Best geeky gift for kids? Time to play, have fun. Less tech toys that are meant to 'train them for tomorrow'.

Fraking over your employees is not being socially responsible. Bonuses are part of your compensation. You stop paying bonuses, it's the same as inflicting a pay cut.

And the language of the memo indicates management has no respect for their workers. Management didn't refuse to pay bonuses because times were hard, management didn't pay their people because they don't like their people.

Any company that does this, while still paying their executives their bonuses, is to be avoided at all costs. It won't be long before they start justifying pay cuts, working unpaid overtime, etc etc. Anyone working at Alphabet now knows they have to get the hell out. And Alphabet will have one hell of time trying to hire anyone, except for any desperate-for-the-experience newbies.

Social responsibility is giving your employees the option of donating their bonus, and letting the employee have the tax write off. Instead, management turned a $30 million expense into a $15 milliion expense via tax write offs - and that's only if they actually donated the items. Sharks as nasty as Alphabet's management will have no moral qualms about saying they made the donation and then not donating a damn thing.

Maybe it takes time for the damage to heal. But a lack of stimulation to the nerves over that same time means brain doesn't re-discover the healed areas? The BMI is taking and using brain patterns, and as a result the brain is being made to re-discover and use the healed areas?

Teeth pressed tightly together.

Why would you physically pry it open? Hack it instead. Turn off the cameras. Turn off the microphone. Have a set recording playing so mother thinks everything is find, and on Monday morning, whoever works at the building will find the place looted.

*Except one of the first things that'll come on the market is a dongle so you can plug your nice expensive Senheiser's or Bose's or whatever into the USB3 port.*

And they'll code up software that turns off the audio stream until the dongle is unplugged. I know a lot of audio is now drm-free, but that will change very quickly. I trust the studios about as far as I can toss them.

This is why I'll be purchasing a iPhone SE and tucking it aside until my current iPhone 4 dies. At least I'll have a damn phone that isn't one of Huxley's wet dreams. I already have a laptop tucked aside for this purpose.

I tape the cameras on cell phone and laptop. Have done so for years. It helped me retrieve one cell phone that I'd lost - "what does your cell look like?"

"It has blue painters tape over both cameras."

"Yeah, someone turned it in."

EMI released a trojan on their CDs that frakked up the sound drivers on PCs. It happened to me. My crime? I bought one of Leahy's frakking CDs.

I never made that mistake again. No more Leahy purchaes, no more EMI purchases.

Dude, I do indeed work in the 'grown-up world' and the only way you can secure a computer is to bury it in the back yard. No, scratch that, the only way to secure a computer is to set it on fire and then bury it in the back yard. I don't do ANYTHING on the damn thing that I wouldn't want broadcast on the 5pm news.

The work is done on a work laptop, and work secures that damn thing to whatever specs they like.

What on earth am I going to be doing on the home computer that requires me to encrypt the hard drive contents?

Hint: Nothing!

I'm already having issues with Windows not allowing me access into certain directories. 'Not authorized ...' But encrypting things is just asking for trouble.

Once my current computer dies, the next computer will be running Ubuntu. I've just had it with Microsoft.

Not updating Firefox ever again. Any recommendations for other browsers?

Immediately move my accounts to another financial institution. Not only have they not dealt with the security threat, they have no procedure in place to immediately escalate security threats.

I have an older Samsung that can be hooked up to the internet via a lan cable but does not have wifi. I have never hooked it up to the 'net and never will, but once the televisions come with wifi it will be impossible to maintain privacy around the things.

I had someone get mad at me for using my cellphone BEFORE the previews (lights were still on in the theatre). I'm just glad I put the phone away.