Funeral protests and free speech | Open thread | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
How should the US supreme court rule on whether religious protests at soldiers' funerals have first amendment protection?
John Henry Newman's last act of friendship | Mark Vernon | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
John Henry Newman's last act of friendship | Mark Vernon | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Why was John Henry Newman buried in a shared grave with Ambrose St John? It was his express wish – of St John he wrote: "From the first he loved me with an intensity of love, which was unaccountable" – and has been used to claim he is a gay saint.
Why was John Henry Newman buried in a shared grave with Ambrose St John? It was his express wish – of St John he wrote: "From the first he loved me with an intensity of love, which was unaccountable" – and has been used to claim he is a gay saint.
PressTV - Ahmadinejad writes to Pope Benedict XVI
PressTV - Ahmadinejad writes to Pope Benedict XVI
THE ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD BOWING DOWN TO THEIR SECRET MASTER THE PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
THE ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD BOWING DOWN TO THEIR SECRET MASTER THE PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
Eric Schmidt: Google gets close to ‘the creepy line’ | Western Journalism.com
Eric Schmidt: Google gets close to ‘the creepy line’ | Western Journalism.com
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has described his company’s policy: “Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
Schmidt was talking to The Atlantic about the possibility of a Google implant – a chip under your skin that would track you and provide easy web access. That, Schmidt said, was probably over ‘the creepy line’.
However, he followed that by saying: “With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
Some might argue that that is over the line too but Google will only read your mind “with your permission”, so that’s a relief.
Schmidt has a history of attention-grabbing and quotable statements about Google’s increasing, err, creep into our lives. There was the time that he said: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Recently he has suggested that young people might in future change their names so as to escape their Google-able past.
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has described his company’s policy: “Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
Schmidt was talking to The Atlantic about the possibility of a Google implant – a chip under your skin that would track you and provide easy web access. That, Schmidt said, was probably over ‘the creepy line’.
However, he followed that by saying: “With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
Some might argue that that is over the line too but Google will only read your mind “with your permission”, so that’s a relief.
Schmidt has a history of attention-grabbing and quotable statements about Google’s increasing, err, creep into our lives. There was the time that he said: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Recently he has suggested that young people might in future change their names so as to escape their Google-able past.
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