That would mean that a company notorious for lousy customer service is about to buy a company whose greatest assets are irrelevant.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Carry on.

The Cadillac ATS sedan is trying to compete directly with the BMW 3 and 5 series (as well as the Mercedes C and E class sedans). I would expect this feature to go in there.

The notion of

Isn't particularly valuable as baseball is mostly played the US, and in international competition we still tend to use the imperial units of measurement. This is important here as 10d0 km ~= 62 miles. While a 62mph pitch would certainly hurt if it hit you, that is considered to be a rather pedestrian speed for major league baseball.

So when do we get the pneumatic people movers, a la Futurama?

I'm also wondering if the guys who came up with this got the idea from the show.

None of the above

Facebook slurps up all your personal information and sells it to advertisers. It also slurps up all your friends' and family members' information - even if they aren't on Facebook themselves - keeps it in so-called "shadow profiles", and sells that to advertisers as well. Facebook also routinely changes its privacy controls without notice, and the new versions of the controls default to the most permissive settings - so you have to continually monitor them to "minimize" (in quotes because it's still a lot) how much of your personally identifiable information leaks out to the world at large. And they occasionally make policy changes that force you to share stuff that you'd previously tried to keep confined to within a small group.

And what you're worried about is they might use more of your data plan?

The article implies this incident was already known to some people for quite some time, but had been kept from higher ups in the government. It recently came out because a newspaper did some digging (the timing of which isn't too surprising).

Maybe the victim is a cat.

Quite frankly - if someone is getting shot every year, I would have no problem telling him he's probably not making the best choices.

What you're trying to do here didn't work before and won't work now either.

And yet, somehow, the city still stands...

Is that your plight? How then do you type your replies, are you using dragon or something of that sort? It would help to explain a lot here...

That is not a particularly valuable product, particularly considering how many people use adblock and other similar browser plug-ins (coupled with the general failure of selling ad space on mobile phones).

To its lower-tiered advertisers, possibly. Don't fool yourself into thinking they aren't selling personally identifying information elsewhere.

... and before someone says "if you don't like it, don't use it" - I'm not using facebook. I've never had an account there. However I know they have information on me based on what my wife has posted and shown me over the years. There is no effective opt-out for it, the fact I don't have an account is rather meaningless to their empire.

Make damn sure your clients are aware of exactly what you're doing. They probably don't care about the specifics (e.g. openvpn, reverse ssh); but they need to know you can remotely access the boxes.

It's probably a good idea to have some sort of document to give them that does spell out all the specifics - something they need to acknowledge/sign, with both of you keeping copies.

Our last huge internet-related IPO pulled in several craptons of money for a company that has no product and only functions to waste time and sell users' private data. Alibaba at least has a product and does a useful service. Apparently having an actual business plan is no longer important to having a successful IPO if you're an online company?