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If you are competent and concerned by privacy then you aren't using cloud services, period. Why would anyone who cares about their users privacy choose to send all of their data to Microsoft, Google or anyone else?

How do you feel about Computer - I want to use drive sda1 for installation. Use the existing virtual memory on drive sda3 please. Just use default partitioning on sda1, only use free space though. Yes, use enhanced security. I don't wish to join any networks. User name is Muppet. Password is CookieMonster. There will not be any other users. I choose the K desktop environment. Yes, go ahead. What? You didn't understand me? Very well - proceed.?

This event is the punctuation mark on a diatribe that should have convinced you to vote third party. Voting for a Democrat or a Republican is WASTING your vote. The published views of a party are meaningless when their actions are entirely self-serving. If you don't think that your countries laws should be dictated by corporations that view you as a commodity then it is your patriotic duty to vote for someone, ANYONE, who is not beholden to one side of the corporate coin or the other.

What will stop a corrupt police official from removing your google glass, stepping on it and then further misbehaving? If you are relying on other people in the vicinity to record the misconduct then the ubiquitous cell phone camera already serves that purpose.

What is Slashdot's stance on overreacting to what is obviously a joke?

Who will be the next executive that loses his job over unpopular DRM? Surely at some point developers will weigh the costs versus the gains and realize that draconian DRM is a losing proposition.

If I amassed a fortune by kicking people in the balls and stealing their wallets would you assume that they liked it because I became wealthy?

The internet still is that place. I can't speak for everyone, but when I go looking for information on the internet I almost always find it on a site like Stack Overflow or Wikipedia where the content is all generated by enthusiasts sharing their expertise. There are certainly plenty of superficial sites designed to glean a quick buck from SEO, but it doesn't take long to learn how to differentiate them from sites with real content.

That is one way of interpreting this. The other is as yet another reason not to visit Facebook.

Right up until Apple decides that it competes with their own software and removes it. Now Microsoft is out all of the money it spent developing an iOS version of Office because they foolishly trusted an environment where a direct competitor dictates what can and cannot be sold, plus they marginalized the only upside to their own mobile OS. Staying out of Apple's walled garden is the only move that makes sense.

If they aren't going to tell me how these wells cause cancer and kill children then I don't want to hear about them.

How do you think the dolphins paid all the whales to pose as the island?

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I think that you are missing the point. For many people if you say "mp3 player" they hear "iPod". The same may have been true for "smartphone" and "iPhone" at one point, but the numbers suggest that it isn't true anymore.