Research is scant? It's ridiculously easy for anyone with a webserver to verify if Google respects robots.txt.

What do you mean by wear out? I find it hard to believe your phone would be unusable after only 1.5 years. I go over 2 years with all my phones and only replace them if I want something new, they still work fine after that time.

Uh... Matias Duarte, the guy behind the Web OS UI, already switched over to Android about 2 years ago. Gingerbread was the first release his changes started to make it into, and the major UI overhaul in Honeycomb and ICS were largely influence by him.

So his social interactions aren't intellectually fulfilling. His intellectual endeavors clearly aren't socially fulfilling either. What's wrong with doing both?

Counting IP addresses seems utterly useless. How many users share an IP address at schools or business? How many different IPs does each user access facebook from? I probably have 5 or 6 I use regularly.

He was right the first time, when we observe it is when it happened as far as we're concerned. Relativity and all.

Some of the justices in the GPS case mostly objected to the fact that a physical device was attached to the suspects vehicle. If the tracking was entirely unintrusive as with tracking a cell phone it may have had a different outcome.

Usually there's a pretty substantial delay before anyone is actually reported missing. How much of a difference would getting a warrant really make? I doubt very much.

Hydrogen is the exact same story, actually. Somebody has to produce the hydrogen for your fuel cells, that takes energy.