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Hardly. Google could simply ask the children to fax in signed permission statements from their parents, as websites that actually make an effort to support child users do. Neopets …

Most people aren't worried about being secure from the CIA, we're worried about being secure from random criminals at the airport or the cafe. If the CIA wants you, they can just k…

Actually, the lesson is that people don't WANT a "solution".

It's not as if AWS has never gone down ( http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ ). It just hasn't had a major outage in the last 30 days.

It does happen to be a positive interpretation, but there's no reason to think that's why it was chosen, since it's also the simplest explanation.

How to dismantle a tyrannical regime if you have the support of an omnipresent computer system they trust with absolutely everything.

Do you always follow the suggested resolution 100%?

What users? If Geocities had users to piss off, they wouldn't have needed to shit it down.

Your government wants them to have that option. Why should MS listen to you and not your government?

There's no "sky" in "skype" but we still call it skype because that's its name.

Or maybe we should accept that security ultimately doesn't matter.

But how much of that is due to nearly two decades of experience and how much is due to having kids?

What is wrong with those scenarios? It sounds like you are proposing that instead of using this information, people should ignore it and make bad decisions.

The point is that it's not as private as you think it is.

Conquest? Isn't it Pestilence?

No, that's where the metaphor breaks down. I don't think there's a good equivalent of "public" in the facebook tracking situation. Instead, I would say that you are on someone else…

This may not be a realistic expectation now, but I think that as the general population becomes more technologically literate, for the average person, the presence of such a button…

Not really, no. Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding facebook's tracking system, but I don't think your browser history is being captured here. You are viewing pages that have…

Why would you be uncomfortable in that case? How do the potential drawbacks of such an oracle existing outweigh the potential positives?

That's not an argument against keeping that history. It could just as well be presented in court as evidence for me, or be presented as evidence against people I don't like. I'm in…

I see this as something that could potentially lead to abuse, but I don't see how it is abusive by itself, and I don't agree with trying to limit technology because it could potent…

I met your friend yesterday and he was showing me some pictures from a camping trip he took last week. I asked "who's that guy standing to your left" and he told me it was you. Now…

It's not obvious to me. How were you harmed by facebook logging this data?

Actually, Nintendo's old cartridge-based games already did this to some extent. You were simply plugging in a circuit board, which could, and often did have additional processors, …