"Electronic locking doors that might fail to open in the case of an emergency or electrical failure creeped me out. " - You're used to new cars not having electronic locking doors? How are you posting on Slashdot from the 1970s?
It seems I'm also writing from the 1970s. After this I'll be driving home in my (apparently also 1970s) Toyota Prius. It is equipped with electronic door locks. It also has physical latches and a mechanical key to unlock the doors in case of a power failure. Here in the 1970s things do sometimes fail.
I envy you future folks who don't have to worry about battery failures.
"Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!"
... for not pardoning Snowden.
He is a hero who is being punished for protecting us all. The fact that he is pursued as a criminal says very bad things about the U.S. government.
IMHO Snowden should be put in charge of a government agency tasked with preventing this sort of spying on citizens.
I also evaluated pcloud. I was almost happy with it until I tried to edit a text file in my notes directory from my phone.
It turns out the Android client doesn't allow editing. That's a show-stopper for me. Probably good for syncing media files (like music or movies). My personal use-case is taking notes & syncing them.
"We've always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology," a Facebook representative said Thursday in a statement.
Always?
Did Jones just sign up last week?
Here's the first sentence (emphasis mine):
The public forum doctrine is an analytical tool used in First Amendment jurisprudence to determine the constitutionality of speech restrictions implemented on government property.
What the Citizen's United ruling did was grant the corporation itself "human" rights.
Although I haven't used some in so long they are all but forgotten:
I do not count: HTML, CSS, SQL, Expect, sed.
Stop letting them sell your life as their product.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
