Jumpshot is Avast.

Just a subsidiary.

Does that somehow make it OK?

That's what some people seem to think about Pocket belonging to Mozilla or Mozilla owning part of Cliqz... it's OK if they have a business relationship that loosely looks like control

I think that's splitting hairs, and focusing on the wrong aspect of it. Avast gives clickstream data to a digital marketing company. That company happens to be a subsidiary, so Avast is a digital marketing company. The problem becomes one not of a company sharing your private information with another so it can me monetized, but the initial company monetizing it itself. If you have a problem with your data being used for marketing by your AV vendor, whether it's shared to make it happen is likely of little consequence to you.

Exactly.

And there are other risks to users. Once that data has been collected, others may access it, and use it in far more damaging ways. Users in China or Saudi Arabia, for example, may end up in jail, or worse.

Not certain of specifics of this case but in general absolutely no! As a data controller you collect users' data for a purpose. If you use that data for a seprate purpose you need seperate consent from users to use their data.

I meant that it's not OK to collect clickstream data. At all. As I recall, Apple got nailed about Safari doing that, and stopped.

Why is the data even being collected?

Oh, didn't know that.

All of the lights in Berkeley are failing as well.

They’re being replaced under warranty.

Quentin Tarantino has a movie in production called Django Unchained.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained

I'm thinking of a secondary alarm anytime you get an email that may be a password recovery.

Something like SpamBayes put trained for account related emails from the popular services and banks.

sms

No, sms is too personal. I think the point was that you can have several followers.

Exactly, committing with no message is poor practice.

That should be: "C-x v v <Type Commit Message> C-c C-c"

That was a Simpsons joke.

http://www.snpp.com/guides/flanders.file.html

I imagine it was a play on "wax poetic", but then this comment should be about the content of the OP's post, not one upping their spelling.

Its tempting to counter with something snarky like a good "whoosh!", but maybe a better response would be to remember that human beings write science fiction and fantasy.

That's kinda how my dad ended up a lawyer.

He called a guy for some legal advice (a taxi had driven through his storefront, trashing the place). He got the lawyers' bill the next week or so.

Decided law school might be a good idea, soon after.