Since when does the FBI/CIA/NSA care about laws? As long as there isn't another Snowden, the media will ignore it and anyone who says otherwise will be dismissed as a mere conspiracy theorist.

Except that if someone is going to be a crappy driver, they're going to do it with or without technology. Technology is simply the boogeyman that the media uses rather than simply admitting that there are some poor drivers on the road. A crying child in the backseat is infinitely more distracting than a radio/cell phone/Google Glass

Yeah, I remember loving Amarok before the 2.X releases. Once 2.X hit it started being a buggy mess.

English Russia is indeed very fascinating, if a bit prophetic in their urban exploration sections where they visit places that have been abandoned since the Soviet collapse, including places that shouldn't have been completely abandoned!

http://englishrussia.com/2012/08/19/abandoned-chemical-weaponry-plant/

The reason why RT (along with the BBC, Al-Jazeera and others) are popular in the US is because they're not filled with the crap that CNN, FOX and (MS)NBC cover.

Rather than focusing on supposed "racism" about Oprah in a high-end fashion boutique they focus on the real issues, like the NSA spying scandal, Obama's drone wars, etc.

Yeah, except none of those are followed by the majority of the countries that signed it.

Articles 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29 certainly do not apply to the USA.

Not so much:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

There is a huge difference between Pandora's ads and Facebook's ads. Even without adblock its easy to ignore Facebook's ads, not so much when your music is interrupted with an ad on Pandora. The reason why Facebook has been mass adopted has been:

1) Everyone is on it
2) Its free
3) Its not Myspace

I don't think there's a single person who would say that Facebook is great or amazing, instead its simply adequate enough for most people's needs. Other than simply having a lot more people on it than other social media sites, there is no advantage to Facebook when compared to literally any other social media site, it has no competitive advantage other than merely being the most popular. Pandora is different, its predictions are much more accurate than Apple Genius or Last.FM, its superior to its competitors, not merely the most used and until someone makes better predictions, it will continue to be used.

Facebook needs to make their platform better if they expect people to pay for it because all they have going for them now is sheer numbers, just like Friendster and Myspace had going for them in their heyday...

Yeah, I mean ever since Fire Emblem: Awakening has come out I haven't used Firefox.

(for those who don't understand the reference, http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Chrom )

Yeah, I come and read it here when its already been on the local news like 2 nights ago...

What does Oracle even do anymore? All they've been doing lately is killing off products/projects. Same with HP.

I don't know, and that's one of the reasons why I cut the cable a couple of years ago and why I've got Netflix (which is ad free) instead of Hulu Plus (which has ads).

This is perhaps the most negative publicity that I've seen for a console before it even came out. Even the failures like the 3DO had great publicity (the 3DO was named Time's 'product of the year')

Has there been -anything- positive that has come out of the Xbox One's pre-launch that hasn't just been damage control?

You're free to sell your games for however much you want them. Hint: There's more than just Gamestop.

Steam is actually pretty crappy, but its better than some DRM schemes that publishers have come up with since you can't just swap disks like you've always been able to with console games.

Why are there even ads on the Xbox? After all you've:

A) Bought the console
B) Bought some games (presumably)
C) Quite possibly bought a gold membership

Now, I can understand something like when you go to the store to have maybe a little promo of "what's new" but beyond that, ads are unacceptable.