You don't understand. The Supreme Court of the United States has determined that corporations (e.g. "big business") get to enjoy all the benefits of citizenship with none of those annoying responsibilities (paying taxes, obeying the law, etc.). If you think that''s wrong, you must be some kind of socialist.

Well, no. It does not. Not even close. By your logic, the owner of the pavement upon which the "yeller of libelous words" was standing would be as culpable as the yeller himself. This is, of course, absurd, just as it is absurd to suggest the Google should, or even could, exercise editorial control over anything uttered in any portion of it's formidable "street corner".

We've still got Jeff Goldblum, after all.

He tried to detonate his tighty-whiteys, this time. That's progress, I guess.

Dude! Because it's so kewl, and besides, all your friends are there too.
/lawn

My first reaction was the same - "How dare they play so fast and loose with 'private information' like that...", but on reflection, I'm not sure it's a bad thing. My house has wifi. It is secured well enough that I don't need to worry about he neighbors borrowing my bandwidth or a drive-by spam cannon causing me grief. Several of my neighbors..., not so much. It's 2010, folks. The risk of running an open wifi is well-known, as are the means to secure it, and still, most wifi routers/access points come out of the box with little or no security enabled.

Maybe it is time to "raise awareness" of this reality. Of course, it's not Google's job to do this, and I doubt that they had anything so altruistic in mind when they decided to collect and publish this information, but I do hope that it will have that effect to some small degree, at least.

Comedy Central for letting terrorists win.
And while we're at it, piss on The Prophet Mohamed, Jesus, Yaweh, The Flying Spaghetti Monster and any other deity who needs his human followers to do his wet work for him. If those "supreme beings" have an issue with what I say about them, they know where I live. We can sort it out in person. The rest of you, STFU and relax already. I mean, they're gods. Right? Do you really think they need your help?
Please note that I did not say, "Piss on Christians, Muslims, Jews, Pastafarians, etc." Believe it or not, I am a very religious person and I am offended when someone insults my choice of beliefs. But fight about it? Kill them over it? That's just stupid. My spiritual beliefs are my business. Your faith is your business. Why can't we leave it at that?

Erm...., no. You can't.
Flip the scorebook back a few centuries there, sparky. It's still early in Islam's "at bat", and they have a lot of catching up to do.

Historical perspective much?
In this century, yeah, but try those tricks when the RCC still had some clout, boy. You'd be watching your entrails being roasted before you so fast your head would be spinning.

Timothy McVeigh David Koresh et al David McMenemy Paul Hill Michael Griffin James Kopp Rev. Michael Bray Clayton Waagner (you get the idea...) ...those peace loving Christians, eh? While it is true that the Rev. John Hagee hasn't yet called for the execution of Matt and Trey, there's plenty of religious hatred to go around. How 'bout we stop singling out this or that religion and admit that the whole lot of them, at least the ones that insist on enforcing their "faith" on the rest of us, are full of shit?

And they un-banned them because they realized, belatedly, that without visitors there will be zero revenue. Why is that so hard to grasp? When users feel compelled to take extra steps (AdBlock), just to wade through the crap to get to what they value (content) you're doing it wrong.

"...full legal compliance..."
Riiiiht...
Meaning, "I'm crowding into traffic as much as I can get away with and so what if I'm moving twenty miles an hour slower than the flow of traffic would otherwise move. I'm making a statement here, so fuck those carbon belching asshole motorists." Right?
Sorry, pal. I support cycling, all things green, etc. I really do, but I have had far too many "activist" cyclists deliberately and needlessly make my life miserable too many times to give them any slack anymore. Share the road means "sharing", not deliberately holding up traffic when you could do otherwise.

And the library still demanded some ID before they would accept payment.

is a fool's errand

let it go wherever it wants, for free, and profit off the ancillary revenue streams of such an attitude

the alternative approach assumes that you have more control than you can ever have, even theoretically

even our founding fathers were media "pirates"

a different article i read on the same device claimed the inventor discovered the cows actually produce considerably less methane when using this device. which makes sense, as the constant movement would increase the efficiency of their digestive track, which means less undigested food in the bowels, which means less food for the methane-producing bacteria in their colon.