Iran is one of the countries with the most monitoring Internet by the NSA. How does the NSA get its hands on a network which is controlled by an openly hostile regime?

..."He broke the law"...

Right. Has anyone every been talked out of being gay? How about talking or counselling to try to get a person to grow in height? Change your skin colour? Sorry but these people are not bringing the right tool for the job. The proof is already in the pudding with regards to medication and will be when the true treatment (probably genetic) of people with mental illnesses is known. Comparing it to "NP-Hard" and then letting us believe that it cannot be solved is also wrong as it is not provable that we cannot solve mental illness. Constant discovery is required.

In fact maybe the reason his post that his post has been deleted is in fact one of the causes: Lack of foresight in allowing constructive criticisms in an overly sensitive corporate environment.

If this guy knows what he is talking about, he may be one of the developers or maintainers of the filesystem. "well tested", "solid" uses "SEH internally", so shouldn't we at least give partial credence to what he says in the original post...and the way the summary is constructed hides the fact that the second link is not a response, but is the actual source of the "confusion".

Good point... if you refuse to listen, how do you you know that which you refuse to listen to is valuable?

It kind of occurs to me that they would most likely say that there is no evidence if there was none. Since they didn't say there was no evidence, I suppose there is some. I would also point out that there is an active lawsuit (first google hit) going against the EPA and possibly this is the reason for the article. I also read that there was at least one paper on the cause of colony collapse disorder. Don't know if they/it can be found on Google Scholar here. Bayer crop science is the villan for promoting the use of this. Anyway you look at it, the disappearance of bees may be good for selling one particular seed, but in general very, very bad for the rest of nature and most other agricultural industries too. Think of how Biologist Jonas Salk said: "If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.”. This does not mean that all humans have to disappear in order for life to survive however. I would prefer a balance.

Despite the bad karma whoring by calling Microsoft with a "$" sign instead of the S, I would have to agree with the general consensus that Microsoft is more evil, however Google's evil is more centered on the fact that they are the new masters of our data by doing things with it instead of managing it like Microsoft does. That is just an eventuality: somebody will be reading our emails eventually; if it is not the NSA it will be Google. or somebody else on their behalf. Microsoft lovers should start that instead of being jealous that Google already does. E. Schmidt seems to be getting a lot of hate. It this just because of the drone comments? BTW the reason behind the summary's interjection: "Of course, that's what you would say if you used to run a company that has been fined and paid settlements to regulators for the way it scoops up data and tracks users." was all created by Microsoft and it's cronies anyways. Pretty hard to call a "lemon" a "lemon" when you are one yourself.

1. People are corporations. You now get all the benefit and protection under the law that corporations have. When anybody is born, they are automatically assigned a corporate number or name and they will enjoy all the protections that government and the law have built into corporations. Kill somebody through a leak of deadly chemicals: pay a fine that is a percentage point of your income and walk away. Go bankrupt: just dissolve yourself and start again with a new identity or name. Want a favourable court ruling: just argue about how you, as a corporation would have lost money. Get sued: store all your money in a holding company that you own and don't pay a cent. And if you get big enough: get your own crack legal team, harass Senators and Congressmen, lobby the government, get access to others data. All you have to do is promise to store your email for long enough enough. Heck you don't have to follow any particular country's rules. Just sign a "free trade" agreement with other nations and then you can sue them. Yep, life as a corporation would be great.

Actually you can press Ctrl-D to avoid having to wait the extra 30 seconds once you are in developer mode according to the informative link. When are we going to get Chrome(books|boxes) along with Google Play Music and some decent movies of which some have appeared to have been removed on Google Play in Canada? What are the issues? High bandwidth cost with the cell phone providers? Recalcitrance by the content providers? Why not a Wifi version?

So, where does Google state that all of its results are algorithmically generated? Obviously they are not because sometimes when I go to google.com on a non-Chrome browser, I get a link advertising "download Chrome" which is there because google wants it to be there. Did you sign an agreement with Google that states that "all results we will provide to you on the condition that they are algorithmically generated". Quit your whining and accept the fact that it is Google's search engine, and they can put whatever links they want. If they are putting pay-per-link links, then they will be damaging there own product, then people can go and use something else. When you assume you make an ass out of u and me.

Open enough for Microsoft to try and sue against Samba's development?

Forced? Couldn't they have refused to take the money and be dissolved or something? Does "force" mean there was no other recourse? How about refusing to get into trouble in the first place? They got into it by themselves by being the biggest on the block and they wonder why there is nobody save some sort of international body able to bail them out.

Some interesting applications

Random ones aka "Facebreast(tm)"
A computer will flawlessly judge competitors to see who has "looked first".
Monitoring aka "Boss Hog(tm)"
Part of a collection of programs which sends employee behavior to a central office for further review.
A collection of programs to extend human functionality aka "Night Hawk(tm)"
Something like you said. A program which will help drivers keep their eyes on the road when driving or the like. Also when flying in planes, for targeting, but the Russians have developed something like this already. There should be some applications out there already.

There have been reports that a post designed on slashdot to help people stay away from Android is really a malicious prank designed by the underworld. Most of the malware involved in the post has the Linux "criminal escalation" kernel trap utilized as part of its functionality. We know this because a Russian firm, inconspicuously named as "Doctor Web", has chosen to release the details of this attack via a well known Windows virus labeling and applied it to Linux. We can only hope that people wake up to this threat, especially since most of the attacks on Linux involve trojans whereby the user has "no way of knowing" that the App is indeed malware.