Legally, Matt Roger's promise is worthless. If google owns nest, then everything, all the assets, including chairs, notes and employee ideas are also owned by google. In addition, to that sooner or later such company will be financially consolidated to google consolidated financial statements. Consolidated financial statements are often linked to Company's general ledger, which often is managed by the same enterprise system which also records the sales. Sales recording system will all the customer information. Nest's promise is a pinky promise.

I did closed my "free" email accounts. I cant believe that Google et al. expects that not only we will let somebody else to control thermostat in our home but also install google cameras and google TV's on our refrigerators and other "things". Trust once lost can never be un-broken. I know that I am a minority, but I still cannot comprehend how so many people are ok with so much intrusion to the privacy. All of the house controls and security can and should be done without service providers, if any, knowing their customers.

There is a reason dealerships are popularly referred to as stealer-ships. While people there are trying to make money, the selling practices are universally despised and not liked by many. As such, I say that we should welcome Tesla and all other manufacturers. The more the merrier. Dealerships are welcome to compete with the quality of their service in free market

Very surprising to hear from UK government where the government actually is insisting on truth. The same day UK government cheekily explains that total surveillance is absolutely legal. I wish somebody could explain and reconcile these extremities, those instances where UK Government is randomly making pro-humanity and anti-humanity moves.

The easy way for Tesla to reaffirm their commitment to open source and innovation is to, specifically, allow those patents in question lapse by not to paying renewal fee. So how exactly shareholders will react? Old fashioned approach is that more competition is not good for the entity. However, Tesla realizes that freedom and liberty to create is so much more powerful, that additional entrants to the electric car industry will expand the infrastructure required to charge the cars, and, eventually, Tesla will win not by competing with others but by working and partnering with others. Remover restrictions, think outside the box and let others do the same, share success and support others and very soon you will see that everyone around you, including yourself, are incredibly successful and prosperous.

Just wait a little bit. I can smell that very soon there will be initiatives to regulate drones in the same way they want to regulate 3D printers For those who have not seen here is the link with impressive drone model, all DIY, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I am siding with those that the climate changes. In my opinion it does. If CO2 curbing means more direct taxes on me, then I am against it.

As always, such initiatives rely on the fact that most of the population are ignorant and passive. Aluminum foil times x 50,000 would solve this issue, but they know this is not happening.

In addition to Auditing which was mentioned earlier, Accounting and Finance in modern organisations is currently organized as a large database. There is always an incentive in every organization to be more productive with less human resources and encouragement to leverage IT technologies. Knowing basic principles of Boolean logic, ability to write an excel formula, understanding indexing will put you among top 10% performers within technical knowledge criteria. This, also, also opens pathways to the management. As an additional benefit, in my experience, IT skills allows to find necessary data and analyze. In my experience significant amount of resources and time in every organization are spent communicating about the data and information.

Why only limit to vaccination database? Alcohol kills much much more individuals and is clearly a public hazard. Tracking those who buy alcohol and who consume has will reduce the number of casualties by 10 to 15 thousand people in United States alone. The annual cost for alcohol-related traffic accidents totals more than $50 billion per year. The #1 and #2 killers in US are cardiovascular diseases and cancer. We should monitor all those who do not exercise enough because they are a clear public hazard as well.

Next thing you will hear that all the Americans who live within 100 miles from the US Border, including west and east seashores, do not have constitutional 4th and 5th amendment. At least that what DHS is trying to project by setting border checkpoints. Probably 80% of US population live within 100 miles from US borders. Guess that the next revelation will be that American's calls are getting intercepted, recorded and archived, but never kept for more than 5 years, unless NSA is involved in lawsuit. We know that all calls recorded in UK, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman islands, Iraq so far.

Tens of millions of those without cable will get access to affordable quality cable through the marketplace. Over half of thous without cable Americans can get free or low cost cable service using their State's Cable Providers Marketplace. You can't be denied from coverage when you get sick or make an honest mistake on when you talk to operator. You also can't be denied coverage or television for being lazy or charged more for being lazy. You can't be charged more for being a woman either. Small businesses can get tax credits for up to 50% of their employees cable television installation costs, assuming employers allow to watch obamacable at work at least one hour a day. Young Adults can stay in parents house and watch cable free until they turn 26. 82% of adults without cable will qualify for free or low cost cable. ObamaCare helps to curb the growth in cable spending. Your Obamacable bill will be cheaper than cable bill

Instructions to politicians dictating what to vote for is a fine idea and a great tool to accountability. It will be even better when crowds of taxpayers will be directing how to spend taxes and what taxes to collect. That is when the democracy will start. Just think about it: The government knows income and expenses of every household with scientific precision. Voters, however, use the ballot system inherited from Helenic era.