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bigfan

Post subject: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:18 am

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-floating-barge-in-san-francisco-bay-could-be-secret-new-google-glass-facility-171117167.html

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bigfan

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:17 am

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This is like an evil floating island out of a bond movie!

However, probably a great idea is self sufficient and some shit goes down, these guys are the only ones still "floating"

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jimmypasta

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:42 pm

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bigfan

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:06 pm

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If the Government went down via Nukes at the exact places they are all at (cheyenne bunker, etc)

Google is is the Law of the land as they might control all communications. Sure, its crazy to think about, but they are now the moving target.

Hey, they didnt do this just because the water helps cool the computers. LOL

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KDdidit

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:52 pm

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Google doesn't seem like the batshit libertarian seasteading type.

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bigfan

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:18 pm

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KDdidit wrote:

Google doesn't seem like the batshit libertarian seasteading type.

So they have a giant bunch of servers on the water because it helps cool the computers easier?

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Ugueth Will Shiv You

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:20 pm

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KDdidit wrote:

Google doesn't seem like the batshit libertarian seasteading type.

They are much closer to that than you think.

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Douchebag

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:24 pm

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I took a giant floating Google this morning.

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IkeSouth

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:28 pm

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im sure its linked directly to this-
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-utah-data-hub-meltdowns-871/

they wont even tell you how much data they are storing, but my guess is they intend to capture everyone's internet movements 24/7 for their entire lives. 60 years from now the feds will be able to tell you what website you clicked on at any point in time of your life. scary isnt even the word for it... terrifying barely gets there...

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NearWessSideHussra

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:32 pm

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Google has created fuck-all other than google maps. They took over email and search and internet advertising and made bank on that. Everything else they've tried has been full of fail. Google Apps: a collection of other companys' products they've bought and then made worse. Android started off ok as a mobile linux distro but it has quickly become a molasses-slow pile of hot garbage.

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FavreFan

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:28 am

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Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:

KDdidit wrote:

Google doesn't seem like the batshit libertarian seasteading type.

They are much closer to that than you think.

To Celebrate Spying on Google Users, the NSA Drew a Smiley Face

This apparent NSA presentation slide, provided to the Washington Post by Edward Snowden, speaks volumes about the agency's attitude toward mass surveillance.

It’s safe to assume that Google, Yahoo, and other major Internet companies were not thrilled when the NSA began demanding that they hand over users’ data as part of the court-approved PRISM spying program.

But that was nothing compared to how they must be feeling now.

The Washington Post reports today that at the same time the NSA was requisitioning data from Google and Yahoo via PRISM, it was secretly intercepting far greater quantities of data behind their backs. In that project, known as MUSCULAR, the NSA allegedly somehow tapped into the fiber-optic links that connect Google and Yahoo’s data centers around the world. That allowed it to suck up absolutely massive amounts of information on foreigners and citizens alike, which it could then analyze at its leisure.

Tech companies’ responses to the PRISM revelations were almost uniformly measured and legalistic. But Google’s statement about MUSCULAR makes it clear the company is really steamed about this one. Google told the Post it is “troubled by allegations of the government intercepting traffic between our data centers, and we are not aware of this activity.”

NSA chief Keith Alexander was quick to dispute the report, or at least try to cast some doubt on it. It's conceivable that the Post has its facts wrong in some way or another. But given all that has come out so far, including intelligence officials' track record of forgetting key facts when confronted with awkward questions, it seems plausible that there's some truth to the allegations.

If so, among all the troubling facets of the story, one little hand-drawn image may end up as an enduring emblem of the NSA’s wanton disregard for digital privacy. In a presentation slide provided to the Post by leaker Edward Snowden, someone at the NSA apparently sketched a diagram showing the exact point at which it broke into Google’s cloud. And there they drew a little smiley face.

Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing. “I hope you publish this,” one of them said.
The Post did. In fact, it ran the sketch as the main image atop the Web version of its story.

The smiley face might seem like a harmless quirk, but it’s more than that. It’s an indication that the NSA's agents did not regret having to break into major American corporations’ systems and steal their data. They relished it.

More broadly, it suggests that—contrary to what its leaders would have the public believe—the NSA’s agents did not undertake spying on untold millions of people around the world, including U.S. citizens, as a grave matter, unfortunate but necessary. It suggests they took it lightly—they thought it was funny.

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sinicalypse

Post subject: Re: Floating Google

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:42 am

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wake me up when google has an army.... and i'm actually pretty serious about that.

remember max headroom? they had a scrapped episode slated to be the season finale that was gonna have theora get kidnapped and end up in antarctica where the zik zak corporation and their rivals (i forget their name off the top of my head) were having a corporate war.... a rather brilliant concept.

i've long touted the eventual "coca cola people's army" as an inevitability of the current direction of humanity, and this odd building seems to indicate we're on the path to it.

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