We live in a world where advertising is considered protected free speech to get around laws preventing overt advertising in areas and corporations are "people", government wrongdoings are protected under the umbrella of "national security", but an ordinary citizens have to divulge information that could basically be considered a means of self incrimination.

Didn't they already release Duke Nukem Forever?

I would have thought you were Glenn Beck for a moment except you didn't frame your paranoia as a question...

This is only the natural progression of things, a group of people (company) seeks freedom from what they view as restrictive intervention in their lives and dreams of striking out to find a new land of freedom where they can create their 'utopian' society. The only difference now is that it's the merchant class seeking to break away from the state, instead of a new state seeking to break away from a monarchy and so on and so forth. Ultimately any independent group of people will start to run into the same problems over and over and over again because circumstances are always changing leaving group A feeling cheated by group B or vice versa, until another splinter groups seeks to break away from the old establishment to begin the cycle anew.

"As soon as you hit Google's territorial waters, you came under our jurisdiction, our terms of service. Our laws — or lack thereof — apply here." HOLY OXYMORONS BATMAN!

You're communicating on it right now...

I've had a paralyzed vocal cord since birth. No one has EVER considered it a real disability apart from things like "you have a cold?" "did you yell too much at the concert last night?" etc. It's more of an interesting curiosity to most people. A man who sells database software telling us we need not be so concerned about our privacy is just trying to make himself more wealthy... the medical sob story is a steaming pile...

You're assuming that the only use is on phones.. Tablets and computers are edging into the spectrum that was normally used for just cell phones.

You ask "Just what do you need 1gps on your phone for?"

Let the developers have a field day... if you build it, they'll find a use for it

"cheque"

You are hereby banned from entering the United States of America.

Why does everyone assume that renewable energy is an all or nothing thing. Think about when the Wright brothers first flew, you'd have people out there saying things like:

"Yes, let's just transport thousands of people around the world daily on your little flying contraption!" /sarcasm

The *goal* is to make a system that doesn't rely on depletable resources, especially with a population that is continually expanding... you have to start somewhere.

"..from an ancestor with a bigger and more folded brai" Someone's brain forgot to fold one last time...

We all know any alien capable of reaching earth would be able to make a first post on Slashdot! AND we wouldn't even know it was +5 informative.. "Frosty Piss" is just a line of alien code to accomplish this task, but you didn't hear that from me.

Strong storms and occasional river floodings, apart from that, it's pretty serene. Also Iowa has a pretty strong base in wind power for the green angle.

I remember when politicians were built from mohangay and oak, now they're all just compressed particle board and fall apart after a year or two, but we never throw them out we just keep using them with all their broken drawers because we don't want to deal with the problem of disposing of it all!

Please contact your Samsung HR department asap, we have trouble finding out who to send the check to when people post as AC.