That means we get rid of the Confederate Flags? WTF, the flag didn't kill anybody, shit confederate war soldiers didn't kill those people in the church. It's non sequitur. Getting rid of them through outlets like this will mean, more people will buy them and fly them is all and oh by the way Amazon, Apple, Walmart et all please remove anything with the ANC colors or those of the Black Panthers and Rainbow flags while you're at it; they offend me.

I vote Adobe the worst software provider in terms of quality. We bash Microsoft quite a bit but think about it. Shockwave, Flash now Acrobat Reader must be the crappiest three pieces of software in terms of quality and vulnerabilities. I guess when you couple Adobe + Windows it's truly craptacular!

foxit reader. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/d...

WQHL is another walled garden. A lot of vendor's don't like the Ts&Cs that MSFT has put forward for WQHL certification. Yes, it's sub-optimal but if you're dealing in Windows Drivers, it's the road you must travel on.

If only MSFT would make WQHL certification easier then you'd see more vendors jumping on the bandwagon and having their updates distributed through Windows Update.

This has nothing to do with Mark Facetard, it has everything to do with self promotion in an election year. "Oh lookie over here! Don't look at those 30,000 violations of federal law, receiving money from foreign governments while working for the American people? No, lookie here!"

I wish these 10,000 girls all the luck in the world.

Clinton Global Initiative is all you need to know. Why not 4 years ago, 6 or even 10? We're in an election cycle, this is now just a campaign talking point and to deflect criticism away from deleting e-mails, taking money from foreign governments and overall credibility. "Hey look we do something good."

update now, reboot.. FTFY

The problem isn't that recycling *isn't* profitable, it's not profitable for Waste Management which is the largest waste disposal company in the US. They view the landfills that they operate as mining interests and like all mine-able resources there's value fluctuation. Too bad, we must recycle and local/state governments need to push back when people don't want to separate glass from paper, it's about the environment not a company's ability to make more money off of refuse. Shit, in my community Waste Management came in and gave us all big bins where we had separation before, they created the stream problem in the first place!

I also find it problematic that China doesn't want our trash yet that would seem that if there's a consumable that could be manufactured from recycled materials, why isn't it being done in the US? The logistics stream to get a ton of recycled paper to China must be huge and expensive, why can't that be done in Detroit or some other urban area putting unemployed people back to work. The recycling issue is a microcosm for the larger economic picture, recycle the waste here, produce the materials that are value added here and then export them if there's demand. If there's no demand then why are we using the source materials in the first place? An example: plastic bottles vs. glass bottles.

Well let's not ignore the score. Well maybe, but please ignore the movie.

He should turn in his "tech writer" credentials.

I do believe that 80% of what Snowden leaked is true to some extent but based on the sniff test, the other 20% is bullshit. The problem then becomes trying to filter out what's crap and what's truth. Do I believe that Google, Apple and Microsoft had to cooperate with the DOJ and FBI? Absolutely, they're required to by law. Do I believe that they're vanguards of liberty and privacy? Fuck no. Do I believe that the NSA has taps on all their data centers? No Do I believe that the NSA has tried to tap into their data centers? Yes.

A gag order is issued by a judge on procedural grounds based on the merits of the case in front of it. The DOJ would have argued that Google by informing the person targeted would taint their investigation. Usually judges will err on the side of the government, not always, but mostly they will. Since the Gag order is issued by the court, violating that gag order usually means sanctions. You don't want to get a judge pissed off with you when you're arguing a case in front of them.

I haven't read the 300 pages of court documents, TL;DR, but one can also assume that the big reason that Google defended this user was because of the potential damage it could have done to its business model. Think about it, if you're caught giving out information based on somebody's say-so and other customers found out, they'd probably leave and your treasure trove of social mining would collapse. Defending this user wasn't so much about protecting user rights but about protecting their business interests.

No it doesn't you signed up explicitly with this long TOS that said we could collect data about you and use it in anyway we see fit with or without your permission. We can also retain it indefinitely for future mining experiments. Sucks how that works out for you.

Then don't buy their product and go to someone else.. Oh wait, they're doing the same thing too. At the point that it becomes "normal" then it will reflect on you as "what have you to hide?" meaning that it'll take a large legal challenge to get this information gathering and dissemination stopped. This isn't data that they need, this is data that Allstate wants so it can create a market. Just like the big three credit reporting agencies segmenting your buying habits and your ability to buy new things and sell them. https://www.experian.com/busin...

What has to happen is the direct and indirect assaults on our privacy need to be stopped and I'm afraid that'll take a constitutional amendment because nobody in DC has the balls to stop it.