Old curmudgeon here, but WTH is "deanonymizes"? Sounds like a sci-fi weapon - "Starbuck, what do you have left in your deanonymizer?" But I take from the article and discussion that it's about identifying folks who make anonymous comments. Jeez, ain't they no editors aroun' here anymo'?

At least AT&T was honest about it, whereas "Do No Evil" Google is only slightly more transparent than the NSA. I agree with Taantric that Starbucks is off my list of places to go for WiFi.

Agreed, I use DuckDuckGo as well.

Except that my online company includes friends at locations thousands of miles away, kind of hard to keep up with them like the friends closer by. Additionally, while I haven't RTFA this appears to allow no room for error and assumes my friends are (mostly) mindless clones who automatically repeat or repost what I do. I don't know about you all, but I find this one step closer to welcoming our evil overlords. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Have I not lost my wide-eyed innocence yet?

Going to sing in China, not just visit a few festivals. Nearly 100 men from the Alexandria Harmonizers and Toronto Northern Lights chapters will be bringing the barbershop sound to The Middle Kingdom.

Can we focus on some REAL issues!? I have some much simpler suggestions: 1-leave 2-use earplugs 3-battle of the jukebox songs! (Or, I Can Drive You Crazier Faster Than You Can Drive Me Crazier!)

Look at it this way - a billion isn't worth what it once was. That's the only way I can stop my head spinning over this decision. Are apps the next tulip craze? And how many other disconnected thoughts can I get in here?

Hear, hear!!

At work the infrastructure is just dandy. At home it's just a little dandy, dandy jr., say.

Ditto. We replaced our living room TV with a Samsung 55" because the wife wanted a newer TV and best Buy had it for an incredible steal. Still have yet to watch anything in 3D - don't even know if we could find the glasses now.

Lessee, from one monopoly to another - that's a choice?