Given that it is an Android tablet, yes.

They've documented 2.
3 is right fucking here - http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
4 is documented in their court battle http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/google-fights-nsl/
5 was documented
6 was documented http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-wins-floating-data-center-patent/17266
7 was documented http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-nsa-google-encryption-20130907,0,3652913.story

All are verifiable and you're full of shit.

More backdoors implied they already created backdoors in the first place. Currently there is no evidence they created any in the first place.

This is what we do know:

1. Google is required by law to hand over data when they get a request, such as through a NSL.
2. Google said their process for handling this request is to FTP data over to the government. The government never gets direct access to any of their systems.
3. Google publishes a transparency report on what government requests they receive.
4. Google is fighting the US government on the NSL process and suing to make that more transparent.
5. When Bush asked for all search data on all users, Google was the only search engine to refuse.
6. Google went so far as to discuss creating off-shore datacenters to place user data outside the reach of the government.
7. They're encrypting data sent from one Google data center to another to make sure the government can't attempt to intercept it in the middle. And they anonymize user data sooner.

This is the only company we've seen actively fight to protect your data from the government. So why are people creating fiction that Google is the one that is evil here, and not the US government?

You may not realize this, but Microsoft does the same still, but to a lesser extent because their contextual ad scanning failed. So now they just do contextual ads based on subject.

Critics don't give high scores to films for explosions. Again, you'll note that critics gave higher ratings to Abram's Star Trek than Wrath of Khan.

I had a Vulcan one night stand with her.

It was Pon far and away.

The reboot is an alternate timeline, so the original universe still exists separately.

You may be surprised to learn that not only did the "horseshit" reboot make more money than all the other Star Trek movies combined, it had a higher RT score than Wrath of Khan.

That Abrams guy is a real asshole. He turned a Star Trek movie into something entertaining that audiences, and critics who usually rip on blockbusters both seemed to have enjoyed.

Windows 7 (lost market share to Apple OS X)
Windows Server (lost market share to Linux)
SQL Server (lost market share to a variety of competitors)
Azure (new product, but not market leader)
XBox 360 (red ring of death and years of losses due to those hardware failures)
XBox Live +1 here for a legit success
Office 365 (jury is out)
Lync (New name for communicator. Not sure that this makes MS extra money or is a real success. I don't know that this has mass adoption)
SharePoint (I wouldn't remotely call this a success)

I thought only the commercial, proprietary releases of Quake had punkbuster built in. The open source versions did not, because it was licensed for Quake, but they didn't own the rights to release it as open source.

The previous release of Urban Terror on the open source Quake fork did not have anti-cheat. When they got a commercial Quake license, they could use the anti-cheat.

The Creative Commons license is perfect for this.

http://creativecommons.org/

BTW, I think Pearl Jam released one of their videos under a Creative Commons license, allowing fans to alter, re-cut, modify it to their hearts' content.

Yep. It used to be Open Source and used a modified open source Quake 2 fork, but the new version is closed source. The licensed the commercial version of Quake 3 so they could use anti-cheat and such.

Not everyone has their PC near their TV, or a wireless gaming controller for their PC that will work. That is the appeal of a Steam Box, or Shield in this case.

Individually, I know you can display Shield games on your TV, and I know Shield can stream Steam games from your PC.

Can it do both at once? That seems to be an important question.

That is the NSL program. If you are served a NSL, you have to hand over data and you're not allowed to even talk about the fact you were served a NSL. It is really fucked up and the law needs to change.

You are not however required to put in a backdoor or give direct access for all data all the time.

That is why Google is able to keep the NSA out of their servers and just FTP over data for specific requests when they are served a NSL.

I don't believe it is the case at least. Companies like Google are pretty unhappy about the affair, and have tried to talk about it as much as they're legally allowed to with their transparency reports, though they can't list NSL requests in said report. But they do mention that they're not allowed to talk about NSL letters, which is legally as much as they can say.

Google has even outlined their process for handing over data to the government (via FTP) because they refuse the government direct access to their servers.

I just don't believe Google would have handed over their private keys when there is zero reason they'd have to, when they've demonstrated they are willing to fight governments on such requests (US, China, Brazil and more).