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Comment Re:More data to mine for their advertisers & t (Score 2) 139

No one can 'spy' on you unless you invite them in. Google's not busting into your home and forcing you at gunpoint to install one of their thermostats. If you don't want to participate, then don't. But don't complain because others want to and because a company finds yet another avenue to generate a revenue stream. That's what their business model is all about.

Comment Re:Reverse Santa? (Score 5, Insightful) 418

No, blame the end user. That's what you get for licensing your virtual entertainment and not reading the terms. I *buy* my movies on *media I own* or stored on a server *I* control. If Disney wants my stuff, they have to come into the house and physically take it. And I think I can take Mickey.

Comment Google is not holding a gun to your head (Score 1) 54

You don't like it? Don't install it. Don't install Chrome for that matter. You want all the nice free services and excellent search, but don't feel like paying for it? Go start your own search engine. Everyone seems to expect free services but everyone balks when a company tries to make a profit from it. Newsflash, THEY ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS! Google may or may not be evil. But they certainly aren't stupid.

Comment My thoughts are with him (Score 5, Interesting) 961

You don't know until you have gone through this yourself. I just did - twice within months, once for my Mother who died in home hospice and again for my Father about 5 months after she passed. I went through it alone, even though a sibling lived only 2 miles away from them. You can't imagine watching someone you love, someone you owe your whole world to waste away in this fashion. I was lucky enough that both were cognitive right up until the end; for me it was the only saving grace in all this that I could at least still communicate and interact with them up in until a day or two before each passed. I can't fathom the pain Adams went through in his situation. I understand fully why he said what he did and where it came from. To those who think they know better, be careful becuase karma has a way of administring harsh lessons of reality.

Comment Re:What about IAR? (Score 1) 186

I respectfully disagree with you. While it is 'defined', the very definition is vague, subjective and open to interpretation. For example: "If the rules prevent you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore them." Define "improve" and "maintain". An agent for another may feel that they are "improving" an entry by providing their clients information or point of view. Same for "maintaining" their client's entry. IANAL, but there seems to be way more than enough room to argue one way or the other.

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