Strangely, in my little world, I'm seeing a surprising uptake in WIndows Phones lately. Never thought I'd see it coming. It seems people who have been happy with Android are wanting a little more, and are horribly confused by the iPhone's single button interface, and see that Windows Phone 8.1 is easier to figure out than the latest/greatest version of Android.

Just my little ecosystem, correlation does not equal causation, but I'm finding it fascinating. Microsoft might still have some life in it. (Helps that Cricket is now giving away a couple different free Windows phones)

Decades ago, the great prophet Dave Mustaine predicted this: Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away.

Since this is related to personal health issues, could they possibly be in violation of HIPPA privacy requirements?

You sound short

Doesn't cure all the ways they try to track you, but definitely puts a major dent in their efforts:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

You are a true nimrod

You sound very closed minded. You confuse "not coding to your exact personal style" with "not a good coder". There's too much of that mentality lately, so I probably wouldn't choose to work for you anyway.

Perhaps we are entering another species failure mode that we will have to solve for. Computers and the internet are great gifts to humanity, but it seems lately to have taken a bad turn. Instead of uplifting the human race, it's starting to look more like a trap.

I've spent my whole life involved with computers and networking. Now at times I wonder if I will eventually regret my contributions to building this better mouse trap.

I personally find that the risk of a dark totalitarian period that lasts for hundreds or thousands of years to be more threatening than any terrorist threat these dark systems purport to protect us from.

Humanity needs to figure out how we want to use these new tools. All this surveillance mode machinery is not good. It just takes one evil dictator to get control of this to trap us in ten thousand years of darkness.

It's a sad fearful reality we are marching towards these days.

In other words, you are just an arrogant bastard with no good answer.

But why you all mad about it?

Aspect oriented? Oh yay, what have the hipster programmers reinvented this time? Yawn...

No arrow keys, no side numeric keypad? Not interested.

Sounds like a bunch of teatotaller biased bullshit.

Don't even drink any more, but this is stupid. Thinning your blood minorly once per day has got to be good for your heart rather than it pounding full strength all the time.

Whatever, this is nonsense. Next they'll say vaccines are bad for you...

This world is turning stupider by the second.

I met Weird Al after I saw him on TV...

Yep, it's really that simple. Life is a binary equation.