In the article, "cell phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents" and "a large and immediate risk of cell phones causing brain tumors in children can be excluded". So if you are a child or adolescent you wont "immediately" get a brain tumour if you use a cell phone.
Now of course after many years of use, many hours a day when you are no longer a child or adolescent, well that's called Russian roulette.
What is needed is simply an honest analysis of current data. Of all the people with brain tumours and cancer, how many hours per day and for how many days have they used a cell phone. Of course bugger the "1,000 participant studies", an analysis on everyone with known brain cancers and tumours ie tens eve hundreds of thousands.
Just a friendly reminder, the bulk of the population are not introverted computer geeks and often watch TV in groups. So you get one happy viewer, well relatively, being covered in every other viewers else's technicolour burps wont be all that pleasant.
More likely, all those voting yes will have been victims of successful secret warrant less wire tapping and a yes vote will ensure their secrets remain secrets.
It is all about thinking for today versus thinking for yesterday, today and tomorrow. You might know the current APIs, protocols and standards but when the underlying platforms are closed off from input and control, you have no idea what you will have to deal with tomorrow and how that will affect what was done yesterday.
When it comes to M$ they have been unreliable, manipulative, insensitive and arrogant. If it saves them money and enables them to make more whether it be saving costs by not fixing bugs and security faults, holding out on simple improvements and forcing upgrade cost plus lost productivity for years waiting for upgrades or simply dumping their costs on end users to be replicated millions of times.
So lack of control of the underlying platform in many other areas of computing have wasted billions of dollars, a lesson that should be and never forgotten. It would be the same to hand over all infrastructure services to one for profit corporation, like roads, rail lines, airports, footpaths, bridges, electricity, storm water and sewer and expect things to term out well without being screwed at every turn. That kind of thinking was OK early on in the computer industry but just doesn't make any sense at all any more.
More to the point current models tend to be based upon global patterns without specific focus on exact geographic regions. The reason for this, rapidly increasing complexity in regards to starting data and calculations required.
The noted paper questions global forecasts based upon global models not being able to accurately forecast localised temperature variations.
What is missing is how localised were their investigations versus a global model. Did they check surrounding regions to see if the heat had gone elsewhere. To go from global to region specific is a huge leap in modelling and would also need to account for solar output upon a continual basis and include a solar output forecast model.
Now who do you blame, government of the private corporations that have corrupted it. Who is more at fault, the US Congress or the US and foreign corporations buying representatives, paying bribes and substantively profiting by the privatised corruption they create.
In fact the more services and work the government do in house the less opportunities for grand scale corruption. A little bit of pilfering here and there but no grand scale multi-million dollar boon doggles all made possible by privatised contracting and you wonder why corporations fought so hard for it and why the Republicans are made to preach it at every opportunity.
The reality is there would not be any budget short fall if they had not deregulated, had not created a bunch of corporate do not pay any tax loop holes and had not given the richest and greediest (those that most profit by society) idiotic tax reductions.
It is not government wasting money, it is corrupted corporation paying their employees, those people pretending to represent the people, pouring money into their employers pockets. Virtually nothing is done to send the bribe payers to prison or to recover lost tax payer funds as a result of bribes. It is all buried under piles of mass media corporate funded lies, it is all government faults, if the corporations hate government so much why do they keep buying and controlling it.
As long as complete kits are supplied with socket connections, "solar panel, battery, rectifier and switch board connection", there shouldn't be too much of a problem. Even better if a set of standards governing default connection standards for a home solar power kit, would allow people to mix and match as long as the equipment adhered to the standards and they used default electrical connections. Excluding off course the wiring the switchboard socket which should require a licensed electrician, beyond that plug and play would save considerably on the install side.
Yes, the dual boot solution solves many problems. I really can't understand why people set up a Linux dual boot even if they only use it solve various "do as I say not as they say" problems.
A tricky one of that field might not be considered legal. "Initiating for profit quasi-legal computer based attacks against individuals and groups, that endanger corporate investments in false image public relations and disingenuous marketing" not really what any so called security organisation would want brought up in public and a topic upon which Aaron Barr would certainly be challenged on when sitting on a discussion panel.
From a normal, moral and sane viewpoint, that is the kind of behaviour most people and companies are trying to defend against. Honest companies of course want to be able to thrive in an honest market and not continually be forced to compete against lying, cheating corporations which pretty much is the whole of the market when it comes to the big end of town.
HBGary Federal of course wants everybody to forget exactly what kind of ass hats they are, otherwise their attack campaigns would be substantially weakened from the get go, they just need to be recognised as the originator and everyone would assume it was all lies and the party they were defending is a guilty as can be.
Of course a company like that and you would assume everyone is stabbing everyone else in the back in order to try to survive. It really is a surprise that any even partially competent staff haven't already jumped shift and that there is anything left to defend.
Talk about way off track, "Humans living at high latitude have bigger eyes and bigger brains", hmm, what is reduced at high altitude, oxygen. Brains demand high oxygen flow as do eyes. Greater flow, requires larger blood vessels, now to retain similar brain capacity larger brains are required to accommodate more space taken up by blood vessels and likely similar for the eyes.
More interestingly in terms of evolution, learning capacity and imagination, provide one main element, environmental adaptability. Likely the development of smarter primates was driven by cyclic ice ages and the subsequent climate zone shifts, where mental adaptability, provided an advantage over physically evolving to suit the changed climate ie put on furs stripped from other other animals, fire and, enclosures providing safety from climatic extremes.
Here's a fine line, for a network or computer systems administrator a disk of the latest malware is highly appropriate as the only means of ensuring the quality of computer systems protection software us functioning properly ie you attempt to infect the system in a controlled fashion and check to see of the various protection system are functioning correctly.
Via this method I at one stage was able to ascertain a configuration fault as the system was not updating remote units by reason of a simple reference to a wrong directory (some contractors are no that competent).
So answer me this, which is worse, the anonymous jerk or the narcissist bully. Keep in mind the anonymous jerk will be annoying and the narcissist bully will use violence, threats and attempt to force group intimidation and ostracisation of individuals.
I wonder who complains loudest about anonymous jerks, could it be the narcissist bullies who have lost the public pulpit to enforce their will upon others either directly through violence or indirectly through controlling and manipulating peer pressure.
For me the anonymous jerk is mildly annoying and ignorable, whilst I have found the narcissist bullies to be true shit heads and to be confronted publicly and Anonymous'ly' at every opportunity.
There are two types of project managers, professional project managers and of course professional in the project being done who can project manage.
These two produce greatly different results, one who only concerned in generating personal income for generating as much project management paperwork as possible and being able to blame everyone else for their failures. The other of course has skills and understanding of the work at hand, a produces the correct amount of project management to produce a result, this amount being limited by the time the person can make available to the project management task.
University is largely to blame for delusion that generic project managers can project manage any type of product effectively, all based upon parroting a few textbooks, oddly they don't even bother to teach time motion studies, one of the most essential understandings for effective project management.
No the merchants who failed to identify the user of the credit details is guilty and in reality it is that merchant who should face criminal charges for defrauded you by making illegal charges against your card.
You should be entitled to sue the merchant for any harm their greed driven failure to properly identify the user of the details and in fact the merchant should prove that they were defrauded else face full criminal charges.
Identify theft is a lie put forward by credit card companies to shift the financial onus onto you and away from the merchant until you substantiate your innocence, meanwhile the credit card company still makes money either way. Basically for 675,000 credit card details to be so readily abused means the fault in with for profit, minimum cost, not our problem corporation and some government regulation is required to tighten identity requirements.
Time is money. A users time is just a valuable as a corporations time, of course the corporation always deceitfully and wilfully waste the users time no end.
All the time the users put into social networks bring them to life and give them value, without the users, the social network site is just a cash vacuum worth nothing.
So what does google owe to the user, every bloody thing, without them google like all the other web sites is nothing, abso-bloody-lutely nothing, something you and the executives at google obviously need to remember.
Come on, snap back to reality. How many tens of millions of people share the same bloody name. How stupid can google be, effectively banning anyone from using google who has the same name as someone else using google. The single greatest benefit of pseudonym usernames is getting past the fact many people share the same name.
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People often forget what is going on in the background, so what was the 3D bullshit and marketing all really about. Nothing more or less than driving the uptake of blueray, of getting people to rebuy all that DVD content, of adding in tighter copy protection, of making it harder to copy content. Victims of marketing will always be gullible victims of marketing, will buy into PR=B$ marketing schemes.
I suggest you read up on vertical axis wind turbines, they spin no faster than the wind the operate in hence are a lot quieter and are suitable for the suburban environment as long as the bearings are services. As for building facing, the fantasy of design versus the reality of geography and the extreme cost of attempting to force geography to twist to the fancies of design and how that in turn disrupts services like water, sewer and stormwater. Now add in population densities, access to services, functional design requirements.
All dwellings require roofs, now the government investment is required to make it cost efficient for those roofs to be made of solar panels regardless of orientation, shape, pitch etc. Right now patents are far more of an encumbrance to the development of more cost efficient solar panels than a benefit.
Let's be more honest it all breaks down to "Government Regulation" vs "Corporate Greed". Corporations as run by psychopathic asshats, will seek every possible method to screw their customers for every possible cent of profit upon a completely amoral or sociopathic basis. Government regulation is then required to force morals onto those corporations in order to get them to treat the customers/voters in a somewhat reasonable fashion.
I for one think, that being able to remotely program a battery that is capable of bursting into flame is an insanely fucking stupid idea, that could only be driven by greed.
Let's be realistic, it is all down to the game packs. Buying a whole bunch of games for one relatively accessible price, even if half of them suck, the rest are still cheap enough. Of course steam can become unreliable at times when huge numbers of packs go out the digital door leaving millions of gigabytes to download, creating huge burdens on their systems, with regards to login, game downloads, and game connections.
What your actually paying for a game becomes arbitrary, likely paying more for a newer game and getting the older game as cheap bait to get you to bite. You do end up getting stuck with multiple copies of the same game which can get frustrating. Perhaps Steam should allow you to donate unwanted game licences to worthwhile causes ie. community orgs that can give fee access to hardware just need game licences to play (rather than cluttering up your game library).
Once you have suburbia, the better method is distributed power generation via solar panels and vertical wind turbines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_axis_wind_turbine (take up less space, spin slower ie less of bird threat and quieter).
Rather than subsidising, better to buy out patents and offer them patent free (when locally manufactured). Promote development of lower cost production techniques. Most importantly promote open free of patent encumbrances (for local production) to accelerate development.
With suburbia already covering thousands of square kilometres, getting those roofs producing energy makes more sense, especially when consumers themselves would pay all of or a substantial portion of the capital costs, perhaps even very low interest loans to accelerate the uptake.
So solar panel roofs with vertical axis wind turbines distributed along the ridges, makes a lot more sense.
Easy to sum up 'government grade' how boring, iPad like all the other iStuff is all about marketing and the perception of being 'special' for owning iJunk, of having better fashion taste and sense, of being able to afford it. In other words when it comes to actual function over form it tends to fail against the competition. So fine plenty of money in the iGullible market, it's just once you loose that fake 'cool; the market can collapse pretty fast.
Games keep people on site, free mmo's draw in friends to play together but the nickel and diming can become offensive. Google can of course launch circles of it's own, sporting clubs, politics, religion, computer interests etc. it doesn't really have to wait for others to kick them off.
When it comes to social media it is all like trying to herd a horde or nervous cattle ready to stampede at a moments notice, getting them to stampede might not be that hard, getting them to stampede in your direction is trickier.
Reason or no reason, history has proved every social media site has died, either completely and just down to most regular users rather than a broad audience and Facebook has now just got that smell about it, that taint of a fad coming to an end, which makes it vulnerable to abandonment to what ever is 'newer' more 'current' more 'in fashion', what ever that might be.
Non-Sequitur, the slower take up of facebook and twitter reflect the take up of the internet as a whole, those not motivated by technology or business, the general internet users.
Add in some time for experience and, then the slow pull away from myspace (people had an investment in their pages, as bad as they were). Now the question is whether google+ will be "just good enough" and not too publicly evil to allow people to abandon facebook enmasse.
Google is also likely playing the marketing game in making invite only (if you remember facebook was originally university students only) more 'special'. M$'s $250 million investment in Facebook is looking pretty bad.
Excuse me but the case in question was that a group was attempting to exercise it's right to know. The question is whether as a customer you have a right to know of any actions taken by a service provider with others will have a negative impact upon your rights. Especially in regards to network access where using a service can leave you computer network vulnerable to attack and illegal monitoring.
In this case you are forced to assume the worst possible association and work to limit the harm that could be caused by that association.
It really is not about how much information they gain about you, is is all about how edited versions with some information kept and other information excluded and hidden can be used to create a completely false impression of what is really going on. So you should have the right to know about all information that is held about you to ensure information that protects you is hidden and or lost and a false pattern of behaviour is created by the remaining information, a range of assumptions, false connections and associations.
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In the article, "cell phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents" and "a large and immediate risk of cell phones causing brain tumors in children can be excluded". So if you are a child or adolescent you wont "immediately" get a brain tumour if you use a cell phone.
Now of course after many years of use, many hours a day when you are no longer a child or adolescent, well that's called Russian roulette.
What is needed is simply an honest analysis of current data. Of all the people with brain tumours and cancer, how many hours per day and for how many days have they used a cell phone. Of course bugger the "1,000 participant studies", an analysis on everyone with known brain cancers and tumours ie tens eve hundreds of thousands.
Just a friendly reminder, the bulk of the population are not introverted computer geeks and often watch TV in groups. So you get one happy viewer, well relatively, being covered in every other viewers else's technicolour burps wont be all that pleasant.
More likely, all those voting yes will have been victims of successful secret warrant less wire tapping and a yes vote will ensure their secrets remain secrets.
It is all about thinking for today versus thinking for yesterday, today and tomorrow. You might know the current APIs, protocols and standards but when the underlying platforms are closed off from input and control, you have no idea what you will have to deal with tomorrow and how that will affect what was done yesterday.
When it comes to M$ they have been unreliable, manipulative, insensitive and arrogant. If it saves them money and enables them to make more whether it be saving costs by not fixing bugs and security faults, holding out on simple improvements and forcing upgrade cost plus lost productivity for years waiting for upgrades or simply dumping their costs on end users to be replicated millions of times.
So lack of control of the underlying platform in many other areas of computing have wasted billions of dollars, a lesson that should be and never forgotten. It would be the same to hand over all infrastructure services to one for profit corporation, like roads, rail lines, airports, footpaths, bridges, electricity, storm water and sewer and expect things to term out well without being screwed at every turn. That kind of thinking was OK early on in the computer industry but just doesn't make any sense at all any more.
More to the point current models tend to be based upon global patterns without specific focus on exact geographic regions. The reason for this, rapidly increasing complexity in regards to starting data and calculations required.
The noted paper questions global forecasts based upon global models not being able to accurately forecast localised temperature variations.
What is missing is how localised were their investigations versus a global model. Did they check surrounding regions to see if the heat had gone elsewhere. To go from global to region specific is a huge leap in modelling and would also need to account for solar output upon a continual basis and include a solar output forecast model.
Now who do you blame, government of the private corporations that have corrupted it. Who is more at fault, the US Congress or the US and foreign corporations buying representatives, paying bribes and substantively profiting by the privatised corruption they create.
In fact the more services and work the government do in house the less opportunities for grand scale corruption. A little bit of pilfering here and there but no grand scale multi-million dollar boon doggles all made possible by privatised contracting and you wonder why corporations fought so hard for it and why the Republicans are made to preach it at every opportunity.
The reality is there would not be any budget short fall if they had not deregulated, had not created a bunch of corporate do not pay any tax loop holes and had not given the richest and greediest (those that most profit by society) idiotic tax reductions.
It is not government wasting money, it is corrupted corporation paying their employees, those people pretending to represent the people, pouring money into their employers pockets. Virtually nothing is done to send the bribe payers to prison or to recover lost tax payer funds as a result of bribes. It is all buried under piles of mass media corporate funded lies, it is all government faults, if the corporations hate government so much why do they keep buying and controlling it.
As long as complete kits are supplied with socket connections, "solar panel, battery, rectifier and switch board connection", there shouldn't be too much of a problem. Even better if a set of standards governing default connection standards for a home solar power kit, would allow people to mix and match as long as the equipment adhered to the standards and they used default electrical connections. Excluding off course the wiring the switchboard socket which should require a licensed electrician, beyond that plug and play would save considerably on the install side.
Yes, the dual boot solution solves many problems. I really can't understand why people set up a Linux dual boot even if they only use it solve various "do as I say not as they say" problems.
A tricky one of that field might not be considered legal. "Initiating for profit quasi-legal computer based attacks against individuals and groups, that endanger corporate investments in false image public relations and disingenuous marketing" not really what any so called security organisation would want brought up in public and a topic upon which Aaron Barr would certainly be challenged on when sitting on a discussion panel.
From a normal, moral and sane viewpoint, that is the kind of behaviour most people and companies are trying to defend against. Honest companies of course want to be able to thrive in an honest market and not continually be forced to compete against lying, cheating corporations which pretty much is the whole of the market when it comes to the big end of town.
HBGary Federal of course wants everybody to forget exactly what kind of ass hats they are, otherwise their attack campaigns would be substantially weakened from the get go, they just need to be recognised as the originator and everyone would assume it was all lies and the party they were defending is a guilty as can be.
Of course a company like that and you would assume everyone is stabbing everyone else in the back in order to try to survive. It really is a surprise that any even partially competent staff haven't already jumped shift and that there is anything left to defend.
Talk about way off track, "Humans living at high latitude have bigger eyes and bigger brains", hmm, what is reduced at high altitude, oxygen. Brains demand high oxygen flow as do eyes. Greater flow, requires larger blood vessels, now to retain similar brain capacity larger brains are required to accommodate more space taken up by blood vessels and likely similar for the eyes.
More interestingly in terms of evolution, learning capacity and imagination, provide one main element, environmental adaptability. Likely the development of smarter primates was driven by cyclic ice ages and the subsequent climate zone shifts, where mental adaptability, provided an advantage over physically evolving to suit the changed climate ie put on furs stripped from other other animals, fire and, enclosures providing safety from climatic extremes.
Here's a fine line, for a network or computer systems administrator a disk of the latest malware is highly appropriate as the only means of ensuring the quality of computer systems protection software us functioning properly ie you attempt to infect the system in a controlled fashion and check to see of the various protection system are functioning correctly. Via this method I at one stage was able to ascertain a configuration fault as the system was not updating remote units by reason of a simple reference to a wrong directory (some contractors are no that competent).
So answer me this, which is worse, the anonymous jerk or the narcissist bully. Keep in mind the anonymous jerk will be annoying and the narcissist bully will use violence, threats and attempt to force group intimidation and ostracisation of individuals.
I wonder who complains loudest about anonymous jerks, could it be the narcissist bullies who have lost the public pulpit to enforce their will upon others either directly through violence or indirectly through controlling and manipulating peer pressure.
For me the anonymous jerk is mildly annoying and ignorable, whilst I have found the narcissist bullies to be true shit heads and to be confronted publicly and Anonymous'ly' at every opportunity.
There are two types of project managers, professional project managers and of course professional in the project being done who can project manage. These two produce greatly different results, one who only concerned in generating personal income for generating as much project management paperwork as possible and being able to blame everyone else for their failures. The other of course has skills and understanding of the work at hand, a produces the correct amount of project management to produce a result, this amount being limited by the time the person can make available to the project management task.
University is largely to blame for delusion that generic project managers can project manage any type of product effectively, all based upon parroting a few textbooks, oddly they don't even bother to teach time motion studies, one of the most essential understandings for effective project management.
No the merchants who failed to identify the user of the credit details is guilty and in reality it is that merchant who should face criminal charges for defrauded you by making illegal charges against your card. You should be entitled to sue the merchant for any harm their greed driven failure to properly identify the user of the details and in fact the merchant should prove that they were defrauded else face full criminal charges.
Identify theft is a lie put forward by credit card companies to shift the financial onus onto you and away from the merchant until you substantiate your innocence, meanwhile the credit card company still makes money either way. Basically for 675,000 credit card details to be so readily abused means the fault in with for profit, minimum cost, not our problem corporation and some government regulation is required to tighten identity requirements.
Time is money. A users time is just a valuable as a corporations time, of course the corporation always deceitfully and wilfully waste the users time no end.
All the time the users put into social networks bring them to life and give them value, without the users, the social network site is just a cash vacuum worth nothing.
So what does google owe to the user, every bloody thing, without them google like all the other web sites is nothing, abso-bloody-lutely nothing, something you and the executives at google obviously need to remember.
Come on, snap back to reality. How many tens of millions of people share the same bloody name. How stupid can google be, effectively banning anyone from using google who has the same name as someone else using google. The single greatest benefit of pseudonym usernames is getting past the fact many people share the same name.
Google bans tens of thousands of john smiths, now add these two http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_most_common_surnames and you get the real measure of google idiocy.
People often forget what is going on in the background, so what was the 3D bullshit and marketing all really about. Nothing more or less than driving the uptake of blueray, of getting people to rebuy all that DVD content, of adding in tighter copy protection, of making it harder to copy content. Victims of marketing will always be gullible victims of marketing, will buy into PR=B$ marketing schemes.
I suggest you read up on vertical axis wind turbines, they spin no faster than the wind the operate in hence are a lot quieter and are suitable for the suburban environment as long as the bearings are services. As for building facing, the fantasy of design versus the reality of geography and the extreme cost of attempting to force geography to twist to the fancies of design and how that in turn disrupts services like water, sewer and stormwater. Now add in population densities, access to services, functional design requirements.
All dwellings require roofs, now the government investment is required to make it cost efficient for those roofs to be made of solar panels regardless of orientation, shape, pitch etc. Right now patents are far more of an encumbrance to the development of more cost efficient solar panels than a benefit.
Let's be more honest it all breaks down to "Government Regulation" vs "Corporate Greed". Corporations as run by psychopathic asshats, will seek every possible method to screw their customers for every possible cent of profit upon a completely amoral or sociopathic basis. Government regulation is then required to force morals onto those corporations in order to get them to treat the customers/voters in a somewhat reasonable fashion.
I for one think, that being able to remotely program a battery that is capable of bursting into flame is an insanely fucking stupid idea, that could only be driven by greed.
Let's be realistic, it is all down to the game packs. Buying a whole bunch of games for one relatively accessible price, even if half of them suck, the rest are still cheap enough. Of course steam can become unreliable at times when huge numbers of packs go out the digital door leaving millions of gigabytes to download, creating huge burdens on their systems, with regards to login, game downloads, and game connections.
What your actually paying for a game becomes arbitrary, likely paying more for a newer game and getting the older game as cheap bait to get you to bite. You do end up getting stuck with multiple copies of the same game which can get frustrating. Perhaps Steam should allow you to donate unwanted game licences to worthwhile causes ie. community orgs that can give fee access to hardware just need game licences to play (rather than cluttering up your game library).
Once you have suburbia, the better method is distributed power generation via solar panels and vertical wind turbines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_axis_wind_turbine (take up less space, spin slower ie less of bird threat and quieter).
Rather than subsidising, better to buy out patents and offer them patent free (when locally manufactured). Promote development of lower cost production techniques. Most importantly promote open free of patent encumbrances (for local production) to accelerate development.
With suburbia already covering thousands of square kilometres, getting those roofs producing energy makes more sense, especially when consumers themselves would pay all of or a substantial portion of the capital costs, perhaps even very low interest loans to accelerate the uptake.
So solar panel roofs with vertical axis wind turbines distributed along the ridges, makes a lot more sense.
Easy to sum up 'government grade' how boring, iPad like all the other iStuff is all about marketing and the perception of being 'special' for owning iJunk, of having better fashion taste and sense, of being able to afford it. In other words when it comes to actual function over form it tends to fail against the competition. So fine plenty of money in the iGullible market, it's just once you loose that fake 'cool; the market can collapse pretty fast.
Games keep people on site, free mmo's draw in friends to play together but the nickel and diming can become offensive. Google can of course launch circles of it's own, sporting clubs, politics, religion, computer interests etc. it doesn't really have to wait for others to kick them off.
When it comes to social media it is all like trying to herd a horde or nervous cattle ready to stampede at a moments notice, getting them to stampede might not be that hard, getting them to stampede in your direction is trickier.
Reason or no reason, history has proved every social media site has died, either completely and just down to most regular users rather than a broad audience and Facebook has now just got that smell about it, that taint of a fad coming to an end, which makes it vulnerable to abandonment to what ever is 'newer' more 'current' more 'in fashion', what ever that might be.
Non-Sequitur, the slower take up of facebook and twitter reflect the take up of the internet as a whole, those not motivated by technology or business, the general internet users.
Add in some time for experience and, then the slow pull away from myspace (people had an investment in their pages, as bad as they were). Now the question is whether google+ will be "just good enough" and not too publicly evil to allow people to abandon facebook enmasse.
Google is also likely playing the marketing game in making invite only (if you remember facebook was originally university students only) more 'special'. M$'s $250 million investment in Facebook is looking pretty bad.
Excuse me but the case in question was that a group was attempting to exercise it's right to know. The question is whether as a customer you have a right to know of any actions taken by a service provider with others will have a negative impact upon your rights. Especially in regards to network access where using a service can leave you computer network vulnerable to attack and illegal monitoring.
In this case you are forced to assume the worst possible association and work to limit the harm that could be caused by that association.
It really is not about how much information they gain about you, is is all about how edited versions with some information kept and other information excluded and hidden can be used to create a completely false impression of what is really going on. So you should have the right to know about all information that is held about you to ensure information that protects you is hidden and or lost and a false pattern of behaviour is created by the remaining information, a range of assumptions, false connections and associations.