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Google Plans To Destroy Unindexed Information
linolium writes "Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to 'organize the world's information,' announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index. 'Book burning is just the beginning," said Google co-founder Larry Page. 'This fall, we'll unveil Google Sound, which will record and index all the noise on Earth. Is your baby sleeping soundly? Does your high-school sweetheart still talk about you? Google will have the answers.'" FYI; it's The Onion, so yes, it's a joke.
Assuming you're using a graphical browser, one of the icons associated with this story is "the foot". This is a reference to a British sketch comedy program entitled "Monty Python's Flying Circus", and is interpreted on Slashdot to mean "It's funny. Laugh."
This would suggest that the Slashdot editors were aware that the article in question is intended to be humourous. Unfortunately, not all of the readers are quite as clever.
Perhaps other people can provide Wikipedia links to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Humour" (or "Humor" for people who prefer to mangle the language for political reasons (link to the Wikipedia article on "Webster" to clarify that)) since this guy could probably use some more information.
/. jumped the shark a while back...
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Dude, I wouldn't worry about lawsuits as much as I'd worry about widespread, repetitive catholic priest child rape followed by diocesan coverups of epic proportion all the way to Rome. How many billions of dollars has the church paid to settle lawsuits that could have been used for humanitarian purposes? Naah, they'd rather spend it on legal fees and settlements, because that's a worthy cause. Those people in New Orleans don't need any help from the church anyway.