I used DNS Benchmark to determine the best performing public DNS servers for my home network. Interestingly, it turned out to be neither my ISP's nor Google's public servers.

There appears to now be a similar, open-source DNS benchmarking program available: namebench. I haven't tried it out, but it looks promising.

FALSE

While Google does collect and make use of the personal information of end users, the one thing that they have NEVER done is sell that information to any third parties.

You can read Google's Privacy Policy for more information about how they use personal information. In particular, read the "Information We Share" section.

For that matter, I think that once I reach age 65, I'll start to also become bored with life and start taking some chances here and there.

Call it "Walter White Syndrome". :-)

You are correct. The only difference is that the Westboro Baptist Church isn't governing an entire country, spending nine billion per year on a military force and attempting to develop nuclear weapons.

Earlier this year, there was a bad accident where a Tesla Model S hit a 90 Honda Accord head-on: Tesla vs Honda Head-on Collision. The two people in the Accord were killed immediately. The Accord was a crumpled mess, as you can see from the photo in the article. The Tesla driver had only minor injuries. He was able to simply open his door and exit the vehicle. The accident itself is a terrible tragedy, but seeing a real-world example helps you to see just how safe the vehicle is.

The police didn't intercept her Google searches.
She posted pictures of M-66 explosives publicly on her Facebook account.

Google Plus posting on the topic
The facebook photo in question

Now we could hack into the controller and reprogram it to direct the sun to a single point and voila! Instant death ray. Might help with the tourist problem.

How would that help attract more touri...

Ooooooooh.

Google is really good at coming into markets and offering a free product and in doing that sort of stymieing the development of alternatives.

Stymieing? Seriously?
Do you remember the cell phone market before Android? Phones were expensive. Phones were locked down. Not only did you have to pay for apps, you also had to pay for stupid things like ringtones. Android helped drive down the price of smartphones. Android helped sprout a ton of cheap phones & tablets that otherwise would not have a decent OS to run.

Indeed. In the early 1900's, before there were three gas stations at every intersection, travelers would often have to stop at a farmhouse and ask to buy some gas from the farmer. No stealing necessary.

It's still early days for electric cars. Tesla is doing more than most to accelerate their development and adoption.

This was upvoted?

You bought a cellphone manufacturer but then use other companies to make Nexus products

Dude, the deal with LG to make the Nexus 4 was in place before they bought Motorola. It takes a while to develop new hardware. Have patience.

That would slightly interfere with using streaming music sites like Pandora. I open that up in a tab & move on to other things, leaving it play in the background.

No, Jeff Dean

FYI, you can post a link that skips to a particular time in a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZWzf3h50LU&t=1m13s

The worst feature of a password is that it can be obtained from you from someone located anywhere in the world, and you wouldn't necessarily realize it. Fishing websites and social engineering make passwords by themselves too easy to get around.

You would still have a screen lock on your phone to prevent someone from using it to authenticate into all of your other accounts.

But how old is the Windows Phone OS? You can't expect anyone to have made a YouTube App 38 years ago. Your data is irrelevant.