Google has expanded from indexing existing information to indexing people. The more you share with Google, the more value you bring to Google in terms of creating marketing value. They can sell more and more targeted advertising based on where you go, who you are with, what stores you frequent, what hobbies you have, how you travel, how much time you spend in specific places, etc. Google Glass is the ultimate extension of that strategy. I would be far more interested in buying a product like this from a company that makes money selling products as opposed to a company focused on extruding as much information from me in order to resell it.

If it were a man, would he have used a term that implies someone's incompetence is tied to their sex?

Bimbo: An attractive but empty-headed young woman, esp. one perceived as a willing sex object.

Isn't the start menu the place you find icons to drag onto the taskbar? Or does Windows 7/8 support pinning the way OSX does now?

[quote]No, it means you need a more complicated password.[/quote] Or better still, generate a key and turn off passwords entirely.

From what I understand, the hack doesn't affect the binaries on disk, it runs in memory only. Checksum based file checkers don't check running executable.

Maybe another 5 million users or so? Oh wait...

Except, that's not what the article says. BB has long been approved, "Samsung's Knox version of Android is currently going through the security review process, with a decision expected in the next two weeks." The iPhone has already gone through the review and there were specific recommendations made to make it compliant. Samsung is using the NSA's Android version as a core component so it's likely there were some specific implementation guidelines which they followed and it's likely they won't have as many post-review changes to put in place, but until the review is done, it's hard to say. Regardless, Knox isn't even available yet and won't be for a couple of months.

"Open" isn't a selling point to anything more than a tiny sliver of the population. Few people care about "Open", let alone about splitting hairs between how open Android is versus Firefox. It's just not a selling point that is going to garner any momentum. The vast majority are happy with iOS which isn't open, but is easy to develop on and easy for developers to make money on. If Firefox is going to do well, its going to need to have something more interesting going for it than "More open than Android".

Microsoft is just using this whole always online thing to get everyone worked up so they are super focused on the fact that there is this onerous requirement. That way when they announce that it is not in fact going to be always on, the press will spend so much time focused on that they won't even notice that it's price is in the stratosphere unless you agree to a subscription regardless.

Or... sell the car to someone who is willing to buy gas.

If you've read the book.... you'd know what I mean.

It's becoming exceedingly difficult to keep your search history private. All the major search companies keep it, Apple keeps Siri searches, etc. DuckDuckGo I believe keeps things as anonymous as you can get. There are also some hacks you can do if you are careful, privacy mode/ incognito is a start, but even then it's easy to tip your hand. If you are truly doing something crazy, use a bootable USB and do your searches from a random public wifi hotspot.

It's not a smartphone, it's a gaming console.

It should be good at gaming. I can pick up a Nintendo Wii for $129, it has a better game selection and arguably a better controller. The Nintendo has better third party support and more console type titles. Getting access to thousands of junky phone-games is pretty much pointless. People shopping for a gaming console likely have a console that performs as good as this thing and has better titles.

It's a cute hacker toy with no real future market prospects outside a small geek niche.

Apple was able to tell people all the cool things they could do with an iPad.

Google: "You tell us what it's good for!"

When the inventor can't easily explain what the best uses for their invention are, it's a safe bet there really aren't any.