+1 to this!

I've tried the new version several times, and kept reverting to the old one for this feature alone. Drag to zoom allowed me to get from "whole planet" to "small city block" in about three steps - and under my control, and with very minimal bandwidth use. Search was only faster if you already knew either the name of your destination or the name of a nearby location. Drag-to-zoom is your special friend when you know where you want to go, but don't already have the labels for it.

One line comes out of this..

"Harrison Ford somehow had the balls to rewrite his lines and got away with it, both in Star Wars and in Raiders of the Lost Ark."

There. That's the only reason he made it big. It was a brilliant attitude against someone like Lucas.

It's sad to seeing people switch from Rust to Nim

To be fair, it's not "people", it's just that one guy.

'Washington should be very thoughtful how they go forward here,' he said. 'This uncertainty is not good for investment, and it's not good for jobs here in America.'"

Why not? Uncertainty drives change, and uncertainty at this point was created _by Verizon._ Granted, something had to change, because what the big ISPs have been doing is abusive at best.

Besides, it was Verizon that started this mess by trying to change the rules for its own benefit. Complaining now is just sour grapes. Enjoy your new Title II status.

Implementing your own encryption is probably the worst idea ever.

I suspect he meant "an implementation using existing encryption software that you selected yourself."

Why ... me, of course. I don't keep anything of consequence on any cloud-based storage system.

Most of you probably don't remember back in the sixties when Radio Shack was the retail distribution arm of Allied Radio (yes, it was known as Allied Radio Shack), a major components distributor. It was a real parts store the. Eventually Tandy picked up the chain, began selling branded parts, and it was never quite the same. The reality is that the advent of the personal computer, the death of manufacturing in the U.S., and an educational system that no longer valued engineering skills combined to kill the electronics hobbyist market that the Radio Shack depended upon. Their change of focus to consumer electronics was a reflection of that new reality, but unfortunately that is a saturated market. This was, alas, a long time in coming.

What about Kickass Torrents?

You couldn't get Bobert Ballard?

I had hoped that SpaceX might hold higher principles :(

Why would you say that?

There are more of them in existence than any other cube.

Sure about that?

Maybe it's just me, but "attack against weak passwords" seems like a perfectly cromulent use of the word 'hack'. In the "gain unauthorized access to a computer system" sense, anyway.

Reading between the lines, I think this is a company that specializes in greasing palms/pulling levers in Congress and the Senate, as well as constructing sophisticated internet campaigns that include releases to key susceptible news outlets/columnists and hiring fake posters to post on certain widely read comment boards.

So, highly-paid, professional astroturfers.

Cost reduction, maybe. It really involves management that is afraid to trust the very people it hired, and wants to keep them under constant surveillance. It's the modern way: trust no-one, watch everyone. It never seems to occur to such types that if you hire good people, pay them well, treat them well, and give them reasonable goals, you don't need to be so paranoid.

As a long-time software developer, I know that such an environment would severely impact my ability to focus and do what I'm being paid to do. Furthermore, any employer that would trust me so little is one for whom I would not choose too work.

I suspect that China does. They just haven't had a Snowden happen to them.