Are you in the U.S.? If not then maybe you don't understand: Here in the U.S., we have to 'vote with our dollars' or nothing is going to change. We can complain and talk all we want, but if the money keeps rolling in for them, they don't have to care at all about what anyone thinks.

..and I like it even less now. Tried Pandora a few years ago. Was rather annoyed with the way it worked so I ditched it. Reading this now, and knowing many producing musicians, I like it even less than I did before. The music industry has always more or less shit on artists, and apparently Pandora is no exception.

I think that apparently young Iranians don't understand the concept of a 'honeypot'. The Iranian government is probably keeping close track of them, and will pounce on them at the appropriate time.

'Seems ripe for abuse' is putting it mildly, there's only one reason they'd do this, and that would be to catalog and 'curtail' filesharing, and that reason only.

Or, just wipe it and install the same OS, but from a generic source.

Of course I have yet to see a piece of software that I couldn't in some way uninstall or totally disable, even if it meant manually hacking it out of the registry and deleting it's files.

I've never bought a new, pre-built computer before; can you get them without any OS installed?

Check, check, and check; I don't have any of those devices, I don't own a smartphone (Moto RAZR2 v9, and it's turned off most of the time anyway), and I don't even have a camera or microphone connected to any computer I own. I just bought a new TV, Samsung in fact, and it is NOT a 'smart TV', just a basic 39" HDTV.

Just don't buy these technologies in the first place.

Those iconic words from Serenity have always embodied the obvious reality that corporations are apparently deeply in denial over: People will find a way, and they're not going to stop. The tighter corporations and governments squeeze, the more slips through their grasp. They're wasting time and money trying to stamp out a problem that really isn't a problem, making everything cost more for everyone, which just incentivizes filesharers even more. This 'agreement' isn't going to change anything, other than hurting individuals who really aren't harming anyone or anything, ruining their lives because they wanted to hear a song or see a TV show. The organized criminals and terrorist groups who are mass-producing pirated movies and other content to fund their activities won't be any more affected by this than they're prevented from having firearms in places where it's been made illegal for people to own firearms, they'll go right on with their operations without so much as blinking. Memo to media corporations: The more draconic you make things for everyone, the more everyone is going to hate you and not want to pay for your content. It's time for you to retire your 19th Century business model and get into the 21st Century with the rest of us: Stop screwing us over for your content, stop destroying people's lives with gigantic judgements against individuals, accept the fact that some filesharing is going to happen and move on already.

One word for you here: AIRCRAFT. I think the DHS would descend on you like a plague of locusts if an aircraft so much as reported seeing a laser beam in their line of sight.

Do you think you'd like driving a small pickup truck? They're about as basic as you can get, especially if you get it with a 5-speed stickshift, and you get better fuel economy, too.

OP probably won't see this as there are already over 200 comments, but here's what I know: They make/sell HDTV monitors that don't even have so much as an HDTV tuner in them, and they're intended for commercial use for things like menu boards, advertising, etc. They're not particularly cheap, though, compared to a regular consumer-grade HDTV, but if price is no object then that's one way to go. The other way to go is to buy a freakishly large computer monitor and use that, or as others have suggested, just don't connect the thing to your network at all, without a data connection the so-called 'smart' features are disabled anyway.

On an associated note, I'm surprised the hacker community hasn't come up wtih hacked firmware to load onto 'smart' HDTVs to do specifically this sort of thing, or at least give you the option of 'lobotomizing' your HDTV so it is just a monitor.

Three things:
1. This really is a punishment grossly disproportionate with the magnitude of the rule broken.
2. If they don't want them using Facebook, then why isn't it blocked on all computers that inmates have access to?
3. Using Facebook is punishment enough in and of itself, why add insult to injury over it?

Nah, you don't want to use a shotgun, and I'll give you two very compelling reasons why:
1. Unless you live on a farm and your nearest neighbor is a couple miles away, some of your shotgun pellets are going to end up landing on someone's house, or on them, and they'll get cranky about that and call the cops on you, who will be very cranky that you discharged a firearm in a residential area, likely take it away from you, and maybe take you away, too.
2. Destroying someone's drone is wasteful. Get a gun that shoots a net of some sort instead. Then the drone gets grounded, you take it hostage, relatively intact. The owner of said drone shows up looking for it, you tell them "You want your drone back, which by the way was invading my privacy? You have to PAY to get it back." They refuse to pay? One word: Craigslist.

This is about as obvious as the 'have you ever used illegal drugs/are you using illegal drugs right now' type questions you find on employment applications. Running a grow operation or meth lab in your house? Organized crime? Terrorist cell? Don't want any pesky drones flying around then do you? Create a 'no-fly' zone, and worry no more about pesky law enforcement ruining your day! In all seriousness, yeah, probably just some jackholes wanting to get your personal information for FREE, which they sell to whoever. Then you get drones flying around your property anyway, and all that extra SPAM, telemarketing calls, and junk mail.

Any chance it'll be able to carry a decent-sized payload.. like a tactical nuke? XD

The only problem I have with this is that I have a gut reaction to someone reposting shit like that: I feel it is either trivializing what is happening, or glorifying the atrocity, and by extension, the fucking assholes who are doing this shit. But maybe I've been looking at this the wrong way: Anyone who reposts things like that video with the intention of either trivializing it, or glorifying so-called 'islamic state' assholes? They are revealing their true selves to the world, and they will get exactly what they deserve for it. So sure thing, assholes, go ahead and keep reposting your horrific shit; we'll be happy to ostracize you for it -- assuming you survive the beatings some people will give you.