Will do. Going to call mine the LightNet, and it's going to have hookers, blackjack, poker, a search engine that is both completely uncensored and returns relevant results, and a NNTP server that hosts all the alt.binaries.* groups. Peering agreements start at 1 Gbps.
Yeah...see, I don't know...as a tech, if I survive any AI that emerges, I stand a fair chance of being employed / living well enough. On the other hand, from a system's standpoint, while integrating several systems together can be magical, it also almost guarantees at least one dooms day in your future (one hour of outage = so much pain, so much bureaucrats complaining, so many developers quitting). Like anything precious / useful, you want to stash several copies around, for safe keeping, and let them be relatively independent (so a failure at one site doesn't take everything down).
Yeah, I plan on being dead if this thing ever comes into being. I just don't "believe" our government has enough trust to do this right now. Gotta mend some fences first.
It's cool, they're going to beta it with a key with a chip in it, but by the time the public uses it, it'll just be a barcode that they stamp on your forehead or right hand.
Kind of looks like three sixes, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
"China is heavily investing to reduce carbon output" -> "China is spending a lot of money in an attempt to reduce their carbon output, with failure-prone results and outright fraud likely to consume the vast majority of those investments."
"When they reduce their output to less than that of the US, the US will have to come up with some new avoidance excuse." -> "If / when China finds out which technologies work, and which do not, on their dime, I'm sure the US will be perfectly willing to pay the Chinese for their expertise / to export them to the US."
Well, then you missed the important half of the argument...the part that matters.
No one is arguing against less pollution (and with that phrase, I've lost half the readers...sound bites oversimplify things), they are arguing that the methods that people want to use to 'save the Earth' are backwoods retarded. And they are...the Ethanol mixtures in our gasoline was a giant boondoggle, the Prius hybrids proved to be worse for the environment than many straight gasoline variants, etc. But the only thing the other side hears is "We want to piss in our own bed! Derp!"
So, several years on, and what do we have? Hideous, mind-boggling cost-overruns from poorly designed programs to 'fix the world' because taking an extra moment to get another Engineer's opinion was simply time they didn't have (or perhaps, the Engineer disagreed with their opinion, sorry, 'truth,' and what do they know?). An entire generation of human beings, sold into slavery, because they are unwilling to realize that there is no such as a free lunch, and that contrary to popular media portrayals of a hero shooting from the hip (and getting lucky, because their beliefs were right, so of course, they'd come out ahead), reality requires a ridiculous amount of double-checking (it's a PITA).
Actually, I hypothesize it's a link between the focus on a decrease in recess (unordered recreational time) and an increase in environmental stress (in other words, and contrary to official accounts, we might want to shorten the work day, but increase the efficiency of the work during that shorter period). Too much stress, not enough proper outlets (because they all cost too much now...and people aren't making enough to make use of them), results in a catastrophic / cascade failure scenario.
If we have a large die-off in the future, in a short period of time, then perhaps, if these comments survive, we will have an idea where to look next time.
The solution here will not be solved with technology. The parlor tricks were fun when the law was unclear; but now that the law is clearly compromised, real action, in the real world, must be taken.
The people have been patient with the courts, with the law in general, as it has sorted through the general maze that is technology, and its effects on society. They need not be patient in areas where the law has already been clearly stated, for over two hundred years, in plain text, and in a copy that many people, even outside this country, own, and can easily reference. "Congress shall make no law..." and here we are, with secret courts, unable to face our accusers, dealing with gerrymandered accusations, and proof positive that the highest laws themselves have been violated. What more, one of our Founding Fathers did say, supposedly, "I prefer a hundred guilty men go free, than one innocent man be imprisoned."
So, what happened to that America? I signed up for that America, not this one. Did someone mislead me? Was I lied to? Was there a bait and switch in the womb of my mother? Having been born in this country, with full citizenship, rights and privileges, why have I been denied, since my birth, these plainly written guarantees? I've been taxed, I know this much...who represents me? What are their names? How have they voted in the last six months, so that I know they are truly representing me, and my closely-held values, as well as this country's written values, in our national capital?
Oh please. The whole reason they are slowly ratcheting this stuff up is that they are on the outlook for any 'heroes.' They go ahead, perform some obvious vile acts, on the public, to see who comes running to save the sheep. Then they mark or dispatch whoever shows up.
You're dealing with predators, something akin to hyenas...they hunt in large packs, and believe that they have strength in numbers. What more, they're intelligent. They're looking for lions...they've found that if they trap a lion away from the pride, they can taunt and kill a lion at their pleasure. But they also know that if a pride is in the area, and they stumble onto one, they'll get shredded.
So, that is the current state of affairs -> the sheep have chosen hyenas as their shepherds, and the hyenas are wisely looking to destroy anyone else before showing their true colors to the sheep. And the hyena, for all the jocularity surrounding it, is a very dangerous predator...arguably more so than a lion. Let's put it this way: their females are so androgenized, that their clits resemble the male's penis. They're kind of the wolves of the Africa, from my understanding, except wolves are less viscous.
The sad part is, this whole scenario has happened before. Every few decades, the world, if the history books are anything to go by, tries this crap; and it always fails. A government decides "Now is an excellent time to censor our people's freedom of speech / go into a national security lock-down mode" -> the home economy, which was suffering at the beginning of the lockdown, gets worse during the lockdown; corruption multiplies, as external observation / safeties / checks and balances are viewed with suspicion, resulting in needed reports being thrown out, or delivered too late; and the people become increasingly unhappy, which impacts both productivity, as well as security / etc. On the whole, it's bad: a temporary market correction is turned into a decades-long depression.
The government forgets that it is here to serve the people -> that is its reason for existence. It can make mistakes, fess up to them, and survive; it's better if it does that, and shows that it is indeed working to go in the right direction now as well. But nowadays, it's just people desperate to hold onto power that long since fled them; a game of bluff, played with themselves, because there might still be one person out there who does not know that they've been lied to.
Hmm. I'd have a different worry -> with LinkedIn, the possibility of dead information, over time, can cause all sorts of problems. It's kind of like the laws on the books...there are some laws out there, still theoretically in effect, that only a handful of people even know about, just because they are so old / buried in some book somewhere...so people end up effectively duplicating the laws every once in a while, just because they are unaware of what is already there; my point being, old / dead information / out of date information / hard to access information will cause the service to, in time, collapse, unless it implements self-cleansing operations (telling everyone to rewrite or verify their stuff every five years, etc.).
The article states: "3taps drew Craigslist's ire by aggregating and republishing its ads, so Craigslist sent a cease-and-desist letter telling the company not to do that. Craigslist also blocked IP addresses associated with 3taps' systems."
However, a brief glance at their website (unless they changed things that quickly) does not show anything of this sort.
Does anyone have a screenshot from earlier, with the offending material?
Who's to say this has not already been done? Ever wonder why this reality seems so wrong? Why humans are so good at destroying things, at jeering, insulting one another, hurting each other, at hate in general, and so terrible at peace? Humanity has probably done this to itself a dozen, if not a hundred or thousand times already; and each time, the violence gets worse.
Look at the current state of humanity: our leaders have to hold constant wars to keep the populace in check. They have to invent catastrophes to bleed off parts of the populace, so that...control can be maintained.
There in lies the problem. For every person who wants to make someone walk again, there are ten people who want to design someone who can kill someone that much quicker. It's a fucking racial imperative, and we don't even know why.
It never ceases to amaze me that for all the hardware the human brain possess, we are so bad at many of the tasks we perform. I mean, it's ludicrous to think how the avian or reptilian or cetacean or insect or even other mammalian species can perform advanced calculations in 1/100th the amount of time that it takes a human mind to complete the same damn calculation. I find that deeply troubling. A freaking spider can scan a series of stems, like a mainframe computer, and determine which one is the right one to climb, with a brain less than the size of a pin...and yet a human child, of several years of age, might fail at even understanding the task to be performed, let alone performing the task itself. Are we missing a gene or something?
I'd be more happy with them returning to their original mission, and understanding that destroying the Constitution to save the Constitution is not a valid option.
Good. There's nothing like hiring the Russians to fight the Chinese, who are busy fighting the Vietnamese, who are busy fighting the Iraqis, who are busy fighting the Russians. The entire world is fighting a war on a dozen fronts, and you don't need to worry that they'll do anything really stupid, since their best minds are devoted to the mindless tasks of destroying someone's bunker or supply lines. Then you take your private jet to your private island, and quietly learn how to solve that Rubik's cube...blind-folded.
Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Sh. This will be funny. They will narrow it down to several people, who will be totally trusted with all the secrets, and one of them will make out with everything, all at once.
I'm fine with it. There's little difference between cops wearing portable cameras, and cops wearing Google Glass. I only worry that Google Glass, being a Beta version of a new interface, may not be the best implementation. It may prove to be more of a distraction than an improvement.
What more, given the rash of police / civilian incidents recently, I question increasing the capabilities of the police, at least until the kinks are worked out in terms of their personnel, as well as the law that they are enforcing (we need some people from the Philosophy, Religion, and Law Sectors to rethink current laws, as well as look at the effects of these laws, because someone has been dropping the ball). The Technology Sector does not need the negative press from associating itself with the police who use technology for evil ends. Additionally, someone needs to look into the deaths from Tazers...those are non-lethal devices, so the fact that they caused some deaths is of some concern.
Beat me to it. People understand people under certain conditions, that are narrowly defined; the machine equivalent is the use of interfaces or services. Understanding something, a program for instance, in its entirety, is something only a programmer does, or in the case of a human being (but not limited to), perhaps God himself.
There's a difference between knowing what someone expects for a conversation....and what something, for lack of a better word, is. A programmer, who knows each part of a program like the back of their own hand, knows a program...knows what it is...can fully emulate it inside their own head, predict its responses, fix it when it needs fixing without needing to decompile or examine it (in theory, at least; pragmatically speaking, programmers tend to index things mentally, so they have the point to jump into, but may not have the exact code in front of them...is complicated). In much the same sense, the Almighty knows why you are doing what you are doing, and more importantly, fix can things that even a classical doctor or bioengineer is unaware of ("that gland...isn't on any anatomical model...").
Let's be honest, spoken / written speech is a pain in the ass. It's the machine equivalent of serializing an object, and it comes with the obvious trade-offs / taxing on the mind. Shuffling data to and fro, from human to human, with no idea of whether or not the prerequisite 'libraries' are installed locally, and can actually be used...and trying to cut down on useless chatter by compressing stuff, almost to 90% JPEG compression...so badly that it's considered a fine art to communicate effectively with few words. Like using a serial port interface when you really want a Gig-E interface...*shudders*...except that all those serial services need to be rewritten, or shutdown, before Gig-E can be spun up (let's assume plug and pray isn't going well with Human v1.0).
For the same reason that keeping a pet dragon sounds like an awesome idea while it's young and small, and not so awesome when it's older, way bigger than you and someone forgot to feed it while you were on vacation (gotta feed them properly, or they get aggressive).
In other words, Google thought it was a great idea, like most young companies...and at first, it was. Then, before it noticed anything, it woke up one day with the NSA sharing its data-center, its geek utopia turned into corporate dystopia, and all sorts of unhappiness infiltrating it from all levels. The 20% time for personal projects, or rather, lack thereof, means that Google won't be coming out with anything ground-breaking for a while....because the most outstanding inventions are the ones that inventors are never looking for (Archimedes and the bath tub)...in other words, the mental fields need to lay fallow for a bit for a better yield...and the fact that Google's techs are spending all their time just holding onto what they have means they have both a management problem (communications is not only gummed up, but completely red-taped, in all probability...too much dead-wood) and a personnel problem (they need to hire more people; more programmers, but also more people in other areas, in all probability...but none of that matters if management isn't fixed first).
Actually, the lesson should be that stock prices, and fluctuations thereof, should be taken with a grain of salt; and that while Wall St. is very good at supplying capital, and demanding results, it knows jack shit about actually running a company.
Let me put it to you this way: are your new business leaders telling you to cut back on buffers / redundant systems for your company? Are these the same people responsible for Wall St. having to resort to 'circuit breakers' and transaction processing (do overs), because the people using those systems are so...unsteady at times...that rollbacks of an entire day's worth of fricking trading is needed because of a miskey? While individual companies are cutting back on redundant systems (essentially buffers : insurance against mistakes, and costly ones at that), Wall St. itself is multiplying and adding to its own systems to counter that very same kind of damage. If you were the CEO of a company, and were told by some 'tea leaf' readers (prophets of the marketplace) that "you need to do the opposite of what they are, in actual fact, doing, to please the market," what would you do? If you're a non-thinking entity, then you'd follow their directions, and watch your company crumble in a few years; if you're a thinking entity, you'd already know whether your level of proofing against catastrophe was comfortable enough or not...as well as how comfortable you are with your fortune on the line if it fails.
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Will do. Going to call mine the LightNet, and it's going to have hookers, blackjack, poker, a search engine that is both completely uncensored and returns relevant results, and a NNTP server that hosts all the alt.binaries.* groups. Peering agreements start at 1 Gbps.
Yeah...see, I don't know...as a tech, if I survive any AI that emerges, I stand a fair chance of being employed / living well enough. On the other hand, from a system's standpoint, while integrating several systems together can be magical, it also almost guarantees at least one dooms day in your future (one hour of outage = so much pain, so much bureaucrats complaining, so many developers quitting). Like anything precious / useful, you want to stash several copies around, for safe keeping, and let them be relatively independent (so a failure at one site doesn't take everything down).
Yeah, I plan on being dead if this thing ever comes into being. I just don't "believe" our government has enough trust to do this right now. Gotta mend some fences first.
It's cool, they're going to beta it with a key with a chip in it, but by the time the public uses it, it'll just be a barcode that they stamp on your forehead or right hand.
Kind of looks like three sixes, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Lol, they find out the ironic truth: Mimir's well is bottomless (human suffering has no limit).
"China is heavily investing to reduce carbon output" -> "China is spending a lot of money in an attempt to reduce their carbon output, with failure-prone results and outright fraud likely to consume the vast majority of those investments."
"When they reduce their output to less than that of the US, the US will have to come up with some new avoidance excuse." -> "If / when China finds out which technologies work, and which do not, on their dime, I'm sure the US will be perfectly willing to pay the Chinese for their expertise / to export them to the US."
Well, then you missed the important half of the argument...the part that matters.
No one is arguing against less pollution (and with that phrase, I've lost half the readers...sound bites oversimplify things), they are arguing that the methods that people want to use to 'save the Earth' are backwoods retarded. And they are...the Ethanol mixtures in our gasoline was a giant boondoggle, the Prius hybrids proved to be worse for the environment than many straight gasoline variants, etc. But the only thing the other side hears is "We want to piss in our own bed! Derp!"
So, several years on, and what do we have? Hideous, mind-boggling cost-overruns from poorly designed programs to 'fix the world' because taking an extra moment to get another Engineer's opinion was simply time they didn't have (or perhaps, the Engineer disagreed with their opinion, sorry, 'truth,' and what do they know?). An entire generation of human beings, sold into slavery, because they are unwilling to realize that there is no such as a free lunch, and that contrary to popular media portrayals of a hero shooting from the hip (and getting lucky, because their beliefs were right, so of course, they'd come out ahead), reality requires a ridiculous amount of double-checking (it's a PITA).
Indeed. If they do not know what their citizens have eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, then they haven't gone far enough!
You could say they are in the business of knowing everything about everything. They just want the world to act in a practical, responsible matter, with no deviations from established behavioral patterns.
Actually, I hypothesize it's a link between the focus on a decrease in recess (unordered recreational time) and an increase in environmental stress (in other words, and contrary to official accounts, we might want to shorten the work day, but increase the efficiency of the work during that shorter period). Too much stress, not enough proper outlets (because they all cost too much now...and people aren't making enough to make use of them), results in a catastrophic / cascade failure scenario.
If we have a large die-off in the future, in a short period of time, then perhaps, if these comments survive, we will have an idea where to look next time.
The solution here will not be solved with technology. The parlor tricks were fun when the law was unclear; but now that the law is clearly compromised, real action, in the real world, must be taken.
The people have been patient with the courts, with the law in general, as it has sorted through the general maze that is technology, and its effects on society. They need not be patient in areas where the law has already been clearly stated, for over two hundred years, in plain text, and in a copy that many people, even outside this country, own, and can easily reference. "Congress shall make no law..." and here we are, with secret courts, unable to face our accusers, dealing with gerrymandered accusations, and proof positive that the highest laws themselves have been violated. What more, one of our Founding Fathers did say, supposedly, "I prefer a hundred guilty men go free, than one innocent man be imprisoned."
So, what happened to that America? I signed up for that America, not this one. Did someone mislead me? Was I lied to? Was there a bait and switch in the womb of my mother? Having been born in this country, with full citizenship, rights and privileges, why have I been denied, since my birth, these plainly written guarantees? I've been taxed, I know this much...who represents me? What are their names? How have they voted in the last six months, so that I know they are truly representing me, and my closely-held values, as well as this country's written values, in our national capital?
Oh please. The whole reason they are slowly ratcheting this stuff up is that they are on the outlook for any 'heroes.' They go ahead, perform some obvious vile acts, on the public, to see who comes running to save the sheep. Then they mark or dispatch whoever shows up.
You're dealing with predators, something akin to hyenas...they hunt in large packs, and believe that they have strength in numbers. What more, they're intelligent. They're looking for lions...they've found that if they trap a lion away from the pride, they can taunt and kill a lion at their pleasure. But they also know that if a pride is in the area, and they stumble onto one, they'll get shredded.
So, that is the current state of affairs -> the sheep have chosen hyenas as their shepherds, and the hyenas are wisely looking to destroy anyone else before showing their true colors to the sheep. And the hyena, for all the jocularity surrounding it, is a very dangerous predator...arguably more so than a lion. Let's put it this way: their females are so androgenized, that their clits resemble the male's penis. They're kind of the wolves of the Africa, from my understanding, except wolves are less viscous.
The sad part is, this whole scenario has happened before. Every few decades, the world, if the history books are anything to go by, tries this crap; and it always fails. A government decides "Now is an excellent time to censor our people's freedom of speech / go into a national security lock-down mode" -> the home economy, which was suffering at the beginning of the lockdown, gets worse during the lockdown; corruption multiplies, as external observation / safeties / checks and balances are viewed with suspicion, resulting in needed reports being thrown out, or delivered too late; and the people become increasingly unhappy, which impacts both productivity, as well as security / etc. On the whole, it's bad: a temporary market correction is turned into a decades-long depression.
The government forgets that it is here to serve the people -> that is its reason for existence. It can make mistakes, fess up to them, and survive; it's better if it does that, and shows that it is indeed working to go in the right direction now as well. But nowadays, it's just people desperate to hold onto power that long since fled them; a game of bluff, played with themselves, because there might still be one person out there who does not know that they've been lied to.
Hmm. I'd have a different worry -> with LinkedIn, the possibility of dead information, over time, can cause all sorts of problems. It's kind of like the laws on the books...there are some laws out there, still theoretically in effect, that only a handful of people even know about, just because they are so old / buried in some book somewhere...so people end up effectively duplicating the laws every once in a while, just because they are unaware of what is already there; my point being, old / dead information / out of date information / hard to access information will cause the service to, in time, collapse, unless it implements self-cleansing operations (telling everyone to rewrite or verify their stuff every five years, etc.).
Well, I was pointing to something a little more sinister, but yeah, you could read my comments that way, sure. ;-)
Hilarious. But more realistically, let's find out what drug they're being given that's killing them, and develop a counter-agent.
Wait. Time out. What exactly does 3Taps do?
The article states: "3taps drew Craigslist's ire by aggregating and republishing its ads, so Craigslist sent a cease-and-desist letter telling the company not to do that. Craigslist also blocked IP addresses associated with 3taps' systems."
However, a brief glance at their website (unless they changed things that quickly) does not show anything of this sort.
Does anyone have a screenshot from earlier, with the offending material?
Who's to say this has not already been done? Ever wonder why this reality seems so wrong? Why humans are so good at destroying things, at jeering, insulting one another, hurting each other, at hate in general, and so terrible at peace? Humanity has probably done this to itself a dozen, if not a hundred or thousand times already; and each time, the violence gets worse.
Look at the current state of humanity: our leaders have to hold constant wars to keep the populace in check. They have to invent catastrophes to bleed off parts of the populace, so that...control can be maintained.
There in lies the problem. For every person who wants to make someone walk again, there are ten people who want to design someone who can kill someone that much quicker. It's a fucking racial imperative, and we don't even know why.
It never ceases to amaze me that for all the hardware the human brain possess, we are so bad at many of the tasks we perform. I mean, it's ludicrous to think how the avian or reptilian or cetacean or insect or even other mammalian species can perform advanced calculations in 1/100th the amount of time that it takes a human mind to complete the same damn calculation. I find that deeply troubling. A freaking spider can scan a series of stems, like a mainframe computer, and determine which one is the right one to climb, with a brain less than the size of a pin...and yet a human child, of several years of age, might fail at even understanding the task to be performed, let alone performing the task itself. Are we missing a gene or something?
I'd be more happy with them returning to their original mission, and understanding that destroying the Constitution to save the Constitution is not a valid option.
Most people do. Show me anyone, anyone at all, and, given enough access, I could probably prove them a liar.
Good. There's nothing like hiring the Russians to fight the Chinese, who are busy fighting the Vietnamese, who are busy fighting the Iraqis, who are busy fighting the Russians. The entire world is fighting a war on a dozen fronts, and you don't need to worry that they'll do anything really stupid, since their best minds are devoted to the mindless tasks of destroying someone's bunker or supply lines. Then you take your private jet to your private island, and quietly learn how to solve that Rubik's cube...blind-folded.
Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Sh. This will be funny. They will narrow it down to several people, who will be totally trusted with all the secrets, and one of them will make out with everything, all at once.
As is ManBearPig. Now, get back to discussing the poorly-worded summary, or we're going to have to dress you up as a witch.
I'm fine with it. There's little difference between cops wearing portable cameras, and cops wearing Google Glass. I only worry that Google Glass, being a Beta version of a new interface, may not be the best implementation. It may prove to be more of a distraction than an improvement.
What more, given the rash of police / civilian incidents recently, I question increasing the capabilities of the police, at least until the kinks are worked out in terms of their personnel, as well as the law that they are enforcing (we need some people from the Philosophy, Religion, and Law Sectors to rethink current laws, as well as look at the effects of these laws, because someone has been dropping the ball). The Technology Sector does not need the negative press from associating itself with the police who use technology for evil ends. Additionally, someone needs to look into the deaths from Tazers...those are non-lethal devices, so the fact that they caused some deaths is of some concern.
Beat me to it. People understand people under certain conditions, that are narrowly defined; the machine equivalent is the use of interfaces or services. Understanding something, a program for instance, in its entirety, is something only a programmer does, or in the case of a human being (but not limited to), perhaps God himself.
There's a difference between knowing what someone expects for a conversation....and what something, for lack of a better word, is. A programmer, who knows each part of a program like the back of their own hand, knows a program...knows what it is...can fully emulate it inside their own head, predict its responses, fix it when it needs fixing without needing to decompile or examine it (in theory, at least; pragmatically speaking, programmers tend to index things mentally, so they have the point to jump into, but may not have the exact code in front of them...is complicated). In much the same sense, the Almighty knows why you are doing what you are doing, and more importantly, fix can things that even a classical doctor or bioengineer is unaware of ("that gland...isn't on any anatomical model...").
Let's be honest, spoken / written speech is a pain in the ass. It's the machine equivalent of serializing an object, and it comes with the obvious trade-offs / taxing on the mind. Shuffling data to and fro, from human to human, with no idea of whether or not the prerequisite 'libraries' are installed locally, and can actually be used...and trying to cut down on useless chatter by compressing stuff, almost to 90% JPEG compression...so badly that it's considered a fine art to communicate effectively with few words. Like using a serial port interface when you really want a Gig-E interface...*shudders*...except that all those serial services need to be rewritten, or shutdown, before Gig-E can be spun up (let's assume plug and pray isn't going well with Human v1.0).
For the same reason that keeping a pet dragon sounds like an awesome idea while it's young and small, and not so awesome when it's older, way bigger than you and someone forgot to feed it while you were on vacation (gotta feed them properly, or they get aggressive).
In other words, Google thought it was a great idea, like most young companies...and at first, it was. Then, before it noticed anything, it woke up one day with the NSA sharing its data-center, its geek utopia turned into corporate dystopia, and all sorts of unhappiness infiltrating it from all levels. The 20% time for personal projects, or rather, lack thereof, means that Google won't be coming out with anything ground-breaking for a while....because the most outstanding inventions are the ones that inventors are never looking for (Archimedes and the bath tub)...in other words, the mental fields need to lay fallow for a bit for a better yield...and the fact that Google's techs are spending all their time just holding onto what they have means they have both a management problem (communications is not only gummed up, but completely red-taped, in all probability...too much dead-wood) and a personnel problem (they need to hire more people; more programmers, but also more people in other areas, in all probability...but none of that matters if management isn't fixed first).
Actually, the lesson should be that stock prices, and fluctuations thereof, should be taken with a grain of salt; and that while Wall St. is very good at supplying capital, and demanding results, it knows jack shit about actually running a company.
Let me put it to you this way: are your new business leaders telling you to cut back on buffers / redundant systems for your company? Are these the same people responsible for Wall St. having to resort to 'circuit breakers' and transaction processing (do overs), because the people using those systems are so...unsteady at times...that rollbacks of an entire day's worth of fricking trading is needed because of a miskey? While individual companies are cutting back on redundant systems (essentially buffers : insurance against mistakes, and costly ones at that), Wall St. itself is multiplying and adding to its own systems to counter that very same kind of damage. If you were the CEO of a company, and were told by some 'tea leaf' readers (prophets of the marketplace) that "you need to do the opposite of what they are, in actual fact, doing, to please the market," what would you do? If you're a non-thinking entity, then you'd follow their directions, and watch your company crumble in a few years; if you're a thinking entity, you'd already know whether your level of proofing against catastrophe was comfortable enough or not...as well as how comfortable you are with your fortune on the line if it fails.