So much for free market economics and competition. I hate it when government goes to lengths like these as competition is good all around.

Agreed, these ideas are very stupid! Steel towers within line of sight of each other are much more practical.

Yes, I said it. GM should have been left to die in bankruptcy. Bringing GM back from the dead at tax payer's expense absolutely changed nothing in the quality. I always said there is a reason why Ford never went bankrupt.

How will the UN enforce this? This is nothing more than a symbolic gesture as I don't think sanctions are likely to hurt Japan all that much.

Drop Box is nothing more than a gussied up repackaging of a SFTP or FTPS and a nice fancy ol' GUI. Drop Box does not do anything radically different or innovative. If you don't like the way drop box works, it's trivial to roll your own solution or have someone do it for you. You set up a server for SFTP or FTPS and download a nice, friendly little program called FileZilla. Viola! Your own secure solution without being totally at the whim of a corporation. You can even get a virtual server for basically peanuts per month to facilitate this through providers like VPSCheap.net.

The entire political system is broken! We need smaller government across the board - not just where it is politically inconvenient. I say start by getting rid of most of the bloated executive branch. Do we really need so many law enforcement agencies? Let's also get rid of the spying agencies. Then let's start by axing the judicial branch. No more Supreme Court appointments - justices must be elected every 6 years with a two term limit.

I think it's worse that we preach innocent until proven guilty while behaving just the opposite. As an American citizen, we are ripe for another revolution or civil war. The reset button desperately needs to be pressed as we are basically at society's blue screen of death.

Well, maybe more work could be done to develop hydrogen as a fuel cell vehicle. Then, you would really and truly have a much cleaner solution.

I'm glad to hear Carter's stance on NSA and spying but I'm deeply disappointed that he stopped short of exoneration for Snowden. In my mind, Snowden is a patriot. No country should sacrifice liberty for security. When this happens, the terrorists win. Yes, they win and win big.

So, I wonder if there are some sort of kickbacks and incentives shared between the credit bureaus and big data ....

Then law enforcement using drones should be illegal too.

You have a good point. The best way to beat this is by not paying to play. However, you and I would be in a minority because most folks out there are enthralled with media content and games. The reality of this is that we would be pretty hard pressed to convince most to do without this. Therefore, people may gripe and grumble, but in the end, it's all a bunch of hot air.

This is very sad news indeed. The internet was founded on an open, neutral platform. This is just pure and simple greed on the part of Big Telecom. I will chalk the defeat of net neutrality up to another one of the Obama Administration's growing list of failures. By that same token, I think a Republican would have failed equally. The U.S. political system is broken and dysfunctional.

These days journalism is a lot of opinion and drama designed to lure readers or television viewers. Very often the stories lack fact checking and verification and are subject to quite a bit of hyperbole. Good, objective journalism has died with a large thank you to Rupert Murdoch who promoted the news as a business versus a true information source.

And technically, you aren't correct either. The patent is published to provide legal protection and remedy for the inventor. People cannot necessarily improve on it without violating the law. They can obtain licenses to use and improve on the original product but the patent holder gets compensated.