This is a known-cyphertext attack using the tile filesizes as identifiers. Build a database of map tiles' sizes and coordinates (x,y,z) from gmaps, then compare against the SSL response stream.

It doesn't say if it's only effective for satellite view.

As another hacked reader, yeah I'm unhappy about this too. Considering that I was donating to wikileaks before, this is just painful.

Stratfor's just come out with their email, 8pm, not great, but here we are. They've done the standard 1yr prepaid monitoring service for identity theft.

I looked around to verify that my CC was actually breached (who knows, maybe it was a card I've already canceled?), but all the primary copies of the CC list seem inaccessible. It'd be lovely if they were taken down before I become collateral damage in all this, but it hasn't exactly been a lucky week.

Canceling the card, and watching the account like a hawk. It's all we can do, and hopefully it's enough.

Pick up one of the pure-google phones. My Nexus S doesn't have it on there.

The backend for quite a few compilers, and a few shader compilers...

On your resume, it'll read like this:

I finished school, and interviewed. While every reasonable CS student on the planet, especially in 2011, can get an actual programming gig, I couldn't. So I took a glorified Geek-Squad gig instead*.

* It doesn't matter what the actual job was. It's in IT and not programming, it'll be read the same as geek squad.

The results of Discovery will be *awesome*.

*EXACTLY*

Blu-Ray, as a disc format is doing well within its relative market. It's just that the disc market is collapsing.

Really, who's buying many discs these days? Who's /renting/ them?

If you don't want google to store anything about you, just opt out: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view

If you don't trust them to do what they say, or anyone else for that matter, use privoxy: http://www.privoxy.org/

Well it does have a screen, hinge, keyboard, and trackpad.

Naughty Google! Very Naughty!

.. Fox isn't going to outrank the AP article they're syndicating. For U.s. political news (where they do their most reporting), they're on news.google.com -- right now, they're on 6 different news items.

As for yanking videos off of youtube, it's the customer base flagging it. You can argue that google shouldn't yank unpopular videos, but people marking it as offensive (or hate speech) is hard to ignore.