what they really should be debating how quickly the tsa can be disbanded as they are not providing any actual security.

I am saying you have foiled every attempted ufo invasion since 9/11. Keep up the good job.

so still no actual security from the tsa. Just security theater for people that are afraid anytime they leave their home and when they are home.

foreign companies are starting to choose companies outside the US to prevent nsa spying. Google has a financial interest to stop the nsa from losing them business.

result for gamefly is still the same. Mortal wound.

I just report a problem and send them back. I would only say 5% of disks have a problem and Netflix will immediately send a replacement so that has been good enough for me.

sounds like in winning gamefly may have put the nail in their profit margin. Instead of adopting the Netflix mailer and accepting breakage as part of doing business everyone will now have to pay much much higher mailing. Ironically, this also will mean that dvd mailing services will probably start to die which hurts the USPS too.

as a Programmer I view complaining as a good thing, because people don't complain about what they don't care about. That said, not striking a balance recognizing changes users hate / hoping they don't leave, ends up in things like digg.com

I totally hate the gmail change. It makes no sense to make composing an email in a totally different interface than the one for replying to an email. And the compose window is awkward to enter text into. I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish, but I would dump it in an instant if I could find the checkbox (and I have looked ... repeatedly).

If you have moral policy then you don't need to fear whistleblowers. Snowden and people like him should be hired in an instant and this nsa official who think they can do what ever they want should be excised like an infection.

There is another way, the tsa is not needed and not providing any actual security.

the US survived mccartyism when public support turned against it. Same thing is happening now.

this is a cautionary tell that to continued drive to strip freedoms is taking its toll and moving western governments to a police state.

I'd still take problems I can act on than being an unimportant Customer to someone like Amazon. When ec2 failed for Reddit they were down for a very long time with no way to recover and told they were queued to be helped.

or switching back to their own hardware.