And the rest of Asia and America and Europe and .......
And actually they all indeed do.

As for all the other countries, the NSA keeps the records of all things mentioned in the article.
If you say something nasty you're labelled a terrorist and you disappear just the same.

The difference is Putin is openly clear about is.

"The government redrafted a proposed bill to levy a temporary 75% tax on earnings over 1 million Euros."
-- on earnings over 1 million Euros --

Personally I don't see the problem to contribute more to society if you earn that much money.

In attempt to make /. more people-friendly....

End of discussion :)

Why is it so hard to understand that safety with cars is the ONLY priority. A text or a phone call can wait.
If anybody that needs a law to understand that shouldn't be driving. It's that simple.

I'm affraid my current smartphone probably has more memory, more storage and is faster than my 8 years old single core laptop running W-XP.
So how about one smartphone per child?

"Given that much more hidden spy cameras are available for far less than the $1500 cost of Glass, what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?"

Just wait for people to find out you're wearing one of those...

And psychologists don't know Jack ship about people on the internet. Either.

Still, the mechanism "you do something, you get something in return" seems to work better than "do nothing and get stuff for free" since well, you figure it out...
The real problem begins (or it starts to get interesting) where too much of the things that can be done is being automated and there isn't enough work to do for less educated people.

So if I leave my front door open, that gives you the right to barge in and take stuff from my refrigerator?

I don't want my television to give me recommendations based on my browser history!

Mexicans lives in or come from Mexico. Being a Mexican does not mean that person is an immigrant.
Most Americans come from who knows where so we call these people (x-th generation) immigrants.
This fact is underlined by their blood line: 1/4 Italian, 1/3 Russian and so on.

If the images are identical, hash them and compare hashes.

For one because you would expect something that can be customised and configured, but instead droid devices uses an all-or-nothing security model and come with tons of pre-installed uninstallable sh..tuff.
And g+