I had sympathy during the short time when they were known as "people eat tasty animals"

They COULD sell your data in the future, but they are unlikely to do so because what makes that data valuable is their exclusivity.

Actually selling them would make them worthless.

Absolutely.

And I'm not saying those who lost that trust are wrong.

While surveillance itself is problematic, too, it wasn't a real problem before. I used to be comfortable with the fact that in some cases, police and FBI could wiretap phones and intercept email. So surveillance isn't exactly the problem either.

The "problem" is that this power has been heavily misused and that the trust that surveillance would only be directed to crime suspects is now lost. And people losing trust in police IS a problem.

Anxiety over US spying already broke lawfull access to data on cellphones for law enforcement agencies when Apple and Google declared that activating phone encryption will now be default.

I'm a bit amazed (well, then again, not at all) that no one asked what you actually want to DO with Google fiber. Who cares if you can't use its full speed over wireless when all you're doing on your PC is the usual /./FB/email-stuff.

Put a small server (probabkly those NAS based things that run full-blown linux) next to your fiber jack. Have it handle all those big downloads that actually profit from the external fiber speed. Run a network cable to your TV and if you're using a desktop machine, to that machine.

For everything else, use wireless. Your tablets cpu will be slower than even the wifi anyway already.

Reminds me of the late 90s/early 2000s when millions of accounts for a german online service (T-Online) have been stolen - by 3rd party tool for that service that offered additional services including up/downing your connection (which was essential for those high, minute based rates back then. Butso it had your password, of course)

It was a PITA to convince people to stop using that tool because it was so usefull.

Sounds like a good idea at the first thought. But it begs the question, why it is allowed for commercial airplanes...

But that's what news stories should have been about when killing people using remote controlled devices was news and not normal.

Even worse: The STANDBY LIGHT!!

Lights up your bedroom when you want to sleep at night. Oh yes, of course you could switch on the device to switch to the much darker gree power light....

No, common core should be about teaching HOW TO add.

And adding large numbers by "carrying over in your head" isn't much more that doing exactly that: doing 2+2 first, carry over if needed and then add 20 + 20. You're just so used to it that you forgot to that you had to learn that too.

But to be fair: You can produce a decent (and potentially next-big-thing) app, if you can afford to lock yourself up for a few months without having to worry about paying food and rent. Unlike a new MS Office-killer or hardware plattform, you can get by with sheer luck instead of big investors if your project goes viral on social media.

Talent and hard work will reduce the amount of luck you need to hit it big, but you always will need that spark of luck, like being at the right place at the right time.

So you have students doing "public services" for all the wrong reasons. Which does a disservice to all those fields. In any group, it's better to have volunteers dedicated to whatever their group is doing (from drama to helping homeless) and NOT just find the easiest way to have it listed in their CV.

But why are they hiding from behinf that "shield?" It's the army of lawyers ready to sue the pants of everyone who has the guts to make a descision based on a personal impression and not based on standardized metrics.

Well, there's at least one difference: No 19th century Jew wrote a bestseller book promoting that unbalanced training-to-the-test as superior, typical jewish way.