Wave is about as centralised as XMPP was when there was only one XMPP server to connect to.

We've got a front end dev in our web shop with rendering patches accepted into Gecko. It's a rare sight, and it takes the right kind of developer, but it's not unheard of

TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house (in the middle of a large town) if you put my postcode into some of its GPS devices.

That's caused problems both for friends and takeaway delivery drivers :(

You're talking about cue dots which are actually used more by the commercial providers (ITV and Channel 4), and now generally only for live programmes (i.e. with unpredictable ad break times) with regional opt-outs (i.e. where a bunch of different people need to know about the ad break starting).

There's even a London in Canada which has a River Thames running through it!

NASA satellites use a collection of pictures from multiple flybys stitched together.

The [Russian] satellite [...] took an image [...] capturing the Earth in a single shot with 121-megapixels.

Think the prices have gone up since you visited. Amy Grant had to pay 25 bucks

I prefer to think of it as a way of reducing redundancy.

The web page doesn't care whether it's being served over HTTP or HTTPS, that's only an issue for the web server. So, the web server configuration can have all the rules and redirections to enforce a particular policy, and the web page will work any time that gets updated, without having to have every link in every page rewritten.

Ok cool, so you've unchecked the "Automatically install updates" option and everyone's happy again?

Do you also verify where every debit card reader is physically connected, and audit that none of the electronics are malicious and skimming your data? link

Ok then, they're about as similar as a Hamster and a Ham

They're about as similar as a Car and a Carpet

Why not just pipe that request to Google and return the text at the top?

I think you should double check Google's terms and conditions for automated access

Why is one prioritized over the other[]?

Uh, because it's a linear listing - which means that one has to appear first, and the other afterwards? Do you think that all results should be displayed side-by-side?

Or, if you accept that search results have to appear in *some* order, how do you expect Google to know that you're planning a trip and not writing a school paper? Should Google be able to work out where you live, find the nearest schools, look up the History lesson plans and see that you've got a Chinese politics essay to hand in; or alternatively should it work out the median wage where you live and determine how likely it is that you'll be travelling to China?

Or, should it just wait for you to add *one extra word* to the search to clarify what you want, and decide for itself what most people are looking for if you're not that specific?

- would cost a lot of money to build
- has no way of reconciling that cost