... and that browser was Chrome when they implemented WebRTC back in 2012....

And when the dipshit going 85mhps swerves to avoid a deer and loses control of his car taking out two or three other vehicles he just passed?

Does Montana have wildlife fencing along it's interstate? This would be my main concern, not other drivers. It doesn't matter how "well engineered" your roadway is if a deer can leap out into it and you have no time to react since you are going 85mph... this can be disastrous not only for you but other motorists as your car goes out of control .

More significant than what?

Anyone who thinks that this is going to become more significant than Ubuntu has rocks in their head. Yes, Ubuntu started as a Debian fork... hell it still shares many upstream packages.

The proposal / request / whatever is totally useless because it is not going after the content. The content is still there and it is TRIVIAL to find by using an uncensored search engine. All this is is a giant make-work project.

This law is total nonsense even if you agree with the concept of being forgotten, because the law doesn't even go after the content!

If you have issues with content on the web, you should be going after the host of the content, not search engines who just arbitrarily index.

The ONLY reason this law is targeting major international search engines is because the EU knows that if the law targets the actual content owners, then the law would never be enforceable. By targeting major international search engines, they can enforce it (IE, they are being lazy).

This law is essentially useless because isn't actually causing ANYTHING to "be forgotten", the content is still out there, and non-international search engines like DuckDuckGo and many others will continue to return that content.

So essentially it is a useless law, that accomplishes nothing except forcing Google, Bing, and Yahoo to waste resources.

CyanogenMod and many other ROMs let you control this stuff. I have never found an app that broke due to the CyanogenMod privacy manager. I can't see how it would break because all it does is mock dummy responses for all of these things.

I have seen the dead squirrels. They nest inside the transformers themselves. Outside some totally new design for how these are constructed I find it hard to blame the utility.

The more urban trees you have around the more problems you will see with the grid. Trees are the source of all kinds of grid problems

- When the weather causes damage to power lines, it is rarely direct damage but indirect damage caused by a nearby tree. Wind can blow branches into lines and transformers, shorting them out. And ice and snow can build up on tree branches causing them to bend into lines or snap.

- Trees attract squirrels and birds, who like to play around and nest in transformers and on poles and short them out. I have a squirrel related power outage at least once a year.

Ironically, at least in the north-east, the nicer the area you live in the more likely it is to have lots of urban trees. It's the price you pay. The only better system would be to bury all the lines but the cost for that is immense.

I can see that case.

I guess all I am saying is there is the expensive implementation like this, which makes sense in terms perhaps of Intel or aviation, but would not be feasible to scale to the consumer. Then you have a consumer level implementation that is a lot cheaper and simpler but doesn't meet the requirements needed if you're working on an airplane. No different than many other things.

There is nothing really novel here in that hotels have had this technology in their minibars for like 10 years - they know what you touched so they bill you even if you replace it. Basically this is moving that concept from the mini bar into a toolbox. I think it is quite impractical since it relys on tools all being in special spots, it would never work in a home environment. A better solution would involve small RFID tags affixed to each tool and an NFC lock on the toolbox. You unlock the toolbox with your badge, take what tools you want out, boom.

In Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle, and select other high-tech hubs, there certainly is a shortage of skilled qualified workers. This is clearly illustrated by the salaries and perks at tech companies are driven to such extremes. Google and Facebook don't have a personal chef and free dry cleaning and egg freezing because they are your best buddy; they do it because they have to offer these kinds of perks to retain their people.

In non high-tech hubs, these shortages do not exist. There are lots of qualified workers.

The question is, why do tech companies focus so much on the hubs vs. growing a lot of smaller regional offices. This is something I have never understood. Especially if you subscribe to the model of Bezos and others who say the maximum size of a productive team is somewhere between 5 and 7 people, having huge amounts of people concentrated in one area has questionable benefits when you consider the huge salary they command due to the simple fact of geography.

It has less to do with ethics and more to do with being dangerous if this gets out of hand IMO. I have no qualms with the ethics of cloning a single mammoth. I have grave concerns with the idea of cloning and re-introducing an extinct species to the planet, regardless of if it is mammoths or sabre tooth tigers or anything else.

No one with a clue in their head thought this stuff was impossible 5-10 years ago. Everyone who had the slightest background knowledge in how things operate already knew and assumed it was happening. The movie Enemy of the State came out in 1998 for god's sake, and people still did not wake up as to what was possible. This stuff wasn't fiction then, and it isn't fiction now.

That doesn't change the fact that 99% of the interception the NSA does is trivial. Using Tor is still a very good idea and can save your bacon 99% of the time. Unless you're on a terrorist / insurgent watch list, or you are banging the NSA director's mom, you are probably safe on Tor. You will definitely be able to avoid domestic law enforcement.

You are still being paranoid.

Just because something is theoretically possible in lab conditions does not mean that anyone in the real world is actually doing it. The FBI doesn't even have the resources to do something trivial brute force an iPhone 4 digit pass-code, you think they or the NSA have the resources to do this on any kind of real scale?

Despite what urban myths are out there, the NSA uses relatively simple means to do 99% of their spying and traffic interception.