Perhaps Mr. McMillen needs to take a reality pill and realize that he is the person who has gotten it wrong, not everyone else.

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I'm surprised that Wired fell for this false equivalence.

Sure, it is always good to publish ideas that may be in opposition to the mainstream. But I would have expected Wired to at least publish opposing ideas that are not so completely ridiculous, thereby giving those ridiculous ideas a false equivalence to the reality-based mainstream ideas.

From the summary:

What he actually says is:

What Nest's privacy policy actually says is:

Notice how, we won't share your data with anyone without your permission in the article suddenly morphs into we won't share your personally identifiable information with anyone in the actual privacy policy statement?

What about the other non-personally identifiable data, like when my house is empty? Or how many people are in the house? etc, etc.

... are the best in the world for star-gazing. Chile Chill video showing the Chilean night sky....

I guess P. T. Barnum was right. There's a sucker born every minute.

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Adobe's Cloud Solutions Fuel Strong Financial Results

So, apparently, Adode has convinced many people to buy in to an unreliable service. I sincerely wish them success.

So now when the Adobe cloud disappears from the Internet more people will be affected.

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Has Adobe said anything substantial regarding how they are going to address their cloud downtime problem?

... well that didn't last too long. Don't be evil

Microsoft started looking at patent lawsuits when they hired IBM's intellectual property guru back in the 1990's. That was the move that convinced me that Microsoft was going to build a patent portfolio to use against competitors, instead of competing via innovation. I guess Microsoft thought it was easier to buy patents than to learn how to innovate.

Back in the 1990's Microsoft didn't have to worry about competing or innovating because of the Windows monopoly. as a result, Microsoft never really learned how to innovate and move a market forward.

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Now Microsoft is faced with a marketplace in which Windows no longer has a monopoly. Unfortunately, Microsoft never really learned how to innovate, so what is left?

Patent lawsuits, of course.

The once powerful Microsoft, a company that could kill off a start-up just by announcing an intent to compete with it, is now reduced to trying to maintain its power over the industry via legal bullying.

And the fact that Microsoft had to buy some (most?) of the patents to use in its bullying merely underscores the appearance that Microsoft still does not know how to innovate.

Remember when drum machines threatened to put all drummers out of work?

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Well, drummers still have a lot of work, and drum machines are a rare site nowadays.

Just to be explicit about it... when Facebook speaks of tracking users, Facebook means that they track your activities not only on Facebook, but also other non-Facebook sites. If you see a Facebook "like" button on a site, there's a very good probability that your activity on that site is reported back to Facebook.

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imo, Ghostery is very helpful in this scenario.

... would be a CRN investigative report that cisco does not purchase competitors' products for analysis.

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Agreed.

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Tenure was designed for college-level professors so that they could conduct their basic research without concern for short-term profit.

To apply such a noble cause to sub-college teachers is a travesty of concept.

And I say this, having been influenced by an awesome teacher during my high school years.

Put into place a evaluation system based upon the quality of the teacher.

Do Not put into place an evaluation system based upon the teachers going on strike in order to get that system activated.

Good enough. Just barely meeting the grade. A D-minus.

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Yes, I would agree, FireFox 29 is a D-minus effort.

Really. This rabid [sic] release cycle is supposed to be a benefit.

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Unfortunately, the rabid [sic] release cycle seems to do little more than encourage the developers to make changes for the sake of changes, not for the benefit of the users.

Stop this insanity.

PayPal has been a very bad player in this area, apparently closing accounts on a whim, locking up the monies in those accounts, etc., etc., etc.

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For that reason, I've never given PayPal direct access to my bank accounts, in spite of PayPal's constant hounding to do so.

PayPal just has not been behaving well in this space. For me, PayPal is a payment service of last resort, not of first choice.