The Lockheed Skunkwords CFR is either a) a complete bust, or b) successful enough that the department of defense has hopped all over it and classified the shit out of it.

Normally with most companies I'd assume it was a), but given it's the Skunkworks, the answer could range anywhere from "we actually solved this twenty years ago but can't admit that" to "it won't ever work but the Department of Defense and Department of Energy back dumptrucks of money up to our doors to keep trying".

Wow, you did not read the story at all, did you?

The guy isn't a "google insider", he's a long-standing foe to Google. Foe means enemy. The opposite of friend.

Blocking ads is much easier on PC than on mobile devices. Who wants to even bother to try to read an article on a smartphone anymore? It's all ads and pop-ups and intrusions and notifications for days. Fuck that noise.

PC, I run sufficient adblocker that I don't see 95% of that crap.

Apple's legal counsel gets to see this data, NOT Apple itself, and the data is under a protection order by the judge.

A third-party subpoena is a fairly common thing in business litigation; the court balances the power of that kind of discovery by strictly limiting who gets to have eyes on it (lawyers, not clients) and stacking up both enormous liability and penalties, both civil and criminal, for leaking or sharing that information beyond the legal counsel.

This is a pretty humdrum decision by the courts, it's just exciting to nerds because of the brand names involved.

Why exemption #9? Is that to avoid someone having an unfair advantage in mining scouting, or what?

What the father failed to do in this situation was draft up a contractual agreement with the other woman in this case, with her agreeing to reimburse him for any expenses or support related to the child in perpetuity.

Which would still leave him out-of-pocket until he could collect from her, but it would (probably, IANAL, your state or provincial laws may vary) be a legal arrangement.

Source: My family law lawyer (Alberta provincial and Canadian Federal law.)

Because that invites reciprocation of that attitude from other countries. Most people tend to get angry when foreigners from anywhere come into their country and intentionally disrespect the local cultural mores and laws.

I'll give you an easy, hyperbolic example:

By that same argument, how do you feel about Sudanese refugees performing female genital mutilation just down the street from where you live? How do you feel about them snorting in contempt at you when you show outrage, saying: "If a country doesn't respect my cultural norms, then why respect it at all?"

Etc. Etc.

Seconding this.

"Starfish" and "Blindsight" are brilliant, dark pieces of claustrophobic sci-fi. I'm stunned that neither has been optioned for movies yet.

Uh, don't you mean "Where that big light will be eight and a half minutes from now"?

I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.