Of course there's a human solution. My cousin Tony, from over there in East Jersey, he'll fix your problem right up with one visit. Your business, hey, it just needs a little protection.

So then *you* help them out.

I'm a OpenGL/Linux/kernel/lib developer, and there is no way on God's green earth that I will contribute anything to Gnome.

So, basically you welcome viruses and malware, but fix up the damage afterwards?

Sounds like the anti-vaccine crowd. In reality, it is far better to vaccinate and never get sick, than it is to self-repair after you get a virus.

AT&T *claims* to have stopped using internal tracking codes.

Whether or not you believe one of the top 3 most evil corporations on the planet is up to you.

Maybe you missed the story from tuesday where ISPs can and do turn off the encryption for you?

Plus, if you've replaced the router's firmware, it can make it *appear* as if you have e2e when you do not.

Nobody calls it the "Affordable Care Act" - everyone calls it Obamacare, even though it was originally a Republican idea put forth by Mitt Romney.

So, a completely unelected position has total control over which bills get put up for a vote??

How the bleep does the mailman get to telecommute???

Marissa Mayer is the devil incarnate - but even I'll agree, delivering the mail kinda sorta has to be done in person.

It would bring a whole new meaning to the term "tethering".

In-flight Wi-Fi services tend to be expensive and disappointingly slow

Gee, AT&T would have fit right in then. Nobody does crappy, overpriced internet service like them.

Maybe Comcast will do in-flight wifi instead?

An array of satellites will provide a very nice downlink. Now how do you do the uplink?

Current satellite internet does it two ways: one, by standard old telephone modem. I suppose you could do it by wireless phone as well, but the basic problem is the same - very low bandwidth. The other way is by a microwave transmitter - which requires professional installation, and is a highly dangerous thing to have in a consumer environment. (Jack goes on the roof to fix a loose shingle while Jill is shopping online... and hey presto, Jack and Jill aren't having kids).

The move to Florida would be insanely difficult for any human being with two brain cells to rub together. Even if you ignore the insane politics and wacky residents, living in a pancake-flat state with no recreational opportunities outside of Disney World, with dripping-hot sweaty weather, is not most people's idea of fun. Florida is popular amongst the 70+ year old set; desirable Silicon Valley engineering staff is around 30 years old.

Personally I'd be perfectly willing to move there.... at $5 million a year. For a regular silicon valley salary? No way. If the job doesn't pan out.... the nearest alternate job is several thousand miles away, instead of being across the street.

HP/Dell/etc. heavily customize their OS installs, yet the Microsoft update mechanism still works. The add-on software won't get updated, but the OS will.

This is under the control of Google/Android, not your phone manufacturer. Google just refuses to organize things that way. It's encouraging that Google has (finally!!) fixed one major problem with Android; they could easily allow direct OS updates as well, if they wanted to.

Android is just another OS, like Windows. Windows updates come from Microsoft; it doesn't matter whether you own a Dell or a HP or whatever, the update comes from Microsoft. (Device drivers may come from nVidia/ATI/etc, but core OS bits come from MS).

Scary thought: does that make Microsoft actually smarter about OS design than Google?

How so? Apple stock has more than doubled since then.