Are you saying that Verizon has no say in updates and applying them? You didn't follow the Galaxy Nexus debacle where updates were not released for a Nexus phone until 4-6 months after the rest of the world got them?

Google Isn't Apple. The US gives way too much power to the carrier/OEM's.

Google can release all the patches it wants, but until Verizon tests them all and makes it's own changes it will not ever push them to the device.

Blame whoever you would like. If google had the power to push out updates to all devices running android, then there would be nothing holding devices back from running stock.

Google has no legal option to update your OS in the US. Somehow Apple managed to get that secured, but Android updates come from the phone manufacturer (same as Apple does) but inthe hands of Verizon?At&T you cannot upgrade your phone, and google cannot. The manufacturer can, but they need to have carrier intervention and testing etc.

My nexus 2013 is running well even perfectly after a full wipe. Secondly, IS google to blame that Verizon has the rights to withhold updates and patches until they do their own testing?

Google can't push out updates to the handsets. The carriers by law mandated that only they can update and test the devices. You as a citizen and owner of the device cannot do this yourself either. But sure Google is at fault.

We were very confident in building up weapons of mass destruction claims to provoke an excuse for war with Iraq.

Turns out faulty evidence was faulty. My theory is if they can't share evidence that is proof then they can't go to war.

It is an IP address. If they cannot muster proof that the attack and IP's are incontrovertible proof, then all the posturing about NK attacking the US is BS. Would you go to war based off of data on an invisible enemy?

I've not seen anything that the government has released regarding this. I have heard speculation that this was North Korea, but haven't been shown any actual evidence. So to your questions answer: I'd need evidence. IP logs, exploits used written in proprer north korean grammar or something. Anything other than Comey and Clapper saying it was them the bad koreans ... they did it.

The trust of the intelligence community was proven to be broken repeatedly by the FBI/DOJ/FISA/NSA/CIA/IRS. Blind faith isn't an option any longer. Proof or it didn't happen.

Steve Jobs had nothing to do with BeOS. Steve was involved with NeXT. Gasee was involved with Macintosh development, who then left the company and wanted 200 million for BeOS so the board at Apple found it cheaper to buy NeXT and there was a doorway for Steve to return to Apple.

Having the transactional currency controlled and flowed through a single institution removes the benefits that something like a Bitcoin brings to the table. The point was no central point of control because every currency gets bent to someones advantage.

Tell that to Greece and Russia. Are they both small countries?

People viewing the way SONY wanted to neuter DNS and the visibility of awful collusion in the movie industry towards attacking Google and free speech hasn't gone entirely unnoticed. Serves them right is stronger now than it ever would have been.

For what you are saying to be correct they could have used robots.txt. They did not do that. The other facet that contradicts your comment is that the payment was mandatory. A news publication, blog or anyone cannot choose not to mandate the payment. So forward thinking next generation news sites cannot decide their own model. If these sites are so concerned about remaining profitable by the money Google was preventing them from gathering they could put up a pay wall as well. Oh wait no one is going to pay these cronied sites for their news, because it isn't valuable.

I think they were using the the NSA dictionary of safety and protect... If that helps...

You and your premonitions are worth doodelysquat... There are congressional members who are given info to over see the NSA and they are quite vocally denouncing the excesses of the NSA. You might also realize at some point that other members of the NSA are leaking the abuses..If you and your premonitions know more than CIA leaders/NSA leaders and congressional over site members then we are doomed. Luckily your premonitions are worthwhile to anyone but with a brain little enough to think you might have something useful to add.