...it will be hard to get me to leave the breakfast table.

I'm seeing a whole line of Atari cereals, and a competing line of Mattel Electronics Intellicereals. Maybe get Alan Alda and George Plimpton's faces on the boxes to keep the kids away from Dad's stuff.

Darn it! Toe the line. Toe the line. HOLD THE LINE!!!!!!!

Me do speak English.

When the ISP is forcibly shown who their real customers are, they will tow the line. Nice marketing play, though.

No one easier to wind up than a Texan. Austin or Houston, they go down real easy.

When the program started, we all thought we working on a way to help the injured be able to learn again. But things have been heading a different direction lately. We have a meeting later, those who agree with us. Don't tell Nyder.

...so we can steal it from you in the future and sell the resulting data to governments. You have our permission to be geniuses for exactly as long as it takes to innovate this IoT stuff. Have you heard about our Partner Program? You'll love it! Don't worry, we won't suddenly start competing with you instead of partnering with you while you're busy working your job. Let's get some standards drafted! Love, MS

I confess, I had to look that up. My comment was probably more incendiary than necessary, largely because of my irritation with the presumption of the phrase "If you'll just stop and think for a moment." Nonetheless, I find the web hosting plug in the sig spammy. Does this mean we aren't friends anymore?

I've stopped and thought. I realized I am not interested in this subject, and that your correction of exomondo's post is little more than an excuse to post something. How's that web hosting business you're spamming your sig line coming?

I'm thinking about it. Does it filter out product placement? Does Rocky still buy the chicken?

Scintillate, Scintillate, Diminutive Stellar Orb,

How inexplicable to me it seems the stupendous problem of your existence.

Elevated at such an immeasurable distance in an apparently perpendicular direction from this terrestrial planet which we occupy,

Resembling in thy dazzling and unapproachable effulgence, a gem of purest carbon set solitaire in a university of space.

Ultra64, are you expecting us to believe that you genuinely don't understand the fears of those in this forum who oppose your optimistic view of the way data collected on customers of these services will be used? Or are you just baiting and enjoying the argument? If the former, you are one interesting character, and the conversation should proceed. If the latter, you're a troll, and fun as it may be, we should all stop feeding you.

called "Google Private", where they take a subscription fee from you for services and in return, they send noise data to their marketing customers about you while providing you with a list of all entities that make user-specific queries about you.

Well, duh! Every observation is obvious when you're repeating it with the words "Well, duh!" in front of it. Let's face it, everybody knows that. Aren't you glad you contributed to the thread?

Hello, flamebait. When you die, your comments will not be missed. This reply is the most use your life has ever served. Give to the poor now while you still can.

Don't worry. No one will post on Slashdot when YOU die.