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Google's Sinister(?) Plans
puppetman writes "This week, Robert X. Cringely makes some interesting observations as to what Google's up to next. He theorizes that Google is looking to create a bandwidth shortage that will drive ISP/cable/telephone customers into it's open arms (often with the blessing of the ISP/cable/telephone company). The evidence: leasing massive amounts of network capacity, and huge data centers in rural areas (close to power-generation facilities). The shortage will only occur if the average bandwidth consumption by individual consumers skyrockets; think mainstream BitTorrent, streaming moves from NetFlix, tv episodes from iTunes, video games on demand, etc, etc. Spooky and sinister, or sublime and smart?"
Come now, Google don't do evil.
I love my sig.
Quit your whining; at least your roads are paved.
I've been waiting for something faster than dial-up for ten years!
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.
For serious. I've seen more credible conjecture come from 13 year olds arguing over who would win in a streetfight between Batman and Wolverine.
Batman.
Did he ever think. . .?
No.
KFG
I know you are trying to make a point but that % of all people alive on earth today is about 1/15,000th of a person.
I have to snail-mail cassettes from my Vic-20 just to get posted on /.
Do you believe that?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
oooh I can't wait to see it come out in beta!
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I take exception to that remark because Cringely is just a tool whereas most people recognize Art Bell as a serious investigator of the paranormal, a professional respected by collegues in his field. Art Bell has uncovered and revealed many dark secrets about google on his show, including their plans to harvest energy from the unborn. A caller to the show who only identified himself as "Mr. X" claimed to have been part of a team that designed the amorphous bio-pod that the unborn would be stored in, in a semi-concious state of dreaming stasis whereby quantum energy guides would capture excess xeon particles for current generation. I'm sorry if you missed it because the truth about google's plans will blow the lid off of civilization once it's known.
Godless heathen.