I generally have the most fun in games with no plot at all and they tend to have more replay value.
Not to say that there aren't any fun games with plots...

Maybe we could go after the industries that paved the way, first.... Big Pharma, Oil, Defense, etc...

You have a point about Google but unless the others are dealt with, does it really matter? If the contest is between the corporations then, so far, Google remains the lesser evil.

You've restored my faith in humanity.

Good luck getting people like this guy to watch that video....

A few years ago I was hit for several thousand dollars because I was supposedly overpaid during my tenure working as a DOD civilian overseas. (less than 10 years ago at the time) The explanation for the overpayment was and remains cryptic and would change depending on which agency I spoke to, one agency said they overpaid health insurance, another said it was a housing benefit. After a year of phone calls and emails I could never get a straight, specific answer and so I could never prove them wrong. let alone find anyone willing accept any kind of responsibility for resolving the issue. After setting a collection agency on us (who we ignored because it seemed so obviously a scam), The IRS took my entire tax refund one year, and then half again the following year.

I signed up and never posted simply to use twitter credentials on other web sites.

Because all that matters is the Dropbox stock price?

Some of us will never forgive her and so some of us will cease using Dropbox.
This is legit.

Yep 2012 mostly works as well as 2008R2 but the Metro interface is highly inappropriate and the new GUI tools waste a huge amount of screen real estate. Also I'd avoid storage spaces. I lost a bunch of data from a single drive failure in what was supposedly a highly redundant configuration. It should not have happened....

In-game chat can be useful but I wouldn't be opposed to a racist asshole filter within chat. I'm really not very concerned about 1st amendment rights while playing BF4 so I'l take that risk. At the very least this could be an optional feature on the client side. I'd be happy with an "auto-mute on keywords which I specify" feature. Auto-kick/mute/ban on common spellings of offensive epithets should be a standard, if optional, server feature. It's not perfect but let's at least force the assholes to be creative.

I feel like the game industry has had their head in the sand on this issue for a long time now. They just gave up... or maybe it's the 'a racist's money is as good as yours', attitude....

But are they actually 13? or 30? That's the scary part.

In my experience SMS is broken with Google Voice... no group texts, no attachments, randomly misses texts completely. Highly unreliable.

But I kind of like this about it. Nobody texts me anymore.

Probably not much of a selling point though.

Since when has Newsweek been known for journalism? As with most tabloid pieces, this one is 95% speculation and hearsay.
I found the article distasteful and inconclusive.

...and as far as I'm concerned, it is.

No you don't have the right to make money indefinitely from work you, or in most cases others, did once.
No you don't have the right to hold our culture hostage.

I don't even think IP should be transferable, or if necessary, only very temporarily.

...but only if they can release OS updates for 1-2 years after a phone's release.

My experience with Samsung, (my first 3 android phones were Samsung), is that they tend to ship and forget. They showed no loyalty to me and so I never developed any loyalty to them. I think they got where they are by market saturation rather than any real, inherent superiority of their products.