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NSA, US government, tyrants everywhere, watch Google carefully for how it's done. For a fickle crowd like Hacker News, you can seize their liberty and human rights easily - just distract them with shiny new things.
For shiny new toys, some people will rationalize anything ;-)
This news made my day. The safety of Snowden has been on my mind for weeks. Hopefully he'll make it all the way to sunny Bolivia.
Why doesn't Skype have a phone number? They don't, and they're in the business of phone calling.
Twitter is a lot better than Facebook IMO, and a Twitter account is easy to set up and easy to delete.
Serious, snark-free question: is this a paid review by Microsoft? I've never been an Arstechnica reader but I thought they had more integrity than this.
Talking up SkyDrive is like extolling the virtues of ivory from elephant tusks. In both cases there is a horrible hidden cost.
Let's boycott the hell out of Microsoft. They gleefully sold out their users to the NSA.
Exactly. Microsoft were making a comeback and I moved my email and online storage from Google to Microsoft. Now I feel back-stabbed.
I don't use the hate word often, but I HATE Microsoft now.
Just for the record, I think Dvorack is bang on with this article. Couldn't agree more.
Do you own the SERPs.com domain name?
There's something sketchy about Jottacloud. I don't trust it. I installed the client a few weeks ago and it wouldn't upload my files. The program just froze. When I tried to uninstall the software it hung again (I had to manually delete it).
It's still in my start menu somehow, although I disabled it. And this is happening to a guy who religiously scans and cleans his Windows partition.
I recommend everyone stay away.
Omnipresent surveillance, more prisons, secret courts and the militarization of the police - Obama's presidency looks like a reign of terror.
I didn't think I could ever get off the Google habit, but I for one welcome our new DDG overlord! I use it for 100 percent of my searches now.
Data point: unlike some, I love the name and branding.