Google don't sell your data to the advertisers. Of the advertisers we want to target a group, google's algorithms will decide, based on your data, if you are part of that group. No human looks at the data, just the cloud computers.

The sheer number of people using Google products ensure individual privacy, as there is just far too much days there to talk through.

When you first login to the Android phone, you have the option to turn off sync for any services you don't want to sync with the cloud. You might leave on mail, but disable contacts, calender and gallery. This way, none of that data will be sent to Google, our pulled down from Google.

Also, remember that a LOT of people use Google - 200m Android , 550k new daily - so unless there is a very specific need for Google to look at your data, they won't. You can assume that to a fairly high degree your secrets will be safe.

It's amazing that, when I visit the US, I feel less free than when I'm at home, or in just about any other country.
Except, perhaps, the UK.

Especially in airports.

No, I don't believe the 'land of the free' is actually free any more. I think that a lot of people delude themselves, but have actually given up a lot of their freedoms in the name of better security. There is always a fine balance between freedom and security, and I feel the US is leaning, these days, more towards security than freedom.

Case in point - TSA.
Freedom means that you have a choice. With TSA, the choice is "we feel you up or put your in our under-your-clothes scanner, or you don't fly, even if you are a 5 year old".

Sounds to me like there's going to be a deluge of back-of-the-taxi pr0n hitting your favourite site come 2015...

$ sudo -i

I find it increasingly frustrating that many applications default to US English, despite the locale of my machine or IP address I'm coming from.

And thus find it increasingly frustrating when it tells me words ending in -our are spelled wrong and wants to correct them, or words ending in -ise.

So what will this bot do? Would I expect to see, over and over again, that it's submitting what I would consider incorrect submissions because, like so many things, because it knows only about American English (and to hell with the rest of the English speaking world)?

Created cinematography. Cinema quality, no doubt.

I want to see the full feature length movie of this now...

'Food production creates carbon emissions.'

luckily photosysthesis eats up some of that carbon...

The world cannot be completely 0 emissions or all the plants would die off once the CO2 is all gone.

(But yeah, we still need to reduce the amount of CO2 we pump out)

How something if phrased is very important.

Given 64/100 for Facebook, and 77/100 for Wikipedia, how, exactly, do you define 'hate' and 'like'?

Facebook gets a lower score, but how does this equate to 'hate'?

Certainly, Facebook is liked a lot less than wikipedia. I don't like facebook (I closed my account there a long long time ago), but I don't 'hate' it.
(I also don't trust it, but that's another issue entirely)