The crappy grammar would kill him before he even would got there.

No, the issue is the repeated and overused comparison of 90% of new tech gadgets to minority report by idiot journalists who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag.

Seriously have journalists never seen any other SF movie?
It's like the only movie that's ever had a futuristic interface in it at all.

The moment I see some mouthbreather mention minority report I stop caring about anything they've written.

The 80s called, they want their mood ring back..

Wasn't one of the protections for google being a search engine the fact that it was indiscriminate?
All it did was use robots to report information that was out there.

With all the massaging of search results and removing of links and other things it's becoming increasingly obvious that google can and will modify those results on a direct basis rather than simply giving "search results"

I think that whatever protections they've enjoyed under the various IP laws and I'm sure other kinds of laws where their defense is "we're just returning results" should be removed and let them battle it out in courts with the various entities affected.

obviously facebook has some mod points. Can anyone dispute this on a factual basis? The point is, Facebook likes to jerk its users around as much or more than they're trying to claim this person would be doing.

It's funny enough that facebook can't possibly access your "other" messages without forcing you to install facebook messenger (which end up being viewable in the facebook app itself), but you can't turn off notificatinos permanently on facebook messenger. Any time you click the box which says "turn off notifications" instead of just doing it , it says "okay, we'll turn off notifications for 8 hours and then turn them back on automatically for you"

wtf??
Talk about dirty pool.

Luckily newer versions of android allow you override this and just stop receiving all notifications from an app permanently.

florida called, they want their title back.

Yay for moving the goalposts.

What you said, and what I was replying to was about going no further than walking distance on a Sunday. You said nothing about disagreeable weather or whatever. I don't as it happens own a car at the moment, so the idea of being restricted to being within walking distance does not fill me with dread.

Yay cluelessness.

The goalposts haven't moved.
I'm still talking about going somewhere on Sunday that is more than walking distance. I'm only giving a reason as to WHY you'd want to do that. You seemed to be completely unaware of why it might be an issue that you couldn't go out of walking distance on Sunday.

Yeah, people in 1986 were dying in the street in droves

Maybe not droves, but they were dying in situations where a cellphone might have saved them or helped them.

I guess you've never really lived anywhere that has extremely disagreeable weather where a sunny sunday might mean the only day its worth going anywhere to do anything. unnecessarily knee-capping yourself is just silly.

Just like the parents in the article, beyond how ridiculous they were, they went over board.
She talks about deleting her facebook..
why?
It's not in your house. Leave up a note saying you're gone for a year and pick it up when the year is over
Why completely cancel the the cellphone?
It's still useful in an emergency, and again, outside the house. Use it only when you're out and about as a "car phone" at the very least. With the rule that it stays in the car or something like that when at home.
What happens if you're out and about and you have a medical emergency? I guess we can just die like we would have in 1986.

And its' no longer out of the ordinary when it's regularly scheduled to happen every single saturday night.

We also had a lot of power outages when I was young, great fun when a tree branch cuts off the power to the area for several days during an ice storm and your pipes burst and flood.

no lights? It's fine if you want to say no computer/TV for a day or something like that.. but that's just a bit ridiculous. Did you ride a horse to the store? That basically means going nowhere outside of walking distance on a Sunday..

Or is it that non-tenured teachers are trying to become tenured?

If you take away the carrot maybe everyone stops trying.

Yeah because Anne Frank and Trayvon are remotely in the same league.

Microsoft has just about destroyed skype, so don't worry. They're keeping with their business model. Their latest version on android introduced numerous device and app breaking bugs making the software nearly unusable. The inability to make a useful bug report really shows us what Microsoft brings to the table.