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Google's Free Wifi is Becoming a Way of Life in India (qz.com)
Sushma U N, writing for Quartz: American internet search giant Google has completed the rollout of one of the world's biggest public wifi projects in India. On June 07, Google said it now offers free high-speed public wifi at 400 railway stations in Asia's third-largest economy, in partnership with the government-owned Indian Railways and RailTel, which operates a fibre network along the country's massive network of train tracks. The company had announced the initiative back in 2015 during prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The Mumbai Central station in India's financial capital was the first to get the facility in January 2016. Now, over 8 million people use the service, Google said in a blog post. "On average, people consume 350MB of data per session, roughly the size of a half-hour television episode, and over half of the people using Google Station engage in multiple online sessions a day," the company said.
Hey guys, this IS Google. Don't get too attached to this service.
And, for all that is holy, don't let it come out of beta.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Then you start exerting control. It's how drug dealing works.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
..meanwhile, Google is slurping up all the delicious free data all those people are providing, bundling it, and selling it off to the highest bidder -- and likely their primary customer is the Indian government.
You know, all through human history there has always been fucking assholes like you, who think you know What's Best For Everyone, and who also think that you have some sort of gods-given right to enforce that on everyone else, and just like the assholes who think we should go back to Feudalism, you think you specifically should be exempt from your own 'rules'. I got news for you, fuckhead: someone should retroactively exercise birth control on your momma. Assholes like you, properly triggered and enabled, end up being Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao. Go get medicated.
If you're being spied on by Mr. "Don't Not Be Evil" Schmidt, it's not free.
The parent observed that India has too many people and suggested birth control; you're the lightweight who got "triggered."
Really, all 3 If you got triggered :p
The GP posted a racist screed; you're supporting that by making it sound reasonable.
If I had my way, you'd pine for the days of the kind hand of Stalin, or even a Pol Pot.
Sadly, everything mentioned in #56750318 is true.
As far as medicated, wouldn't that apply to you?
Build proper houses with modern plumbing, put in electricity and utilities and then provide jobs that pay a living wage. Why is that so hard for companies? This applies to places in the USA too. (Remember Flint)
There are a few things on the non-negotiable list for our species; at the top of that list is reproduction: you don't dictate to people that they must or must not reproduce. Forcibly sterilizing someone is assault and a human rights violation, plain and simple, it's treating members of your own species like they're farm animals. Completely and totally unacceptable, at best you're an asshole if you advocate for it, at worst you're a violent criminal committing crimes against humanity and shoudl be dragged by your heels into The Hague for it. Everything I've said on this subject is done calmly, everything I've presented is rational and correct, and there is nothing you or anyone else can say that can possibly defend pre-empting another human beings' ability to reproduce.
Now, all that being said: You want to advocate for voluntary population control? That's fine, do it all you want. But you don't force it on people. Ever. Unless you want something you don't want forced on you. Understand?
completely nuts, what the fuck was the government thinking? This is basically Inidian gov allowing Google to suck up 8 million people's data, the value of which is easily a hundred times more than it costs Google to maintain the WiFi equipment.
This is pure crap for everyone else. Their "Internet" is based on the R&D of other countries. The targets of their scams, are us. Fuck that. Build your own Internet.
You know who would care if India or Pakastain fell off the face of the planet? No one. I'd add more Asian countries to the list but at least they contribute tech, India devours it while their Government claims stewardship.
Hey guys, this IS Google. Don't get too attached to this service.
Google is paying a price for their engineering cycle of "build-deprecate-kill". They are suffering from employee attrition, as developers realize that nothing they do will ever get out of beta.
Attrition is especially severe at the Waymo subsidiary. Waymo is ahead on the tech, but there are no path to an actual product, so engineers are jumping ship to Uber and elsewhere.
either:
1 you have no clue and your info is 100% false
2 you are 100% correct and an idiot for sharing this info with the world, you should be shorting google and keeping your mouth shut
either way you are an idiot!
is it me or 8 millions persons in india doesn't sound like that much?
The big brother in action
Birth control for Indians but not for fat fucking Americans who consume everyone's share
8 million is 0.6% of the total.
One way or another population control is required, if not voluntary then it will be forced one way or another - either by government, by war, or simply by lack of food causing starvation. We have finite resources available, and a population level that is growing to the point that demand for food will outstrip our ability to produce food.
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