Bad as the NSA are, I don't want to blame them for everything bad in this world; but Snowden-based news stories have clearly shown that they use their broad power not just to spy for the military but to maintain US economic advantage, and I would not be shocked at all if the EU was given a warm and courteous* NSL or similar nastygram to scare them into both being soft on US-based Google and giving them a de facto speedy but non-public trial.

The proposed changes to search results seem reasonable to me, but the process that may lead to them really should be open.

*lol

Leeches never really left the drugstore. They evolved into the strange lifeforms we now call "Health Maintenance Organizations".

Indeed the only advertising (if that) I've seen for those batteries (I've also bought 'em) have been comments on...well...Amazon.

But yeah, adders* don't need to track. They were doing just fine with fun jingles in TV show breaks, SHOOT THE MONKEY internet banners, and not taking up so much time that said TV shows had to trim their openers and end-credits to absurdly short lengths...while still having to product-place anyway.

*Just for brevity, but given how their venom has brought even Mozilla to their knees, probably appropriate in other ways.

I give it four years.

I give it one year at extreme most, but I really expect four months before they announce its scheduled closure on the fifth month.

He works at the NYPD, but since he's too busy cleaning his PC with MyCleanPC, he keeps deleting FOIA requests instead of answering them. Oops.

It's reassurance of the Fuck You, I'm Rich, Now Bend Further Over kind.

Kudos to whoever tagged the story "balaclava"..."change the face of British retail" indeed.

RIP, dwindling helium reserves...between private companies like the mentioned Netflix and storage-hungry governments, you will be mist.

The Slashdot team works all day, erry day. You should give them more credit.

They're not hiring. They're poaching.

"free market principles" won't help here. On the contrary, just think of the money that would go into actual health care if the government came in guns-ablaze and forcefully said "no, United Health Care, you can't treat your customers like the deepest turd of a batch of untreated sewer sludge", or "no, big drugmaker, you can't throw millions of dollars on advertising niche products like fucking Restasis all over primetime tv instead of putting the money toward cutting the costs of life-saving meds".

Those are two cases where I'd actually be elated to see the NSA and TSA put into use: snoop on the moneyed fuckers involved and No-Fly 'em as soon as it's clear they want to take anything that resembles a business trip to plan their next splurge.

By:

1. refusing to even allow the bill to come up for debate until it gets just the desired amount of crossed-out lines, ideological additions, arcane language, and pork behind closed subcommittee doors; and
2. voting against it anyway once it's finally allowed on the floor.

And, do it for less than another half billion freaking dollars!!

Oracle's involved, so good luck with that.

Raiden: "You got enough?"

Snake: "Absolutely." *points to bandana* "Infinite ammo!"

And if the answer is "everyone gets equal financial support," then what prevents 1000 candidates from running?

And if the answer to that is "Nothing", have we really been harmed?

...and that is why you don't call business an "ecosystem".