"No. It's what some unethical douche bags do."

There are ethical douche-bags?

Ebay! An then you have the space for a pool-room, a porn-station, a man-cave or another dozen things with a dash in it.

The kids are already on psy-counseling after they dropped their iPhone in the toilet.
They'll never recover completely.

"That filter might be a little too restrictive; you'd only see your own edits."

That's how Republicans like it.

"It's hard to do things like rich document rendering if they're client-side encrypted."

The documents are only rendered at the client where the encryption is,nobody else has to render.

Indexing every word in a document at a 3rd party, is kinda counter-productive for encrypted documents.

So when I'm lying under the rubble, I have to hope that my toaster can yell a wireless message to the rescuers:
"Somebody take that fucking bread out of me!"
if my fridge fails to send "The Milk is bad!"

"After all these years of running SETI@Home [berkeley.edu], we still haven't found any extraterrestial TV signals carrying alien porn. :/"

They abandoned it 100 years ago, because there was never anything on.
Just as they abandoned pollution.

"Firefly can recognize lots of things,"

Nice for a first try, but thanks, I'll wait for the Serenity model.

"The new one is simply sending warning letters to let people know they have been reported as infringing copyright, and so might want to be careful to avoid being sued in the future."

They should offer a seedbox in Tonga in the same document.
At least they would see _some_ money.

Reading a tweet or receiving an iMessage is not 'surfing the net'.

"Why is this on Slashdot?"

It has more literary value than:

"I bought a cheap-ass phone and it sucks"

but only barely.

Just when you think that customer service can't possibly get any more creepy, then you read this.

You ask Dr. Walter Bishop.

"Also, you don't have to go to the CNN site if you don't like their ads. No one actually forced you to read CNN. It is their media property, they can do what they wish."

Sure, just as it's our right to render on our screens only what we wish.
And we do that.

"The tactile experience of actually holding a book in your hand, being able to flip the pages, is far better than anything offered by current electronic devices."

Flip pages? Such modern things are just for young whippersnappers. I prefer scrolls, one long page you can scroll. Even computers use that method.

Although my father prefers stone tablets, he says the weight gives it a sense of importance that modern things like scrolls, papyrus and 'books' miss.