Currently you can buy a version outright (say AutoCAD 2014 - you can use that version forever). Alternatively, you can get it on subscription (you pay 20% or 30% of the full cost, but pay it every year), which allows you to get the new version every year plus more support/features. Renting is simply the third option - the other two aren't going away. Their subscription model is a predictable cash cow at this point - there is no way they are giving that up.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

It was the Senate Appropriations Committee, not the full senate.

I believe this would be the one.

I'm all for 2 way accountability, but there may actually be times when they should be turned off. Do we really want to see/listen to some cop using the restroom? Chomping on food during his lunch break?

And what about the times when you may not want conversations with coworkers to be posted publicly? Telling a coworker an off-color joke? Telling a coworker what he did with that lady he met at the bar the other night? Telling the boss he will be out on Friday to help a family member with a medical issue?

And how long before this footage is directly used to make hiring/promotion/firing decisions? Didn't pick up on a clue quick enough on that high profile case? No raise for you.

This issue is who determines when it is on or off, and how to avoid this power being used inappropriately.

This reminds me of Netscape near the end. It was still around for years after the masses stopped using it, but was essentially a rebreanded version of mozilla/firefox. The trouble is it took them a few months to put their touch on it.

I'm curious how this would work well for Opera, if their business plan involves always reacting to the work of others in a world of nearly continuous browser updates. Sounds a day late and a dollar short to me.

Exactly. Building operators are not on site 24/7. You get an automated email/text message when a boiler is in alarm or a chiller goes down. Pull up the controls system from any browser on your PC or phone, use your login/password and see what is going on. You may even be able to fix the issue remotely. No need to run across campus when you get a phone call or come in at 3AM if all a piece of equipment needs is the reset button.

2 ZDNet stories on the front page of /. today... Did I miss the part where my PC got sucked through a temporal vortex and sent back to 1998?

I just recently started using the sync function anyway to view some of the same feeds at home/work. I'm running Windows 8 at home (don't ask), and haven't had any problems with FeedDemon so far.

I personally used FeedDemon for the better part of a decade, which had an option to synchronize with google reader. Unfortunately the author is also ending development of the software with the Google news being the last straw, effective today.