This is a key point; though google do let you target devices:
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722028 and cariers.

Try setting up a bank yourself! It is extremely closely regulated and monitored; just not in our interests.

Apart from the reading fail of the submitter/editor. MI5 is the domestic agency; they spy on us, not on foreign businesses.

The are encryption systems that you can do mentally. To stand up to a full attack by the NSA they may get a bit laborious (tbh, simply memorising the data is probably easier), but if you simply want to make it unprofitable to crack you can probably use http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html.

We will be trading one deep gravity well for two.

Fairly basic engineering that the shouldn't be a single point of failure for all known life in the universe.

So because you can afford a well equipped shop and already know how to use the tools other people shouldn't try and find ways to share the costs and help each other lean the skills?

They are very average specs for a branded Android tablet.

Still good to have more choice though.

Quite a few boats have circled the globe with much greener propulsion.

If GPAs are not an indicator but Google thought they where then their sample should show a negative correlation. i.e. people who were hired with low GPAs against the policy must have had something going for them?

As usually by the time it made it to the Slashdot headline it was completely miss-reported. They are working on a DB to share hashes of known images. This only prevents them having to review the image on each new URL, someone still has to have seen the image and added it to the DB (to be honest they had better be conforming these flags at least sometimes so that's two people etc.etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_8080_Advertisement_May_1974.jpg

If we are going to have a slashvert, lets at least link to the product page.

I can only see this as a move to head off Apple (but why Apple didn't by them a year ago ...)

It is much more valuable (and more common at least in the UK) to include references. Simple letters from your past clients/employees covering what you did for them and how happy they were.

Without some ideal of the the goals, budget, time-scales, support, and in IT critically when the work was completed it is impossible to judge its quality.

Google/Facebook/Microsoft boast that they track your browsing, read your communication, and sell that data to advertisers. Why would you expect them refuse to share the data with a legitimate government? I am not even sure if I would even want them to refuse.

Your security and your privacy are your responsibility. Strong encryption and onion routing gave a technical solution long ago; we just need society to decide if it values privacy.