This is problem with digital media how do you will it to someone unless you leave the username and password in your will or leave it in book some where. If you have a huge movie collection on DVD family can take that collection but what if your huge DVD collection is on amazon how do they access it unless you leave them the username and password.

A lot of hardware venders make money on installing the bloatware. I remember when I was building pcs for company right after college we used to install AOL on everything cause AOL payed the company. We installed eBay shortcuts, Nortain AV anything just to make a few extra dollars on computers. Dell has been hurting financially they probably need extra cash.

With the Ubuntu phone OS porting over iOS and Android Apps its only a matter of time till we have an open platform.

I am a ham radio operator and I will run in there for a soldering wire for a few diodes cause there cheap enough and the shipping for electronics sites is a little pricey. But I refuse to over pay for linksys routers and cables for my surround sound system. Radio Shack prices are a little high for anything else besides the little things.

Huge loss to the security community his information were always informative great mind and presenter.

I agree

I agree slashdot has been a bit behind but it's still worth posting since most of us slashdoters are Unix and Linux nerds.

I tried to buy the Chromecast on Amazon for $35 they are already sold out.

There was a guy that used Facebooks own API to block ads maybe the same will happen with Instagram.

This sounds like something off of "The Onion".

Just the government updating there laws so they get a cut of the action pretty soon eBay will charge and all the others.

The sad part is the space department NASA made this country great. I mean we worked hard to be the first one to the moon and so many great things came out of nasa and now they pretty much can't do anything because they have no funding.