Is the "requirement" of wearing seat belts, not smoking near gas station and cars having ABS and airbags also fascism and a mark on freedom?

Continuing with driving analogy, every car needs to pass some safety, security and emission checks, otherwise it is not allowed on the road. If requirement is a strong word here (its not like I am debating in a courtroom anyway), you can replace it with "recommendation" in your head. I think I am going to exercise my right of free speech, just like you are expressing your thoughts.

This is absolutely frightening. Now I'll have to read the privacy statements to see if they share credit card information with other companies also? What exactly do the claims of "You are secure" and sort mean?

Fortunately my bank has disabled on-line transactions by default, and neither do I ever intend to click any ad while using my card. But I think that a lot of credit cards are activated for internet use, and

is a terrible prospect as just seeing an ad doesn't usually mean agreeing to the purchase UNTIL we click on billing and shipping information.

Anything that gives too much centralized and easy access to thousands of users' data is a terrible thing to even consider, be it for Police or whatever.

Law enforcement agencies are not filled with angles who will just stick to a line if they have access like this.

If things keep going like this regarding Microsoft and clever words, pretty soon this will be on Slashdot:

"Microsoft has announced that it is investigating a vulnerability in IE where an attacker can gain access to customer's computer if they are connected to Internet. But as all versions of Windows do not have internet access by default, most users are not vulnerable"

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Nexus one sold 20,000 units in the first week, so lets assume that there 1 million units out there till now, which have been used by customers for a few weeks. Out of these, ~1000 users reported the bug (1%), which means if Google had used the same units to beta test for a month with a little over 100 users, they probably would have gotten this bug, and might have even considered adding multitouch before launching.

I am sure they DID a lot of testing and fixed a hell lot more bugs, but it just doesn't seem right for a new device from that big a company to get fixes within the first month.

Oh darn. I was afraid this might happen.

Only if there were emoticons so I could strictly point out which half was a joke. Sorry if I offended anyone, but that was not meant as such

In my personal experience, anything which is complicated and difficult to comprehend in the beginning, is most thrilling and exciting.

But on the other hand, a large proportion of people will love simple and dumb stuff. And its such a shame that millions of years of evolution has still not decreased percentage of the latter bunch.