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There's been some development on full colour graphics with the Spectrum recently:

- ZXodus engine - a tile engine for full colour graphics http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0026639
- Buzzsaw - A really fun game http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027057

There's been some other projects on the Spectrum colour pallette, for instance the ULA Plus enhancement, which replaces the flash and bright attributes and uses a colour lookup table. It's very easy to modify existing software to make use of the ULA Plus, and the ULA Plus would have been something achievable at a low cost back when the 128K Spectrum was being developed so is within the spirit of the original machine. The ULA+ has been implemented in hardware, too.

- ULA Plus is here: https://sites.google.com/site/ulaplus/

"Porting a Linux distro to ARM does not mean rewriting the code from the ground up, it means recompiling with different flags... why would it be any different for Windows?"

It would be very different, because Linux was written from the ground up by competent engineers with portability in mind. Windows was written by some very competent engineers, and many more with -shall we say - much less competence. In order to port Windows to ARM they have to find every place where an assumption was made about internal representation of data structures, word size, endian-ness, and a host of other issues.

By "Linux" are you referring to the Linux kernel, in which case you should be comparing it to the NT kernel-mode code, or are you referring to the Linux distributions as a whole, in which case I would not be so quick to assume that all of "Linux" in that sense "was written from the ground up by competent engineers with portability in mind".

(And as for whether even the Linux kernel was "written from the ground up by competent engineers with portability in mind", well, I'll let somebody whom a lot of people would consider a very competent engineer speak to that issue when he said, back in 1991, "It is NOT protable[sic] (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.)

Initially NT was DEC Alpha and x86, but they scrapped Alpha support.

Actually, it initially supported x86, MIPS, and Alpha, with MIPS support coming out earlier than Alpha support, with PowerPC support added later.

The reason is simple. Writing portable code, especially in languages like C and C++ take skill, significant effort, and additional time. Obviously, a company that couldn't be bothered to put the time and effort into develop secure code could not be bothered to invest the effort to make it portable either.

If it supported Alpha and MIPS in addition to x86, they apparently did make an effort to make it portable. Whether it made sense to make the effort to keep it portable, given that this involved testing on various Alpha-based and MIPS-based machines and PowerPC-based machines in addition to x86-based machines, and given the relative number of x86-based and non-x86-based machines sold, is another matter; it may have been an arguably-sensible business decision to drop support for non-x86 platforms.

"Porting a Linux distro to ARM does not mean rewriting the code from the ground up, it means recompiling with different flags... why would it be any different for Windows?"

It would be very different, because Linux was written from the ground up by competent engineers with portability in mind. Windows was written by some very competent engineers, and many more with -shall we say - much less competence. In order to port Windows to ARM they have to find every place where an assumption was made about internal representation of data structures, word size, endian-ness, and a host of other issues.

By "Linux" are you referring to the Linux kernel, in which case you should be comparing it to the NT kernel-mode code, or are you referring to the Linux distributions as a whole, in which case I would not be so quick to assume that all of "Linux" in that sense "was written from the ground up by competent engineers with portability in mind".

(And as for whether even the Linux kernel was "written from the ground up by competent engineers with portability in mind", well, I'll let somebody whom a lot of people would consider a very competent engineer speak to that issue when he said, back in 1991, "It is NOT protable[sic] (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.)

Initially NT was DEC Alpha and x86, but they scrapped Alpha support.

Actually, it initially supported x86, MIPS, and Alpha, with MIPS support coming out earlier than Alpha support, with PowerPC support added later.

The reason is simple. Writing portable code, especially in languages like C and C++ take skill, significant effort, and additional time. Obviously, a company that couldn't be bothered to put the time and effort into develop secure code could not be bothered to invest the effort to make it portable either.

If it supported Alpha and MIPS in addition to x86, they apparently did make an effort to make it portable. Whether it made sense to make the effort to keep it portable, given that this involved testing on various Alpha-based and MIPS-based machines and PowerPC-based machines in addition to x86-based machines, and given the relative number of x86-based and non-x86-based machines sold, is another matter; it may have been an arguably-sensible business decision to drop support for non-x86 platforms.

Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out,"

It was an intentional deliberate statement that Google wanted people to know. Or from Google's Investors Page Code of Conduct. It's not a misunderstood or leaked idea.

There were also Blinkenlights in Berlin (2001) and more to the point, ARCADE in Paris (2002). Both were made by Chaos Computer Club.
Anyway, whatever the prior art was, it is always a very thrilling development.

I'd rather talk to Jehovah's Witnesses than vegans.

Why thank you. If you're interested in the Bible and how you can apply God's principles to your life, you can always search the JW web site for pages that mention vegetables. You can start with a few verses from the Bible: it's OK to do so (Genesis 9:3), but make sure to drain the blood out first (9:4), and don't try forcing other people into eating what they don't want (Romans 14:2-3).

Nice disingenuous use of the term "primary diet source." There is in fact no such belief that humans with incredible ability to discern plants ever evolved in a situation where meat was more than a "secondary diet source," whereas in the modern world, a typical human will eat meat every day, and almost as often, with every meal. Foraging is just as much part of human nature as hunting.

You know that incredible ability to discern? That started happening shortly after we started eating meat. So yeah, primary diet source, if you're human.

"The proof of that is first world nations. They all have at most low population growth, and many have neutral or negative population growth."

That bullshit simply isn't true. Already overpopulated affluent western countries in the middle of Europe like this one still managed to add more than 10% to its population in the last 20 years and 40% over the last 50.

I also know vegans who let their dogs not eat meat. Idiots. They apparently have no problem with animal cruelty, they just don't want to have it on a plate.

Can you quote me a single study showing that properly supplemented vegan diets are inadequate for dogs? I'm guessing not, because there are none. Don't let minor details like lack of evidence stop you from passing judgement on others, though...

But back to the healthy vegans. I bet they take some sorts of supplements and thus support the companies who do the animal testing.

There's nothing non-vegan about taking nutritional supplements. There's also nothing wrong with vegan diets in general, your single anecdote and hasty post-hoc reasoning notwithstanding. But of course, leave it to Slashdot to mod up utterly inaccurate nonsense when it comes to veganism...

"Do what I mean" is the worst possible response from a computer, "Do what I say" might be bad but it's better than any of the alternatives.

That's why my Google links have a veritable alphabet soup attached to them... Google Search 1 vs. Google search 2

What I'd like is a nice simple dwiS flag that I can attach ... but, Of course if the first one doesn't work for you maybe Google has already decided you're too dumb...

"Do what I mean" is the worst possible response from a computer, "Do what I say" might be bad but it's better than any of the alternatives.

That's why my Google links have a veritable alphabet soup attached to them... Google Search 1 vs. Google search 2

What I'd like is a nice simple dwiS flag that I can attach ... but, Of course if the first one doesn't work for you maybe Google has already decided you're too dumb...

The search selection screen was specifically disabled for Russia.

Persecution complex? Google specifically disabled the selection screen in Russia. Are you saying everyone is imagining this?

I guess I am some sort of Luddite. I go to the search engine page and perform my search from there. I never understand why people care what search engine the browser is set to. Do most people actually type queries in Chrome directly in the address bar (since it doesn't have a search box anymore)? To Luddites like me, that address bar is where you type a URL. You know, like http://www.google.com/ or http://bing.com./ I just tried typing a search into the address bar and it just feels "wrong".

Android did not use to come with Chrome. In fact, it is not even available unless you are using Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Even then, you need to install it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome&hl=en

That's because Google have restricted the ability to select your search engine in Chrome specifically if you have a Russian locale.

MO earthquakes
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=0SB6aB3DK2yfA3N-gB-wgw&cp=20&gs_id=d&xhr=t&q=missouri+earthquakes&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=missouri+earthquakes&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e790b5a8625b1eb2&ion=1

MO tornadoes
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&pwst=1&sa=X&ei=G_yRT9qiBMjiggel7tXdDw&ved=0CCUQvwUoAQ&q=missouri+tornadoes&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e790b5a8625b1eb2&ion=1

MO earthquakes
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=0SB6aB3DK2yfA3N-gB-wgw&cp=20&gs_id=d&xhr=t&q=missouri+earthquakes&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=missouri+earthquakes&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e790b5a8625b1eb2&ion=1

MO tornadoes
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&pwst=1&sa=X&ei=G_yRT9qiBMjiggel7tXdDw&ved=0CCUQvwUoAQ&q=missouri+tornadoes&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e790b5a8625b1eb2&ion=1

You may want to start with http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1/ and generally search for 'WORLDCOMP'. At least some people have been taking a scientific approach to address potential fraud...

Perhaps it was a play on that commercial which claimed SUVs support terrorism because gas profits in part go towards terrorists?

I think Bush started that meme in 2002.

If you quit drugs, you join the fight against terror in America.

Watch the light skin guy

He gets real uncomfortable when the guys says they should kill white people.

In the good ol' US of A, a company can bend over backwards to in fact do no evil with the personal data they collect. But, if they go Chapter 7 bankruptcy (the full monty), the court is under no obligation to care.

Are you sure? It seems like whoever ends up with the data would still be bound by the agreements under which it was obtained, in this case the relevant privacy policy. I suppose if the privacy policy allows changing the terms, the new owner could just publish a new "I will be evil with your data" policy. Google's policy, at least, explicitly does not allow the terms to be changed in that way:

From http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/: "Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent."

But maybe none of that matters when the assets get allocated by the bankruptcy court. IANAL and don't really know.

And then put it on rails?

:-D

And what innovation failure? I and the people around me have been innovating our asses off. I'm not going to self promote, but anyone in the world can go to http://scholar.google.com/ and see all the incredible research that is going on if they want to.

Message to Neal: You ain't that influential.

Actually there are good reasons to think that technological innovation has stagnated. Between 1900 and 1960, almost every area of life was completely revolutionised. Since 1960, with the exception of information technology (a big exception, to be sure), there have only been incremental improvements.

If you're interested, read 'the shock of the old'. It's a brilliant academic history of 20th century technology.

The LCD they tested is also 8 years old.

I'm not saying newer LCD screens would perform differently (dynamic contrast, local dimming, etc. == marketing stats boosting and terrible) but basing a blanket statement like "B) Websites with darker colours tend to cause the monitor to consume less power." on a test with one LCD monitor is stretching it.

You're right. However now you're questioning their rigour and you aren't giving them credit for what they have accomplished. They challenged and tested a hypothesis. And they found something interesting which has sparked controversy. Should more tests be done? Absolutely, but for what they've contributed I think we should, "show them some love. In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt to use a custom css to make google have a black background (or any of your favourite websites).

After reading the above, I was quite amused to see the BBC's cheery comment on Google+ that

The motto of the London Olympics has also been revealed: "Inspire a generation".

Of course, acting like fascists does tend to inspire people, just not usually in a way the fascists agree with...

...and tame ego of Linus...

And whatever gave you the idea that Linus's ego is tame? Linus himself would be happy to disabuse you of that misaprehension.

And what innovation failure? I and the people around me have been innovating our asses off. I'm not going to self promote, but anyone in the world can go to http://scholar.google.com/ and see all the incredible research that is going on if they want to.

Message to Neal: You ain't that influential.

At the talk, he was very clear in saying there is a LOT of innovation right now. He wasn't criticizing the rate of innovation, so I'm not too sure where you came up with this.

If you want to know the details, the moderator asked him why people were pessimistic about technology, and whether science fiction authors had any role to play in shaping this viewpoint. Naturally, he said that science fiction (as a whole) could write optimistic futures to help inspire scientists and engineers.

This is not completely off-base. If you've read any science fiction, you'll definitely notice the trend towards dystopias with pandemics, genetic engineering, energy crises, and overpopulation, especially in comparison to earlier sci-fi

The scifi genre is just like any other, there are good ones and there are real lousy ones, but no matter how good or bad the scifi is, it will never encourage or discourage me from exploring

Nope, I just ain't gonna be influenced by a book

This. Especially not bad books. I quite enjoyed Cryptonomicon, and so right now I'm trying to read The Baroque Cycle.

What self-indulgent drivel it is. Pages and pages of History lessons than don't advance the plot at all, or even serve to improve the historical context. It is a case of: Neal read something interesting in a history book, and so is going to jam the detail into his prose regardless of whether it is relevant or useful.

His recent work is horrible. Neal has bought into his own celebrity and lost all sense of what made him a decent author. I bet the dude thinks each of his individual farts has a unique and pleasant aroma, and so is worth preserving for posterity.

And what innovation failure? I and the people around me have been innovating our asses off. I'm not going to self promote, but anyone in the world can go to http://scholar.google.com/ and see all the incredible research that is going on if they want to.

Message to Neal: You ain't that influential.

A black Google? Please, won't somebody think of the pigeons?!

Athlete's village

Posted those years ago. I worked on the fire alarm system for the Athlete's village and took those photos on-site. The system itself is a disaster and totally unsafe.

Go on, sue me.

Significant and insignificant are statistical terms

I think that may be subject to the intended audience.

Looking at what various definitions make of 'significant'..
https://www.google.com/search?q=significant&tbs=dfn:1 ..its use in the article, and my use, seem appropriate.

What muddies the waters is, of course, that they did actually collect statistics.

But I would imagine that the article wasn't written for statisticians, but rather for the layman. In which case, I know exactly what I'm talking about ;)

But if you want to debate further, here's a few other words... theory (layman: hypothesis, science: no no no!), piracy (off the coast of Somalia vs copyright infringement), hardness (materials science).

The LCD they tested is also 8 years old.

I'm not saying newer LCD screens would perform differently (dynamic contrast, local dimming, etc. == marketing stats boosting and terrible) but basing a blanket statement like "B) Websites with darker colours tend to cause the monitor to consume less power." on a test with one LCD monitor is stretching it.

Sure does seem like that. One other I'd like to see is Montezuma's Revenge: https://www.google.com/search?q=Montezuma's+Revenge&hl=en&prmd=imvnsa&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bk-QT_baK5CcOt7nsJQE&ved=0CHkQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=758 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma's_Revenge_(video_game)

People have been building electric cars for decades. The internet is FULL of open source electric car projects.

Did anyone even try google before asking?

https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=build+an+electric+car&oq=build+an+electric+car&aq=f&aqi=g4g-v6&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=igoogle.3..0l4j0i15l6.66739.69666.0.69806.21.21.0.3.3.0.188.1920.5j13.18.0.

It's the best idea to have open source everything. Building your own car, electric or gas is a wonderful thing and where real innovation comes from.

Someones back yard shed or garage is the best place to come up with better ideas.

Interestingly, in other countries the intention seems to be to keep this text service around. And the design, with bright colors and blocky graphics is almost cool again..

See this article on the Dutch version, that's been in operation 32 years now. (30 at the time of writing the article). It's Google translated, but it turned out reasonably well: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fvk%2Fnl%2F2694%2FMedia%2Farticle%2Fdetail%2F986259%2F2010%2F04%2F01%2FTeletekst-is-30-jaar-en-springlevend.dhtml&act=url

"Rounded corners" on the other hand is not something that is patented, or patentable, and referring to it seems to indicate that you are a bit clueless. You can get a design patent for a design which consists of many, many design elements, and only someone copying that combination of design elements would be infringing. I can get a design patent for a phone that has A, B, C, D and E, and you would then be free to create a phone that has A, C, D and E, but not B.

Bullshit. Design patents do not rely on a specific enumeration of elements, but on drawings, and the similarity to these drawings need not be absolute. For instance, the iPad design patent (D504889) being asserted against Samsung shows a square edge between the front face and all sides. And yet, making a tablet contaning all elements of that design except the square edge (replacing it, say, with a small radius) would not keep you safe -- in fact the iPad itself has a small radius here. The test for infringement regards the overall effect of the design (excluding functional elements), viz. whether "in the eye of an ordinary observer, giving such attention as a purchaser usually gives, two designs are substantially the same" (Gorham v. White).

See Amini Inovation Corp. v Anthony California, Inc., where an element-by-element comparison of the type you endorse was rejected:

[T]he trial mistakenly analyzed each element separately instead of analyzing the design as a whole from the perspective of an ordinary observer. The trial court is correct to factor out the functional aspects of various design elements, but that discounting of functional elements must not convert the overall infringement text to an element-by-element comparison.

Picking one element and changing it doesn't mean you don't infringe; the only way to avoid infringing is to make sure the whole design is sufficiently dissimilar to avoid infringement, and whether one element is enough depends on the prominence of that element and of whatever you replace it with.

Of course, this is part of why design patents are an evil blight -- it's too hard to avoid infringement, and too hard to clarify what elements are functional vs. ornamental, when a major principle of good industrial design is simplicity, and the reduction to functionality -- the better the design, the blurrier the line of infringement becomes!

Yep, this well-known successful freelance programmer is clearly the naive one.

Am I the only one that doesn't know who John Larson is? John Larson is a congressman according to google. John Larson programmer comes up with... surprise, his personal blog.

So the question remains: who is John Larson and why does anyone care if he signs a NDA or not?

I've hired people that signed NDAs. I've signed NDAs. If you're not doing something you're not suppose to, what's the problem with signing? If you refuse to sign, that's huge red flags, and they can hire another programmer. Yes, surprise, you're not the only person that knows (INSERT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE). And you're probably not the Michelangelo or da Vinci of programming.

What software did he create that makes his opinion on signing software NDAs matter? Since he doesn't sign NDAs he should be able to tell us ;)

Yep, this well-known successful freelance programmer is clearly the naive one.

Am I the only one that doesn't know who John Larson is? John Larson is a congressman according to google. John Larson programmer comes up with... surprise, his personal blog.

So the question remains: who is John Larson and why does anyone care if he signs a NDA or not?

I've hired people that signed NDAs. I've signed NDAs. If you're not doing something you're not suppose to, what's the problem with signing? If you refuse to sign, that's huge red flags, and they can hire another programmer. Yes, surprise, you're not the only person that knows (INSERT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE). And you're probably not the Michelangelo or da Vinci of programming.

What software did he create that makes his opinion on signing software NDAs matter? Since he doesn't sign NDAs he should be able to tell us ;)

Today is the 7th GMail outage. Who in his right mind would trust those morons who cannot run a simple E-mail service?

Umm, what does the volunteer Tahoe LAFS grid have to do with GMail?

And, according to the dashboard (how many companies publish their service problems, with history, to the whole world?), GMail didn't have an outage, just a disruption. A fairly large one, as GMail disruptions go since it affected almost 10% of GMail users and lasted over an hour, but still hardly an "outage".

and yet, most VCs won't sign an NDA.

There are a number of file managers on Android that can read a variety of network shares. I use FX File Explorer, and I have SSHFSes, Box, and two Windows shares configured.

I also use FolderSync Lite to automatically mirror files. Though to be honest, with 30GB to 50GB storage to play with, I store a massive amount of data in the cloud and use the file manager apps to copy them to my Android when needed. I mostly do this with my ePub library since I'm keeping my music and videos with Google (30GB).

There are a number of file managers on Android that can read a variety of network shares. I use FX File Explorer, and I have SSHFSes, Box, and two Windows shares configured.

I also use FolderSync Lite to automatically mirror files. Though to be honest, with 30GB to 50GB storage to play with, I store a massive amount of data in the cloud and use the file manager apps to copy them to my Android when needed. I mostly do this with my ePub library since I'm keeping my music and videos with Google (30GB).

Republicans just don't want to have to pay for someone else's birth control, you troll.

And meanwhile, Republican retards also don't want to support programs to house, feed, clothe, and educate the number of children necessarily created by outlawing birth control. And when challenged on this point, bring up the whole "keep an aspirin between your knees you filthy whore" bullshit while congratulating their silver-spoon-fed trust fund brat sons' behavior.

Google will bring up your lie as well as thousands of others, but that in no way makes it true.

O RLY?

Republicans disagree with the recent change in Federal policy that will cause increases in health insurance costs to pay for 'free' birth control. How about the women, and the men involved in the benefits of the birth control pay for it instead of adding an even greater penalty to the working people out there that aren't getting any from that particular relationship?

See above. Perhaps there is a disparate impact on women in this whole debate, perhaps it is cheaper for society to support free birth control than all the tons of social support and funding to raise unwanted kids and deal with the resulting crime from poorly-raised adolescents? Of course, no Republican has enough functional brain cells to think that far ahead, so we can understand why they might fail to address that calculation entirely.

But NO... You want to spin this into Republican's wanting to outlaw birth control for religious reasons. It's a lie... It's crap. If you can't win on your ideas, if you can't sell it, you do this shit. THIS is why there is such a great divide in America today. YOU are why there is such a great divide in America today.

I call your lie for two reasons:
1. Republicans are retards with a brain defect that causes them to have poor present-future prediction skills; they share this form of defect with the majority of children under approximately 8 years of age, gambling addicts, those under the influence of certain illegal drugs, a large portion of the population currently incarcerated for petty crimes, and the extreme religious fringe who try to replace known and solidly considered consequences with the mythological, make-believe parental figure saying "do it... do it and I'll fucking spank you."
2. Republicans align solidly with the religious right wing, who have long been known as misogynist and are the category of individual that responds most favorably to calling single mothers "sluts" and insisting that women who engage in sex for pleasure outside of marriage are "whores" or otherwise to be degraded, while simultaneously having no such issue towards men who sleep around.

I have a galaxy S2, unless you live in like russia, sweden, finland or luxemburg you aren't getting OTA ICS right now, so if you want that on your own... guess what you're plugging into the PC.

Nexus S on Sprint got ICS pushed last week in the United States of Texas (not my phone, a teammate's).

Where are you storing 10 gigs of music legally in the 'cloud'?

Google Music, 25GB. That or, I duhno, a 32GB card for under $25 shipped from Amazon? That is, unless you bought a phone that can't use a memory card. Why would you do that?

How would things go if you submitted an iOS version of that? Things have changed.

Look up Best of FTA. Used to be you could get it to drop to a BASIC prompt, but I think the current version reboots on Ctrl-Reset. I tried changing the startup slot in the Control Panel, but got nowhere with that. I think you could still transfer ProDOS filesystem images over to it and use it as a more general-purpose Apple IIGS emulator, but I've not tried doing that yet.

Forget buying a third party app for a better interface; there's plenty of FOSS out there. I installed bblean on my laptop so the Windows7 desktop looks and feels exactly like my Linux desktop which runs fluxbox (a latter-day blackbox). So check out bb4win (bblean), litestep, emerge or just search on those three terms combined to find articles comparing the various desktop alternatives.

Where do I get my cheque? There seems to be nothing in my mail :(

So you're a whore for google who doesn't get paid. Thats troubling in a different way..

If you don't like it, you've got two choices

I have many choices. My brain isnt limited by what google's marketing department tells me.

But he's okay with sending his data to smaller ad companies and non-ad companies who collect personal data?

no. i am not okay with that.

reason it didn't impact your life is because *you're not fucking important*

Stop your anti-privacy propoganda. nobody except sheep for ad companies and governments are going to buy your argument.

You would, but Google doesn't sell this

They do. You are a really bad liar, especially when its all out in the open.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

[Note: Opt-in is only required for "sensitive personal information" all other kinds of personal information is shared if they want to.]

We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services.

Is it just me or does the the "Dynamic AI Navigation" look like a direct ripoff of ReCasts NavMeshes?

Another comment from stalker Jason Christopher Hughes. You can see more of the same in the comments section of this article on The Daily Dot: http://www.dailydot.com/business/kickstarter-cyberstalker-victim-rachel-marone/ This quote is manufactured, and appears nowhere on the web except for places it's been posted as a quote by some sock puppet ID or an "anonymous coward", like Mr. Hughes is right here. Check http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=victor+cypert+%22resident+computer+programmer%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 and see for yourself.