If this "anonymous, unique identifier" is a fiction, the "privacy abuse" is obvious.
On the other hand, if the "anonymous, unique identifier" truly is anonymous, where is the "privacy abuse"? We're going to have ads served to us regardless. Better to have ads that are relevant to my interests than random, irrelevant ads.
I disagree. Ads that don't concern me are easier to ignore. "Targeted Advertizing" is a pretty name for "Manipulation of Potential Customers".
nobody believes the outcomes will be fair or properly enforced.
Over time, they won't be. Power corrupts. That's why it should be forcibly limited on those who have it.
I'd just be happy with self-driving cars, so I can spend my time reading a book and not watching out for the intoxicated or incompetent on the roads.
Not me. I like to drive.
The summary answers itself:
I just wish Nissan would ditch the weird styling while they're at it.
This is why Tesla is getting so much public attention: the cars they make look like cars people actually want to drive. Stop making every electric car look like a midget minivan (a miniminivan?) and more people would actually buy them.
Right. For most people, the way a car looks is a high priority. The question electric car manufacturers should always ask themselves is: "How well would this car sell if it had a gas engine in it?"
Investors welcomed the announcement by Netflix, which had suffered from a consumer exodus and stock plunge after it announced an unpopular price increase in July 2011.
Well, the first price increase cost us customers so the stock plunged. What will make the stock soar? A price increase!
So let me get this straight, it's perfectly OK to kill people with drones as long as they're not American citizens?
Welcome to Planet Earth.
AKA "The REAL World!"
It ain't a nice place, and it ain't gonna be a nice place, in spite of all the sheltered urban first-world fantasies you can conjure.
Right. You have no right to complain unless your country is a third world shithole. It's just stupid to think that things could be better. Our founding fathers had it all wrong. People in other places have no rights so why should we? Thank you so much, AC. Without your wisdom and foresight, we would all be lost.
experimenting with 15 inch golf holes the size of pizzas to stop people from quitting the game.
Why not make the entire green the hole? People would never be able to quit.
15 inch holes
Is goatse.cx the connection? It's goatse.cx isn't it?
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comes with a new 'Lens Blur' feature that lets you adds creamy bokeh to your pictures.
Yeah, hi, I have a question. Does it have to be creamy?
Putin's Russia, oddly enough where Snowden now lives, has already been exploiting the information Snowden revealed to strengthen their intelligence apparatus and exploit gaps in those of the West. Snowden doesn't deserve a Nobel but maybe the cover of Time magazine, a distinction he could share with various other notables of ill repute. (Was John Walker or Kim Philby ever on the cover?) On top of that Snowden deserves prosecution.
Maybe next time the NSA decides to go too far and aim for total surveillance of every connected person on the planet, they should remember the downsides of forcing someone to blow the whistle.
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.
