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I welcome the day that the FTC actually holds them accountable, and fines the crap out of them. But that will not happen because the last ten or so years China has become the god of exports. They export everything including the fake crap, and the crap that contains enough toxins to ruin kids the rest of their lives. China must be proud of themselves. They would have to be how else can you explain their junk coming over to the USA in record numbers, and the US citizens buying it right and left without even looking at the label, or asking the right questions? Like for instance why is China's goods so much cheaper than anyone else's? How can China get away with shipping goods to the US full of toxins and not suffer any consequences? There is enough stupidity, greed, and ignorance to go around. To tell you the truth I don't know who's bumper to kick anymore. Set up your provisions and line up ...this will take a long time.

$600,000 is cheap considering they made millions blocking private Wi-Fi from one of their main hotels which was a magnet for business. Oh and the word "presumably" should not of been used. They blocked it to make money plain and simple. They can't use any type of excuse 1. They blocked it 2. They got caught next and last... 3. They asked the FCC for permission to block. Maybe they thought the FCC would feel sorry for them who knows. I don't feel sorry for them, and their fine would of been no less than 6 figures if I was the FCC. Whats with all of these fines these days? A business can walk away barely being tapped on the wrist, and their wallet is never really screaming for mercy. Bunch of babies. That is what is wrong, and why Corps feel like they can get away with anything.

Security experts have told us for years that if you don't want it spread all over the Internet then don't put it on anything that connects to the internet. I don't know why teenagers and celebrities think they don't have to comply.

What will happen is (ahem) a few political advisers will claim the energy is expensive as in materials used, and maintenance etc. Plus they need more people to man them. They will make up all kinds of BS and a majority of the public will fall for it head first. Thus the price will be slightly higher in the States than overseas. After all we can't have wind energy take over until after all the oil is gone, and all those big suits have trillion$ in their bank accounts.

be berry berry quiet gotta stick it to da man now bend over!

I discuss similar stuff with people. You have a few that don't care but you also have many that are getting wrong advice. Many were told that legally they can't highly secure their cell phones, computers, tablets, etc. Plus a few even said that to be as secure as possible will have them put under suspicion of illegal activities and they don't want that kind of attention.

I believe security is good if it accomplishes what it is intended for. But many that are not secure because for a decade they were told they were fine; "don't worry about it, you have all that you need". Now everything is turned upside down. Security is only good if it is used. Unless someone has a magic plan to get the public to use the new secure software that seems to be invented regularly for the past six to eight months, many of it may go obsolete before the first anniversary of the software arrives.

Even if the facts are true the bottom line is money trumps over common sense. They will be long buried before the shit hits the fan.

I look forward to the day that Windows is uniform/compliant across the board with all other Internet scripting. If they can do that then I will take them serious. If not then they can just shut up cause I heard it all before.

How much that 2 day cure will cost a month? Judging by how much they are charging people for other new drugs... I don't have 2-4 thousand a month to dish out. So much for them eradicating diabetes!

They collected everything they could on us, and nothing we have is hidden. They have it all. Metadata can spotlight many things in a person. Their likes, dislikes health family banking, credit cards etc. Phone records and recording is nothing compared. I said before they have all of this and then some. I stand by what I say. They can write a book about you.

Now that new rules are in place I don't believe you are anymore private than you was before the new rules. The NSA is a very private entity. Security suppose to be top notch. Keeping things hush-hush is part of their job. So they very well could do this behind our backs, and we would be none the wiser. We only know what few areas we were told they are storing on us. But it's a lot. You don't think they need over one million square feet, and contain Four 25,000-square-foot facilities to house rows and rows of servers that can hold endless data just to store phone and Google searches do you? These are just the ones we know about.

Read between the lines. http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

FEMA camps?

I wonder if the big cable companies have ever thought they might be doing a bad thing buying up all the other cable companies? Soon we will just have a couple to choose from, and if Comcast can buy out Time Warner the consumer choice will dwindle down to no choice. Who wants to pay for lousy expensive service that has poor support?