I can't help but think the people you really want to antagonize are the employees and contractors... A Blimp that says something like "amoral and unethical people work here and spy on you" might do more to create unrest... The people who work there probably live in the community or surrounding community... If you can make someone uneasy about their employer, that's probably better...

this is my fundamental problem with this sort of thing. You buy a smart-device and the first thing it wants is to authenticate with some cloud service... I understand it's easier to deal with firewalls and such if the device 'polls' the cloud for remote commands... But what if my home is out in the middle of the forest, miles from anything resembling internet connectivity... That's a home I want automated more than the home I sleep in the other 5 days a week.

Around these parts, I'm not allowed to swing into the oncoming lane if there's a solid line on my side; even if you're riding on the shoulder... Around here, the rural roads have about 12 inches of 'shoulder' before it's grass or gravel. Just this last weekend, I came across one of you tour-de-france wannabes (complete with the colorful jersey and aerodynamic helmet) riding up a hill at 8kph... I had to slow down and stay behind you while waiting for an oncoming truck to finally arrive... You motioned to me to pass but legally I could not. When I finally came to the dashed line on my side, I was able to pass... I have no idea why you gave me the finger though ... I certainly didn't want to lose all that time creeping along behind you and I would have loved to have passed you while staying completely inside the double-solid line. The law very clearly says that a bicycle is equivalent to a car.

Sure, you can be out for a leisurely Sunday ride... But note the effect you have on others who might just want to get home and not follow you up the hill... Maybe you could pull off to the side and let cars go by?

I've worked with many men and women over the years... I would say that women, predominantly, are the ones who leave the work force after they have a child or three, only to not return... Some return but many do not... So while you might end up trying to hire 30% women, your demographics will eventually show them to be much lower... I don't think I'm out of line suggesting that about half leave the work force to stay at home... At least around these parts. That gets us down in the range of the numbers reported by google.

At least we'd have cat photos.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

If you were just some normal Joe Schlub who wouldn't even consider being an Uber driver, but some cop stopped you and induced you into driving him somewhere in exchange for a nice shiny $20 bill, then that's entrapment... If you are a registered Uber driver, and a cop reserves you, and you agree to drive the cop somewhere, then that it something you would normally do and is not entrapment.

At least that's how I read it and have always understood it.

Google is Apple's competitor so obviously they didn't 'google it'...

They 'Bing'd it.

For any tangible reason or merely to justify the many hours you wile away in front of some game when you could be hacking instead?

I've been 'hacking' (in both senses) since 1976 but my gaming stopped when I realized it was more interesting to disassemble the games and see how they worked. (about 1980)

I had it when I was 18. That was 30 years ago. I was miserable for two weeks. I bathed in calamine lotion three times a day when the itching became irrepressible.. I was essentially holed up in a dark room the entire time with nothing to think about except for the itching. TV caused my eyes pain. I've been prone to getting shingles over the subsequent years of my life, usually in response to stress. The shingles are probably related. I still have marks on my body where I had pox.

I wouldn't wish adult pox on anyone.

A friend said "Give it a chance..." I think I stopped part way into the 3rd season.

I hadn't heard of Beats until last week. I was in a Future Shop (like Best Buy) with my son and he was all gaga over some of these Beats headphones on display... So I put them on and listened. It was like I was listening to music through a tin can while someone tapped on the can with a pencil... I'm far from a 'golden ear' audiophile wanker... I have a pair of mid-low end Sennheisers on my head 8 hours a day at work...

Thanks. I could never figure out what the big deal was with that guy? I sat through several seasons of his show and don't think I so much as cracked a smile through any of it...

I have a friend who, along with his wife, have also chosen to be childless. They enjoy the children of their siblings but choose not to have their own. Unfortunately, the two of them are very bright people and I can't help but think we need more people like them to breed than the mouth-breathers with 4 kids you see at Walmart.

I do respect their decision and have never brought the issue up with them... Doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have my own opinion.

A human can see a train approaching a level crossing far sooner than a self-driving car... If the lights at the level crossing aren't working; will the human be sitting there wondering if the car will notice the train in time?

Wrong. It's Control4, apparently. Regardless, I can see you're one of these know-it-alls that comes in and tears apart everything someone else has done and puts in his/her own religion... "It's ILLEGAL! OH NOES!" ... If your 'solution' requires the customer call you in order to change the controls in their home, then you're just the same level of asshole...