It's taken off in the sense that it gets shoven down your throat every time you sign up for a Google service.

Of all the Google+ accounts (basically all Google accounts), how many actually log into that specific service?

Seriously, come on. Do you PERSONALLY know ANYONE who was affected by this? Neither do I.

TFS and TFA should include something like: This news brought to you by our scaremongering overlords, courtesy of privacy nutjobs all over the globe.

This isn't legal documents we're talking about here, anyway. I'm also pretty sure this is covered under Facebook's EULA/TOS you didn't read.

Life goes on. Don't like Facebook, don't use Facebook.

I can only think of BREW because it relates to beer.

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson.

Our lives are already regulated by governments all the way to hell and back and look how messed up it is now.

Regulating internet will lead to more expensive and less efficient service for all. The only winning parties will be politicians and lawyers, as usual. The population always loses with regulation.

1. Set up VM
2. Download all the crap they ask me to
3. Profit

Seriously, what kind of idiot would download an unknown executable on his main PC to earn a fucking dollar?

No matter how much government tries to regulate something, no matter how much money is poured into lobbying, the free market forces always win.

Good riddance, I say.

Friedman, Hayek, and Mises were right all along!! :-)

To play old rehashed upscaled PS3 games.

This is going to make top Go Daddy execs millionaires, and every other stockholder gets screwed after the execs flip and the stock tumbles down in the months following said IPO.

Protip: NEVER enter an IPO, no matter how awesome you think the company is. Wait and see how the stock performs over an extended period.

I'm pretty sick and tired of this crusade against capitalism all over the world, where anyone who makes a lot of money is either evil, unethical, or oppressive to his employees.

Then you have folks like Thomas Picketty who preach to the socialist choir, and writes all the shit the lefties wanna read. Nevermind he's a millionaire himself.

We need more Ron Pauls.

This is Disney we're talking about here.

And TNSTAAFL.

They'll obviously use it as a recruiting tool.

1. Release tool
2. Watch amateur animations spring up online
3. Hire amateurs who create awesome animations
4. Save on training costs
5. Profit

+5 Insightful!!

Anyone using tablets for an extended period of time (several months or a few years) and is not a senior citizen who uses it as his/her main Facebook/e-mail/lolcatz dumb terminal can confirm that the magic has worn off and his/her tablet mostly sits in a drawer or coffee table waiting to be used once in a blue moon, whether it's an iPad or Android device.

Once you're done playing the most popular free(mium) games and/or its clones, watched a few movies, and can't find a specific use case for it, tablets become semi-useful gadgets that you only pick up when you remember you actually own a tablet.

Self centered earthlings disgust me!! Who's to say this gamma ray burst didn't kill millions of inhabitants of some distant planet?

Obvious name change is imminent...

When you travel across the country and you don't know what kind of service station you'lll find along the way, diesel always wins. No alternative fuel even comes close to the reliability and availability of diesel engines, and that's not changing anytime soon.

I'm far from an EA fanboy. In fact, I hate them as much as the next guy, but...

How many of those games actually have a very active online community that's getting annihilated by this move?

That's right, none. Kids these days are pretty fickle and will move to the next online game and drop the last one, making it a barren wasteland online, as quickly as Carmen switched love affairs.