But he has not served his ten years in the Legions

...still no Edit button. *sigh*

I'm not surprised to see Nashville listed as a "momentum market" in this report, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on there (I lived there for 9 years before relocating in 2014) and for 20-somethings it's an exciting and affordable place to live.

Agreed on entertainment, but for informational videos, a bit of a speed-up is really handy. The Team Treehouse site has nice material, and when you speed up the videos to 1.5x or so, you really feel like you're moving along.

So what happens when you're in a multi-story building, like the Water Tower in Chicago? You may be in the Lego store, but 3 floors below is Victoria's Secret...

You have to remember, tech execs are often falling over each other to make grand proclamations so they can appear visionary. This reminds me of a similarly absurd comment by a tech executive that "78% of small businesses have fully adopted cloud computing".

Um, I think I'd call that number into question...

It's just too bad things had to get to this point to have the work done, just another example of how sorely we need to step up our maintenance and development of public infrastructure.

It's interesting to see how useful plain old ISDN still is. I write about hockey online, and end up listening to a lot of NHL radio shows & podcasts which feature guests calling in from all over North America. Our local TV announcer (Pete Weber of the Nashville Predators) has an ISDN line to his home specifically for this purpose, and as a listener you can really tell the difference when Pete's doing a radio segment as opposed to other guests who may be calling from a typical landline or (ugh) a cell phone. It sounds like Weber is right in the studio alongside the hosts.

No, not really emotional about it.

But I do see that you created a grandma that needs help to get online and then ignore the fact that the helper could, with very modest effort, set gramma up with a blocking tool that keeps itself up to date. It's clearly not as good an outcome as getting websites to not enable Facebook, but it isn't complicated or hard.

None of that defends "As a practical matter, the only real control you have is "all, or none"."...

So why focus on that and ignore my insisting that something like Ghostery is actually a practical answer to the tracking?

Not in any way that you can't just throw aside by claiming the problem isn't really solved or that the thing used to solve it didn't involve political force.

But things like worker safety and civil rights and vehicle safety and pollution have all been quite majorly impacted by political force.

No, I was just responding specifically to "Web sites simply don't have permission to set ANY cookies without your permission".

I agree that users are generally blind to the defaults of their software, but saying that the website sets the cookie without permission ignores the fact that the website can't actually do anything more than request that the browser store the cookie.

The tracking problem is somewhat solved for people that care to understand it, there are lots of ways to prevent requests from even being made to third party servers (for instance, because of Adblock Plus, I know that this comment entry page would use Google Analytics if I didn't block it and that the only other server it refers to is fsdn.com); that leaves the problem of enumerating the services doing the tracking, but blocking Google, Facebook and Twitter goes an awful long way.

Of course, that doesn't solve the problem of log aggregation and proxied tracking, but those are pretty different than requesting that the browser do this or that.