My comment just meant that I needed 1 hour to find a way to get a shell in a couple of their servers. That is more worrisome to me than the NSA snooping around. And I'm not a great pentester, I probably wouldn't find a bug in Google even if I spent a couple weeks.
I don't know how Apple's servers security fares now, but I took a quick look 4 years ago and it was notoriously bad. They were responsive and solved the exploitable bugs soon after I notified them. No bounties though.
If their software and network security is similar now.. then they should spend resources there rather than care too much about modified hardware by a governmental agency.
It's an interesting experiment. The number of patients (15) is very low though, there is no control.. but it's good that people is working on this.
Virtual therapy may be a very good choice for people with addiction or phobias. A cheap way to diminish the cue reactivity in relation to the object of addiction or offer exposure therapy for phobias/anxiety.
I have been working for some time now on the application of CBT techniques and quantified self (for me, modern applied stoicism) with the objective of improving virtuous behavior. I have not been very successful developing an interface which makes it easy/appealing enough to use it multiple times a day. Maybe they're into something converting those CBT exercises into a virtual "game".
I cook all my meals. I spend an average of 3.4 hours per week in both cooking and washing the dishes. I order all my groceries to an online supermarket. I could save 3.4 hours by spending 300-400$ more and losing control over what I eat and how it was done. No thanks.
Cooking is not going anywhere. I simply cannot understand why common people with a kitchen would not cook. It just takes some planning and cooking enough food that it last 2-3 days.
"And it's clear: When, like that, the number of subscribers dramatically declines, young people no longer subscribe to newspapers as my generation did, when the number of papers sold at newsstands declines, when the classified ads for the labour market, for used cars and for apartments decline because it all becomes an online service then newspapers are in existential danger. One can either accept that, or act now – in five years it would be too late."
I say, let them die. Most newspapers are a joke. I don't subscribe to them because it's actually a way to become misinformed about any specific topic. Or at least that's what I see in their take of any topic I know profoundly.
There are alternatives. Reader-supported news like LWN seem to be working. I get most of my content from topic specific websites, blogs, and mail lists.
About the classified ads. Why is that a problem at all?
"Maybe Google will only accept an European provision, accept European instruments because then, if needed, via the competition law and the European Commissioner for Competition measures, penalties and legal action in case of breach of European rules are possible"
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/