That may be how it is designed now, but without (actually enforced) laws about the data collected and the legal uses thereof, tracking phone addresses and individuals is only a firmware update away.

If this gets launched, it should be to "Europa - The Final Countdown". :P

Wherever they be? The machines or the OS? The OS lives on an Mac Fanboi hearts as OS X.

Code review did not find it to be a clean product. They simply found that the Windows binary that was distributed could be produced from the source code. IE there were no extras in that bin. Whether the code itself has crap in it is still at question and is being audited.

Was in school, supposedly the first community college on the internet (ISDN to UVa across town) and we had NeXt workstations. I do not remember if they used X11, but that clued me into Unix. Later that year we wanted to get our gopher and mosaic servers on a better box, so I took an amazing 486DX2 and setup Slackware. There I know I saw X (although it was later removed from the server). IIRC I downloaded the entire set of Slackware discs directly to floppy using FTP from Sunsite the first time and NFS the second from UIUC (after searching hours for open NFS exports in the mirror lists). I did it directly to floppy as I did not have enough HDD space for the files and the currently running OS. I think that was Linux kernel 1.2.10. Am I old?

First, as pointed out, it is removed from YouTube, not google search results. This is annoying to the artists, but Youtube belongs to google. They set the terms for you hosting videos there at no cost to you. If the terms are unfair, simply go elsewhere. Perhaps Vimeo. Google is not killing babies or clubbing seals or blackmailing your momma to get you to publish on their streaming service. In fact, I do not know that their streaming service has much share against the likes of iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, Spotify, etc. Many of these companies do not offer good rates either. However, the market will see who wins here, and forcing people over seems like a mistake that will not aid Google's streaming servies in the long run.

Edited to show what the /. eds avoid.

You could not use your ownership of the pool to steal coins. The work done validates transactions. You could double spend, or deny transactions, but to my knowledge not forge them. But I am a crypto currency newb so I may be wrong.

However the cost to even attempt it would be exceedingly prohibitive.

I am so glad someone got the joke. Congrats on the fake internet points.

Bears also excrete the used salmon back out.

Where are my mod points? +1

Even though it is not recommended, many, many organizations use the SSN as a unique identifier. See http://consumersunion.org/news...

That is part of their new user/ad tracking software.

Good info. I haven't used cyanogenmod for some time, so I was not aware that was baked in. I used to use an app on my rooted devices (regardless of android build) for it, but now I am just picky about what apps I actually install.

No. Rooting will allow you to remove unwanted apps that are locked on by the manufacture or carrier, as well as give you access to the entire file system.
Using an alternate rom (ie cyanogenmod) will allow you to use different android versions, with different (or no add on) UI. These are things like touchwiz or HTC Sense. The permisions system for apps remains the same. Also, cyanogenmod and other ROMS may not support all your hardware or be stable (but then again some carrier builds are not that great either).

There are programs that when rooted will allow you to block access of apps to certain subsystems, giving finer grained control, but it is not automatic, you have to go in and do it yourself, and that is regardless of the ROM/android version.