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I think that they have a list of approved ISPs or some dependable way to make sure it doesn't happen on metered connections.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-update...

"As with Windows 8.1, Windows 10 won't automatically download updates or apps if it detects that your PC is using a metered connection. Similarly, Delivery Optimization won’t automatically download or send parts of updates or apps to other PCs on the Internet if it detects that you're using a metered connection."

Some sites just give off a vibe that prevents me from ever trusting them, LinkedIn is the most predominant in that category and I have never been able to put my finger on exactly why. The email proxy apps and the pay to see who viewed your profile aspects don't help.

I'm not saying that it's any worse than any other sites, but LinkedIn has always felt like a shady company, like they're not on the users side.

I was really hoping that the Google+ reboot would fulfill the niche market that LinkedIn dominates, but it did not.

It shows that they care about their product, their customers, and their brand.

Any other car company would save software updates for the latest years model and tell users that they have to purchase a new vehicle to receive the updates.

Great precedent Tesla, thank you, and I hope other car companies follow your lead.

I wrote a very detailed reply for this with lots of sources, but deleted it because it would only invite more questions that you can find out the answers to yourself. Really what you are asking requires several books worth of information to fully explain.

Basically just read everything on Wikipedia about DARPA, NASA, CIA satellites, the NRO, the Apollo missions, Sputnik, Voyager 1 / 2, the Curiosity rovers, KH-9, KH-11, Hubble, etc. then come back and criticize NASA if you still think that they are not doing their job properly.

You have the answers to all of these questions and more at your fingertips via Google.

NASA has another Curiosity rover, but the cost/benefit of sending it to Mars isn't worth it in their expert opinions.

It's the Department of Homeland Security's responsibility, but that doesn't mean that anyone necessarily failed at their job. Just that it's a very difficult job.

The NSA will certainly contribute tools and expertise when needed to any US government agency/department.

The DHS tool "Einstein" is an intrusion detection system that detected the breach.

CIA records are assumed to not be held by the OPM, for the reason that they are the ones that are most sensitive if stolen.

I don't think that streaming to YouTube is as easy as direct streaming to Twitch, maybe that's one of the areas they are focusing on.

Streamers will make sacrifices for their audience. If the technology isn't available to stream VR well then they won't do it.

What would be really cool is a game that supports streaming to YouTube 360, where it records a view similar to what the Jump camera rig does in real life.

It's from dozens of Christian sites and forum posts linking to that page and because the search query matches the URL and page title exactly.

Google ranks the URL words too high it looks like.

Why is this BBC page not in the top 10 results? Is it solely because of the page URL? It has more backlinks and a more trusted domain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog...

This says that the original page has over 17 million backlinks, but that can't be correct: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains?target=...

And it participates in social media a lot: http://www.reddit.com/domain/answersingenesis.org

Should Google decrease the "worth" of that domain? If there is content that has a high SEO rating but is factually incorrect, does that deserve to be lower on the search results listing?

Should Google display different cards based on the user? Someone which Google determines is highly religious verses not religious would get different cards?

Update: Oh no, something needs to be done, this site is disgusting: https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-against-evolution/bill...

I still don't know exactly what swiping a card on Google Now means.

Sometimes I want to swipe a card because I've already read that article, sometimes I want to swipe it because I have no interest in seeing that article/specific webpage.

We need filters for Google Now, excluding some sites, having favorite sites. I'd love to get ycombinator news through Google Now and have it learn which stories interest me the most.

One problem is that people looking for jobs are usually inexperienced with it, so there is constantly an unusually large supply of "fresh meat".

There should be more regulation on the jobs market. It's a data-mining goldmine and fake job postings aren't illegal as far as I'm aware of.

SourceForge was sold in 2012 to a conglomerate company named "DHI GROUP INC" or "Dice Holdings Inc" that owns the following companies:

  Dice
  Open Web
  The IT Job Board
  ClearanceJobs
  eFinancialCareers
  Rigzone
  HEALTHeCAREERS
  BioSpace
  Hcareers
  SourceForge
  Slashdot
  WorkDigital

I do the same many times. Here is another workaround:

Go to Settings -> Manage Search Engines -> Other Search Engines then enter the following 3 fields:

"Google Search Shortcut" "g" "{google:baseURL}search?q=%s"

Now you can just type in "s " (the s key followed by a space) and it will search whatever else you put in there.

I don't actually use this much, but it's there if needed.