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Slowly the criteria used to block websites are expanded, and more websites are blocked. Then websites are blocked because they reflect political ideas not sanctioned by the government.

It's a slippery slope.

I said public sharing of my data among google divisions. Find someone else for your strawman.

If the solar panels that are opined are to be installed are on the consumers' houses, how will the power distribution grid need to be changed?

If solar panels are in the desert somewhere, will a new distribution system need to be built (along what right of way?) to carry the electricity from the desert to the consumers?

In other words, don't just look at the power generation source, also look at getting that generated power to the consumer.

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google+ never had enough users to reach that critical tipping point, in spite of google trying to add users by requiring google service users to be google+ members.

(for the kids in the audience, Dr. Metcalfe was one of the co-inventors of Ethernet.)

Exactly. Once google had google+ data on me, what would they do with it? How would it be displayed? What control would I have?

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google does some stupid things, and requiring google+ IDs for other google services was one of them. I never knew what or how my data from one google service would be publicly shared with other google services because of the google+ connection. I found myself relying upon the privacy ethics of google and, for me, that was like trying to stand on quicksand.

OK...

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If a service manager subsystem needs its own conference, it is doing too much.

Recently it appears that TiVo, of all companies, has started to aggressively insert advertisements onto the screen when you're watching the TV shows you recorded. Rumor has it that Nest thermostats will soon be displaying advertisements on its display.

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The computer companies seem to have been taken over by the advertisers. Microsoft is probably just jumping on the bandwagon to get some of the money.

Or Pocket....

A good case study in that area might be Mozilla and Firefox.