Yeah. Google is breaking the internet, selling off its users, and generally being a Facebook parody, and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim had something (however brief) to say about it. It's a case study in why selling off your internet startup that happens to fulfill your life dreams and customer needs should be a worst-case scenario, not a bloody business model.

Any prospective user of them should assume the Slashdot poll disclaimer: "If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

Thank you for your patience. At at&t(R), our time-honored commitment(tm) to the nation's largest 4G network means we are also committed(tm) to your contracts. For you, it appears, your contract seems to feel unending and unsatisfying; that is because we work with the C.I.A. to make your contract experience as unending, unsatisfying, and unprivate as possible. Thanks to their crack team of crack spies and crack dealers, we make 10MUSD more a year, and we are pleased to announce here (and on Facebook and Twitter) that you get none of it.

As for your bad service, we are also pleased to announce (near the 1st anniversary of our 2013 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee announcement) that our upcoming 2014 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee (which you agreed to in your contract of course) will be charged on schedule, and double again the prior fee. This should help improve the nation's largest 4G network roughly not at all, according to a joint and totally unbiased analysis by Forrester and Gartner.

Once again, thank you for choosing at&t(R), now sponsored by the nation's corruptest intelligence group. We hope to hear from you again, preferably by listening in to you when you're telling your mom where you'll drive next.

Bad as the NSA are, I don't want to blame them for everything bad in this world; but Snowden-based news stories have clearly shown that they use their broad power not just to spy for the military but to maintain US economic advantage, and I would not be shocked at all if the EU was given a warm and courteous* NSL or similar nastygram to scare them into both being soft on US-based Google and giving them a de facto speedy but non-public trial.

The proposed changes to search results seem reasonable to me, but the process that may lead to them really should be open.

*lol

Leeches never really left the drugstore. They evolved into the strange lifeforms we now call "Health Maintenance Organizations".

Indeed the only advertising (if that) I've seen for those batteries (I've also bought 'em) have been comments on...well...Amazon.

But yeah, adders* don't need to track. They were doing just fine with fun jingles in TV show breaks, SHOOT THE MONKEY internet banners, and not taking up so much time that said TV shows had to trim their openers and end-credits to absurdly short lengths...while still having to product-place anyway.

*Just for brevity, but given how their venom has brought even Mozilla to their knees, probably appropriate in other ways.

I give it four years.

I give it one year at extreme most, but I really expect four months before they announce its scheduled closure on the fifth month.

He works at the NYPD, but since he's too busy cleaning his PC with MyCleanPC, he keeps deleting FOIA requests instead of answering them. Oops.

It's reassurance of the Fuck You, I'm Rich, Now Bend Further Over kind.

Kudos to whoever tagged the story "balaclava"..."change the face of British retail" indeed.

RIP, dwindling helium reserves...between private companies like the mentioned Netflix and storage-hungry governments, you will be mist.