Don't get me wrong, I agree television/cable box UIs could use a rethink, but can somebody please please explain to me why all the current UI designs trends revolve around simplification via killing off menus and obscuring all of a device's features behind a single text/voice search interface? Maybe I've just gotten so old I can't understand the new hotness, but do the "kids" today really have trouble navigating a menu of hierarchically organized items? I just feel like we're barrelling down the road to that one Star Trek TNG episode where the crew happens upon a world where the inhabitants have lived with their technology for so long that nobody knows how it actually works anymore.

This is totally unenforceable without some sort of invasive internet user identification system to prove the age of somebody signing up for social media. Without it, all the little angels have to do is lie about their age & boom social media account created.

Citations? I know of exactly 0 cities within my geographic vicinity that have expressed such an intention.

I never said Windows 8 was free. I said the bundled mail client was. Unless you want me to believe that the mail client is a core component of the operating system and not a candy coating freebie to entice casual users who couldn't care less about the features of a full mail client to purchase windows?

There goes the country. Let's see...whatever did I do with my passport?

A free e-mail client from a for profit company doesn't support every feature that users could want?! Why does everybody think they should get first class quality software for free these days?

Given the frequency that anything online gets hacked these days, you would have to be really really naive to trust every one of your credit cards to a service that sounds like a potential one-stop shop for identity thieves. I mean, come on, has the world grown so lazy that manual entry of payment info when making purchases online is considered difficult?

Good to know that there are other rational people on slashdot besides myself. Lately I'd begun to think they'd all left.

Had my galaxy s for nearly a year with no problems and its been accidentally dropped by my klutzy self from over 2 feet high onto hard surfaces multiple times. Barely even has a mark on it.