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While it's true that increased competition among market makers have driven spreads down, decimalization was also a factor. For example: http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/052401tslu…

Put up or shut up: Please provide evidence that Chrome sends private URLs to Google.

Please. Like this project was just sitting there, waiting for a media shitstorm to pop up. The knee-jerk cynicism on these threads is truly getting stupid. The timing is almost cer…

Well, sorry to say that you're failing pretty hard at your mission then. But do keep ramping up the snarky rhetoric. It looks like I hit a nerve. I didn't say anything about total …

"... Mercedes-Benz announced Monday that it had successfully driven an autonomous S-Class sedan 62 miles on German city streets." Well, shit, that quote right there plus your hosti…

The new base map imagery was preceded by the Timelapse release last month, which used basically the same techniques on historical data. See: " rel="nofollow">http://world.time.com/…

You're so absolutely and completely wrong that you're probably trolling, but: Google implemented vector maps on Android long before Apple introduced their own maps (i.e. ~years). L…

When someone spouts big talk like "start doing things right. Since you don't know how, you have to hire someone like me and give that person lots of autonomy, but it can be done" a…

Excuse me, but given your history of writing overly verbose, self-important Grand Proclamations: I imagine the only reason someone would have to hire you is if they wanted tomes wr…

First, you imply that underlying intention behind the Fiber deployment in Provo is to make surveillance a piece of cake by practically serving up data on a platter. You admit no ot…

Batshit insane. What kind of implications could this tool possibly have for witness protection? It returns data that was explicitly entered in connection with a specific disaster, …

The guy with a username that references an utterly failed Apple operating system project might have an agenda? Well color me surprised!

> Without looking I can safely say [...] Without looking, you and your misplaced confidence just ended up spouting the exact opposite of the truth: "Further, the use of the service…

Pure bullshit. If you seriously believe that Glass doesn't have a CPU or has under 20 minutes of battery life, your raging Apple partisanship is showing through even more than norm…

Seriously? You're actually saying that a service[1] with millions of customers and still growing is "already unpopular"? Show your work, please. [1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/e…

There are a number of examples floating around that make it appear as if Apple is deriving map feature types from their names. For example, a water pumping station labelled as a ga…

It worked for me.

Imagine one of these payloads landing on someone's head. Wolfram Alpha offers up "2.4x impulse force acting on a baseball being hit by a bat" as a comparison when you plug in "5 lb…

> [...] and a good amount of that work can be copied for free by competitors in the absence of patent protection [...] Really? I would guess a good amount of that work was writing …

You keep accusing people of not understanding what patents are, but most people aren't objecting to Apple having the exclusive right to an ornamental design (even if it isn't purel…

Well surely any demonstrations of these ideas by other parties weren't thrown together at the last second either, so what's your point? Even in the worst case, they hint at the pos…

Email, of course, contains tons of personal information. If linked to a user's identity, it could clearly be used to inform advertising. However, emails in aggregate probably don't…

I'm tired of people making insinuations about some sinister motive behind the WiFi logging without evidence. How did that debacle "align with Google's business interests"? What use…

The acquisition closed on May 22nd [1]. While 'months' is technically true, it barely squeaks over the bar, and really not that long when you consider that they might have other pr…