Putting Unlimited Data to Good Use, Why We Give Google So Much Information, and the Return of CISPA

This week on the podcast we're talking about the return of CISPA, re-installing Windows , and working an on-call job without losing your mind. We're also answering your questions about why we give Google so much information, how to use unlimited data effectively, and syncing your files over your local network without the aid of a cloud storage service.

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News and Top Stories

• CISPA's Back!: The privacy-eroding bill is back! Learn all about it, and call your representatives if you oppose it.
• iOS 6 Bug Lets Anyone Unlock Your Phone Without a Passcode: A recently-discovered bug in iOS 6.0.1 and above lets you unlock an iPhone without needing to know the password, meaning anyone with access to your phone can make calls, edit contacts, and more.
• How to Have a Stress-Free Valentine's Day (Whether You're Single or Not): Valentine's Day is a divisive holiday. Some people love it, others hate it, and many couldn't care less. Regardless of where you stand, navigating the holiday stress-free is pretty difficult. Whether you want to do something special while avoiding the circus or you're flying solo, here's how to make it through today without stressing yourself out.
• How We Work: Every week, we share the shortcuts, workspaces, and productivity tips of our favorite experts and internet personalities. This week, however, we're giving you guys a glimpse into how we work, and all the tips and tricks that keep our blogging wheels spinning.
• How to Work an On Call Job and Keep Your Sanity: Being connected or on call doesn't mean your friends and family have to suffer along with you. The key is to draw bright lines between your "on" and "off" times, and manage your coworkers expectations for when you're supposed to be available. Here's how to turn that struggle for balance into an easily managed routine.
• How to Do a Clean Install of Windows Without Losing Your Files, Settings, and Tweaks: There's nothing like a fresh install of Windows to clear your mind, but it comes at a cost: you have to set everything up again, just the way you like it. Here's how to reinstall Windows, migrate your important settings, and leave the clutter behind.

Questions and Answers

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• Aren't we worried that Google will start charging us for their services some day and that we will all be too locked in to say ?no'? Not really. It's not that hard to leave a service, and Google makes their money off of information so we're more concerned about what they may do with that information. If you want out now, check out these alternatives.
• How do I sync files across the local network without paying for online storage? Crashplan offers free local backups, but rolling your own Dropbox-like service is probably the best way to go.
• I'm still grandfathered in to Verizon's unlimited data switchover but I don't really use that much data. How can I make better use of my unlimited data plan? A lot of people are clinging to their unlimited data plans but we don't really understand because there's not much of a reason to have it and it costs so much less to get lesser plans (in most cases). If you really want to keep using it, however, just tether your phone as much as possible and stream music whenever you can.
• Why don't you have an official Lifehacker IRC channel? Why do you want an official Lifehacker IRC channel? We actually don't know, so please tell us and maybe we can make it happen if it makes sense.

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EU, U.S. to start free trade talks

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and European Union aim to start negotiating a vast Transatlantic free trade pact by June, though the plan confirmed on Wednesday faces many hurdles before it might help revive the world's top two economies.

A deal would be the most ambitious since the founding of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, embracing half of world output and a third of all trade. It reflects impatience with the lack of a new global agreement to cut tariffs and ease commerce.

But after a year of preparatory discussions between Brussels and Washington, major differences remain, such as EU resistance to importing U.S. foodstuffs that are genetically modified.

"This is potentially a very big deal," said Michael Froman, White House deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, a day after President Barack Obama endorsed talks with the 27-nation bloc in his State of the Union address.

In Brussels, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said: "These negotiations will set a standard, not only for our future bilateral trade and investment, including regulatory issues, but also for the development of global trade rules."

Once the U.S. Congress is notified and all 27 EU states assent to the talks going ahead, the sides hope for a deal by the end of 2014 - a tight deadline in international trade talks. A decade of argument among all world governments in the Doha round of trade negotiations has so far resulted in deadlock.

"If we want to go down this road, we want to get there on one tank of gas and we don't want to spend 10 years negotiating what are well known issues and not reach a result," Froman said in a conference call with journalists.

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The collapse of Doha disappointed hopes that a worldwide cut in tariffs and other barriers to trade could boost the global economy. Creating preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between states, such as an EU-U.S. deal, may achieve some of the same ends, but many experts are concerned that breaking the world into blocs could end up creating new obstacles to global trade.

"The more problematic side of myriad different PTAs is that they create a hodgepodge of different regulations, standards and norms that can evolve into serious non-tariff barriers," said Keith Rockwell, chief spokesman at the Geneva-based WTO.

He said it was too early to say what the impact of an EU-U.S. deal would be. U.S. and EU officials countered the criticism by saying their deal would set global standards for the world to follow in lowering a wider range of trade barriers.

However, creating jobs and economic growth on either side of the North Atlantic provide the main rationale for their alliance, given both economies are struggling to break free from almost five years of downturns and stunted recovery as well as increasing competition from China and other emerging economies.

The deal has support at the highest level, give an name check by Obama in his speech to Congress on Tuesday and cast as a central pillar of Britain's presidency of the G8 this year.

Under an agreed outline for the deal, the two sides expect it to add 0.5 percent to the EU economy and 0.4 percent to the U.S. economy by 2027, or 86 billion euros ($116 billion) a year for the Europeans and 65 billion euros for the Americans.

But EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has warned that the talks will be tough, with no "low hanging fruit". Import tariffs between the two are already not high - an average of 4 percent.

Negotiations will focus on harmonizing standards, from car seat belts to household cleaning products, and regulations governing services. These help ensure exporters can compete.

But fleshing out the negotiating plans could cause friction - last year it took EU trade ministers four months to persuade the European car industry to let Brussels officials talk to Japan about creating a similar free-trade pact.

AGRICULTURAL MUD

One of the key sticking points is likely to be agriculture, even though the deal will not tackle the politically poisonous issue of farm subsidies. When a Transatlantic trade deal was mooted in 1998, it was shot down by France, which feared Europe could be forced into too many concessions on farm trade.

"There is a reason we have not launched an effort of this nature in the past, because of some of these historic difficult issues that have frustrated our ambition," said U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

Leaders' fears of prolonged slump, however, may help a deal.

Froman at the White House said the United States now believed "the stars could well be aligned, given developments on both sides of the Atlantic for us to resolve issues that we've never been able to resolve before".

Washington has long been frustrated by EU restrictions on U.S. farm produce, such as foodstuffs made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), poultry treated with chlorine washes and meat from animals fed with the growth stimulant ractopamine.

In an early sign of EU reticence, Barroso said the negotiations would not compromise consumer health.

"We will not negotiate changes that we do not want of the basic rules on either side, be it on hormones or GMOs," he said.

French Trade Minister Nicole Bricq said she would back a deal if it benefited France, long a vocal defender of its agricultural interests: "I will ensure that French interests are heard," she said.

Kirk said everything was on the table, "including all across the agricultural sector, whether it's GMOs or other issues". Froman said agricultural issues were not being put off but would be resolved before and during the main negotiation.

Another thorny issue that is unlikely to be resolved directly by the EU-U.S. negotiation is the battle over subsidies for Europe's Airbus and Boeing of the United States, the biggest and longest-running dispute in the WTO's history. But it could improve the mood and help usher in a settlement in the aircraft dispute.

Brussels has been negotiating possible free-trade agreements with more than 80 other countries, with some successes, such as a recent deal set to be struck with Singapore. But some talks, such as those with India, show no signs of ending. Talks with Canada since 2009 have also failed to settle differences over agriculture, intellectual property and public procurement.

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(Additional reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek and Adrian Croft in Brussels and Tom Miles in Geneva; Editing by Peter Graff and Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-u-start-free-trade-talks-011313445--sector.html

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Pope Benedict's legacy: More influential than Pope John Paul II?

Pope Benedict's legacy may be a willingness to let liberal Catholics leave in favor of a more orthodox church in the US and Europe.

By Robert Marquand,?Staff writer / February 11, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his message during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, at the Vatican, Monday. Pope Benedict announced Monday that he would resign at the end of the month - the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years.

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A shy but brilliant scholar whose consistent vision has been to reinstitute the grand authority held by the Vatican in the Middle Ages, Benedict has, often single-handedly, redirected his church away from the liberal experiments and sometimes amateurish enthusiasms of the Vatican II period of the 1960s, which conservatives saw as a dangerous diversion. He has also, over years, instituted doctrines, individuals, and orders consistent with his theological view of the Catholic Church as the true and only authentic one.

While not as widely beloved as his predecessor John Paul II, the popular Polish pope who helped crack the Soviet hold on eastern Europe and attracted global crowds, Benedict arguably has had more influence inside the church ??even as he often irritated Protestants who he said were not "authentic" Christians, angered Muslims by put-downs of Islamic figures, or unsettled Jewish-Catholic relations by rehabilitating a fringe religious society with a bishop who denied the severity of the Nazi holocaust.

Benedict's chief occupation as pope has been, observers say, to purify his church.?

To do so, Benedict crushed the liberation theology movements of the?third world, put a slammer hold on efforts to ordain women and question celibacy, put earlier ecumenical impulses on the back burner, and, instead, has greatly empowered more hardcore orders like Opus Dei, Legions of Christ, and other orthodox wings, largely on the idea that the church must first cherish its most ardent believers.

Yet, while Benedict has won many battles inside the church, he is also widely seen as having lost many larger wars that he either instituted or took part in.

Benedict?s effort to reinstitute Christianity in its European context has largely failed to generate enthusiasm on a continent increasingly secular. While in pursuit of liberal priests and nuns who he implied were polluting the church with wrong doctrines, Benedict has appeared to many Europeans to be too inattentive to priests who sexually abused minors, of whom there are an estimated 8,000. The revelations of sexually abusive priests in Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and Austria two years ago brought a change to the story line that such problems were restricted to the United States.?

For fully believing Catholics, the Roman church is a divine, not a human institution; its leader, the pope, is the ?vicar of Christ,? the direct spiritual descendant of Jesus Christ and his disciple Peter. The kingdom of heaven on earth that Jesus asked his followers to pray for, must, in orthodox Catholic doctrine, come through the Catholic Church and the pope, also known as the Holy Father.

For many modern-thinking or non-literal Catholics, particularly after the long-running church self-examination known as Vatican II, those orthodox doctrines of the identity of the church and the pope were put in question and thrown open for new interpretation.

Vatican II lead, though often quite indirectly, to a massive re-evaluation of things like the operation of the spirit in the church, the possibility of women being ordained as priests, a faint questioning of the doctrine, only adopted in pre-medieval Europe, of celibacy, and of more "democracy"?or power by the laity or non-clergy members in matters of church governance.

For a rising college theology professor named Joseph Ratzinger, these new interpretations were viewed with increasing horror. They often lacked seriousness, were sloppy, and seemed chaotic and undignified.

As then-Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict took office in 1982 as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the same office that earlier conducted or oversaw heresy trials. Yet while that office has a five-year term and most predecessors held it for 10 years at most, Ratzinger stayed 24 years, only leaving to become pope in 2005.

Now, as Catholics think through their future they will do so with a set of cardinals, bishops, priests, and church authorities that have largely been vetted through the orthodox filter set up by the Bavarian-born pontiff.

Indeed, a church hierarchy carefully pruned of liberal and ecumenical impulses may be one of Benedict?s enduring legacies, though it has brought the current pontiff into serious disagreements with powerful orders, like the Jesuits, that previously saw themselves as the main defenders of Rome.

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Lower TV sales temper JB Hi-Fi profit | Stuff.co.nz

Consumer electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi made a A$82 million (NZ$101m) profit for the half-year ended December, but same-store sales declined due to a slowdown in television sales.

In New Zealand sales fell 6 per cent to NZ$117.5m, while gross profit declined 3.4 per cent to NZ$20.1m. Same-store sales in New Zealand slipped 5.6 per cent.

The retailer said the result for New Zealand was affected by the Rugby World Cup, which had delivered a boost to sales in the first half of the previous financial year.

It expected pricing to remain aggressive in consumer electronics in New Zealand throughout the second half of the year.

The 3 per cent increase in net profit year-on-year for the group followed a similar-sized increase in total sales to A$1.8 billion.

Sales at JB Hi-Fi branded stores in New Zealand and Australia rose 3.1 per cent but same-store sales fell off by 3.5 per cent.

Chief executive Terry Smart said the TV category was largely behind the decline.

"The industry has seen TV sales decline over the past few years as the category moves towards a more typical replacement-driven sales market," he said.

But the ASX-listed company was pleased with the overall results, with total sales growing and an improved gross margin resulting in net profit growth.

Gross margin increased to 21.5 per cent for the half, up from 21.2 per cent year-on-year. Earnings before interest and tax (ebit) rose 2.5 per cent to A$123.7m.

In New Zealand gross margin increased to 17.1 per cent, from 16.7 per cent, while ebit rose 18 per cent to $2.6m.

Smart said the retailer had started the 2013 calendar year positively, with year-on-year sales growth of 11.7 per cent in January, and same-store growth of 4.2 per cent.

The company predicts full-year sales will reach A$3.25b and net profit to land between A$108m and A$112m.

That is based on a fall in same-store sales of about 3 per cent in the year and gross margin to remain unchanged at 21.5 per cent.

"In the second half the 2012 financial year, we saw aggressive discounting across the market, which while driving sales, did impact gross margin," Smart said.

"As we cycle this period we anticipate sales growth may be more challenging, but this should be offset by a relatively stable gross margin environment."

JB Hi-Fi has 13 stores in New Zealand, and 163 in Australia.

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