"In October 2005, IFILM was acquired by Viacom International, Inc., and is now part of the MTV Networks family of brands that includes MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT, Spike TV and Logo. As one of the largest global television networks, MTV Networks reaches over 1 billion people worldwide."
Basically, if Viacom wins, Viacom loses since their subsidiary iFilm.com will likely be sued as well by other companies (using Viacom v. Google as precendent). In a nutshell, the only way for Viacom to win is to lose this case, and they know it. I predict it will never make it to judgement but will be withdrawn before the trial ever even begins.
I have (under fair use provisions) included quotes from their own terms of service for iFilm below. It seems they are quite explicit that they only remove copyright content when provided 'notice'. No filtering, no pre-screening... the same things they claim are easy and that Google should do for their benefit, but they refuse to do themselves. In fact, under Section 6, they don't even promise to let you know they received a take-down notice if you send them one.
This case is over before its even begun, and Viacom will look like hypocritcal fools in front of any Judge they get in front of.
SOURCE [ http://www.ifilm.com/about/terms_of_use.jsp ] Section 4: OWNERSHIP & PROPRIETARY RIGHTS...We require users to respect our copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights and those of others, including other users. On notice, we will act expeditiously to remove content on the IFILM Network that infringes the copyright rights of others and will disable the access to the IFILM Network and its services of anyone who uses them to repeatedly to infringe the intellectual property rights of others. Specific procedures to notify us about copyright infringement can be found in Section 6 which describes our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement...
Section 6: CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT If you believe that any Content on the IFILM Network (including, without limitation, any Posting) violates any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, please send us a message about it at feedback@ifilm.com. We cannot guarantee that we will respond to your message and we reserve the right to take or refrain from taking any or all steps available to us once we receive any such message.
-- All the above is personal opinion and does not represent the views of anyone... including myself.
>That's still far too long and is most likely motivated more by logistical concerns in >retaining so much data than out of any act of benevolence. However it definately makes >good PR to paint this as 'Taking steps to improve privacy'...
I am sure that while statistical analysis is one possible use, another use is fraud prevention. Google makes money off each search query. However, there are people who try to scam the system using adsense and adwords programs and keeping a year or two worth of data would probably be very useful in tracking down 'slow burn' fraud. Its easy to spot a someone clicking on a webpage ad 50 times in an minute, but it requires longer term data to see the same fraud occurring with 1 click per week over a year. While most people on Slashdot will refuse to accept this argument, people like myself who actually SPEND money on advertising appreciate reasonable efforts to combat fraud.
I agree, I am sick of paying for cable TV, Cell phones and Web hosting on a monthly Basis. If I pay for the cell phone, they should provide free service.... oh wait, thats right, these are services not products... Damn, I guess that throws that whole argument out the window...
The real story isn't that 1/3 of the first 300 employees left Google... Its the fact that 2/3 of them STAYED even after having the wealth to do whatever they want. That is a pretty strong endorsement for Google that they can keep people working and happy, even when the people don't NEED the job!
I could claim to work at the RNC and as proof, show I picture I took of the RNC office complex. Of course I could have just found a random picture of the campus and be lying too. By asking for a picture with a central focus of a squirrel or pigeon (which are quite common) I have created a 'verification' method that the person REALLY does work at the RNC campus and have a much higher degree of assurance, since pictures of squirrels at the RNC campus would be MUCH hard to find on the web.
Kudos to Jericho, brilliant thinking to confirm a sources location.
Comparing phone and email is apples and oranges. The phone company does not keep copies of all your voice calls. Since email is a service and messages reside on the 3rd party business computer, the 3rd party can grant the right to the government to search THEIR person, privacy and effects. This is not unlike a friend keeping his 'stash' in your apartment and the policy asking permission to search your apartment. If you agree, your friend cannot claim unreasonable search.
This may very well apply to voice messages stored on a phone carrier servers. I am not aware of this having been tested in court however.
>with about 1 pay sign-up per 40 clicks, which, at $9.99 per pay signup > and $1.00 (average) per click, it wasn't worth it in the long run.
Two things here. 1. If 40 people visit your site and only 1 person signs up, then your ads were probably too generic or not relevant. If your ad claims 'free pictures of Britany' and then links to a porn signup page, well.. no surprise that people don't sign up.
2. If the ad was relevant, but your conversion rate is low (40 to 1), then you should lower the price paid per click and accept a lower ad placement. Or, more carefully track how long your signups remain members, it may be a good investment over a longer term (1-3 years) if they keep their monthly memberships. If they are dropping their membership after 1 month, then its your site, not Google that has a problem.
Obviously, I am not making and judgements about your site in particular since you never included any links or info about it... so don't take the comments above too personal.
The only descriminating Googles does is in looking for SMART people. Is it really a surprise that smart people get into top schools , schools that have the most rigorous entry and graduacation requirements.
I graduated from a tiny little religous college in Texas that few have probably ever heard of... My degree was not even in Computer science, it was Business administration. Yet, according to my recruiter I received very high scores going through the hiring process and received a great job offer. I have been at Google for longer than 2 years now.
Google demands smart people. The will hire them wherever they can find them, regardless of school or location around the world.
Its very trendy and hip to bash anything this administration does, but on this issue I have to call bullshit.
First, the NSA did not wiretap "the entire country"... You don't need to inflame an already incindiary issue. It troubling enough on the merits.
Second, does the President yield less authority than your common beat cop? If a police officer pulls someone over and sees a beer can on the floor of the car, the courts have ruled that he has probable cause to perform a search without a warrant. Yet, when the military recovers a laptop with dozens of contacts in an Al-Quaida raid, this somehow doesn't meet the standard of 'probable cause'?
The fact they also tapped the lines of 'secondary' connections is somewhat troubling. I don't know why the press/ACLU aren't arguing the real problem and instead confusing everyone with FUD. Its almost like they know they will lose on the main issue, so they will argue it just to ensure a loss thereby demonstating 'dissent' without actually stopping the program.
Incorrect. Its 'Presumed innocent until proven guilty'. This statement is meant to infer that the courts should 'presume innocence' and let the evidence convince the judge/jury of the accusations. If you were innocent until proven guilty, then only innocent people would be convicted of crimes.
I know its sounds nit-pickish, but its obvious some people really don't understand this.
>Terrorism is an inconsequential threat when you actually bother to run the numbers.
If we lived on the planet of Vulcan where pure logic rules, you are correct. However, here on Earth emotions trump logic. Terrorism, by its definition is fear. Fear of random, horrifying, deadly violence against your family and friends and countrymen.
Terrorism IS consequential. Its results are much more than a dead fireman in New York, or a dead child in a Jeruselam market.
If we ran the numbers, 1 assasinated man would not be worthy of starting World War I.
If we ran the numbers, 1 dying woman in Florida would not dominate the media attention for weeks
If we ran the numbers, 1 crucified man would not crumble empires and change the world.
The numbers are meaningless, people react with emotion. The feel fear. They also feel an incredibly strong, compelling emotion for justice and to make things right. I do not mock this, I salute it.
When there are 6+ billion people on the planet, do you really want someone to 'run the numbers' to determine if your life is worthwhile?
>Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler by day, OS/2+DOS+Linux Hobbyist by night.
Mainframe? OS/2 for the love of God? No wonder it took you 33 months to find a new job!
AFWIW, if you have friends in IT that haven't found work since 9/11, here is a clue for them: They are not in IT anymore, and they probably never should have been.
The fact that Tucows would kick one of their customers to the curb in a pathetic attempt to pacify a blackmailer/spammer/terrorist is shameful, short-sighted, and tragic.
While the spammer is clearly worthy or our scorn, I believe Tucows is even more deserving of public shame and disgrace. I expect a spammer to spam, I expect a hacker to hack, but I do not expect a (formerly) respectable business that takes my money to sell me out to criminals! Yes, I know they claim it was to protect their other customers, but tossing your baby to the lion to keep it from from attacking everyone else is reprehensible and I thought civilization had progressed beyond this.
I for one, will NEVER use any of their services or web properties again unless they issue a public apology for their actions. Not just to BlueSecurity, but to all of their customers, because this clearly sends a signal to all would-be DDoS attackers that Tucows customers are for sale for the price of a few million IP packets!
GoDaddy will host your DNS for 1 year for about 6-8 bucks. You can edit your MX records easily to point at google. Great deal. I also use register.com, but they tend to charge between $20-$35 per year for a domain (depending on the discounts you get) and the extra $$ buys you a better (IMHO) management interface and much better customer support.
Remember you own nothing at your work, it all belongs to the company
No, the employees own (pwn3d?) the company. One could argue that stockholders are the owners, and employees are simply inventory of sorts. But take almost any company and remove the key employees and you will have shareholders running for the door. Heck, simply a CIO or CEO resigning can shake a company stock price. Imagine what would happen if all the software engineers at Microsoft or Google suddenly left... The companies would collapse overnight. So one might argue that the company is truly owned by the employees, since they are the ones that determine its fate.
If you treat employees like inventory, then you shouldn't be surprised when they treat the company like inventory and start walking out the door with it...
Nope, not hacked. The terms are simply 'sample random queries' that are shown on the page when the user is idle. Load up the page www.msnsearchandwin.com and watch the search box. Each of the 'keywords' will appear in seemingly random order.
This can be used in DoS attacks...
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I believe I have found a really wicked attack that could utilize this method to implement a serious DDoS effect. Lets consider issue #1, where I can create cookies in.org.
When a user visits my site, I set 20 cookies for slashdot.org. that are 4KB in size each (maximum number for a domain, and maximum allowed size per cookie). I also set the expiration for some time far into the future. I only have to send this data to each visitor 1 time.
As a result, everytime the user goes to slashdot, he transmits 20*4KB (80KB) of data at slashdot. Not a big deal right? But what if my site is slashdot'd, and a million faithful readers visit my evil website and get this bogus cookie data. Now slashdot will be flooded with 80KB from 1,000,000 users every single time they click on any slashdot page (potentially for years). Yikes! Slashdot becomes victim of covert and malicious/. effect having serious financial impact on Slashdots bandwidth costs.
This is a potentially serious amplification attack vector that would be really hard to clean-up.
How many of us have clothes/laptops/radios/dvd players/televisions that were made in China? Does this make Slashdot readers evil and supporters of communism and censorship? From the tone of the posts, I assume every Slashdot reader has a "Buy American" bumper sticker on the back of their Ford pickup truck.
Every website censors results in the United States. The Government declares it illegal for child pornography to be displayed on websites. Granted, this is an extreme example compared to censoring political articles about Tiananmen Square, but the basic premise is the same; Governments make law, and business must follow those laws.
I do not support censorship of political speech in China or anywhere else, but at least Google (as opposed to Yahoo, MSN and others) says that it will at least indicate in its results where it has censored the results. The Chinese people may get 10 results, and two of these might say "This result censored by your Government". At least the Chinese people will be faced with the obvious, that their government fears free speech which could help spur change.
> So don't you dare say that this is all fine because it's natural. About 100,000 years is natural. A few 100 years is frightening.
It may be frightening to you, but that doesn't mean it isn't natural. Am I a right-wing neo-con nut? Maybe. So lets check out what Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has to say.
"Most of the studies and debates on potential climate change have focused on the ongoing buildup of industrial greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and a gradual increase in global temperatures. But recent and rapidly advancing evidence demonstrates that Earth's climate repeatedly has shifted dramatically and in time spans as short as a decade."
Google does not discourage employees from talking about their employer or blogging... The company is extremely open with their employees and gives them a lot more freedom than you would expect from your employer... But still, I am sure a lot of Googlers (myself included) are still a little gun-shy about what they post on websites simply because Google is so 'in the spotlight'...
Even with 100ms latency, using a 30bit TCP window size [RFC 1323] you can theoretically transfer data at 5 gigabits per second.
1,073,741,824 bits per 200ms (100ms RTT)... and thats with the receiver just ACK'ing after the transfer of each 1 gig chunk, not providing intermittant ACKs throughout the transfer.
Many Slashdot readers have commented that the United States is arrogant in demanding to maintain control of Internet governance, such as this thread and also this one...
Thankfully, the U.S. has refused the call for Internationalization as we can clearly see how other, less free-market/capitalist, governments would run things...
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First let me quote the following from http://www.ifilm.com/about/
...We require users to respect our copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights and those of others, including other users. On notice, we will act expeditiously to remove content on the IFILM Network that infringes the copyright rights of others and will disable the access to the IFILM Network and its services of anyone who uses them to repeatedly to infringe the intellectual property rights of others. Specific procedures to notify us about copyright infringement can be found in Section 6 which describes our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement...
"In October 2005, IFILM was acquired by Viacom International, Inc., and is now part of the MTV Networks family of brands that includes MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT, Spike TV and Logo. As one of the largest global television networks, MTV Networks reaches over 1 billion people worldwide."
Basically, if Viacom wins, Viacom loses since their subsidiary iFilm.com will likely be sued as well by other companies (using Viacom v. Google as precendent).
In a nutshell, the only way for Viacom to win is to lose this case, and they know it. I predict it will never make it to judgement but will be withdrawn before the trial ever even begins.
I have (under fair use provisions) included quotes from their own terms of service for iFilm below. It seems they are quite explicit that they only remove copyright content when provided 'notice'. No filtering, no pre-screening... the same things they claim are easy and that Google should do for their benefit, but they refuse to do themselves. In fact, under Section 6, they don't even promise to let you know they received a take-down notice if you send them one.
This case is over before its even begun, and Viacom will look like hypocritcal fools in front of any Judge they get in front of.
SOURCE [ http://www.ifilm.com/about/terms_of_use.jsp ]
Section 4: OWNERSHIP & PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
Section 6: CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that any Content on the IFILM Network (including, without limitation, any Posting) violates any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, please send us a message about it at feedback@ifilm.com. We cannot guarantee that we will respond to your message and we reserve the right to take or refrain from taking any or all steps available to us once we receive any such message.
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All the above is personal opinion and does not represent the views of anyone... including myself.
>That's still far too long and is most likely motivated more by logistical concerns in
>retaining so much data than out of any act of benevolence. However it definately makes
>good PR to paint this as 'Taking steps to improve privacy'...
I am sure that while statistical analysis is one possible use, another use is fraud prevention. Google makes money off each search query. However, there are people who try to scam the system using adsense and adwords programs and keeping a year or two worth of data would probably be very useful in tracking down 'slow burn' fraud. Its easy to spot a someone clicking on a webpage ad 50 times in an minute, but it requires longer term data to see the same fraud occurring with 1 click per week over a year. While most people on Slashdot will refuse to accept this argument, people like myself who actually SPEND money on advertising appreciate reasonable efforts to combat fraud.
>but I'd rather buy something and own it.
I agree, I am sick of paying for cable TV, Cell phones and Web hosting on a monthly Basis. If I pay for the cell phone, they should provide free service.... oh wait, thats right, these are services not products... Damn, I guess that throws that whole argument out the window...
The real story isn't that 1/3 of the first 300 employees left Google... Its the fact that 2/3 of them STAYED even after having the wealth to do whatever they want. That is a pretty strong endorsement for Google that they can keep people working and happy, even when the people don't NEED the job!
I could claim to work at the RNC and as proof, show I picture I took of the RNC office complex. Of course I could have just found a random picture of the campus and be lying too. By asking for a picture with a central focus of a squirrel or pigeon (which are quite common) I have created a 'verification' method that the person REALLY does work at the RNC campus and have a much higher degree of assurance, since pictures of squirrels at the RNC campus would be MUCH hard to find on the web.
Kudos to Jericho, brilliant thinking to confirm a sources location.
Comparing phone and email is apples and oranges.
The phone company does not keep copies of all your voice calls. Since email is a service and messages reside on the 3rd party business computer, the 3rd party can grant the right to the government to search THEIR person, privacy and effects. This is not unlike a friend keeping his 'stash' in your apartment and the policy asking permission to search your apartment. If you agree, your friend cannot claim unreasonable search.
This may very well apply to voice messages stored on a phone carrier servers. I am not aware of this having been tested in court however.
>with about 1 pay sign-up per 40 clicks, which, at $9.99 per pay signup
> and $1.00 (average) per click, it wasn't worth it in the long run.
Two things here.
1. If 40 people visit your site and only 1 person signs up, then your ads were probably too generic or not relevant. If your ad claims 'free pictures of Britany' and then links to a porn signup page, well.. no surprise that people don't sign up.
2. If the ad was relevant, but your conversion rate is low (40 to 1), then you should lower the price paid per click and accept a lower ad placement. Or, more carefully track how long your signups remain members, it may be a good investment over a longer term (1-3 years) if they keep their monthly memberships. If they are dropping their membership after 1 month, then its your site, not Google that has a problem.
Obviously, I am not making and judgements about your site in particular since you never included any links or info about it... so don't take the comments above too personal.
The only descriminating Googles does is in looking for SMART people. Is it really a surprise that smart people get into top schools , schools that have the most rigorous entry and graduacation requirements.
I graduated from a tiny little religous college in Texas that few have probably ever heard of... My degree was not even in Computer science, it was Business administration. Yet, according to my recruiter I received very high scores going through the hiring process and received a great job offer. I have been at Google for longer than 2 years now.
Google demands smart people. The will hire them wherever they can find them, regardless of school or location around the world.
Its very trendy and hip to bash anything this administration does, but on this issue I have to call bullshit.
First, the NSA did not wiretap "the entire country"... You don't need to inflame an already incindiary issue. It troubling enough on the merits.
Second, does the President yield less authority than your common beat cop? If a police officer pulls someone over and sees a beer can on the floor of the car, the courts have ruled that he has probable cause to perform a search without a warrant. Yet, when the military recovers a laptop with dozens of contacts in an Al-Quaida raid, this somehow doesn't meet the standard of 'probable cause'?
The fact they also tapped the lines of 'secondary' connections is somewhat troubling. I don't know why the press/ACLU aren't arguing the real problem and instead confusing everyone with FUD. Its almost like they know they will lose on the main issue, so they will argue it just to ensure a loss thereby demonstating 'dissent' without actually stopping the program.
> "Innocent until proven guilty"
Incorrect. Its 'Presumed innocent until proven guilty'. This statement is meant to infer that the courts should 'presume innocence' and let the evidence convince the judge/jury of the accusations. If you were innocent until proven guilty, then only innocent people would be convicted of crimes.
I know its sounds nit-pickish, but its obvious some people really don't understand this.
If we lived on the planet of Vulcan where pure logic rules, you are correct. However, here on Earth emotions trump logic. Terrorism, by its definition is fear. Fear of random, horrifying, deadly violence against your family and friends and countrymen.
Terrorism IS consequential. Its results are much more than a dead fireman in New York, or a dead child in a Jeruselam market.
If we ran the numbers, 1 assasinated man would not be worthy of starting World War I.
If we ran the numbers, 1 dying woman in Florida would not dominate the media attention for weeks
If we ran the numbers, 1 crucified man would not crumble empires and change the world.
The numbers are meaningless, people react with emotion. The feel fear. They also feel an incredibly strong, compelling emotion for justice and to make things right. I do not mock this, I salute it.
When there are 6+ billion people on the planet, do you really want someone to 'run the numbers' to determine if your life is worthwhile?
>Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler by day, OS/2+DOS+Linux Hobbyist by night.
Mainframe? OS/2 for the love of God? No wonder it took you 33 months to find a new job!
AFWIW, if you have friends in IT that haven't found work since 9/11, here is a clue for them: They are not in IT anymore, and they probably never should have been.
The fact that Tucows would kick one of their customers to the curb in a pathetic attempt to pacify a blackmailer/spammer/terrorist is shameful, short-sighted, and tragic.
While the spammer is clearly worthy or our scorn, I believe Tucows is even more deserving of public shame and disgrace. I expect a spammer to spam, I expect a hacker to hack, but I do not expect a (formerly) respectable business that takes my money to sell me out to criminals! Yes, I know they claim it was to protect their other customers, but tossing your baby to the lion to keep it from from attacking everyone else is reprehensible and I thought civilization had progressed beyond this.
I for one, will NEVER use any of their services or web properties again unless they issue a public apology for their actions. Not just to BlueSecurity, but to all of their customers, because this clearly sends a signal to all would-be DDoS attackers that Tucows customers are for sale for the price of a few million IP packets!
Great idea. I found a site that does JUST THAT! Go to http://www.google.com/ and type in 'bist buy'. Right before the first link, you will see:
Did you mean: best buy
Which contains a link to the correctly spelled site!
GoDaddy will host your DNS for 1 year for about 6-8 bucks. You can edit your MX records easily to point at google. Great deal. I also use register.com, but they tend to charge between $20-$35 per year for a domain (depending on the discounts you get) and the extra $$ buys you a better (IMHO) management interface and much better customer support.
Remember you own nothing at your work, it all belongs to the company
No, the employees own (pwn3d?) the company. One could argue that stockholders are the owners, and employees are simply inventory of sorts. But take almost any company and remove the key employees and you will have shareholders running for the door. Heck, simply a CIO or CEO resigning can shake a company stock price. Imagine what would happen if all the software engineers at Microsoft or Google suddenly left... The companies would collapse overnight. So one might argue that the company is truly owned by the employees, since they are the ones that determine its fate.
If you treat employees like inventory, then you shouldn't be surprised when they treat the company like inventory and start walking out the door with it...
Nope, not hacked. The terms are simply 'sample random queries' that are shown on the page when the user is idle. Load up the page www.msnsearchandwin.com and watch the search box. Each of the 'keywords' will appear in seemingly random order.
I believe I have found a really wicked attack that could utilize this method to implement a serious DDoS effect. Lets consider issue #1, where I can create cookies in .org.
/. effect having serious financial impact on Slashdots bandwidth costs.
When a user visits my site, I set 20 cookies for slashdot.org. that are 4KB in size each (maximum number for a domain, and maximum allowed size per cookie). I also set the expiration for some time far into the future. I only have to send this data to each visitor 1 time.
As a result, everytime the user goes to slashdot, he transmits 20*4KB (80KB) of data at slashdot. Not a big deal right? But what if my site is slashdot'd, and a million faithful readers visit my evil website and get this bogus cookie data. Now slashdot will be flooded with 80KB from 1,000,000 users every single time they click on any slashdot page (potentially for years). Yikes! Slashdot becomes victim of covert and malicious
This is a potentially serious amplification attack vector that would be really hard to clean-up.
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This attack ©The Terrorist Network ( www.terrorist.net )
How many of us have clothes/laptops/radios/dvd players/televisions that were made in China? Does this make Slashdot readers evil and supporters of communism and censorship? From the tone of the posts, I assume every Slashdot reader has a "Buy American" bumper sticker on the back of their Ford pickup truck.
Every website censors results in the United States. The Government declares it illegal for child pornography to be displayed on websites. Granted, this is an extreme example compared to censoring political articles about Tiananmen Square, but the basic premise is the same; Governments make law, and business must follow those laws.
I do not support censorship of political speech in China or anywhere else, but at least Google (as opposed to Yahoo, MSN and others) says that it will at least indicate in its results where it has censored the results. The Chinese people may get 10 results, and two of these might say "This result censored by your Government". At least the Chinese people will be faced with the obvious, that their government fears free speech which could help spur change.
> So don't you dare say that this is all fine because it's natural. About 100,000 years is natural. A few 100 years is frightening.
It may be frightening to you, but that doesn't mean it isn't natural. Am I a right-wing neo-con nut? Maybe. So lets check out what Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has to say.
"Most of the studies and debates on potential climate change have focused on the ongoing buildup of industrial greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and a gradual increase in global temperatures. But recent and rapidly advancing evidence demonstrates that Earth's climate repeatedly has shifted dramatically and in time spans as short as a decade."
I work for Google...
Google does not discourage employees from talking about their employer or blogging... The company is extremely open with their employees and gives them a lot more freedom than you would expect from your employer... But still, I am sure a lot of Googlers (myself included) are still a little gun-shy about what they post on websites simply because Google is so 'in the spotlight'...
Even with 100ms latency, using a 30bit TCP window size [RFC 1323] you can theoretically transfer data at 5 gigabits per second.
1,073,741,824 bits per 200ms (100ms RTT)... and thats with the receiver just ACK'ing after the transfer of each 1 gig chunk, not providing intermittant ACKs throughout the transfer.
"Our computer scientists have been working on this project for over three years..."
Thankfully nobody ever put three years of effort into AI research otherwise somebody might have beat them to market...
Many Slashdot readers have commented that the United States is arrogant in demanding to maintain control of Internet governance, such as this thread and also this one...
Thankfully, the U.S. has refused the call for Internationalization as we can clearly see how other, less free-market/capitalist, governments would run things...
I would send an email asking Google to create a Google Appliance for email using the Gmail interface...