I think is subliminally elitist to use the word 'follow' in association with making any social connection. Consider alternatives

Agreed.

Or as the article points out, Google Voice over Wi-Fi is not carrier dependent. I use it all the time to make land line calls on Sprint which in turn does not use any minutes since my Sprint plan only starts ticking when you call not mobile lines.

WOWser.

You could cue whatever Rave song was playing in the Matrix scene where everyone is dancing in Zion while the world is coming to an end.

Totally kidding, it's Friday and I'm trying to make it to Happy hour.

Ryan Goldstein is a lobbyist for the proposal.

I really don't mean to sound like an ass with every comment, but are you saying that the benefit of this system is so Amazon feels 'more secure' that they are selling me goods?

Knock, Knock.

Right after you explain to me how investigators can track a purchase of a certain type of rope fibers, used to tie down a tarp on a pickup truck, outside of a building that was bombed and then trace it back to a person who made that purchase in cash, from a small hardware store in the middle of no-where.

Maybe it's not people reading 'anything' and assuming an Orwellian society. Maybe they are seeing beyond the proposed benefits to its actual implications?

Thank goodness for that animated short, all my fears of Government wanting to know what we're doing online have been eliminated.

please test and report back for us.

You don't have to make it mandatory to make it essential.

The world has already voluntarily agreed to an On-Line Individual Authentication infrastructure with widespread adoption and market saturation. Facebook.

Oh that's all?

Correction, they will be endorsing Facebook as a Individual Identity verification platform.

Are there any options for self hosted cloud storage?

Wish there was a way to implement an self hosted cloud service that synced to devices & nodes.

Corrected: The basics of video editing on a Mac using primarily Final Cut. Windows users: go find help elsewhere. k?thx!