Where are these websites that Google is supposedly creating? Can someone link to an example?

Chrome saves addresses you enter for shipping destinations, so it can autofill them on other websites. Maybe the OP entered his grandparent's addresses one some website when ordering something online to be shipped to them?

Unfortunately account hijacking due to password re-use is so common that Google has to detect what look like suspicious logins (ie. from a different device, or in a different country, or at an unusual time) and ask additional challenge questions. However, in this case you can enter ANY phone number - it doesn't have to be your own.

Any documents you have stored in google cloud / docs / drive are already being scanned by their software - how else could those docs be displayed and indexed?

Further scanning for malware or whatever isn't done by humans - it's fully automated, implemented by software that in the recent case happened to be buggy.

This no-fly zone feature has been around for quite a while on their high-end models, to prevent users flying over an airport - see http://www.dji.com/fly-safe/ca...

Also, last time I checked the firmware update process involved connecting the quadcopter to a PC via a USB cable, so it's not like new rules are being applied without the user knowing.

As someone who works at a company that has branches all over the world (including India) and employs people from all of the world, I've never seen this happen. Instead everyone who comes over on an H1B starts their green card application process as soon as they can, with the aim of staying in the US permanently.

Have slashdot commenters ranting about H1Bs ever actually worked at a tech company? Or tried to hire someone in tech recently? The idea that there is some huge untapped pool of US workers that are being ignored is simply bullshit - demand is so great currently (at least in Silicon valley) that its damn near impossible to hire anyone decent from anywhere.

Explain to me how allowing more foreign workers to come to the US under H1B visas will increase offshoring? Surely not allowing people to work here is going to cause work to be sent overseas, not the other way around.

Every H1B worker I've met (including myself) wants to get a green card so they can live and work in the US permanently. At which point they are just as much part of the US tech workforce as a citizen who was born and raised here.

$25k / year?! Fresh grads in silicon valley can get $100k / year jobs at good tech companies - and the median salary is way higher.

1 - What evidence do you have for how much Comcast charges Google or Akamai for placing hardware at their facilities?

2 - Google is just as much a competitor to Comcast via Youtube and the Google Play movies store. Why is only Netflix being targeted?

I'm sure that's what the left-wing conspiracy theorists believe, but in reality he shot himself with an AK-47, and there was no need to reload : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Salvador_Allende

I wish that were true .. but there really is a shortage of candidates that know jack shit about coding. I work at a large US tech company as a team lead, so I can see the kinds of salaries that we are paying at various levels. And I do a large number of interviews so I get to see the quality of candidates that apply, and make it past the first couple of levels of filters. New grads are already getting six-figure offers, but we still have trouble finding acceptable candidates.

This chart is nearly useless, as it doesn't account for the average distance traveled per country. You'd be better off reading the wikipedia page that has those stats : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

Or looking at trend in deaths / mile over time. For example, the US rate of 1.1 per 100M miles in 2011 is an all-time low : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year

I'm not being flippant or showing off, but for a while when they first came about in the UK papers I was partial to the odd Sudoku and in order to speed up the process of grid filling, I printed out some prepared grids with all the little numbers (the ones you're supposed to pencil in) in every single box.

Then after filling in the published starting numbers it became a simple task to simply black out those small numbers that were no longer possible i.e all the ones of the same number in the same square, row or column). Then almost invariably I'd be left with a number of squares that could be filled and the process repeated. Then, as with normal play I'd find a row column or square with pairs or triples of numbers enabling other numbers to be black out. This would solve most Sudoku, and it didn't even require any thinking.

And that's what ultimately weaned me off the things. I was essentially imitating a computer process, blacking out and filling in numbers as the rules laid down allowed. In other words utterly pointless and boring.

There are puzzles this won't solve, but then there's no actual skill to be employed in solving those ones either. Sudoku guides would bill this as "ariadne's thread", but ultimately it comes down to guesswork. When you're stuck then you have to pick a square and take a guess. If you're right, and it works, you solve the puzzle, otherwise your guess was wrong, you go back to where you were and choose the other number. To give it another name: brute force. No skill, no intelligence, just number crunching. Sudoku puzzles aren't puzzles at all, they're just an exercise in box filling.

Because Google's business model relies on advertising, and it's morally reprehensible to advertise to kids anyway. If they did do it it would have to be as a tax writeoff.

Couldn't a similar suit be brought against the developers iptables or squid if those applications are used by an oppressive government? Just answering a question from a user with .cn email address could be turned into "assisting the censorship of dissidents" by an enterprising lawyer..