Maybe he needs an income stream that is hidden from his wife. He wouldn't want to clue her in on how much he spends on hookers and blow.

You can be certain that every major intelligence service has multiple operatives working for Google. The ones from the NSA may be doing so less covertly.

Don't forget liability when the s$#! hits the fan and a lost child or evacuation announcement has to be made and the PA override fails. Rolling your own sounds penny wise pound foolish.

Actually this is what you get when you shut/put off updates.

Yeah I'm a shill, I've been shilling for NPR from slashdot for 15 years.

That just means that WBEZ broadcasts some shows which were produced by NPR, such as All Things Considered. They pay NPR quite heavily for the right to broadcast NPR produced and/or distributed shows.

My guess is that your local newspaper prints articles by UPI, AP and Reuters, that makes them an affiliate of these syndicators. However when they want to syndicate their own work, they chose one syndicator who takes care of distributing their content to newspapers around the world. Say your newspapers uses UPI, should I blame the AP when an article written by your newspaper gets it wrong?

It is produced by WBEZ (which itself broadcasts NPR distributed shows, such as Car Talk, but has to pay NPR for their broadcast), and distributed by PRI (Public Radio International, a direct competitor to NPR).

NPR (National Public Radio) doesn't have anything to do with the production or distribution of This American Life. It is produced independently by WBEZ and distributed by PRI (Public Radio International, a direct competitor to NPR)

It's the same in California.

  There is the portable roadside test, preliminary alcohol-screening (PAS) which is the device that was not being calibrated. Which you can refuse, this is the easiest method for the officer to have probable cause to arrest you. After they arrest you, you have the choice of a blood test, another breath test at the station with another officer on a completely different device (these were being calibrated properly), and not taking another test which makes them assume guilt.

the 2/3rds quote was what Google said they achieve, but there is nothing in the article which actually quantitates it, so I'm going to go with the M&A exec blowing smoke.

Perot did not hand the election to Clinton, however Nader did hand the election to W.

http://mydd.com/users/diamondjay/posts/getting-the-19921996-elections-right-ross-perot-did-not-change-the-outcomes