Celebrities deal with what the majority thinks. Everyone else has to deal with the people around them, whose beliefs and actions can significantly deviate from the public at large. For a regular person, your sexual preference or religion (just to name two examples) can still invite prejudice and violence in some areas of the country.

Given how quickly and severely those prejudices can change, I would just assume keep my privacy. Just look at the reaction to those following Islam pre- and post-9/11. While my particular tastes and idiosyncrasies may not put me in any danger today, I'll make no bets about tomorrow.

That's obviously because we can trust the police and other authorities more than the general public. Authorities would never abuse massive surveillance databases.

What's more important is what the volume buyers (i.e., businesses) do. Many businesses bulk purchase hardware and re-image it. You can bet that 100+ machine purchase will generate a backlash when re-imaging it to Windows 7 so mission critical apps still work results in bricked machines.

IBM and Microsoft collaborated on OS/2. When the partnership dissolved, Microsoft went on to make NT out of the result. I would assume it was kosher, since IBM certainly could have crushed Microsoft at that point if anything ran afoul of patents or copyright. Still, it was amusing seeing OS/2 error messages in the early NT versions (e.g., if you tried to start the machine with a non-bootable floppy).

IBM Model M keyboards last forever. Sure, they're noisy, and they're heavy, but unless you go out of your way to break one, they last decades. In fact, you are more likely to replace the keyboard because it's input port has disappeared on your new computer than because it has stopped functioning.

Of course, we as a country also like to ignore the fact that we have the largest prison population in the world, which disproves that idea rather handily. Note that it is not merely the largest per-capita. We have more than twice as many people in jail as any other country save China, who we still beat by around 50%.

The compile step is building the bridge. The coding step is drawing the blueprints, which *does* involve iteration.

For that, you can thank IBM.

They have been at the leading edge of a number of computer technologies over the years. It's a shame that IBM has been so poor at capitalizing on them.

That one goes both ways. I see plenty of entitled cyclists asserting right of way when they don't have it, but I have also seen a number of times where drivers are either oblivious or malicious to bicyclists, nearly running them down. This includes cases where there are bike lanes and the cars feel the need to cross into said lanes for nothing more than getting around another car or running through crosswalks despite the signal and despite having a red.

tl:dr: people are dicks, especially on the road

Don't worry too much. Economics is essentially pseudoscience, so don't put too much stock in the report.

I agree. It is becoming increasingly difficult to consider the NSA as anything other than an extremely well-funded criminal organization.

If a user has strong feelings about how Twitter should behave, it is in his or her best interests to voice those opinions. While Twitter is a private business not legally bound by the First Amendment, if enough users voice a desire for Twitter to limit censorship or avoid it altogether, it may adopt such a policy.

What valid health concerns are those?

The only concern of any kind I've ever seen raised is autism, which is based on a report that failed to show a causal link, had too small a sample size, and was thoroughly debunked by peer review. It is not a valid concern.

In addition to the other responses - every non-vaccinated person who contracts the disease increases the chance that said disease mutates into a form the vaccine can no longer protect against.

Your toaster may be internet-enabled now, but my teapot has been internet-enabled for years. It even has its own HTTP status code (418)!