Good luck with that. Canada is one of the senior partners of the ECHELON program (a program that mandates the exchange of information).

And even then, the ECHELON program isn't abiding by any law, whether they be Canadian laws, British laws, or even US laws.

I agree with you. The average person probably doesn't care, but that doesn't mean he/she shouldn't care. Privacy is important to everyone, even if you're one of those persons who mistakenly believes that you have nothing to hide.

Divorces, custody disputes, false accusations, lovers' quarrels, medical sexual history, medical history, dating, underage alcohol consumption/sexting/sex, stalkers, job interviews, job-related credit checks and/or background checks (depending on the type of job and your local laws), salary negotiations, career promotions, college/school applications, car accidents, car insurance penalties, red-lining, profiling, red light cameras, speed cameras, identity thefts, arbitrary tax laws, IRS audits/penalties (if you don't live in the US, replace IRS with the relevant tax/customs authorities), collection agencies, filesharing, porn, sexual orientation, tethering, rooting your own device, netflix/hulu-specific throttling, recycling fines, arbitrary electricity/water consumption fines/penalties, housing association violations, neighborhood/city zoning/building violations, cigarette smoking violations, dog leash/breed violations, contrived political redistricting, poll tampering, etc.

And it is true, that as individuals, we may not care that much about each particular privacy-related issue, but as a whole and as an aggregate, we should care, because every single one of us is impacted by at least some of these issues and consequences.

I have a 3D TV without the glasses, but I still don't like it. I have it turned off by default.

If any of the other 5% of households are like mine, they will have it turned off by default as well.

Thankfully, help is on its way.

You mean when BT was privatized? What are "M&P grades" for those of us not from the UK?

That wasn't what I was thinking. I'm just surprised slashdoters still go to Church anymore.

Churches are just like movie theaters, they're an anachronism in this day and age, where you can watch sermons on youtube and paypal your way out of hell.

Watching an artsy movie by yourself during a senior Tuesday early matinee doesn't count.

If you want to experience what some of us are talking about. Drive to a bad neighborhood on a late Friday night, and go see the most idiotic blockbuster action movie you can find. It also helps if the manager of the movie theater makes minimum wage and there is extremely high employee turnover.

...and an artificial bolt of lightning that fries the offender by entering through his cell phone, going through his ear canal, and exiting his body through the rectum.

Those guys are idiots. This kind of PR is not cheap. They're spending all their newfound investment money on slashadvertisments and huffingtonadvertisements before they even made a properly functioning web site.

Any scientist you hire will want to publish their results. Plus, this kind of research is not cheap, this business plan of yours is far too capital-intensive.

You should just stick to the tried-and-true giving free blow jobs to celebrities in parked cars.

Yes, two years. My mistake.

You're right. I also overestimated the battery life. It says 6.5 hours from its wikipedia page.

I don't think I can come up with any credible excuse for explaining away almost a two-fold error in my original estimate of "12 hours (probably more)"

No, it isn't. It very specifically states that the advertising is turned off for Google Education accounts (thought, it isn't turned off for Google Non-profit accounts).

The only potential problem I see with a Google Education account is that the school owns all the content of the kid, and that the kid has absolutely no privacy from the school if he/she uses the gmail address provided by the school (Google Postini for instance allows a school administrator to archive indefinitely all the incoming/outgoing emails from a gmail account under the control of its own domain).

Correction:
My three year old Samsung Chromebook still gets something like 12 hours of battery life (probably more). The Chromebook Pixel, with its higher than retina-resolution and its touchscreen, only gets 5 hours battery life. Just for the price alone, anyone would be crazy to buy a Chromebook Pixel for kids anyway,

The Samsung Chromebook is actually perfect for kids. It doesn't have any games (worth playing). It's not a fun consumption device like the iPad or the Pixel. And nowadays, if you develop a new application for the Chromebook, the framework forces you to write an application that will work off-line by default. You could already use gmail and google docs/drive offline, but offline functionality really used to be an afterthought until very recently.

I don't understand. What does this do that Google Docs/Drive doesn't already do?

Will this get us pixel-perfect wysiwyg editing of Microsoft Documents?

Somehow, I doubt it. Google Docs/Drive doesn't even get that right for PDF documents. I doubt it will get that right for Microsoft Word Documents, which by design are much much worst than PDF documents.

Home workshops are just like home gyms and personal swimming pools. They're good to have for you, your family, and the people you invite to, but there is still a need for public swimming pools and gyms that people can use in exchange for a reasonable fee.

May be that's the problem. In my high school, the wood workshop was a joke and we didn't have any other workshop available to us. My high school emphasized University admission and Advanced Placement classes over anything that could tangentially apply to learning a trade. We had a computer lab, but our teacher was not qualified to teach us on that subject.

Not that I wanted to learn a trade, but it would have been nice if they had taught us to fix a broken toilet, change the oil of a car, or some practical skill for daily life (let alone real woodworking, welding, automotive, jewelry, or stained glass).

Nowadays, if you want your kid to learn some of these skills, you'll have to teach them yourself and buy all the necessary tools yourself, or take them to one of these specialized Hackerspace/Techshop/Crucible spaces instead. Those community spaces are just filling some of the gaps left by our current school system, and it's good that parents learn about them.