Someone at Verizon give the White House this IP!

hahaha, this made me laugh.

i remember ghosting hundreds of machines a day for deployment and at least a dozen a week just supporting

Haha, IP Addresses are people now too

"If you are carrying an illegal substance that a dog can detect without invading your privacy, that's your problem."

Is it really though?

Say dogs didn't exist. That we had to invent a tool that acts as a dog's nose. Say this tool had limited mobility, you couldn't bring it everywhere, only to where it was needed.

What then? Could you not argue that dogs and this invented tool are the same thing?

By my count I see - logged into Google+ - 14 buttons.

1 Button for the search (depending on what you do, you get many more)
5 Buttons for Google+ Integration
1 Button for View Type (Earth / Map)
1 Button for Help
1 Button for Settings
1 Button for Street View
1 Button for Nearby Imagery ("Explore")
1 Button for Zoom Out
1 Button for Zoom In
1 Button for Current Location

>> there's all of these buttons that do things that the vast majority of users are never going to want to do, and the functionality that people do all the time is buried

I don't see this at all. Seems pretty damn clear cut to me.

Stop yelling "Get off my lawn" and get over it, or use another service.

^ This.

And you're too literal, you narrow minded moron.

Scientists and engineers are by definition not supposed to be ethical.

You and I, as private citizens, take what they produce, determine if it's ethical/profitable/whatever, and act accordingly. Whether that is enacting a law banning said product, regulating it, or saying let the market do with it as it pleases.

As a programmer, I applaud their skill, and even more so that they were able to complete what they set out to do. As a programmer, I understand why we celebrate these type of stories.

As a private citizen, I do fear for my privacy.

But do not confuse the two perspectives.

" by stupidly assuming a client and a server need synchronized time values in the first place"

Have you worked with Amazon S3?

If your time is off by more than 15 minutes than Amazon's servers, you get a big ol fat rejection response saying your clocks arent sync.

"A corp is an abstract non-human entity"

I know of 9 judges who would tell you otherwise.

TFA also states HP as an offending vendor? It's not very clear.

Sounds like this could be vendor agnostic?

How does this:

3) No Paid Prioritization - An ISP can't tell a website that the website will be slowed down unless they pay for "fast lane access." (Note: This doesn't mean the ISP can't sell users faster speeds for more money. Just that ISPs can't try to double-dip by charging web content providers to allow/speed up their traffic through the ISP's network as well as charging users for the Internet access to get the web content.)

Affect Netflix and that whole deal, if at all

Until the medium of any available wired connection produces a slower and less reliable connection than a wireless one, I will always want a wired connection.

Just curious, why?

Surfs up brah