Latest data from the Commons Environment Audit Committee warns that up to 50,000 people each year are meeting a premature death in the UK thanks to air pollution, with an annual health care bill of up to £20.2 billion. The biggest culprit? Transport, responsible for 70 percent of pollution in towns and cities.

That's the UK, the pollution in China is worse by orders of magnitude, literally millions of people a year will be dying there from lung diseases.

People don't take traffic pollution seriously because they can't see it, even though the number of deaths caused dwarfs vehicle accident deaths.

Perhaps MS shouldn't shit all over gamers by paying game companies to release their games for xbone only and not PC.

Stupid MS, crapping on your own customers.

That and the fact that games companies keep ruining great games with crap ports and then don't fix those problems even when they're told about them. Is it so hard to allow fully configurable keyboard mapping, including 2 actions to one key like what fucking happens when you use a controller, lazy fucking dipshits.

+1

But Slashdotters are rabidly pro-nuclear. It doesn't matter how many fucked up nuclear accidents there were in the past, they seem to think today's humans are magically better and won't make any more mistakes with nuclear power.

human morbidity and mortality are probably major inconveniences.

Bullshit.

Since when was security mutually exclusive with openness?

It's pretty obvious that Google has refused to give users the optional security permissions that they would like to have control of.

It's daft that you have to root your phone in order to be able to increase the security.

And just because Apple have (A) good security and (B) a crazy degree of control freakery, doesn't mean that everyone else with good security needs to be a control freak too which is some in these threads are insinuating.

NSA brought gchq in on. This because the y couldn't do it themselves (5th amendment etc.). So they have gchq do the dirty work and then gchq shares the intelligence. Welcome to the new USA.

That would be ECHELON you are referring to. Except you obviously missed that news that's been coming out for the last year about NSA spying on Amercicans regardless. What do you think NSA are storing in their $1,500,000,000 data centre, how many Terabytes does $1.5 billion buy?

We know they make mistakes/act carelessly/are sociopathic cunts [delete as applicable]

FTFY

Most of those people are guilty as sin.

They may have infringed upon some copyrights, but they don't deserve to have their whole lives destroyed for that. (USA)

Why is being addicted to a game shameful?

I was using the groups aspect of it until it started hassling me every few hours to upgrade it... but the permissions had changed to wanting access to pretty much everything on the phone.

Uninstalled. Not missed.

Ghostery
VPN
Delete cookies on exit
Telegram not Facebook
Don't play angry-birds!!

Join site(s) like 38 Degrees, Avaaz even with the god-awful tories in power, 38 Degrees have made a substantial difference many times.

Donate to EFF, UCL, etc.

Don't be creepy says the creepiest company on the web, spying on people worldwide to a degree that I'm sure the NSA envies.

Google analytics > Google glass, pot kettle black.

http://www.youtube.com/results...

"About 2,720,000 results"

". If someone robbed a store of $100 worth of merchandise, had an arrest warrant issued at the time, then spent nine years on the run, would it still be unreasonable for them to be arrested today?"

No, too long.