This is probably because you viewed Chryslers homepage sometime during the interaction rather than due to gmail. Pretty sure your emails do not affect ads on webpages.

From the article: "So they’ve developed a (as yet unnamed) protocol for device-based authentication that they say is independent of Google, requires no special software to work — aside from a web browser that supports the login standard — and which prevents web sites from using this technology to track users."

Which part of this sounds like Google being evil or or trying to control everything?

I'd love to see someone try to make a career out of this! Pick a game like WOW and then advertise that you will make the game hell for whoever for a fee in an attempt to get them to quit. Two main clients I'd image: dad's and girlfriends. Wonder how long before Blizzard or lawyers step in.

If there are only BSD like licenses, what is the incentive of any corporation to give back? The thinking will be "look here's this awesome tool that we can take, modify and use for ourselves. Let's do that" and giving back won't even be a part of the thought. Energy behind the free version will wane and Open source will disappear. The GPL like licenses helps us know that there WILL be current open source software out there because anyone who wants to use it as a starting point has to give back.

You could argue that some that work on BSD software DO give back, but I think the presence of the GPL has helped the culture form and I'm just not sure that without it's presence that the pattern would continue to long.

I could be wrong, and maybe I am, but I am glad for the GPL and fear the rise of BSD. Perhaps it's best to have both and allow them to co exist, but BSD only I'm afraid will slowly lead to only proprietary software. If someone could help me see the other side, I would certainly listen.

If buckyballs were the only dangerous thing for children, then yes I would whole heartedly agree with this! Let's ban them and save the children. The reality is, however, that there are many many things that are dangerous for children and it isn't feasible to tidy up the world so no child gets hurt. Do we rip all trees out of the ground because some kid might climb one in a public park and fall and hurt himself? Or perhaps a child was at a pool and couldn't swim so he drowned. The pools serve no purpose but pleasure, and since they kill kids, ban them all. It's just a question of how far do you go? Ultimately the safety of children rest with the parents.

Certainly there are times for things to be banned because they cause harm. Such as the baby doll a few years ago that was supposed to simulate eating and ended up munch on little girls' hair instead. A product that was marketed directly for kids and causes them harm is not good. But a product that is not marketed directly for kids, and only causes harm if eaten? Come on...

I realize I'm making the same argument that everyone else is making so perhaps I'm not really adding anything to the discussion, but I just can't be okay with that line of thinking, and I probably lean more towards government regulation than the one you are quoting does. I do think there are times that it is important to protect children from things at a government level because parents in many cases obviously won't and it's not fair for the children. There are just much bigger and more worthy fish to fry than buckyballs...

The company I work for bought everyone on our team a set. Probably worst investment ever. Productivity has definitely suffered. But look at my cool artistic design!

I bought an asus transformer prime rather than something like this thinking it would be better because it has a browser p.us the whole android Ecosystem and could easily be detached from the keyboard to be a tablet. However I have found the browsers to be incredibly slow compared to laptops or even an iPad. Not sure why this is the case, I'd expect the browser app to be super snappy as it would probably be the most used, but it just wasn't the case. I downloaded Chrome on it as well and it ran worse. I was quite surprised I must say. Side note, does things like Hulu and Netflix work on these?

I agree. This is why IMO Microsoft is so mobile focused with Windows 8. Bridging desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, and xbox into one common interface paradigm. It won't be long before they are all essentially the same device, just different docks for different purposes. Android is moving in the same direction but backwards, as in developing the phone and tablet and then watch as it starts to move into the PC and gaming spheres. The danger in it is heavy vender lock in, and a loss of control of the hardware. I agree. It's not far away.

Google, why you get in hardware business?

People did predict the economic Collapse. Ron Paul predicted it all along, as many others did. Those who "failed to predict" it are simply those economists and politicians who stood to gain financially from the whole thing. The issue isn't that it is impossible to predict what is to happen, but rather, that those who are in positions to control and predict are those who stand to gain in the bubbles that end in economic turbulent times [read the Fed, Wall Street, Washington].

Agreed. On the mac it igs even better because they have the ribbon AND the menus, since you can't really get rid of menus on a mac. The user has more choice here, and if he chooses he can his the ribbon altogether.

You can use wine to run ie6 pretty effectively. I've noticed that firefox in linux doesn't seem to render things the same as it does on windows though. Is there a reason for this? I'm specifically talking about when flash is involved. Is this just a flash bug in linux?