Moxie had some cool thoughts on the matter here. And tried to create an alternative Convergence.io. Video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA

I think the point is that Seagate is a subsidiary of Samsung, and the "ah-ha moment" he talks about in that post trial interview where after he takes the role of making the case for Apple, may have been more like "ah-ha, I can get some revenge."

I'm seeing a wired.com link, so looks like the editors went above and beyond the call of duty on this one (which is to say they did anything at all :-).

wonder if they get time and a half. if only they worked for apple with 180hrs over time right now working on the new iDevices (http://chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-415.html)

also, using "wut" in a thread titled "oh the humanity" ... sigh.

Amazing if true. Would square with the million user UDIDs that a popular app is the collection source. I was thinking maybe a jailbreak app like cydia, but this is much more scandalous.

Thanks, if I had mod points I'd mod you up, this is what I was looking for.

Or just use Google Hangouts or Skype. They both let you talk to people on PCs and work over 3g and are free.

It looks like this could work well with a Synology configured for disk redundancy, plus a home router with VPN (dd-wrt or tomato).

I wouldn't. Amazon as a system of getting goods makes sense, and if done right would cut down on gas consumption with everyone driving to the store separately. I happen to live in Seattle and have used AmazonFresh (grocery delivery) and have automatic monthly diaper delivery with AmazonMom and it's awesome. I look forward to a future where I don't need to drive anywhere to do my shopping, and can spend that time out hiking and having fun with my kid. Only thing that might be cool is an Amazon "try it" store where you can go check something out before getting it. Just drop the stuff off with my hose robot and it'll unpack, stock things in the fridge and elsewhere, and recycle the packaging, or better yet start using re-usable packaging and I'll just give it back in the AmazonFresh bins.

On the topic of local distribution centers, I'm sure that this will not be a full selection of Amazon products available for same day deliver, just a selection of the most popular items, which will still be nice to get faster.

Didn't mean to say that you were calling for that, just a lot of the previous posts on this thread. Reading below I found a link to this EFF article from Feb which says in part:

As a side note, Vanilla cookie extension for Chrome is awesome.

How about actually punishing them for what they did. Everyone on this thread is going nuts trying to say that because on one browser they worked around a privacy setting (bad I know), they should all go to jail, especially the people that had nothing to do with it, and a large percent of their total revenue should be given over to a newly formed government agency dedicated to poking Google employees with sharp things.

How about the targeted ads that they showed affected users amounted to 2.25M revenue (probably a lot less, but whatever), and the fine is 10x that. That seems like a good disincentive.

[Flamebait]On balance Google is way better than the patent trolling Apple which is blocking the Nexus because of a BS universal search patent, how about Apple has to pay all the Google users who don't get this obvious feature a large percentage of their total revenue and we poke them with some sharp stuff?[/Flamebait]

Have a report spam option, as well as report fishing or illegal solicitation. It's not hard, just need to actually do something reasonable (I know, I know, it's a bureaucratic). Just send a text message to some service with the offending caller's number from the number you got spammed at, or have a web service and smart phones can have a report unwanted call option with a drop down on if it was just annoying, or if it was illicit in some way. Get more than X reports of spam and you get a warning, get more than Y reports of spam get fined and you can appeal. Get more than Z and you get barred from making more calls until you appeal.

problem solved... too bad it won't happen for another 20 years.

But MySQL can only return NULL 3,500 times in one second, this MemSQL thing can return NULL 80,000 times per second. That's 2285.71% faster!

And be named ICANN, more like ICANT!

[crickets]

I understand that Sony as a corporation is not the best, but they don't operate child / forced labor camps or anything like that (to the best of my knowledge) and abide with the law. My position (which I'm sure many disagree with) is that if people want to be conciseness about something they should invest their time on a decent political campaign rather than trying to figure out what fortune 500 company isn't evil... because they all are in one way or another. Just get the best product at the best price so long as nothing egregious is going on with the seller, and invest time in breaking the stranglehold lobby groups have on our political system.

To stay on-topic, my father was a sound engineer for most of working years, and he insists that these Sony headphones and their studio monitor series are the best ever made. (disclaimer: linked using my associates tag). They are $75, if you want to stick hard on the $50 limit, these or these are very highly rated as well.