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Wow. That was torturous to read. Then I saw how often that the nytimes lets her spew this awful mentality: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/author/rebekah-campbell/

I sure hope Mr. Snowden has evidence to the contrary.

tl;dr

Facepalm all by itself would deserve downvotes. It's the quotation marks that set this apart.

"facepalm"

Wow. That is the worst case I've ever seen of map analysis.

Go to the original map here https://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/brands/#, and turn off the iphone layer that happens to be on top. This is pathetic.

Im gonna call my buddy at mapbox.

What is call tracking?

I find bittorrent sync to be a vastly superior way to share files with people. (http://www.bittorrent.com/sync).

They're so gleeful about it all. Wow.

Facebook isn't the web. Its a siloed private service. A company the size and reputation of Fluke should have their very own website that they can put messages like that on. Otherwise, they're merely giving facebook revenue by having that many more pageview opportunities to show everybody ads.

Imagine a world where all software adheres to the tenets of Free software. Our freedoms would continue to be egregiously curtailed by website Terms of Service Agreements at, Contracts with the service providers of hardware devices, Firmware restrictions like UEFI safeboot, and legal straightjackets like software patents. I dont understand how the philosophical underpinnings of just the software are really all that effective in guaranteeing any sort of freedom without also having all the other freedoms we're already denied.

What about all the problems that are inherent to hosting anything ? It's not hard to set up a server that will respond to a request and deliver data.

It's hard to make it do that when the power goes out, when you anger somebody and they decide to ddos you, or when your code/service/whatever becomes insanely popular and whatever mac mini you run it on is overheating. It's hard to keep up with all the security patches required to keep your box from getting pwned. It's hard to negotiate the fine print with all the TOS's you've signed with your internet provider.

Elon Musk is busy trying to change the way cars are sold to the public. And he just lost a battle in New Jersey.

A corporate legal team stealing intellectual property and trademarks from smaller entities is more american than apple pie and baseball.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Master Foo and the Programming Prodigy. http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html

"because the private key required to create the signature never leaves your smartphone."

Sure. People never get their phones stolen, never buy new phones, people never irreplaceably destroy their phones dropping them in a toilet.