You must use very short passwords.

oh, but it is! the fiber consortium's are free to buy more/better politicians as the cable companies and pass their own laws, yes? the competition in the graft market is healthy and vigorous!

... the music, film and TV industries recognized that technology advances had rendered their business models moot, and so they faded away quietly and gracefully? Same will happen here.

i am shocked. shocked i tell you!

Android has had a good permission manager for years: LBE.

You can do blanket bans, whitelists, etc or drill down into granular permissions for each app. It can also block abusive texts, etc. You do need root.

Time to reboob.

Chernobyl kicking in.

It's pretty incredible but sadly predictable that Apple can keep winning over juries in its home county of Santa Clara to award it damages mainly for a patent (pinch to zoom) already declared invalid twice by the USPTO. Thanks however to the US's weird system, Apple can go on appealing until 2017 or 2018 before it finally runs out of people to whine to. I'd like to think that sanity could prevail then, but as recent experience shows, the US President would have no qualms about vetoing any adverse judgement against Apple but would be okay letting it stand against Johnny Foreigner.

You want ads for Betty White Inflatable Love Dolls?

The research being conducted with the data collected in MOOCs is one of the most socially valuable results possible since it leads directly to better education for the world.

This scans like marketing newspeak. Astroturf?

...the space program will foster new technology to, you know, do something about THE OPEN RIVERS OF FLOWING SHIT in Calcutta?

there are ads on Facebook? Huh.

lightning: electrical discharges in the atmosphere.
lightening: what happens just before dawn.

So once 'bomb' became 'IED' I suppose it was inevitable that 'radio-controlled toy helicopter' would morph into 'unmanned drone'.

Gnome 3 is not for me.