Google respects your privacy completely. They share nothing with 3rd parties of what they know about you. However, they do offer most of their services at little to no cost, in exchange for those services, they use what they know about you to better serve advertising to you and those like you. They are completely open and honest about that.

If you want google services without giving out any personal information, then you need to start paying someone to provide them.

You do realize why they don't support Canadian numbers right? They'd have to be classified as a telecommunications company. Then they'd be subject to CRTC regulations, foreign ownership rules, etc..

They got whatever licences GrandCentral had, but haven't bothered trying to extend them or renew them.

Entering into the Telecommunications market in Canada can be a scary beast, especially if you're not canadian. Wind learned all about that.

The municipality still owns the fibre. They lease it out. So the city should be making money off the infrastructure and the company will be making money off the individual subscribers.

Also a city is far more likely to allow for much longer term profitability than a corporation is. This will allow them to roll out the fibre to places that a corporation would ignore.

It is that easy. Call your congressman and senator. Get enough people upset about this that it might affect their election, then they'll start pushing for reform.

The trouble is, you have 300 million people, so the level of people being pissed needs to be rather high for anything to happen.

It could happen though, at one point alcohol was banned nation wide.

Unless he was playing with someone else's money and those someones demand the highest return from the poker game. If he's not willing to use the mirror on steve, they'll take their money to the player who will.

The solution isn't relying on the goodwill of players, it's removing the mirrors.

Of course he should be proud, he worked the system to maximize revenue. If people are pissed off at how much tax they pay, change the laws. Either make their foreign operations taxable, or make it harder for them to shift operations out of the country.

I can't blame them for wanting to pay most of their taxes in a country with the lowest rate, hell the cayman islands does very well enabling that.

Nice answers for the most part (except of curse for the cool hack question, kinda took a pass on that one). Little bit more than you would usually get from a corporate executive. Seemed to me like he answered the questions and got either a thumbs up or thumbs down from the lawyers.

Nice, however from my reading of the GPLv2, it would seem that in order to avoid having to provide the source code to anyone who requests it from you, you need to distribute it with the binary.

My suggestion would be to add a very simple downloader to the app that will download the source code to the phone's sdcard.

I have an ExoPC. It gets about 4 hours of battery life. With current x86 mobile chips, that's about all you're going to get without killing the performance

The surface pro isn't competing with the ipad or the android tablets. It's targeted to those who need to be able to run existing windows applications, but want the convenience of a touchscreen tablet. That's what I wanted when I bought the Exo and it's why I'm interested in the surface pro. I didn't expect as long battery life.

If Microsoft knows anything they aren't expecting huge surface pro sales.

Actually the maximum speed information can propagate is the speed of light in a vacuum according to relativity. Anything faster than that and you have problems of the results of events happening before the event from some points of view, according to relativity. Every experiment we have done to try and send information faster than light has come up short.

Some have suggested that it may be possible to get past c by doing it within plank time. Although one would have to be going pretty close to c already in order to do that.

I remember reading something very similar in the Star Wars technical commentaries on hyperspace and the actions of tachyons if they had mass. Obviously they didn't go into the math, but if this is the first time anyone tried this it's very surprising

I've seen it. And the blood was the horrible part, but I don't remember the cameraman following the action so much as just leaving the camera pointed at the same place. I figured it was on a tripod (it was a press conference) and so the cameraman just didn't do anything (or maybe even looked away)

I saw the video. Honestly, it's pretty tame. The camera is far away so you don't see many details, just the guy pointing something to his head, then falling down. Fact is we've all seen JFK's head blown open so something like this isn't too shocking other than the fact it was live and a suicide. I feel sorry for the guy's family more than anything, they shouldn't have to see this once, let along the number of times it will show up on the internet.

Yeah we had the same thing in our last municipal elections here in Peterborough Ontario. Worked well, probably because it wasn't large scale. The paper trail is the important part. The problem is not the machines counting the votes, it's the machines also recording the votes for you. I'll mark my choice myself thank you very much.