KeepassX in a Dropbox (or some similar sharing) folder works great. More secure encryption than Excel and better for the purpose.

3. Mobile data pricing.

Yeah - that's covered by the well known "Pay Us Moore" law.

Sure but what license are they using? I make sure all my malware is GPL3. None of that BSD licensed malware for me!

Though the patriot act had aspects that affected telecommunication, I don't see that it would be considered 'the single worst telecom bill' since its not really a telecom bill.

It's like a price on an estate: as remarkable as this is, it's only 55.3 million!

55.3 million what?? miles? not even close...

The GP was comparing the distance to the price of a luxury estate (55.3 million dollars/pounds/euro/etc). They were not saying it was 55.3 million anything in distance.

My father for YEARS drove into Manhattan for work (from the Nassau/Queens border). He only stopped driving in when he lost his parking space, more than two decades after driving in.

He was initially frustrated and annoyed since he was so used to being 'independent' and having the control a driver has. Once he actually was on the train for a few weeks he told me how he wishes he switched much earlier.

I think many of those who are opposed to public transportation really haven't taken it more than occasionally. Once you have to take it for a while you learn how to use it effectively and it really does give you more time (to read, text, plan world domination, etc.).

Whatever they get, they need to have vastly increased battery life over the consumer versions.

Possibly a physical switch to turn off all transmissions as well (so it can be QUICKLY turned off).

Yes, it is better for Google's users because they get to see referer data, probably even when they shouldn't.

Oh...you thought *you* were one of Google's users? Chances are you are product, not a customer or a user.

I know exactly who the 'product' and who the 'consumer' of Google is.

Its irrelevant to this. When traffic is HTTP or HTTPS for Google searches, Google gets that traffic either way. When the traffic is HTTPS though, that means LESS people are getting it (wireless sniffing, routers along the way, etc.) in an unencrypted format. I really could care less what information the sites I go to are missing from the search I entered that brought me to them.

Regardless of what business sense this makes/doesn't make for Google - it is better for the users.

The more traffic is sent via HTTPS, the better. The days of concern over the CPU overhead of HTTPS are long past.