Are you sure that hey are allowed to do that?

In Europe it's against the privacy laws.

I'm not sure how the privacy regulations control this, but I'm going to assume that the airlines cannot simply correlate such information. If they could, they wouldn't need you to provide your information to them separately anyway, would they?

Even if you do, there should be no reason for listing exact addresses, together with names of the people.

Now, I don't support the gun laws that the USA has, but privacy is an important thing for me. Especially in the aftermath of an event that just now happened, that's bound to split people apart on the issue and can lead to high-tension arguments. Let us not forget that the people that are publicly shown on this map have not (that we know) broken any laws. Furthermore they have actually lawfully registered whatever weapons they may have. They are most likely not public personas and as such have expectation of privacy. That expectation was broken here.
I do not think that the public has a right to know that they have a weapon any more than if they have a drivers licence or not.

In my country we have quite strict privacy laws. Actually we are one of the few countries in Europe (Slovenia) where Google Street View is not yet implemented due to the fact that they were not allowed to process the captured footage out of country. And, honestly, I support that. I believe that I should be the one who is in charge of how information about me is disseminated.

I also strongly support freedom of speech. But in this case the newspaper could have raised the awareness and point out the problem that they thing they are illustrating by anonymizing what we see on the published map. What they did here is nothing more than sensationalizing the "news" by allowing locals there to say: "*GASP* Bob has a gun?!? I never would have thought that about him."

While I agree with the last part of your post, I think you kicked in the dark a bit on the first part.

The reason why you could dial in to any ISP has (had) nothing to do with phone company having to offer services to others. You could dial in simply because you could dial any number in the world and that was it. You were paying for your phone usage to your telco and on top of that you were paying for the internet usage to the ISP.
From DSL on, though, you're correct.

Well, I was left in a lurch with this.

Me and a few colleagues are using google apps as a frontend for a crappy POP3 server that we cannot migrate from.

Last week email retrieval stopped working in our google inboxes. First for one of us, then after a day or so for another and so on. I discovered relatively quickly what was going on.

But no, Google DID NOT notify us in advance of this move. Mails simply stopped working. There was an error message, but it wasn't clear that the error was a result of Google's change in security policy. At first I thought that something changed on the side of the POP3 server and was cursing the admins for making problems for us.

So, while I don't necessarily blame Google for going in this direction, advanced notice would have been appreciated. On the other hand also I'm not quite sure why self-signed certificates are considered a problem all of a sudden.

Not quite true.

Data mining for adds is done in free version of Google Apps (not available anymore for new subscribers) and NOT in the paid version.

And if you checked the security and privacy explanation it clearly states that any other data mining is done for the purpose of doing antivirus/span scanning, priority inbox selection.

So, in this case the only product-oriented data-mining that you may be talking about is in the free version. At least that's according to Google's own policy statements.
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60762

What exactly makes you say that?

Really?

I'm willing to bet that you do. I've had + on my very first analog cellphone that I was using more than 15 years ago.
I had it on every phone, ever since and I've never seen a mobile phone that did not have it.

I'll concede that it may not be printed on your keypad, but it's probably hiding somewhere around 0 or 1, if you keep the key pressed for a second or so. In any case read the manual, you're sure to find it.

So you're OK with someone dying, because they will be unable to call for help, while abroad, rather than you being slightly inconvenienced while you MAY have to learn a new 3-digit number?

Just for the record, I don't care if either of those numbers is adopted or none of them. In my country we already had a change from 92 to 112 about 20 years ago. Guess what: no one had a problem. If we managed to learn a different number once, we can do it again.

Why does it matter what the international prefixes are?

As long as you're not dialing the number with + in front of it or your local exit code (00 in most European countries), you'll be quite OK.

911 and 112 do not have to be stored in your phone with + in front of them, since the idea is that the call is routed locally as close to your location as possible.

Most people are not developers.

But a lot of people use Excel and they usually prefer having as many cells on one screen as possible, while still have them large enough to actually see what's in them.
On top of that moder UI elements go in the direction of "we know you're running in ultra-extremely-uber-resolution" and add bloat to your vertical real-estate.

The only area of my work (and I'm not a developer) where I don't care about resolution too much is for presentation purposes. I'm quite happy even with 1280x1024-capable projector.

I disagree.

Work that I do has absolutely no requirement for me to be physically on same location with other people who work with me. As a matter of fact a lot of people that I interact with are employed in different countries in different timezones.

When I first started to work where I currently do, I took (what I thought) was full advantage of this fact and I worked from home pretty much all of the time. I only came to the office when I had to turn in original receipts related to expenses and so on. Everything else was remote.

However after a while I realized that it didn't work for me. There were several things that were problematic:
- I missed "real" interaction with my colleagues. When you work remote if you reach out to someone, it's usually when you have to. You have to make an effort and either send them a text, an IM, an email, or call them. But it's usually just business and that's it. Furthermore it's usually strictly project oriented and lacks any breadth. So you're missing out on things that do not directly affect you at that time, but may have consequences for you later on down the line.
- I actually was not as productive. At home there are distractions. If you don't have steel discipline it's easy to start doing something else and say to yourself that you'll come back to business stuff "in a moment". Your breaks take a long time, without necessarily realizing that they do. When you're in the office the distractions are maybe still there but they (at least for me) are easier to avoid. Also when you go for a coffee or cigarette break with your coworkers, the break usually ends fairly quickly and you're back at your desk, chugging along.

In short: in the office I get done more, I know more about what's going on and I get to be friends with people I work with.

He wouldn't go to bed at 11pm. He would go to bed 12am or 1am, or later. And that might ruin him, yes. Depending on how much sleep his particular organism needs and how intense his workplace environment is.

And in any case, if adult content was purchased then adult content can be consumed whenever the purchaser wants it to. Or the purchaser can decide on another platform that will allow them consumption at their leisure and will not impose its standards on them.

I would assume that the content thus affected costs the consumer only 1/6th of the price, since it can be accessed only 1/6th of the time as compared to everything else on the console.

What? No? Seriously?

Hmmmm...

Now here's an interesting thought for visitors to the US.

If you visit the country with your phone/tablet of choice, that you legally jailbroke in your own country, are you commiting a felony during your stay in the US?