it turns out, civilization works because most of us are civilized.

Ours does

So they compromise everyone's privacy for nothing?

This pretty much sounds like my networks class final project.

What if you are Albert Einstein?

Just a couple of loose thoughts on this:

-The permissions that pushbullet needed originally where a bit overaching.

-We never knew which was the offending one.

-Reading the original article it crossed my mind that some of the permissions the extension asked could be used for marketing (I'm not implying that they were used for that), and maybe google just didn't wanted extension developers to have a cut on that.

-I really don't like how this marketplaces have made big companies gatekeepers for market share.

This is great, I'm reading the heavily commented linux kernel source code and I was wondering how much can be done in the boot sector (other than call a more sophisticated boot loader) kudos!

Is kinda frightening that this doesn't get any more discussion here, because it means that the people that get the news here (developers, it staff or at least technical savvy users) aren't really concerned about the points he raises, even though they are very important in today's world.

I'm not sure that follows. The dominant factor in what gets attention here is randomness, and 3 or 4 posts in 10 years is not a significant number. There may also be something else about the articles that make them fall short of widely interesting.

This, everyone is complaining on how bad desktop OSes are now but even windows is great now, compared to mobile devices, desktop is heaven.