Makes it sound like the government cares about your privacy while they continue to spy on everything you do: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

The least that can be done is to expose the people who treated him so appallingly so we all know who they are

> it's likely that developers will continue to explore Oculus as a gaming platform, Facebook or no.

I hate personal opinions without any basis of fact being presented passed off as statements of fact we should just accept because OP says so.

> The deal shows how serious Google is about Glass contrary to the skepticism raised by high-profiled users like Robert Scoble who spelled doom for the device.

How do you get from there to this? So they signed a deal with Ray Ban. So what? Does this suddenly mean Scoble has to publish a retraction?

More astroturfing. NSA and now this.

He wants us to stop calling it a planet.

Something is Flamebait isn't it's untrue. Here this was modded flamebait because a couple of Windoze fanboiz didn't like what my employer was doing with a rival platform. Slashdot needs to publish mods.

Or any other religious fanatic. More wars have been fought over religion that anything else.

I've bought a few laptops recently but they've all been older models with Windows 7. I wouldn't buy a laptop with Windows 8. Used it in the store. The Metro interface sucks. Why do I want to waste time learning something that sucks when Win 7 worked fine.

My employer has ditched Windows versions of our software and we're now all tablet. Developers warned Microsoft this would happen and they arrogantly ignored us.

Everyone makes mistakes, but only an idiot refuses to admits it and keeps their jalopy pointed at the cliff edge while flipping the bird to horrified onlookers.

Yes, article sounds like an advertisment for some wanna-be-conf. Disappointing too that Colbert sold out to RSA. So much for Anonymous' folk hero. At the end of the day it's about opportunists trading people's liberties for cold hard cash.

They made a movie about this. Low budget but well made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

A bullshit excuse by the NSA to keep their ill-gotten gains

> ... , where Islamic terrorist groups that threaten the West have bases." Yes, and regularly negotiate trade agreements with these terrorists, in this case for buying shrimps (the Buba Gump kind) as was the case for the spying here.

> But don't forget that big pharma, for all its problems still is the number one creator of new drugs. In 2012 alone, the U.S. government and private companies spent a combined $130 billion (PDF) on medical research."

That is not true. That research is done in universities often with taxpayer money and big pharma snaps it up for a song. Watch Big Bucks, Big Pharma https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... or read Marcia Angell - The Truth About the Drug Companies, Ben Goldacre - Bad Pharma - How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, Irving Kirsch The Emperor's New Drugs Exposed (SSRIs) and Jacky Kaw - Big Pharma - Exposing the Global Health Industry Agenda.

Accenture, from the multinational corporation formerly known as Arthur Andersen, changed their name after the Enron scandal, formerly residents of tax haven Bermuda, now residents of tax haven Ireland http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2013/11/06/if-ireland-is-not-a-tax-haven-what-is-it/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen#Enron_scandal

Also Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/