As far as the feature requests mentioned in the opening paragraph go; those would actually be features of the REMOTE SHELL that would manifest in the terminal emulator via ASCII/EBCDIC command codes. Emulated GUI-like features that respond to arrow keys and mouse. The Midnight Commander file browser tool is a great example.

Likewise, we don't ask why can't our TELEVISION allow us to pan around the set of a movie we're watching so we can see it from different angles. Or swap out characters for different actors. Or delete drapes we don't like. It can't ever do that. It can't force new imagery out of the existing movie. Blade Runner's ESPER doesn't exist.

I would mention cameras which don't just mount as an external drive when you connect them to the PC. Instead, requiring a windows vista-only app which insists on sorting and organizing your photos before you can see a single damn one of 'em.

Brain-Fu is on the right track. I would add that, when it's considered a grave sin to have sex (aka consummating a consensual love relationship) outside of a marriage, and even masturbation is frowned upon (you'll be shamed and punished, even if it's technically legal), then people who are raised without knowing all of their options will be incentivized to marry. And if the only way to be married is by a church, and that church only marries couples who have demonstrated living my their standards (and tithing satisfactorily), then couples are incentivized to conform by participating and enriching churches or equivalent organizations holding social authority. Puritanism is part of a fcuking business model.

I found Pidgin refuses to connect since Saturday night. And the Google Chat plugin also fails.

I heard a lot of websites were slowed down while all their embedded Facebook bugs timed out.

I tried each of the "is it down" sites on Google's first page of results, and they were all timing out except for DownDetector. DD got sluggish pretty quickly too.

We can make a list of the top players who get a smaller slice of pie when people just happily work from home:
1) power tripping bosses, 2) office landlords, 3) petroleum industry, 4) automobile industry, 5) insurance industry, 6) developers, 7) dry cleaners, 8) psychiatrists, 9) drug industry, 10) residential burglars...

One gargantuan negative is that power will move into the hands of an already epicly corrupt Broadband Internet industry... They'll want to continue to provide you with "service tiers" that actually put up obstacles which you must pay to get around.

JOBS, my friend! Jobs for 6-8 people from out of town!
Who needed that 150 year old courthouse anyway?

i.e. INVISIBLE tabs. There are no more tabs. Just a blank bar with icons and text on it. So they've stripped out visual cues as "an improvement" the surly bastards. And a quick run-through in Settings shows while I can click on check-boxes, and sometimes lists move, I don't see check marks.

THUMBS DOWN, FIREFOX

If it's anything like ATT DSL here, they would consider their obligation fulfilled if the speed didn't drop below HALF the promised speed. That's what the CSR agent told me. And if you could get into the modem's config, you'd see that the speed was set for the KIBIBYTE (rounded to even 100's) equivalent, not the "1024" increment. Basically, they treated the poor transmission characteristics of the wiring as a free throttle to save themselves bandwidth EVEN THOUGH all they would have to do is increase your modem's speed cap until your average bandwidth achieved the promised throughput. We had 3Mbps service, modem was set to 3000Mbps and we usually just got 1.5Mbps. We were only 1000 feet from the nearest equipment "office" AND for a couple of weeks, we still got .5mbps even though some clown had cut one wire in our pair while looking for a spare to fix someone else's service. ONE WIRE worked that well. So line quality was less likely to be an issue. They just choked us to see if we'd suck down their "uverse" stuff. Which was literally the same as what we had; fiber to the nearest office (or connection pillar), and then high speed DSL through the wire pair leading into the house.

I've been really happy with Feedly. I have several accounts which I open in different browsers to keep them separate by purpose. I used Thunderbird as an RSS reader briefly, but the look and feel didn't fit me, and I realized it meant my PC would be constantly sweeping the net for updates. It's better to just let Feedly do that and present me with the results. Feedly has started doing a few small annoying things in the pursuit of premium subscriptions, but it's hardly crippled. I think they toyed with limiting free users to 100 feeds, but they've lifted the restriction on me. Feedly will also let you import and export your groups via xml file.

Screw $40/mo. I pay $50/YEAR for service for my smartphone with Tracfone.

Yep, so much for having smartphone service for $50/year. And they'll probably make talk time expire now instead of rolling them forward.

You realize HIPPA's scope is medical people and their agents, right? If your mother felt butthurt about people on the street seeing her fanny while being carried into the hospital, she should consider suing the hospital or ambulance company for allowing it to happen.

Rei: The law probably differs from area to area, but where I live (TX), a trespass complaint is not actionable by police unless someone has returned to your property, and been seen by a cop doing so, after having previously received a verbal trespass warning from the property owner/caretaker, also witnessed by a cop. For first-time complaints, all cops can do is have a chat with the offender. And "No Trespassing" signs are not enforceable. They're merely suggestions. You can sign a waiver which allows cops, on their own judgement, to arrest anyone on your property who seems suspicious, BUT this also means cops no longer need a search warrant on your property for any reason.

So no, the hospital telling him to "get lost" probably does not constitute a legal order. If the suspect was videoing from a public position, there would be nothing they could do. So, the cops pretended he was violent and "disorderly" so that they could have power over him in a public setting. The whole intention was to punish him without a trial by arresting him and entangling him in the expensive criminal justice system. The cops will never be punished for this; in face, their bosses will probably salute them for their creativity.