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Speculating About Gmail
rjelks writes "The Register is running an article about Google's new email service that was mentioned earlier,
here. The story details the new privacy concerns about Gmail's privacy policy and Google's tracking habits. The policy states that Google will not guarantee the deletion of emails that are archived even if you cancel your account. 'The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Indeed, residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account.'" Reader cpfeifer writes "Rich Skrenta (founder of ODP, and Topix) speculates in his blog that the real product Google is creating isn't web search or email, but a massively scalable, distributed computing platform. 'It's a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers.' If he's right, the question isn't what product will Google announce next, but what product will they not be able to announce?"
My god! They are building Skynet! When will it achieve sentience?
If so, I think I'll put in a resume for a job on, what was it - the Copernicus base?
Gmail was an April Fools Day joke, yes?
"the contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Indeed, residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account."
Go ahead and horde my spam. I don't want it anyway.
-Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
In related news, excentric millionaire and communication guru Bob Page aquired Google today. "With Bob Page vision's, Google will reach new heights in consummer services" said a Google representative. In answer to the question of where would the facility be found, Bob Page said it would be "near Groom Lake in Nevada".
So from reading our e-mail they'll find out that 99% of its users are interested in penis enlargement?
Amazing. At some point, Google could have copies of every new document or content produced, all for the cost of hosting. They would, by default, become the next Library of Congress.
You spelled Eschelon and Carnivore incorrectly.
> You spelled Eschelon and Carnivore incorrectly.
So did you (well, the former)...
Its a hell of a lot better advertizing than a 30 second superbowl ad.
More info here.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
I still backup my hard disk in 1.44MB chunks, you insensitive clod.
http://www.switch2firefox.com/
I found out that you can't really trust newsreports until up to ten days after April 1st, so
.. aiming for "+1, Funny" here, not for "-1, lacking basic math skills".
Anything confirming that it's not an April Fools' joke which was published at least ten days after the 1st of April?
Free as in mason.
Whilst you do make some insightful observations, you can't count to four can you ;^)
Nit-picking aside, your second reason is a community service, Google are really good at publishing the results of their research. That experiment in distributed computing is not just going to advance the state of the art in scalable systems, its going to drive it.
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For example, when mail (example: spam) is sent to 100 people, keep 1 copy of the message
Better still, when spam is sent to 100 people, keep 0 copies of the message...
gMail disk device driver...
I sense a sourceforge project coming lol
format g:
WARNING, ALL DATA ON EXTREMELY-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE g: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?_
liqbase
... failed systems. It might not be cost effective for google to deal with them, but I bet you could piece together a lot of functioning boxes from the scrappage.
Or, have the machines, escaped from the Matrix? huh? Huh?
Sig it.
espo
I like the concept of your troll account, but the execution is lacking.
...because I am [a] stupid American.
First, you shouldn't have your subject line be capitalized. This gives it away as an obvious troll; you want people to actually read your comment as if they are expecting a non-troll. Just punctuate it as you would in a normal communication.
Second, the spelling of your account is bad. The "S" in Stupid American should not be capitalized, and it should be "a stupid American" instead of "Stupid American". That way, it won't sound like a non-English-speaking person is saying it. Unless you are portraying a non-English-speaking person making fun of Americans, in which case I guess it's ok, but I still think the "S" should not be capitalized.
Third, I think you should have leading periods in your comment to indicate continuation with a slight pause. This will get the effect across better.
Exampe:
Subject: I have the right to spy on anyone I like...
Comment:
If you follow my advice, I think you will go down as one of the most loved and hated trolls in Slashdot history. Until we meet again.
I will register Andy.R@gmail.com and Andy_R@gmail.com.
So you'll get ads for PGP, GnuPG, Enigmail, GNU/Linux, and Mozilla.
Hope this helps!
Fellowship 9/11