"As a result, we are recommending you to change your password by clicking this link.'" It's a trap!!!!!

Thanks for catching me there, doh.

We have been through this before. You can all you want at the browser level to ask the bullies to stay away, but they will just go on ignoring that and track you anyway. BOOM, rap song. Seriously, though, this is nothing new, and no slimy advert company is going to pay attention to the browser flag. Just get a Proy/VPN/Tor Connection already. For the uninitiated, just forget it. This is why man has crated the Tor Browser https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

Amen to that. Anything that enters your fiend of vision is a distraction. Your eyes track objects in their spatial recognition field while driving, take your eyes off that horizon to the side, /up/down/left/right, pulls your focus away from any potential road hazzard. There once was a very nice reply on this in another story, but that's the basics of it. Even when you talk on your cell phone, which too many people do, your brain has to commit "processor" time to the phone, and that pulls away from your focus. Another reason to refrain from road head :)

Now, go stand in the corner while I scold you!

Open Street Map - good for hikers/bikers/anarchists, BAD for people who actually want to look up their address. It really is a nice "map your own" kit, but in no way shap or form beats google maps, unless you are some anti-google bloke, then that explains it all. It does not "blows away" Google Maps by any stretch. Until Open Street Maps has their own street mapping cards, satellite telemetry, Traffic information, navigation with voice/reroutting/guidence, and detailed area information, then no, it does not. I love FOSS-like projects, but come on.

How do you explain the folks that pay for coporate Gmail services among others? Are they not customers?

Maximum PC continues to be a great magazine. I feel better picking that up in the "royal throne" room , then carting an iPad/Nexus 7/phone and putting my germs all over the screen. There is just something old fahsioned and natural about reading a mag on "the john," vs a phone/tablet. It's built into our guy code DNA. Turning that page and seeing the quality media print in front of you is more satisfying to me than swiping a screen.

Antivrus, catching bad malware as well as predicting the weather.

Gmail does a very decent job at this, but if I wanted to, what is a global Linux/Mac/Windows (maybe not all 3), solution. Seems this Unix fellow only has this spamd utility to run on BSD or your own mail server.

1. Strap that smartphone to your wrist, and never take it off 2. Find a smarphone that lasts for over a year on on "charge." 3. Realize checking time on a phone is an ADDED convenience, and you are a dumbass. People who like to keep tabs on time, generally have a watch. I'm guessing you work at a burger king, and are around the age of 18. Us "grown ups" keep time and the majority of folks at the major hospital I work at, wear... GASP... watches.

I mean we all hope for this, despite the extra work: recite the I.T. Mantra "Mo Problems, Mo Money." Job security bro. Microsoft has it right. Sadly.

Enough said.

What a subjective question. These browsers have changed "skins" so many times in such great frequency now. I sure hope they change the "Correct" answer from time to time. Froma technical stance I prefer chrome, but it's recent RAM spikes are enough to make me irritated.

"hurt in recent years by a string of launch failures of unmanned probes" This ought to be good.