Not really. The service as described by DDG strongly reminds me of old Mozilla Weave/Sync 1.1, which had a very sensible design from the security standpoint - your own encryption key never left your device, everything to be backed up was encrypted with it before being sent to the Mozilla servers, thus making your backups not readable to Mozilla. However, in Sync 1.5 and later they "upgraded" the service by integrating it with Firefox accounts. Your encryption key is stored on Mozilla servers now, as a part of your account. New Firefox Sync doesn't have anything in common with older, more private (and secure!) Mozilla Sync 1.1

I only hope this DDG service doesn't follow the Mozilla lead.

But every Android system has a shell and a number of Unix utilities and services, albeit hidden from plain view. You can install any terminal emulator to run a shell where you can interact with system utilities. The shell is also available remotely via "adb shell" if you enable development mode and plug your Android system into a PC.
Compilers and development tools are not available, but that's completely understandable as storage is a precious resource on a phone.

Attached to the Freetype bug case:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bu...

Wrong. Baikal-T1 uses MIPS: http://www.cpu-world.com/news_...
Though you can rightfully argue it's not fully Russian as it uses a commercial core. "Elbrus" line of CPUs, however, is fully "home-grown": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess "Elbrus' does fall under "designed in Russia", right?

Is this it?
http://meteor.robonuka.ru/gall...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
"Scientific links" section contain a link to the film about similar experiments on the dogs in Soviet Union.

What's the story title?

"Ukraine admits it shot down Russian airliner"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Now your turn, eager to hear your "rumors in certain circles".

I have a vague recollection they are now sharing some USA citizens' account information with USA.

That's because the numbers from Compete do not correspond to reality. Compete.com is tracking some preselected panel of people, which in no way could represent the entire site usage. And then they stretch and inflate that data, and call it the "site profile".

For the reference, here's another such Google+ profile, from Alexa, which shows no "dramatic growth" whatsoever:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/plus.google.com

I present to you.. .kkrieger!
A 3D FPS in 96KB.

The MIT report cited in the "article" is from 1972. Enough said.

And in his Robots and Empire, the Earth is special because of the relative abundance of the radioactive elements like uranium in the Earth crust.

Hear, hear!

I absolutely agree. It feels like an elaborate thought experiment carried out for the sake of experiment, and artificially handicapped by many limitations to the boot. I'm surprised a more sane thing wasn't proposed at the time.