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Northern Light Technology Makes Deal WIth C.I.A.
Llywelyn writes: "The C.I.A. has evidently written up a contract with the group Northern Light Technology to develop a search engine that can sort through the C.I.A's increasing mound of unprocessed data. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this is that Northern Light's public search engine is fated for destruction later this month. " It's inevitable, IMHO, that some of this happen - the search engine world is overpopulated right now, and with the economic downturn, more and more companies will move to where they can survive.
I -so- want to see the list of the top search terms for that...
"pr0n"
"Where is Osama?"
"missing equipment"
"JFK"
"Castro"
...et multiple cetera...
For those non-English speakers, "IMHO" means "In My Honest Opinion".
Non-English speakers are probably going to have more trouble with the rest of the words in that sentence...not to mention your explanation.
Reporter: You mean, the procurement officer paid $6,000,000 for grep?
Guy with face hidden: Yes.
Reporter: What happened to him when they found out?
Guy with face hidden: Well, they were going to hit him with a hammer, but they decided that would be hypocritical...
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
When we hear of the Library of Congress overthrowing a thirdworld despot, we will know that the merger is complete.
but the 6 million was paid in Flooz, not real dollars. Saw the man walking with a wheelbarrow full of 20 meg hard disks loaded with Flooz money walking down the street.