Well, it is certainly trust based and open for abuse (people can certainly lie in the header). However, what Google should be doing is not providing a P3P header at all. It is only someone who is openly abusing the trust system who would create a P3P header that doesn't contain any P3P information. It is fairly clear that it was done on purpose - to abuse the trust system. Is that system a crap design? Yes. Yes, it is. Should major companies be out there abusing it if they want us to trust them? No. No, they should not. It is pretty clear from this that:

1) We need to call out companies that do this type of thing. Not just with P3P but anytime they abuse the system or game it. They need to be made to understand that a very vocal set of folks will make it known what they are doing and that it is bad for their business to be found gaming trust systems.
2) We need better systems that don't just trust whatever a company says about their intentions with our data.

I think that's a pretty good thought. I'd extend it with perhaps one of those, "which of these things doesn't belong" type of setups (which may have been what you meant). It could then show pictures of a banana, an apple, an orange, some grapes, and a baseball hat. I don't know, perhaps there is a way to solve these easily by computer. But I know the stupid text CAPTCHAs that I had to go through yesterday to sign up for one site were so "obfuscated" that I couldn't read them either and I had to click the button for "show another" about 6 times before I could get one I could actually answer correctly. I'm pretty sure if we were asked to do something like you mention that was higher level we would be able to answer it without having to ask for "show another" over and over hoping to get one that is legible.

If you need to block Chrome installs in your locked down environment you can: http://support.google.com/installer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146164. At one point early in Chrome's life (before the policies existed) we had a desire to block Chrome as it was playing havoc with our authenticated proxy servers (it would just hammer them with failed authentication requests). It plays nice with proxies now, so we don't do anything to either enable or disable Chrome.

You may not be able to put much thrust on one of these objects. Many of them are "rubble piles" so the chemical rocket would just go right through. Others are indeed bound together, but without a high gravity to really cause heating, melting, etc. you still don't have an object that can take much delta-v. Perhaps instead a giant net with a solar sail? I don't know - smarter people than me will need to come up with the answer.

Certainly my family will have access to my local data. However things like Google+, the rarely used Facebook, my Google Docs and assorted other "in the cloud" data is a lot more questionable. Some of those things they may never find. Others, they can perhaps get control of depending on the policies of the providers (send us a death certificate + proof you are next of kin or the executor of the estate or whatever). Some of it will probably remain in the sole control of the providers as well and just be there until the providers get tired of storing it.

For Chrome users, the LinkPeelr extension works well to pre-decode links for you in a little tooltip window. I've been using it for quite some time and it seems to work pretty well. Saves your from many a rickrolling or goase link. Although I guess when people bounce them through several layers of link shortener it doesn't work for that.

It would be more correct to say the vulnerability (flaw) is in the windows kernel and the only currently known exploit is through the safari browser. There are decent odds that some other vector will be found through which to exploit this. But for now it looks like the exploit through safari uses a lack of correct input sanitization (in safari) in order to exploit the Windows kernel vulnerability. It would probably be possible to craft an exe to do privilege elevation using this kernel flaw by passing similar bad parameters to the kernel - but of course local elevation of privilege is much less of a threat than a true drive by like this exploit through safari.

Tons of schools use Google as their email provider. Here's a quote from a Time article from 2009:

Google now manages e-mail for more than 2,000 colleges and universities, enabling students to transform accounts capped at 100 mb into Google-managed inboxes that allow for 70 times as much mail. Microsoft also provides free Web-based mail for thousands of schools, including colleges in 86 countries.

Here's the article: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1915112,00.html. Now, a specific school? Sure, my daughter and I just toured California State Sonoma and they use Google services.

You know, you hit the nail on the head. I have 21 years with my company and I personally started on a help line for Point Of Sale equipment in the Credit Card dept (proprietary card), moved from there to LAN administrator, and on to programming and system images. That POS help line? It is in Manila now. The Credit Card department? Outsourced. Oh, there is still a card with our company name on it. It just isn't handled at all by our company anymore. I wouldn't have even been able to start with the company today without moving overseas and working for peanuts. Low Cost Geography they euphemistically call it. In the same way those of us who are technical experts in the design departments no longer have any internal source to draw on for new hires. The lower end jobs where the best of the workers could have moved up are all overseas. The middle of the road jobs are mostly gone too. It's only the top end design groups that are left in the US. And we have nobody to pull from when folks retire, switch jobs, or get laid off. We supposedly hire from colleges, but those that come in are woefully unprepared. They would have been fine after spending a couple of years in those middle tier jobs - but they just don't cut it for the ones where you need a lot of experience. They will someday, but not right away. It makes long term succession planning for your group more a "rob from Peter to pay Paul" game of musical chairs where you try to poach from other groups.

I think next, they will figure out that simply reminding you to buy milk when you are near a store isn't very smart. You buy the milk, then it sits in your car while you go to work. When you get back out of work, you see the milk is spoiled. Next, the patent will be for "location based reminders that remind you to buy milk when you are on your way home and you are near a store that is within 30 minutes of your house ". I work 38 miles from home - which in the morning is a 40 minute drive and on the way home is an hour and 25 minutes. I don't want milk while I am near work - that would be stupid. I want it when I am almost to my house and on the way home.