It is an unfortunate truth that our government is more responsive to the desires and needs of our corporations than it is to the rights of our citizens.

I am looking for the same thing - but, in the meantime, I've already moved my personal mail off Gmail. While the ideal scenario is to have no one sniffing around in my email; since at the moment I can't do much about the government, I can at least keep Google out of it.

If a gruff-talking general and a scruffy-looking scientist show up at your door, you might want to ask some hard questions before agreeing to anything.

Even Snow Leopard had LaunchPad - and that was being sold in 2009. You almost never see it, though, because the tablet paradigm doesn't translate well to a computer... so no one chooses to use it.

"Meaty"?

Mountain Lion fixed Kerberos authentication, in any case - it was horribly borked in Lion. ML also handled Active Directory reasonably well.

Not that most home users care about either one...

Was the redundancy there intentionally redundant redundancy?

And this is relevant to this discussion how, exactly?

Of COURSE they're visiting the beach over and over - they're trying to track down the damn humans that put tracking tags in their dorsal fins!

Why exactly should I care that stupid people with money are willing to give some to other stupid people without money?

You're exaggerating the burden. What are the odds that any single independent developer has managed to sell their app to all three people who own Windows 8?

Actually, the fundamental reason these scientists conducted this study was to figure out why women wouldn't sleep with them.

You didn't touch the Crushinator, did you?

I work in Seattle. Here (at UW) our internet is pretty good, as you might expect - but the city as a whole is nothing to write home about. Of course there's a Starbucks on every corner, so perhaps the city scored well based on the availability of that AT&T free wi-fi...

Reading the article, it appears Seattle scored highly based, at least in part, on things they say they plan to do. And I must admit our local guys are very adept at talking a good game. But come on... they just killed the almost stillborn city-wide wifi network! Talking is basically all they're good at!

I read the article, but didn't note the date - so I was rather confused by a story about some mega-delivery company I'd never heard of that mentioned facts that weren't remotely true!

But, even in 2023... How is this supposed to work? They're a delivery company - are the customers supposed to be on the honor system, coming out to the curb and taking only the packages addressed to them? The basic idea doesn't really work, unless the car also has fold-out legs and can walk up to the door...