As I discovered looking for Obama's stand on the issue, the "rogue diplomat" who signed ACTA is the PotUS himself. This makes no sense...

Okay, this may have me holding my nose and filling in the oval next to Romney or Gingrich in November.... Obama signed ACTA in Janurary 2012 Mr. President, how could you?

Obama hasn't taken a public stand on copyright law in a while now, mostly because both SOPA and PIPA never made it to his desk. Anger the part of Hollywood who will never vote for him anyway, reassure the other part of Hollywood that he's still the guy they supported in 2008....

Maybe it's been signed by a rogue diplomat but it's never made it to the Senate floor. Maybe the Congressional Dictionary should read:

ACTA: See SOPA in the House and PIPA in the Senate for rejection details/

What we essentially have is International SOPA 2.0 here... and it requires only the signature of a diplomat (who works for the PotUS) and 60 Senators. Why a Rep is getting involved is a sign we've got a publicity hog who doesn't know what he's doing. If you want to do the right thing for this, send a campaign contribution to Obama's primary campaign... even though he doesn't have a credible challenger for the Democratic nomination he can use the money, and if you can afford to max things out your limit resets when he accepts the nomination at the convention.

What was his reason for leaving the FTC? Is it that Google has been investigated fully and even submitted to a 20 year partnership with the FTC so there was nothing left for him to do, and for making messes with Google he couldn't work there, so he applied for a job with Google's nearest competitor?

Google, Bing (from Microsoft), and others track your search requests but also provide free access to their search results when you ask for them.
GMail (from Google). Live Mail (from Microsoft) and others may scan your e-mail, but they also block spam and give you a functional e-mail account.

GotoCamera is not from a rich company and only seems interested in selling your data to marketers. Could they at least offer some sort of "We'll call 911 for you..." or other feature that would at least be a benefit to the consumer. Just noticing the brands in my kitchen and filling the living room TV with ads from their competitors just doesn't work. Why do we need to connect our cameras to him in the first place?

The fact is, We the People of the United States of America were first to fund DNS that makes the Internet what it is today. Sorry UN, you can't take it over without paying off some of the national debt your members hold.

GOOG is pretty smart when it comes to these things. If there's a solution out there that has a problem with it's TOS, it simply rewrites the TOS to their liking and launch a competitor. This is Pwn2Own's loss and Google's gain. Bug finders now still get paid. but those who don't reveal everything Google wants do not.

This is Slashdot... do we care about the inner workings of a woman's body?

So that's good at finding the record if you already know the key, but there's no help in finding a record if you don't know the key, or getting a count of records with the same attribute attached... SQL for the win.

Can somebody explain how this NoSQL stuff works? It's a database without SQL, so what replaces it? Is this just the difference between BASIC and C being expanded.

Yeah, there's some bad math going on here somewhere. He either has enough requests to justify more resources at least until the backlog is cleared, or he's got users who are sending in too many requests and some should be denied.

Every user wants their project first and everybody else to wait. You can't let users declare their own priority unless there's a strictly followed grading system or rubric based on the priorities of the business. (Ex. Customer facing systems are more important than internal ones.) If you've got 5x of the "high" priority tasks either you;re making too many mistakes or priority inflation needs to be addressed with the users.