Can someone explain me how this is possible and what the reasoning is behind this law? I mean, lawmakers are chosen by the people, for the people, land of the free, etc, how can that lead to a law forbidding the people to self-organise? It seems a bit paradoxal, one would expect that these lawmakers will be removed after the next election.

Measuring browser use nowadays is like measuring hairstyles. Many people don't browse to more than 3 or 4 sites or use different browsers at the same time. I'm surprised it's still at 25% with all the mobile browsing using Chrome or Safari.

How about I decide what I do with my own body, and you decide what you do with your body mmkay? If I want to funk myself up with drugs, that's my choice. If I have to steal to pay for the habit, well lock me up for stealing.
If you decide that I should not be able to decide what I do to my own body, well I guess that goes both ways and would set a nice precedent for criminalizing various acts ranging from impregnation to breathing in the wrong air. Please stop trying to decide what's good for others, it's not appreciated.

This is really creepy. Imagine twenty years ago that the feds would be able to detain you in a private place and get to inspect all your private photo's, your call log, your agenda, friends, (snail) mail, basically all your private data, on suspicion of a copyright violation. What happened to 'presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law'?

I think the parent refers to the communist transition era which yielded 100 million civilian deaths. (Google for Stalin)

Oh really. Please explain how the wealth will be distributed if only 5% of the population works. How will I buy a new pc to write that novel (which AI can write better), a new violin to play that piece (which a robot can play better), or a new home theater set? Will everyone be assigned the same income based on family size, race or religion? If stuff will be distributed by some arbitrary rule instead of market competition, product development will stop, and we will be stuck with whatever we have now for eternity because 1) you cannot compete on price, and 2) no income means profits are useless as well so there is no incentive to grow. This is NOT a good thing

Maybe in the US. The EU has very strict policies against such practices. I dare Ford to sell my personal data and come forward. I really don't understand why the US permits such perverse privacy clauses in EULAs. Sure, you can log my data. But you can NEVER sell it or share it, and must disclose whatever you have collected at any time.

Blackberry? Nokia? Windows Phone?

My binaries are built for PPC you insensitive clod!

But you do get a complementary license for a 50cc motor bike with your car drivers license, no extra cost.

My new Ubuntu refuses to run my old MkLinux binaries, therefore it's a piece of shit. Also, I won't touch it with a ten-foot pole until they remove that unity crap and restore my classic gnome shell. Because that's how the whole world must think about it. Now get off my lawn.

How about France forcing passenger jets in their airspace to land with fighters, because the NSA thought Snowden was on board? Right, surely he would have been safe in the EU or one of the other allies. And surely this was all legal. Right.

article is a dupe http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/the-biggest-tech-whiffs-of-2013/

How do you know that the internet is even real and not a cleverly designed honeypot?

Or maybe the CEO of Apple sits on the board of Disney. You know.