...you can bend it all you want. Google is the Big Brother they (numerous famous authors years ago) warned you about. You just won't realize it until it's too late: when you are disarmed and controlled.

Public relations and reputation you LIbtard Jackhole Moron!!!!

China will steal their IP and kick them out in a few years so they'll have joined a long list oUS traitors trading jobs and the future for short-term profits.

"Blue Coat assures that it is not going to utilize the certificates to snoop on us." Right and registration of firearms won't lead to confiscation...except in NYC where it did.

Despite California having some of the most Draconian gun control law in the US, their murder rate is still higher than Western states with far fewer gun laws: OR, WA, UT, MT, WY. ND, SD, CO and TX and they are closely tied with AZ. So it is becoming clear with this move that they are want to disarm the citizens and promote the Bog-Brother State, so It isn't about guns, it is about the state versus liberty after all.

Tim Cook apparently knows what is best for everyone's children and wishes to mandate it. I appreciate some of Apple;s innovation, but the anti-liberty tyrannical statist views should be ignored.

If one ways to damage from the two groups: terrorists and criminals having secure encryption or governments having a backdoor to all encryption, hands down far more damage is done to civil rights and liberty by governments worldwide. I'd rather find other ways to curtail terrorism and crime than let governments have tools for oppression of civil rights and liberties.

I won't tolerate this kind of crap that mixes journalism and advertising (they need to stay separate as possible) because money taints journalism every time. Buh-bye Slash-rot.

The LAPD shot 4 innocent people in their vehicles while searching for Dorner. By my count (3 Dorner, 4 LAPD) plus the fact Dorner had a list and the LAPD just shot people, I'd they are more dangerous to us than Dorner.

Espionage and surveillance work is done by diligence and pricing together bits of data to create an informative model. Every bit of evidential data or prediction narrows the filed of outcomes and increases the predictive capability and probability of the location and behavior even of an individual. Our courts work that way, bit by bit, and the bar for surveillance is much, much lower. No reasonable doubt stuff needed. With limited staff and resources, anything that narrows an individual likely locations and behavior enables more efficient resource allocation is a big win. As for not selling it, they don't need to—they made their money from the government during development and now they are paid to maintain it.

They still protect pedophiles and shun birth control, so while it's been a long time since they persecuted and killed scientists, held orgies, committed incest, assassinated people, had a standing army and attacked other nations, the Vatican is a superstitious anachronism and the whole church should be retired.

Microsoft and Steam represent the big dogs in just one of the entertainment industries. The others are mobile, broadcast, film, and audio. The latter three have found ways to limit consumer flexibility in order to increase profits and are constantly striving to boost profitability (holding satellite and cable companies for ransom every time contracts are renewed, delaying release to DVD rental outfits like Netflix to increase theater and DVD purchase revenues, renaming property theft as "piracy" which originally was a violent capital crime, region codes, getting the FBI on their side, etc. for example). Mobile app providers have stores that enforce locking apps to a device-user combination (though some allow multiple devices per account). It is only logical the game industry would like a similar regime of restrictions and take them as far as the market and government judicial/legislative entities will allow. Consoles offer a different feature/restriction mix than PCs but I think they'll eventually die out in favor of more generic devices like tablet-laptop hybrids that offer flexibility in game sources. Microsoft knows this and are testing waters with on-line service delivery a la Office 2013. But they'll stave it off for games as long as they can do so profitably while they build their distribution prowess sufficiently to take on Steam. When you join a market, you submit to the lowest common denominator of consumer demand in terms of price and features. Don't like it? Don't join the market. You have a choice.

My daily drive is beyond the range of electrics and the break even for a hybrid in my area is 5 years over a fuel-efficient gasoline auto. It''s simply not a rational choice.

Why should I spend extra money with no benefit to me? You like those expensive hybrids, by two, one for me. I will make rational economic decisions in my self-interest.

You may not like all the subsidies given to fossil fuel companies but you and the rest of us consume fossil fuels to drive our vehicles and, until we stop that choice, it makes sense to subsidize the companies providing the energy product most Americans prefer to use.