I could see it being like solar. Some people will have 3rd parties put panels on their house and buy the power at a reduced rate, and others will want to own the panels, but sell unused power back to the utility.

I could see owning my own car, and having it drive for Uber when I'm working. I'd know (for the most part) when I'd need it again, so I'd have it not make long trips just before I want to go home.

Meh. My "hobbies" at burning man involved doing the naked-bike-ride, drinking a lot, trying to avoid the dust and enjoying the art.

It doesn't work for me, as I have sudo setup to require my Yubikey, but that'd be a small speedbump, since the same exploit could be used to change the /etc/pam.d/sudo config...

I've wondered about that... what about just wearing chaps & a stetson? :-)

That'll teach me to read the manual for things I buy! :-)

He/she means that companies won't invest in the Research & Development when they can't patent the result to help ensure they can make back their investment (and more).

Echo's voice recognition is good, but the intelligence behind it just isn't there yet. I'm curious if the SDK for it will mean more usability, but for now it's (for the most part) an audio streamer, timer, clock, and shopping list maintainer...

I'm pretty sure it's not a bluetooth speaker. WiFi speaker maybe, but pretty sure it's not bluetooth...

+ is now broken in google search. It now searches Google+ pages. (that is, it's fucking useless)

Woosh!

I do this, and I need one of two Yubikey Neo's to decrypt.

I was running OpenWRT on a WRT54GS, but moved and ended up with 50Mbit Comcast (crap) rather than ~2Mbit Sonic.net (awesome! but too damn slow due to distance from CO). If discovered the WRT was limiting thruput to ~12Mbit rather than the 50Mbit I had on the other side of it, so I'm using an Apple Airport Express with stock firmware until I can get OpenWRT setup on a Netgear WNDR3700.

And I thought I was way behind the times when i was still running the WRT54GS. So I guess my question is, is anyone still running that ancient hardware for their main connection?

No, I was just trying to put myself in the head of the wack-a-doodles who think that FB & Google are out to get them in particular, rather than to just make billions of $$$s.

It's a public key. It does nothing to prove ownership. I could easily download any public key from a keyserver and add it to my account.

Can I have your private key?

(Pretty sure you meant 'public key' there.)