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This is the public release.

That is a blatant lie. The Google blog post from the time is available here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-a...

Google is explicit about why they wanted the patents, and why joining the consortium would not further that goal.

I'd say the advantage of 'Locke Mail' is that it gives the right associations even to people who haven't heard of John Locke. Locked Mail. Mail protected by a (cryptographic) lock.

Wikipedia encourage editors to use archive.org.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Using_the_Wayback_Mac...

According to the article, no.

> BlackBerry is sitting on about $2.6 billion in cash and has no debt,

For this purpose, "Linux" is still too general even when restricting ourself to traditional GNU/Linux distributions. The answer may depend on which exact services a specific distribution runs by default, as well as kernel configuration.

I'd be interested to see the answer for an out of the box Ubuntu distribution (latest stable version), as well as the answer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to cover the "leading brands" for the consumer and business markets.

UK (like most of the world) uses GSM. With GSM your identity is linked to your SIM card. Put your SIM card in another phone, and "you" are still "you" as far as the phone company can tell.

Verizon (and most of US) uses a competing "standard" called CDMA, where your identity is coupled to your phone. Which means you have to involve your phone company in order to switch phone.

Apparently the Galaxy S3 is notorious for GPS issues, and those issues have an easy fix: Tighten the screws on the back.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201668

Yes, Java is a far superior language than C++ for writing Java code.

I didn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive

The Moto X has two interesting clusters of features:

1) The obvious one and only mildly interesting is the customization. I believe that will appeal to a large market segment.

2) The less obvious and more creepy one is the battery saving combined with the always on features. I believe this is very much the Google vision at play. The Moto X is always on, aware of its surroundings, and integrated with Google Now. I see this is part of the same vision that created Google Glass, and ultimately will be a Google chip in your brain.

How well it works in practice I have no idea. Google Now haven't impressed me, it best it tells me what I wanted to know 15 minutes ago. The Moto X features be utterly useless. But the direction is definitely interesting.

The phone is clearly not interesting to those mainly interested in peak CPU performance, DPI, or screen size. I'll also skip it for now. Let someone else be guinea pigs.

One type of the jokes derive their fun from an unexpected twist. The fun is the surprise.

Another type of jokes reaffirms what the listener already believe. The fun is the comfort of being proven socially right. This was the second type of joke. Those are obviously only funny to those who believe in the cliché the joke is using. As Homer Simpson put it "It's funny because it's true!"

(explaining jokes is not funny)

The unauthorized biography http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-... certainly doesn't leave the impression that Marissa Mayer is overly concerned about what people think of her. Unless she has a use for them, that is.

You are probably right. Marissa Mayer wants to be known as a great CEO, which requires thinking long term. Loeb was mostly interested in short term profit.

I guess the 20% projects are not quite dead yet. It very much looks like something created by one or more enthusiastic employees, and not a strategic move mandated from above.

Yes, there is a better than even chance that this will go nowhere like knoll, but could we please give it a chance to prove itself before shutting it down?

Google does offer a $5/month no-ads email service called Google Apps.

According to their homepage, 5 million businesses have chosen that.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/

No tracking is trickier, who would believe Google (or any business) if they claimed they didn't track their customers? The lack of ads you can verify for yourself.

They two teams were recently merged, or at least now share the same leader, Sundar Pichai.

Chrome is likely the right name here, it supports most platforms where Chrome runs, not just Android.

Danish (and I believe EU) regulation has a comprise. Subsidized phones are legal, but 1) the longest time you can be bound by a "plan" is 6 month, and 2) all advertising must include the total cost of ownership in the binding period.

This makes it blatantly obvious to the consumer that the unsubsidized phones are cheaper.

It will be added to iOS according to the linked page.

Not sure why they close Latitude before supporting their preferred alternative on all platforms.

The Location tab in the Android app. iOS support promised "soon". No mention of web support, which is in Latitude (for viewing).

I don't see the problem of using Google+ for Location only, if that is the only part you care about.

GMail is already integrated with Google+.

Google Docs will likely be integrated with Google+ soon, the document sharing is currently based on GMail groups and contacts, I'd expect them to supplement/replace those with Google+ circles and contacts.

They are moving location sharing from Maps to Google+. I have made a "Location" circle in Google+ for people (mostly family) I want to be able to know my location at all times. So far so good. It makes sense to move what is basically a social feature to Google+.

I have two problems with this though. 1) the viewer currently only works on Android. An iOS interface is promised, but no web viewer. 2) I can decide who in my circles gets to see my location, but not whose locations I see. Meaning the map view includes people whose location I don't care about.

I don't get it? Why would my employer care how many cat pictures I share?

The keywords are "can be". Or as the author put it "unless you jump through hoops". The Google+ interface makes a difference. The majority of stuff on Google+ is shared privately, because the interface invites doing it that way.

(The interface also invites having a "loudmouth" circle with zero notification level, so you can follow people without having their posts in your default stream).

Spam, virus, phishing all fall under "abuse". Targeted advertising is the only new thing here.

Do Google Apps filter spam? If so, they are "read by Google".

Start? Doesn't Yahoo already have a virus filter? Or a spam filter? Or flags phishing attempts? All of those require scanning and analyzing all emails.

The only new thing seems to be that the same automated procedures that protect the user against spam, viruses and phishing will now also provide targeted advertising.

If the knife is still in the sheath, the question is polite.

At least, according to Danish national stereotypes of Finns.

http://satwcomic.com/no-invitation

Ed is the standard text editor.

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

There are similar stories about SkyDrive, e.g.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/07/19/is-microsof...

I suspect the reason there are more stories HN about Google accounts being closed for bad reasons is that there are more users on HN that depends on Google accounts.

Note that all such reports should be viewed with some suspicion, we typically only get one side of the story, and often some important detail is left out.

Here is an amusing reddit thread where ArenaNet publicly answers people who claimed they were banned for inappropriate names:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/yxx3m/suspension...