Unfortunately much of the tech press content consists of (paid?) product announcements, unsubstantiated rumour, and reviews of dubious quality.

Google was up front about there being no Chromecast apps until the SDK was released, at the very beginning. This was never a story.

Me too. 10 years now.

The thing is, My ISP and the cable tv company are the same company. I'm still paying them, and only a few dollars less than internet plus basic cable. When enough people dump the cable TV, they'll can just hike the price of internet to make up for it.

<quote><p>Yeah, except for the part where nobody runs a mailserver off of their home internet connection. All reputation services (AKA blackholes) block address ranges assigned to home internet services. It's pretty much impossible.</p><p>I don't know why people are up in Google's grill for what is basically a boilerplate policy that ALL home ISPs follow. Google doesn't want people buying home fiber links to host their web sites.</p></quote>

I did not find reputation services to be a problem. Comcast blocking inbound port 25 as of a few months ago is the problem. I've run a mail server at home for nearly 10 years.

I can live with not running a business off my consumer internet connection but I am mad as hell that I can't run my own mail server.

At this point one wonders if the NSA is involved....

Comcast is, very unfortunately for us, not 'just an ISP' but a media conglomerate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Acquisitions_and_joint_ventures

Google fiber, you are my only hope.....

My congressman and I are pretty much in agreement on everything. Can I call your congressman?

Yes Mexico has been doing this since at least the early 90s.

#1 should have been Arrogance.

I'm not sure he even understands the definition of "trait"

... when they join a legal battle in defence of our 4th amendment rights.

The problem with IP today is the complete lack of reasonable limits on who can make money from IP and for how long.

It's is fundamentally unfair to the world to expect unlimited and life-long (or longer) income from your IP (or even worse, from someone else's IP to which you have acquired the 'rights').

IP is a human mental construct that was brought into being to address fairness. The pendulum has swung way too far.

May as well just get rid of physical keys altogether.

We don't hate you, it's just that we tend to have superiority complexes combined with poor social skills.

I'm not sure it's effective. And if it is, I doubt it's effective enough to warrant the amount of money thrown at it or the misuse that will inevitably occur.
  I'm also not sure why we should believe anything they say.

I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists over opaque security organizations who can spy on me whenever they wish.
I'm far more likely to get shot or run over by a fellow citizen anyway.

Turn your spying ability on the bankers and then we'll talk.....

I accept connections on 587 but tell that to the millions of SMTP servers still sending on 25.

This. I'm using SSL/TLS when I can but I'm afraid 25 in is still a requirement.