I have not studied the specs, but in my experience a) images or movies beyond a certain size cannot be sent using MMS. So...apple devices sending me a nice 30-second full HD video? I get a horrible down-sampled blurry thing like my cell phone would create in 1997. I tell my family to use email, they laugh and say THEY don't have any trouble (most have iphones...).

Same with vids I send from android to iphone users.

b) when an iphone user 'likes' or 'loves' something in messages, I get a message "XXX loved an image". Annoying.

Here's a completely unsatisfactory info page from Verizon, my carrier. It does not even mention iphones. https://www.verizon.com/suppor...

ok, wait. your /. id is past 10 MILLION and you're saying "you kids"? Methinks you're pretending, or retired and just came to technology.

Please. You can't file a class-action lawsuit. Only the federal government can do this. You can file a complaint, and hope the federal government decides it's actionable. IBM has been doing things like this for years, and they likely have armor-plated their butts.

You should see this: http://www.salon.com/2015/03/1... If you don't trust salon, take your pick of the many other sites that have covered this. Those articles all make the assessment that Hillary's email 'furor' was not a legal matter. Yet the haters and the political organizations keep the ball in the air, hoping for a miracle before November. I don't know if you are among them, but from your rhetoric, it seems likely. Not going to touch the rest of your pro-conspiracy rant here. Just wanted to shed a little light.

And after, will you also google "what is the EU" just as the many brexiters did in the UK? "I voted for trump but I didn't think he'd win!". It's times like this AC should be forbidden. If you're going to speak up, identify yourself.

First it was having an 'indicator light' when the camera was in operation, and we were assured it was absolutey secure - until this came to light. (<URL:http://gizmodo.com/fbi-can-secretly-activate-laptop-cameras-without-the-in-1478371370/>) I read about someone who overcame a physical switch but have lost the link.

Nonetheless, I would not assume any physical switch on a computer. It's read and execution based on the sensor is still software (or firmware, or microcode).

It's not just the camera you need to protect. I used to carry a small audio adapter - plug it into the laptop and the built-in microphone is disabled. I got out of the habit, but the tape is always there.

Wish I had mod points today. Thank you.

I can find no workarounds for Chrome - posted in the chrome forum. Just wondered if anyone else was concerned enough to figure out how to disable it in Chrome until the library is updated.
From ldd output of /opt/google/chrome/chrome:
libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007fb69a34e000)

O/T: There was no Fed before 1913. However, we've had one form or another of a national bank for much longer; the story of how Andrew Jackson stared down Nicholas Biddle and put a leash on the Second Bank of the United States is quite a different story. Perhaps it was this which you attempted to reference...but even then, the BUS lost.

dAzED1, You're quite right in your facts. This is not something that your average techno-geek (or slashdot nerd) is going to grok or espouse, as you're seeing here. It something that will save enterprises (the larger the better) huge piles of money, while providing all the benefits you cite (and a few you have missed).

I'm riding this wave, too, but from the other side of the table. And Cloud - as an enabler - is bringing fantastic (in a business sense) and fascinating (in a technical sense) technologies to the realm of possibility.

The reason I'm replying, though, is to cast a bit of a cautionary note: not everything is cloud-ready or even cloud-friendly. Regulatory issues like BASEL II will make some information/applications impossible for public cloud. SPI (sensitive personal information) and 'classified' or 'confidential' information may never be put into a public cloud. And that's as it should be.

However, having said that, there are private cloud solutions and hybrid solutions that can be brought to bear.

"Cloud" is the foundation technology, the infrastructure enabler, as I see it, that will allow and even encourage this 'entirely new paradigm' to grow and flourish into an entirely new generation of technologies.

And the rate of adoption is just terrific; the interest is, as someone described it to me recently, so exciting it's scary. It will be some time before the field settles, but my money's on the global players who can bring virtually limitless resources to the problem.