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I believe the article is accurate. Back in 2010, a senior staff engineer received a pre-IPO offer from Facebook, but Google gave him $3.5M to keep him. I strongly suspect that person from 2010 and this person from this current article are the same, and it's probably Jeff Dean, one of the engineers who created Map-Reduce (which led to Hadoop and all that jazz) and other engineering feats.

In Silicon Valley the salary for principal engineers is well in excess of $170k, and if you're at a company with a healthy stock price, an additional $100K in vesting RSUs per year is definitely not out of the question.

Pretty much. To quote the relevant part:

Will Nest customer data be shared with Google?

Our privacy policy clearly limits the use of customer information to providing and improving Nest’s products and services. We’ve always taken privacy seriously and this will not change.

If they had plans to keep Nest's data away from Google after the acquisition, they'd have said it plainly as they have with everything else they say. The fact that they aren't doing that here makes it pretty clear what their intent is.

I have a Nest thermostat and have loved it, but I'm actually kinda glad I ran into some financial issues that led to my cancelling my pre-order for Protect smoke/CO detector for my entire house. I definitely won't be buying them now, and I'll be seriously considering whether or not I keep my thermostat.

Correct response to a security problem. Too bad it wasn't fast enough to avoid exploitation.

What was a correct response? That they initially claimed this wasn't an issue and blew it off?

Snapchat hadn’t provided a public statement until now, and what it’s offered isn’t very satisfying. “Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way. Over the past year we’ve implemented various safeguards to make it more difficult to do.” It goes on to note it’s added more barriers to the use of this hack.

Looks like it was not as "theoretical" as they claimed.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/bitcoin-clampdown-continues-as-federal-judge-says-its-a-currency/

Pretty soon the federal government is going to reach out and definitively regulate Bitcoin. That is one of the functions of a central government.
Section 8 of the Constitution enumerates the powers of Congress, among which;

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

Why would you vote into Congress someone who seems not to have read, or seems not to agree with, the founding documents?

they would still have to justify their process for taking it from us. Last I knew, the constitution does not state "the ends justify the means".

They could justify their actions, but you wouldn't like the justification. Here's their justification: The NSA is tasked to silence "radicals" such as Privacy Rights Activists, Women's Rights Activists, Civil Rights Activists, and nearly every Anti-War Activist group to maintain the status quo. The cold war is over, the military industrial war machine was not dismantled, it fell into the wrong hands. These secret programs have been corrupt since their inceptions.

They'll point out where their counter intelligence is leveraged against folks you don't like, but fail to tell you how it's also used against good innocent people as well. Note that this NSA tactic is the same evil as their COINTELPRO justification.

What Snowden did was Patriotic and Honorable, not Treasonous because Treason is exactly how you would describe the actions of the wiretap surveillance agencies. I have no problem at present of the visual surveillance of all outdoor activity. However, since the cold war is over, and we have mutually assured nuclear destruction, we don't need wiretap spying. No force can make a move against us without our instant knowledge. Any war fought on our soil will not succeed against us. So, the Terrorist Threat was invented, meanwhile Cars and Cheeseburgers kill 400 times more people than 9/11 every year and we don't have a war on Automobiles and Happy Meals. We must end the government secrecy so we can trust our governments again. A spy can not harm a government without secrets.

The Snowden leaks illustrate that the NSA has become a huge single point of failure. State sponsored enemy spies have Far More access to the information than Snowden ever dreamed. The Stasi like spying has disgraced us and stripped us of any honor we would bestow. What soldier would answer the call to fight for a country who's actions are indistinguishable from that which we are sworn to fight against? The NSA is now, and has always been, an enormous threat to national security.

Name a single innocent person who has been affected by the NSA. NSA is not the threat,

I am a scientist. That is an unevidenced claim. Prove it. Ah, but the mathematics of information disparity show that you can not prove a secret agency is working in the public benefit. Prove the NSA is not still doing COINTELPRO.

These secret organizations are known to do evil. COINTELPRO seeks to control the socio-political space by discrediting or silencing "radicals" like civil rights and anti-war activists. Martin Luther King was considered "radical". The privacy rights activists (those advocating removal of all government secrecy) are considered radical. What does the NSA think of radicals? Hey, let's COINTELPRO them.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- John F. Kennedy

Funny thing in common about radical thinkers like Kennedy, MLK, and John Lennon: They got assassinated.

What a nice conspiracy theory you have there.

COINTELPRO is a conspiracy, but it's not just theoretical; TFS shows it's on its way to becoming Law.

Counter Intelligence Program does what? Discredit and silence "radical subversives" to control the socio-political space. It's not like that's something foreign to the NSA: Hey, let's use porn habits against the "radical" folks we don't like. The civil rights movement was considered "radical". The privacy rights movement -- Eradication of government secrecy --is considered "radical" too. With secrets the people can never trust their governments to be performing in their best interest. A secret oversight committee just moves the problem around. With covert secret programs we can't even be sure they're telling the truth about 9/11 or the Iraq War -- We shouldn't have to wonder if it was only a threat narrative created to leverage the disaster and manufacture consent.

Now, here's something interesting: Heart disease and accidents kill four hundred times more people than a 9/11 scale attack every year. The flu claims 6 times more lives than a 9/11 scale attack every year. Why isn't there a War on Cars and Cheeseburgers? Why are the DHS, NSA and other anti-terrorist programs consuming such huge amounts of resources when you're 4 times more likely to be struck by lightning? We could save more lives by mandating foam pads on rails and giving away free traction mats for bathtubs since falling down is a far more dangerous threat to American lives than terrorism. So, the government knows the terrorist threat is laughably inconsequential, yet the scaremongers' message of fear echoed all your mainstream news sources, policy maker statements, and judges opinions. Sounds like a fucking conspiracy to me.

It's silly to excuse malice as ignorance when the "professionals" who's job it is to quantify the terrorist threat are blatantly misrepresenting the threat. You're aware conspiracy is a real thing, right? I'm a rationalist, I attribute degrees of certainty and am never 100% sure of anything; Like any good scientist. It's far more likely the NSA and other agencies are carrying on the COINTELPRO tradition to keep the military industrial complex funded -- As Eisenhower warned us. Than to believe that agencies tasked with counter intelligence are not doing so, and that everyone in the media, politics, congress, the executive and judicial branches, etc. just never took a look at the numbers.

The NSA and DHS should be eliminated. Lives do have a cost that is weighed against freedom and expense. Life is dangerous, and certain risks are acceptable: Thus we don't have a ban on Cars, Cheeseburgers, or Freedom Fries even though since 9/11 these claimed 4000 times more lives than 9/11. If anyone is scared of terrorists then they shouldn't be driving, dining out, or go anywhere without a lightning rod. If you really must fund the NSA, DHS, etc. then give them 1/6th what we spend to prevent the flu, that's the rational thing to do. Anything else in the name of protection reeks of deception for ulterior motives, i.e., Conspiracy.

I'm just going by reviews that use superlatives like "insanely quiet". Apple claims an impressive 12bDA at idle, which is going to be hard to hear even with the unit on top of a desk, but it is easy to turn the fans off at idle. I am assuming that the unique thermal design is really being exploited to minimize fan noise.

I disagree that about the competition being "very quiet". Quiet in a relative way, sure, but not as quiet as I would like. For reference, consider the recent Xeon powered HP workstation (non-liquid-cooled) under my desk for reference. It is actually quite nice compared to the screaming hair dryer fans of old, but, under load, the whooshing of air through it is plainly audible even with a gas fireplace fan blasting away 2m from my ears. Turning off the HP under these circumstances gives me a sense of relief from its noise. Compare that with this description: "during an Apple demo, a high-end Mac Pro, complete with upgraded processor and graphics cards, was live-rendering multiple 4K videos, and we couldn’t hear the fan over the normal room noises."

I don't always agree with Techdirt, I think they exaggerate, omit and sometimes distort for effect. That being said, they do good stuff also. They have a pretty good take down of the whole 60 Minutes puff piece, including the interviewer (hint- when you've never seen that interviewer before, you might be interested to know more about him) and also claims about the whole BIOS attack thing.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131216/12580425582/cbs-airs-nsa-propaganda-informercial-masquerading-as-hard-hitting-60-minutes-journalism-reporter-with-massive-conflict-interest.shtml

I am sure there's more out there that's even more damning. This is the problem with the people running this organization. They've somehow enabled themselves to lie lie lie and think they're doing everyone a favor so it's OK.

That's just not how a democracy is run. If you've given up on democracy, like say Peter Thiel apparently has

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

then that's cool. But you don't need to be running the organs of that democracy in that case. Have a nice retirement. It's on us.

That horse left the barn months ago.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/16/riaa-mpaa-would-like-to-scan-your-hard-drive-for-infringing-content/

As Google *always* cache the image, the sender does not knows anymore when or even if the image was viewed and, so, doesn't knows anymore if the email was opened.

If they have specific knowledge about Gmail. Unfortunately, mailers that don't would make the more dangerous assumption (that you read the mail) under that behavior.

But anyway, even that's not true because under Gmail's new setup, the first download will still come when the user opens the mail and loads the images. At least, that's the best information I can find on this. I also saw a comment somewhere a couple of days ago by someone who claimed to have tested that behavior, and checked that the load of the image came when the mail was opened.

Since the start had big problems, but the reasons are the worrysome ones, sometimes for misconfigured network devices, forgetting to update a SSL certificate, dealing with leap years, and even over DNS (this one was last month, and took down other MS services).

I'm sorry to tell you this, but AdBlock Plus is a sell out. Use AdBlock. They don't do this.

But if you really believe their is a chance that drones are going to be dropping packages off at you doorstep in under 10 - 15 years, you neither understand the logistics and you are both delusional and naive. Set down the Adderal and the Code Red. Maybe light some incense and listen to some Tibetan singing bowls or something.

Speaking of Tibetan singing bowls and doorsteps if your doorstep is in the USA maybe not. But if Tibet is near your doorstep maybe...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57601531-76/drones-in-china-deliver-packages-even-a-birthday-cake/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/02/amazon-is-joining-not-starting-the-drone-delivery-revolution/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2013-09/03/content_16941199.htm

Not saying it's a good idea. Just pointing out that drones may be dropping packages off sooner than you think, depending on where your doorstep is.
quote from the last link:

Currently several major Chinese couriers like S.F.Express have expanded to counties or even villages. But there are still areas that are more remote or with poor transport infrastructure. It is expected the drones will be useful for delivering online shopping goods to those places.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? I think that might be the big one. Remember he/they own almost 3/4's of all the bitcoins mined

There are over 12 million Bitcoins in circulation. The estimates I have found for Nakamoto indicate about 1 million Bitcoins., though others have come up with as much as 1.5 million. Either way, that's obviously far from three quarters.

As for your first question, an interesting recent theory is Nick Szabo.

They ask and shall receive.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/27/microsoft-received-37196-gov-requests-for-data-impacting-66539-accounts-in-first-half-of-2013/

On Wednesday after Sandy, AT&T and T-Mobile agreed to share celltowers with all their mutual customers. This lasted something like 2 weeks to a month? I believe some of the other providers may have joined in, but I don't recall for sure.

I guess you missed the part where Facebook rewrote their Android app from HTML5 to a native implementation less than a year ago:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/facebook-android-faster/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/source-microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-from-aol/

An app that needs to update every week is not from a reliable developer.

That's putting it a bit too strongly. I just put out my first app a few days ago, and I've already gotten useful user feedback and requests for new features. Plus, small developers don't have the equipment budget to test the way larger companies do. (12 to 50 devices on a regular basis, with periodic tests on more.) Especially on a new app, there's going to be a period where things have to shake out.

Or do you simply avoid any app that hasn't been around a while?

What could possibly go wrong with trusting Microsoft with critical servers, and backing up your data?

See this: T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger's Servers Crashed, And They Don't Have A Backup

An interesting talk about what Tech tends to do and what Tech should do.

First of all, just because the latest version is available does not by any stroke of the imagination means everybody chooses to upgrade to it. In fact, most users don't because they have no need to do so, as far as they are concerned.

This is demonstrable nonsense. In a week, iOS7 already had a 64% adoption rate. And is up to about 75% now.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/200-million-devices-running-ios-7-five-days-after-launch-64-of-all-idevices-20-million-itunes-radio-listeners/
https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7

On Android, the adoption rate is snail-like. But that's not a lack of need. It's because most Android users don't have the option.
KitKat has a 0.2% adoption. And even the previous 16 month old version (Jelly Bean) is only up to 62%.
https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/android_kitkat

And no, those browsers are not available for ios. Skins for safari that make them look slike those browsers are available.

Again, that's demonstably false. They ARE available for iOS. You don't get to decide that. Dolphin, that YOU recommended, uses the same Webkit whether on Android or iOS.

Chrome on Android does indeed use Blink, but that was only forked away from Webkit very recently, and there are no significant rendering differences. Blink was forked so that Google could strip out code for non-Google browsers. There's no user impact as of yet.

In order to perform certain actions on Facebook with a non-edu e-mail account, or in some cases just to log in, a user needs to verify an account by linking a unique mobile phone number, shared by no other Facebook user, that can send and receive SMS text messages. This costs money if a user uses a land line or a wireless phone that can't text (such as several landline-replacement adapters sold by wireless carriers), if there are fewer mobile phones in a household than Facebook users (my cousin's case), or if the user is on one of the pay-per-text plans typical of low-minute plans intended to replace payphones (my case). I am not the only affected person. Google facebook roadblock phone to see others.

I keep seeing the seeing these paranoid critters screaming bloody murder about being forced to use Google+. What exactly is the issue with creating a Google+ account and not adding any information you do not want to share? Please enlighten me!

Has the privacy disaster that is Facebook not once entered your brain after all these years?

People are losing jobs, and failing to get jobs, because of this nonsense, people are being forced to turn over social network account passwords, and the accounts, with or without passwords are being mined, not only by advertisers, but also by government agencies.

Look, its fine that you buy into this stuff, but don't drag me into it, just because you don't see a problem in your little world. Even teenagers are starting to realize facebook is a trap.

There is simply no reason to believe Google+ is going to be any different. You can see the creeping invasion already.

Nobody makes much profit off Android

No, not off the OS, but the devices which run it are chewing up 80% of the global market. That's a big deal.

If that 80% of shipments correlated to more than 10% of profits, perhaps. And unless your name is Samsung, your share of those profits is right about 0%.

Nobody makes much profit off Android

No, not off the OS, but the devices which run it are chewing up 80% of the global market. That's a big deal. That's a big deal to Apple because the bulk of their revenue stream is limited to North America. Much of Europe is not foolish enough to pay Apple tax so they go the "cheap" route. The cheap route is the niche Microsoft was supposed to fill with their abysma-phone and one they WOULD fill if Android, Samsung, HTC and others were slapped with trade embargoes due to "Patent infringement". Limits we've already seen put in practice by Lucy Koh and Apple.

Should we expect a lawsuit or do they have a licensing agreement with Nestlé? (It's very indicative of the time we live in that this is the first thought that came to my mind...)

The latter. http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/03/google-strikes-bizarre-licensing-deal-with-nestle-to-name-next-android-kit-kat/

One of the companies was apparently Google. I guess we won't trust those idiots again.

Manymoon started out as free, which is probably where the 50k number came from. After being acquired, the plan was to keep giving it away while selling it to people who wanted to buy whatever premium services it added. How ridiculous is 50k companies/users on a free application which stayed near the top of Google Apps and LinkedIn apps lists?

The release announcement, when Manymoon became Do.com is worth a read for anyone who wants to register an informed opinion.

From all accounts, it was a decent way to get stuff done while on the go, even if "on the go" means being physically in the same place as other people, just not talking to them at the moment.

Another web based service has the plug pulled with little or no warning. When Google does it it's news. When a small company does it it gets ignored.

In my case it was little company called Catch.com, which synced notes written in a little app called AK Notepad. Not the end of the world, but intensely irritating when it just stopped working one day and all data disappeared. And when they were too scummy to leave some way of downloading user data after a month or so.

At this point I'm looking at moving pretty much everything out of web based services and back to my desktop, or at least to a server space that I control. And watching ideas like Ark.OS with considerable interest.

I may not be a multinational corporation, but I no longer trust any company to handle data that matters to me.

NSA Collects Data Directly From Servers Of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook And More
Apple iOS 7 Update Gives Law Enforcement Unlimited Access To User’s Personal Data(NSA is specifically mention in the article.)
Apple admits, ‘iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database To Be Shared With NSA’
Apparently Apple has officially admitted it after the NSA leaks.

Considering what has been revealed, shouldn't you think twice before calling someone paranoid or a tin-foil hat?
Seriously, either you have lived in a closet the last months or you are a government goon spreading FUD.

Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.

Hello, fellow Windows user from 1998! We sure do enjoy using the best OS on the planet, don't we?

Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.

It's not that people want, it's that it's the default choice, like Windows is on PCs.

Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.

And how many times was the market share argument used to espouse the superiority of Windows, the iPhone, COBOL, or alternating current?

But now you want that to be a valid argument for Android?

Consumers buy the one phone at a time and stick to it.

"Finally he says the people who general prefer the choice Android provides are tinkers similar to gear heads who love tinkering with their car"

So by that logic 80% of mobile users are tinkers

Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.

Yet Apple's profit was greater than the other's combined; with Samsung a close second in terms of profitability. It's really just a two horse race with Apple vs. Samsung; so in that sense as long as Samsung maintains a consistent UI and feature set the "too many choices" argument is not relevant. It's shaping up a lot like the PC market did - Apple has it's own proprietary offering; the PC has MS-DOS but each implementation is customized often to the point of a lack of compatibility until IBM essentially set a hardware standard that allowed the emergence of a standard OS implementation. The biggest difference, other than the much greater difficulty difficulty in making Samsung clones like the old IBM clones, is Google didn't chose to make money on the OS like MS; it remains to be seen if that will ultimately was a good choice.

Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.

Exactly. Its like the fragmentation argument that is just killing Android. Or how insecure Android is. Its just people writing headlines to attract attention to themselves.

Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.

What attention to detail? The CPU itself is manufactured by their arch competitor, would you trust such a hardware?

I think you are correct that the current leadership has not yet proven that they can innovate in the way that Mr. Jobs did. That said, the iPhone 5s is really a nice step forward, real-world tests are showing that the A7 really is a lot faster, and the fingerprint thingy is winning a lot of accolades. And, they've sold a hell of a lot of them. Nonetheless, the stock price is actually a bit lower than before the 5c/5s announcement.

The truth is that the stock price for a lot of companies, and Apple in particular, does not reflect the financial success of that company or the company's products. Just compare Amazon's numbers to Apple's and you'll get what I mean. Stock prices today are more driven by bets on where that price will be in 15 minutes (or 15 milliseconds), not how well the company will be doing in a few years. As such, stock prices for high-tech companies are not a valid way to measure the company's success in the marketplace.

Apple is shrinking into irrelevance. iOS 7 is their Vista.

So by which measure are you measuring that by?

1. The rate at which users upgrade their current phones to iOS 7?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/19/ios-7-adoption-already-as-high-as-35-in-one-day-apple-and-developers-reap-the-rewards/

2. Year over Year growth of iOS device sales (we will know in about two weeks)

3. Third party developer support?
http://furbo.org/2013/08/02/app-updates-for-ios-7/

right, because people use their phones for PHONEcalls...owait, no they don't generally. . Data overtakes voice use: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/technology/personaltech/14talk.html .. Smart-phones outnumber feature phones in US: http://techland.time.com/2012/03/01/smartphones-outnumber-feature-phones-in-u-s-for-first-time/ .. Smartphones Finally Overtook Dumbphone Sales Globally: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/gartner-q2-smartphone/ .. Smartphones to outnumber feature phones in Kenya by end of 2013: http://www.humanipo.com/news/32204/smartphones-to-outnumber-feature-phones-in-kenya-by-end-of-2013/ .. So basically, the planet is evolving towards using smartphones more than featurephones, and Voice is being overtaken by data on these devices, even in 3rd-Word countries. .. So why do we need to prioritize a curved phone for phone-calls again ?

Facebook makes about $16/year/user in English-speaking North America—and it's believed that about 10% of all web traffic is ad-blocked. I'm guessing there are some other people at Facebook who are aware of this situation!

When will we see a postive story about Bitcoin's usefulness? Oh right, there really ISN'T any news on that front.

There is news on that front; it just doesn't get reported here as often.

• Honolulu-based Tealet using Bitcoin to expand international business
• Online game developer Bigpoint's 330m users can now buy virtual goods with bitcoins
• BitWall Allows Publishers To Make Money Through Bitcoin Micropayments
• Bitcoin recognized by Germany as 'private money'

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/30/blackberry-claims-bbm-is-still-coming-to-android-and-iphone-but-has-given-no-timeline/

They just announced today that they added AirPlay support. http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/17/amazons-instant-video-app-adds-airplay-support-for-streaming-to-apple-tv/ and that their UK customers can stream purchased albums from the Amazon Cloud Player to their Sonos systems. http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/audio/1302640/sonos-gains-amazon-cloud-player-to-instantly-stream-your-purchased-albums I think other devices and OS choices are in the making. We should be able to stream all Amazon content to a variety of devices soon if these early steps are any indication.

I think the article on TechCrunch provides much better perspective on this issue. http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/09/22/hackers-bypass-apples-touch-id-with-lifted-fingerprint/

I was unable to install many apps because they required the new version of iOS and older versions of those apps were unavailable on the App Store.

They fixed that the other day too; now the App Store will warn you if the current version won't run on older iOS, and will offer you the last version that will run on your system

Not exactly ... the App Store will only offer you the last version that the app developer approves offering.

If the app developer has decided to embed new video ads (hello Facebook), remove functionality (Skitch), or anything else where only the version requiring a newer iOS meets their vision then you're just as fucked if you are on an old device.

I was unable to install many apps because they required the new version of iOS and older versions of those apps were unavailable on the App Store.

They fixed that the other day too; now the App Store will warn you if the current version won't run on older iOS, and will offer you the last version that will run on your system .

Of course, now people are bitching about that...

But at least it fixes some of the more stupid fuckups - for example, iOS happily updating core apps like iBooks on old hardware to incompatible versions for the last year or so...

That's already happening.

Brazil is pulling away from doing business with US tech firms.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-19/nsa-spying-gives-advantage-to-brazil-s-local-tech-firms.html

Germany is pissed:
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/08/14/german-backlash-to-nsa-spying-gets-stronger/

EU in general is looking elsewhere for technology:
http://gigaom.com/2013/06/07/nsa-spying-scandal-fallout-expect-big-impact-in-europe-and-elsewhere/

Business world wide is starting to look elsewhere:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/10/how-the-nsa-revelations-are-hurting-businesses/

Cloud Computing was just sentenced to death by NSA
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/04/spying-bad-for-business/

The NSA revelations will prove to be one of the biggest detriments to US computer technology business in decades.