You have to keep pro-Brexit Facebook ads in perspective:
This level of gaming the system clearly dwarfs a few Facebook ads
What does it say about the NSA, if lone security researcher finds and activates a kill switch before they do?
So they can snoop on and store an entire nation's web traffic and email, but they can't analyse a small piece of malware, notice it queries some domain name, and then discover (in a test environment) that the existence of the domain stops the malware from propagating? And then activate the domain to give the world a few hours respite?
Sure, now there's a new version without a kill switch, but the brief respite will have given millions of people the opportunity to secure their machines. It seems a pretty pathetic state of affairs when the NSA pours vast sums of money into nefarious snooping, yet can't keep pace with a single security researcher when it comes to *actually* helping keeping the nation secure.
Same goes for other countries' intelligence agencies, e.g. GCHQ.
It's more complicated than that. The judgement accepts that the so-called "royal prerogative" (which really means government power) includes making and unmaking treaties. But it argues that since the EU treaties (uniquely) can override UK legislation, they must be immune to the royal prerogative (else the royal prerogative can override UK legislation, which they think is a contradiction).
Personally I think that argument is fallacious (e.g. the government has repeatedly voted in the Council of Ministers to accept new EU members, which has overridden UK legislation too). But the judges are trying to choose which constitutional principles to uphold in the face of the European Communities Act 1972 which radically altered the UK constitution without specifying how to resolve such contradictions. So I think it's hard to predict whether the Supreme Court will overturn the judgement on appeal — but in any case, we shouldn't attack the judges, because the legislative situation is contradictory enough that there's no very clean way to rule on this.
"...adds 7,716 new characters to the existing 21,499 – that's more than 35% growth!"
There were already 113K characters in Unicode version 7.0. Which is more than 2^16 characters, so remember:
A data centre in Hong Kong would have been a turnaround for Google, since it very publicly pulled out of the country after attacks on Gmail which it blamed on the Chinese government in 2010.
This is incorrect -- Google pulled out of Mainland China, not Hong Kong. The author seems unaware, but Hong Kong has different laws from the Mainland, including data privacy and free speech. In fact, since Google pulled out of mainland China, www.google.cn actually shows a redirect link to www.google.com.hk
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein