I pay for my google storage - upgraded my storage years ago - at what pricing threshold should I expect this this to to be considered a "breach" vs a "glitch"?

Water is still wet. Seriously though haven't there been many many studies that have proven that Open Offices are bad ? The reality is this space is cheaper to maintain so of course management runs too it, productivity be damned.

Me thinks one goal should be to make at least /half/ the people who buys your product happy yah? 2.5/5 seems like a the very (very) least you should shoot for before claiming you can't make everyone happy....

"relentlessly automating and merging the best of our optimized business models with the best new thinking and technologies." AKA let the best PowerPoint win.

Can we use a new metric in place of Jobs?
Jobs might have meant something back in the day - but the word has been mangled so completely it could mean "well paying blue collar work" or it could be "third shift, part time apprentices who have to pay for their own uniforms"

How about instead we expect a "wealth" metric like "We plan to employ X million dollars of employees"?

...they won't of course. They don't want us regular plebs being able to do the math in our heads.
"Wait....we we're giving you 1 billion/y in tax breaks, and you're only bringing in 1/2 billion/yr in wealth......"

I'm curious what customs expects to find on my phone that a normal strip search would find? Weapons? Is there a way to smuggle in drugs, or farm animals, or plant life on my phone that I'm missing? Is this all about child porn??

What's the incentive for the individual politician to fix the problem? If he votes to tear it down, and tomorrow someone figures out a new way to blow up a plane, he will be blamed for removing the "protection" for "bean counting". He just needs to grumble with a "but what can you do, the /other/ guys won't do anything to remove it" and he's got the same bump. System's borked.

It's always manipulating the results....by design. Google will show you the links that it thinks the majority of people are looking for, based on your search term. It might even adjust them a bit if it knows more about you. So if I'm a minority candidate in an election, with a weak online campaign, there is a chance my content is filtered out simply because Google thinks I'm noise. Or I'm pushed several pages down in the listings. As a person using google, I can tweak my search to find better results, but only if I know the results are there to find." What color of lipstick does Trinity wear in the matrix" will get me a vastly different answer from "What color lipstick do movie stars wear?" Same for politics - "What candidate supports gun control" will get you a different result from "What candidate is looking to limit the caliber of rifles to .22". Both could get me a politician, but the first is going to get me a far more generic "popular" link then the much more specific second. And if I don't know I'm looking for the second guy, I might stop at the first.

+1 Groan

Well played sir, well played.

How is this possibly of any use to anyone. Hey, TSA! I have this rock that keeps me safe from terrorist. To date, it's be 100% effective at protecting me and everyone else I interact with from terrorism. It's also had zero false positives! I'll be happy to sell you my rock at the bargain price of 250 Million dollars. For another 50 million, my rock will also protect you from vampires, space aliens and Bears (The football team, not the animal.)

So the lesson is move all your stuff from a .com to a .uk.

Back in my day, we didn't use any sort of "books" or "writing" to remember stuff. If we needed to remember we did! And if someone else needed to know, they came and they asked the person who did! All these books are going to do is rot your memory! Besides, how do you know if that book is true or not? People are going to believe 100% of what some damn fool writes in that book! Then what will happen! Everyone in the village will have no memory and be believing a bunch of lies, that's what!

I've been robbed, and I'm not even sure what they have stolen. I've had my PS3 for years, it collects dust most of the time lately - But I'm sure I setup a PSN account back in the day. So, I know they have some data. I have a pretty good idea what that data is - But I can't be sure. And since their site is down, I can't go in and check. Wonderful. And I'm getting this info from the media - Where's my letter saying "Hey, we got robbed, they took this and it was yours." Or some sort of note. Anything. Sony...Hello?

Honestly, the quality is too good - You can see the wizard behind the curtain. Real life example: My geeks friends and I were all standing around watching Iron man 2 on a super huge LCD screen at best buy. It was the scene where Tony escapes his captors in the clunky MKI armor. We all noted that the suit looked like plastic, not metal. That you could see where the joints didn't quite connect. In short, the illusion was shattered. I haven't bought a blue ray video since. (I have a PS3, I own a few blueray films that I got for the extra features - But I prefer to watch plain old DVDs.)