When I add up income tax, Medicare/social security tax, state taxes, property, sales, hotel, gas, airport and the rest I pay, the total is at least 50% of my paycheck, and I am not by any means rich. Taxing the companies more just means that the prices will be higher - your Youtube Red subscription will be $11 and not $9, your Office subscription will be $75 a year and not $69... How about we maybe try cutting waste and abuse of the system and use that money to cut taxes so people can save more money and need less government assistance when a rainy day comes around. .

MITM wifi attacks and hotpot impersonation have been a thing for the better part of a decade now, what does this bring to the table that malicious actors didn't already have?

i don't want ads. I pay what Prime costs for fast shipping, the music service and ad free video. if video gets ads on the paid tier, Ill go elsewhere.

I would rather not get my hardware and OS from a company that generates over 90% of its income from advertisements.

Apple and Windows/amd64 OEMa have their issues but they do at least, for the most part, treat teh person buying the device as the customer, not the person buying the spy data.

In recent days amazon has been found to be deleting reviews of Hillary Clinton book that are negative - they justify this by saying that "no one could have read the book that fast" yet they don't block the great reviews from people who have had the same amount of access to the book as the negative reviewers.

If you take away the ability of people to speak freely, leaving them with the perception of censorship***, they will find other, very terrible ways to communicate their thoughts...and suggesting bombs at the same time is something that is actually genuinely frightening.

***I know amazon is not a government and therefore cant "censor" but it can give the perception thereof because of the sheer power they do hold.

If every single marketing drone in corporate America with the right subscription can mine all this data to sell us useless plastic trinkets that we don't need, then why not let the police mine it to solve crimes that were committed during a large public gathering?

No one is saying they are going after the innocent granny holding a "i would have rather had Hillary" placard but if she happened to share a photo of some anarchists destroying property that can help the police identify them, then hell yes the police should be searching it so long as they had probable cause and got a warrant.

thats the tip of the iceberg. If this gets overturned as illegal you will see other tech companies subjected to the same types of complaints and more importantly, a flood of potential information about the real shenanigans going on and the true level of privacy violations they commit in the course of business.

No one really wants the to illicitly gain access to these companies' metaphorical secret sauces recipies, we just want to make sure the ingredient list doesn't include rat poison.

It is far and away better than it was a year and a half ago, but Win 10 still has a ways to go before it is ready for the "it just has to work all the time" workloads of many with demanding workloads. It is stable, but they need to really finish the transition from old to new completely, and add proper GPO management around new features like the Windows Settings app that is replacing control panel a little more with each feature update. Give it another 6 months or so and it will be there I think.

Funny how these San Francisco Liberal do gooders lecture those of us to the right of center about the ethics of "paying our fair share" when we lament the high taxes, but when the shoe is on the other foot and it is their turn to pay up, they fight it like crazy...

How many of these were active users? how many were real names? back in the day, I had 2 or three spam accounts under names like James Bond or Homer Simpson...i know others did too. on top of that I dont know anyone still using yahoo actively...

If Facebook labels some small time news site as "fake news" would there be a case to be made for defamation if the stories in question were actually factual? For example What about "facts" that are in dispute? Did the Russians hack the DNC or was it an internal leaker who handed the stuff to Wikileaks? One could write an article siting very reputable sources on both sides of that story so which side of that story would be "fake news"

I got a pop up saying that "the simpsons" was blacked out in Chicago due to "regional blackout rules" while teh Packers game right before The Simpsons worked fine...

I plugged back in the cable box and havnt looked back.

"Cloud" services can be done very securely, look at any number of business/enterprise services from MS, Amazon, Oracle, SAP or any of a dozen other vendors. Its sad that the consumer end of the cloud is such a joke security wise. look at the past few months, this and the the yshoo FBI search thing are great examples of how piss poor the consumer cloud is. It doesnt have to be this way. We need a secure consumer cloud.

seems to me that this is another one of those business practices that would be totally against the law if it were done in an analog world, if a representative of a car service followed you documenting your every location to "help be sure to give you better service when you want a ride" everyone would call BS and they would be out of business or at least severely hampered. Because they do this "on a computer" its somehow just fine and makes them a darling for the VC/Stock market...sick...