This is merely a toy compared to what Google has on every US citizen. Equifax has the rest, and the CIA ties it all together.
The difference is what China has planned actually sounds useful to everyone, not just the watchers. An old idea, tried many times, but the bad guys want to be the only ones with that info.
If drug companies cannot patent a sell a cure for hundreds a dose (see for example the current controversial HPV vaccine) they will not develop the cure. They are far too busy working on penis pills to work about something that will kill 60% of the world population anyway.
That's the rule, that's what corporations do, that's America! If they don't they very quickly get thrown out by the shareholders and replaced by those that understand this rule. Why are people shocked?
Nobody in their right mind expects Indonesians will be able to afford the vaccine, they will die en mass. This is why we have universities and the WHO, where scientists who haven't crossed over to the dark side develop cures for things.
Not all public companies are worth as much as GE or WalMart. Vast numbers of public companies exist, and many are only worth a few million. 10k customers paying for support (we all know they need it) is still millions in revenue a year, more then enough to go public without being bogus.
They will just ALL start charging server rates for all uploads. Since 1/3 of all traffic is pirated^H^H^H^H^H^H^H BitTorrent which means upload, and a tiny tiny fraction is Google, the ISP's win.
(why they haven't already attempted to solve the piracy problem this way I have no idea)
If the Internet wasn't income and sales tax free, it's just the same garage-sale and China*Mart quality junk for the same price as the big blue room by the time you add the 15$ shipping on a $2 item...
They are the real thing, made during the "3rd shift". In other words, they make your widget 8 hours a day for sale in US stores, then run the factory the other 16 hours a day to make your widget for sale everywhere else on the planet.
This is really really old news BTW.
Of course the plans to your widget are available for sale even before they start making them for you, and others start making them too. Maybe that's what you meant? But those are real too, with your plans.
Prizes are only interesting if you're already working on it before the prize, and know you're gonna win already. For everyone else involved, it's just a PR stunt and a way to do really really cheap R&D.
If you're smart enough to win one of these prizes, don't be a dumbass - go file the patents and sell them the solution for 100x more!
So now we know why the sky is always black with pollution in sci-fi movies... we cover the earth with multi-gigawatt eating data centers.
Since electricity is a continent-wide commodity you can guess whose electric bill will be going up as they buy up all the watts just so they can store every little detail about your life.
It lists California as 10.2%, but the income taxes are 9.3% over 40k, sales taxes are 8.25%, and property taxes are about 4-5% on avg. That's ~20% (the overlap)
Add that to your federal, and you're looking at 50-55% taxes even if you're living in poverty. CA is significantly more taxed then any other state.
Noone quite knows how anyone can afford to live here, or any business is stupid enough to try, but they do! Hint: it's all debt, several times over.
It's got WiFI, I have no use to EVER use their crappy cell network that doesnt'e even work in silicon valley. Go back to your telegraph business AT&T - that's the last time any pf your products worked.
2. Why would I buy a laptop-replacement device that's a closed platform? How stupid would you have to be...
3. Japan had phones that did all that - 10 years ago. For gods sake Steve, CATCH UP!
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This is merely a toy compared to what Google has on every US citizen. Equifax has the rest, and the CIA ties it all together.
The difference is what China has planned actually sounds useful to everyone, not just the watchers. An old idea, tried many times, but the bad guys want to be the only ones with that info.
If drug companies cannot patent a sell a cure for hundreds a dose (see for example the current controversial HPV vaccine) they will not develop the cure. They are far too busy working on penis pills to work about something that will kill 60% of the world population anyway.
That's the rule, that's what corporations do, that's America! If they don't they very quickly get thrown out by the shareholders and replaced by those that understand this rule. Why are people shocked?
Nobody in their right mind expects Indonesians will be able to afford the vaccine, they will die en mass. This is why we have universities and the WHO, where scientists who haven't crossed over to the dark side develop cures for things.
When will these guys figure out all email is public?
If you want to scheme, that's what golf courses are for.
Since the article doesn't have any content, I assume this was a badly disguised slashvertisement? None of those are even kernel benchmarks.
/. down already. You're not even trying to compete with sites like Digg are you.
Stop the bullshit ads or just shut
$595 - $4995/server/year. Most in the low end I'm sure.
$4995 is still a heck of a lot less then a full time DBA.
Wow, lots of rage filled comments so far.
Not all public companies are worth as much as GE or WalMart. Vast numbers of public companies exist, and many are only worth a few million. 10k customers paying for support (we all know they need it) is still millions in revenue a year, more then enough to go public without being bogus.
Public != Billions.
They will just ALL start charging server rates for all uploads. Since 1/3 of all traffic is pirated^H^H^H^H^H^H^H BitTorrent which means upload, and a tiny tiny fraction is Google, the ISP's win.
(why they haven't already attempted to solve the piracy problem this way I have no idea)
"Google Admits China Censorship Was Damaging"
Google Admits China Censorship Publicity Was Damaging
All fixed.
But... but... Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!
If the Internet wasn't income and sales tax free, it's just the same garage-sale and China*Mart quality junk for the same price as the big blue room by the time you add the 15$ shipping on a $2 item...
Crap, now I have to go outside.
I suspect people will quickly learn how to watermark their work.
Anyone who hasn't is screwed.
18/20 of the top 20 videos are blatant copyright violations when I looked. There isn't much else down lower either.
It's gonna be funny as hell to watch the lawyers devour Google.
This is gonna really distract them from their core business of spying on everyone.
They aren't counterfeit.
They are the real thing, made during the "3rd shift". In other words, they make your widget 8 hours a day for sale in US stores, then run the factory the other 16 hours a day to make your widget for sale everywhere else on the planet.
This is really really old news BTW.
Of course the plans to your widget are available for sale even before they start making them for you, and others start making them too. Maybe that's what you meant? But those are real too, with your plans.
Prizes are only interesting if you're already working on it before the prize, and know you're gonna win already. For everyone else involved, it's just a PR stunt and a way to do really really cheap R&D.
If you're smart enough to win one of these prizes, don't be a dumbass - go file the patents and sell them the solution for 100x more!
1. This will save everyone from having to upload their boobie and accident videos twice - go look at the top 100 some time, that's all it is.
2. People that create the content (videos) still won't get paid, much like Google News, etc.
3. Google will replace their search in a year to one big button "I'm feeling lucky"... which will show a boobie video.
So now we know why the sky is always black with pollution in sci-fi movies... we cover the earth with multi-gigawatt eating data centers.
Since electricity is a continent-wide commodity you can guess whose electric bill will be going up as they buy up all the watts just so they can store every little detail about your life.
creation and operation of an Internet payment services company that facilitated the transfer of billions of dollars of illegal gambling proceeds.
Not Paypal!!!
Oh wait, not this time...
Well obviously you would use a TARDIS, which makes it more like 100%.
This is great if you want to just use their applications.
But wake me up when they use a non-viral license.
The electric company makes some money and the globe warms. In other words negative value. Same as the digits of pi, large primes, etc.
Go download Folding@home, it's real research into things that effect us here in in the real world.
Why bother putting it on the map? Soon global warming will also put it under water too.
Problem solved! Hurray!
Short version, yes, they are stupid.
Long answer, yes, they are really they stupid.
But then here in the US we're racing to turn all our food into SUV fuel, so at least they aren't THAT stupid. *sigh*
Did you miss the memo? Google owns your ass now.
This is why people don't like monopolies much.
That chart is BS.
It lists California as 10.2%, but the income taxes are 9.3% over 40k, sales taxes are 8.25%, and property taxes are about 4-5% on avg. That's ~20% (the overlap)
Add that to your federal, and you're looking at 50-55% taxes even if you're living in poverty. CA is significantly more taxed then any other state.
Noone quite knows how anyone can afford to live here, or any business is stupid enough to try, but they do! Hint: it's all debt, several times over.
It's got WiFI, I have no use to EVER use their crappy cell network that doesnt'e even work in silicon valley. Go back to your telegraph business AT&T - that's the last time any pf your products worked.
2. Why would I buy a laptop-replacement device that's a closed platform? How stupid would you have to be...
3. Japan had phones that did all that - 10 years ago. For gods sake Steve, CATCH UP!
Glad someone brought this up already. It's very widely known that 50k is lowball for Vista holes.
This is very good for security researchers tho, as we can't go sell to the Russians.