>You can even setup a cronjob or a windows task to open the website on a regular basis if you are extra forgetful or lazy.

Yes, because that's something normal people routinely do...or you're totally disconnected from reality, but just smart enough to realize that you're stupid, so you posted as an AC.

and found that the nannyware at my office blocks Orkut. FB and Twitter work fine, so it looks like Orkut was sabotaged by the nannyware clowns at WatchGuard.

>Blaming firearms for suicide is blaming firearms for mental illness

No it's not, though the gun-fondlers will make that claim. Guns make suicide much too easy, which denies these people a chance to recover from their depression.

Maybe you're just a deeply stupid person who hates the police, so anyone who isn't as clueless, paranoid,and maladjusted as you are appears to be what you're paranoid and fearful about.

The fact that you've been uprated to 3, Insightful just demonstrates the dumbing down and increasing paranoia of the /. user base as all the sane and smart people leave.

Correct. When I was clinically depressed and had a negative attitude toward life it was impossible to find a girl. Now that I feel great all the time and have joy to share instead of negativity, that situation has changed completely.

I stopped wearing a watch as soon as I had a phone with a clock.

I resumed wearing a watch as soon as I heard of the Basis fitness watch. It tracks heart rate, skin temp, perspiration, and movement. Unfortunately they chose to not include alarm functionality, so I wear a Fitbit next to the watch. I really like the silent alarm functionality on the Fitbit.

on topic: A smart watch should do what the Basis does, it should also feature vibration alarm, visual notifications of incoming calls, messages, and social media with the notifications highly configurable by the user.
I think a watch with all these features would convince many people to start wearing a watch again.

Security at many banks is just as bad if not worse. Mine used to require login over http rather than https until they got their act together a couple of years ago.

Your point that they're not a bank appears to be completely irrelevent to the discussion.

>Even if you have a screen lock on your phone, have you ever lent your phone to a stranger to "make a call" or take a photo?

This does not allow the stranger to do anything but make a call or take a photo. Why would you think it does? The phone lock does just fine for securing the phone, and the ridiculous hoops you expect people to jump through instead would be harmful to the user experience while not increasing security at all. In short, your idea is terrible.

>Much better than today where the fight is typically for special rights and inequality.

No it's not. That's just something the ignorant conservatives claim as they see their white christianist privilege fading. Have you immersed yourself in the wingnut hate-radio/loon-blog/Fox News subculture?

You're right of course, and Tridus gets uprated to 5, insightful illustrating the problem with IT people perfectly. In many ways IT people are just as bad as your typical right-wing asshole. They do not want to see anything done to help marginalized people.

Maybe because the socially awkward arrested-development cases so common in IT don't want to face the fact their they're the problem.

>Sounds like a brilliant strategy, and an epic demonstration of what can go wrong with the cloud.

No, it's just an example of what can happen to incompetent people. There's no reason to believe that these people would not have also failed to have offline backup with local servers. There was nothing to prevent them from keeping backups locally or on another cloud.

Blaming cloud computing for this is completely idiotic, and about what I expect on the dumbed down Slashdot these days.

>Do device "owners" really want phones that "accept only applications approved by the company".

Of course they do. You may not have heard of it, but there's a device called an iPhone that's tremendously popular, and this feature is one of the reasons.

Locked down devices are not for me, but one would have to really have their head in the sand to not notice that safer to use devices are popular with many, many people.

No, we can't treat with a goal of normality, but we can shoot for the goal of maximising happiness and increasing people's ability to not only function, but to excel in whatever environment they're in.

Presumably IP bans if anyone is caught editing for pay without disclosure. The policy has to be in place before they can enforce it and get rid of the corrupt editors as they're identified.