I suspect there is at least one engineer who voiced concerns months or years ago, was not listened to, and is now having an “I told you so” moment.

They should re-make Episodes 1-3 and do what they should have done the first time – reveal Jar Jar as a Sith Lord at the end of the trilogy.

Exactly! Back in the day, you had two options: (1) subscribe or (2) buy a single magazine or newspaper. Now, there’s no equivalent to the newsstand for digital media.

To be clear, Google will still be storing copies of the pages they crawl. They just won’t be making those copies available to end users.

Microsoft tried to shanghai me to the “new outlook”. When I realized the scope of what they were trying to do, under the guise of a simple software update, I was floored. I don’t even think Google, with all of their Borg-ish tendencies, would attempt such a blatant hijacking of user data. The privacy implications are profound.