You're an idiot, right? Or maybe a 17 year old with limited brain power. Grow up.

I think this is terrific technology that has a great potential to help old people both now and in the future when you and I will be old.

It all seems a bit "hoaky" now, kind of on the interesting side of lame, but remember, this is how ideas start out: A basic idea that has to be developed.

I'm 50 now, which makes me a decrepit old man by Slashdot standards, but I expect to have a "helper robot" when I retire in 15 years.

That's fine, when you get old, just make due with your aluminum walker thing, and a cane. If you choose to be a Luddite, why should I stop you.

I just have to ask: How old are you? Seriously, your opinions come off as very juvenile. Which is not to say you are a juvenile, you could very well be an adult with juvenile opinions. Which would be sad.

The city most certainly can define who has access to city owned utility poles. Siply a fact...

You're an idiot, right? A complete moron? Seriously, are you a homosexual or something? Did your mother drop you into a fine man's ass? Seriously, dude, get a grip.

Go fuck yourself as you GET OFF MY LAWN.

My main issue is if they allow cell phone use in flight - an entire plane full of people yakking on their phones, it'll be like going to the movies.

And now you are officially full of shit.

That's not the way things work in the real world. Move along and let the adults discuss the issue.

1. Person from Ebola Land travels to Europe or some other non-US country, and exposes a person who is not from Ebola Land, who then travels home to the US.

2. US citizen travels to and from Ebola Land.

There are many different ways that Ebola can reach out and touch people who are not from Ebola Land, shutting down foreign visas is not the solution.

The government should be able to multi-task more than one problem at a time, yes?

Bullshit. Cite a reliable news source on that one.

We're talking about Google's response to the European "right to be forgotten", not US laws.

Can you stay on-topic? Or are you one of these one-topic fanatics that tie every subject into your obsession?

Your anecdotal argument is irrelevant, your son is a young juvenile, which as you well know, are held to different standards that young adults and adults. For young adults and adults who do bad things, there are different consequences than a young juvenile would expect, and those consequences are generally proportional to the bad thing the young adult or adult has done.

But the real issue here is indexing publicly available data. These people that want to be forgotten need to talk to the people that are making this data public, not the people who are accessing in in a completely legal way and indexing it.

This is the consequence of bad behavior: People get to know about it, there are repercussions in society for behaving badly. You don't get to behave badly and then demand that people forget about your bad behavior because it in inconvenient for you . That's not the way things work.