Umm.. wait, what? "Rights" are a concept granted by the country you're in. They do, literally, end at the border. "Your Rights" become whatever the rights are that are granted to foreigners in the new country you entered if the new country does grant such rights. Do all countries even have the concept of individual rights? If you go to China for Example with the 9mm pistol your home country gives you the right to carry you aren't going to have a good day. If you go to North Korea running your mouth about how their emperor sucks badly... same thing - they don't care about the rights you had when you were in your "home" country. They do care that foreign nationals in those countries don't have the right to do those things.

Uh-huh.. because VPN ISP's would never "monetize" your information or your bandwidth, right?

Investgate != regulate. An investigation will allow the FTC to determine if there is a problem and if so then they can regulate. If there is no problem then no harm was done. Other than the cost of the investigation, it seems like a no brainier. Investigate away and make a decision. Maybe investigate again later if something changes. It's simple, and should be common enough that it doesn't register as news.

Yes, obviously. Didn't you know modern cell phones operate almost exclusively on magic?

Windows loads a keyboard driver instead of a USB mass storage driver and the device fails to function? Just guessing here.

We have had a similar policy to IBM's for a few years. A person who needs to use usb storage devices for things like you're talking about have to apply for security exceptions. Even if your employer grants a few thousand legitimate exceptions for stuff like this, they have still minimized risk by eliminating USB use by the other 200,000 employees. It does involve some overhead and time wasted when you first apply for your exception. In my opinion the benefit outweighs the drawback.

It's a lot like changing a default security policy to DENY and only ALLOWing things you really want. Minor inconvenience in exchange for greatly improved security.

It's a good reason to not move somewhere that you have to rely on public transportation. Especially if that locality thinks it's a good idea to pay someone to respond to tweets and give those people no power to fix whatever complaint they're responding to.

Delays are up 83%? No problem, we'll just respond to tweets instead of fixing whatever caused the delay in the first place.

If the locality can't maintain their public transport system better than that then it ought to be encouraging residents to buy their own private transport and avoid the public transport system.

Google shopping wants to compete with amazon.com or fleabay? Seems unlikely, as google doesn't actually sell products. It's a search engine that tricks users into thinking there is a store hosted on google.com. Not only that, but many of the results actually end up being listings on fleabay or amazon.com in the first place. If google wants to compete in e-commerece, then they will prob have to.. you know, engage in actual e-commerce.

Seems suspicious that your hosts file is an executable program...

My prime just renewed in March. Unless I change my mind I think that will be it for me. Prime streaming is useless in my opinion on account of the poor content library and mediocre interface, so it's just a matter of the sometimes free shipping.

As is the way of every new hotness. It drives the cost of the old busted down. 8k is the new hotness. 4k is the old busted. The author must have some vested interest in an older technology. Maybe he bought his first 4k tv last weekend and is bitter?

I've never seen a medical study based on a person's name or social security number.

Obviously, banning vehicles for anyone other than the military of a sovereign nation is the answer. The vehicles used by the nation should require multi factor biometric locking mechanisms. Is this even a question?

It's taken. Cracker groups have been successfully cracking software for decades.

We should call it screwing. I know a lot of hackers that would love to finally be able to say they were tired because they were up all night screwing. Otherwise, no... It doesn't matter what some people try to change the term to.. it'll always be hacking.