Applying this to windows (the transparent kind) I conclude I should paint them in order to have any expectation of privacy.

If the purpose of the Google data collection effort is to build a database of the physical location of routers as identified by hardware addresses, then it is hard to see why they would be collecting any payload data at all. Having an independent look at what they did collect might shed some light on what they were trying to achieve by doing so.

i tried it on the puzzle in my newspaper - got a good shot of it but there were many numbers not filled in from the original puzzle and so the solution had nothing to do with the intended problem... The image recognition made the same mistakes on subsequent trials which surprises me.

No, the website runs on a javascript emulator of a 6502.

Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know instantly, but that's what it is.

Encyclopedias go beyond defining the word - I'm guessing a dictionary would be okay?

Netflix doesn't actually provide an open source viewer, do they?

My little Roku box that sits next to my TV and plays Netflix is built on Linux apparently. In a developer discussion about why there was no Linux desktop player I got the impression that the sticking point was the ease of siphoning off the video stream in a system where you can compile your own kernel was the real problem.

The paper talked about is from 1994 - a fact carefully avoided in the blog...

Looks like he got jumped on pretty early on:
Diabetes Care. 1994 Oct;17(10):1224-5; author reply 1225-7.
Tai's formula is the trapezoidal rule.
Monaco JH, Anderson RL.

Is that similar to Sybian?

I wonder what would happen if you ask the questions and include the cost of the device somehow. Wait you don't have to ask the question then, just see the sales stats.

What comes after "Zany Zebra?" Inquisitive minds demand to know.

How much is a G again? Or rather, 3G?

There was no mention of a brain already in place.

It appears some improvements are necessary in those departments - and I am sure that there is some work on in as we speak.