This statement by Google’s CEO is quite indicative of how they really feel about your personal information.
Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users’ privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC’s recent “Inside the Mind of Google” special about whether users [...]
Verizon Refuses to Provide Complete IPv6
GM’s government-organized bankruptcy just might have freed them of the requirement to clean up their old sites by leaving “unwanted assets” behind. Expensive toxic sites aren’t usually on anyone’s Christmas list.
Detroit Free Press: GM gets to dump its polluted sites (broken) archive link
Not content to let the Fisher Plaza fire outdo it, the 151 Front Street carrier hotel in Toronto is on fire. As of this writing, whatever happened is apparently with 17 units and being called a 2-alarm fire:
(http://www.toronto.ca/fire/cadinfo/livecad.htm)
Rumor was that Peer1’s suite is on fire, and this has been confirmed as “an issue” with [...]
There was an electrical fire this morning at Fisher Plaza in Seattle (“the only mission-critical business community in the Northwest” according to their Google search summary as fisherplaza.com is down) resulting in a full outage. The news reports a vault fire, while another source on NANOG says generator transfer switch fire. Could be both as [...]
Coming this summer 2009: the Willis Tower. What the hell? That’s right folks, they’re going to rename the Sears Tower because some new tenant from the UK decided they want their name on it. I mean seriously, why deface such an iconic landmark? Sears built it, not you. Maybe you should do something that that’s [...]
It looks like whoever designed Google’s new favicon took the Windows logo, rotated it 90 degrees, got rid of the gradients, and stuck a lowercase “g” on it. Good job. (Not.)
So there’s this company in Reno, NV that’s pretending to be green by doing pointless things like using quality “green” wood that splits when you blow on it and “green” soybean concrete floor sealer that comes off with electrical tape. We’ll call this company The “Green” Group. Normally part of being “green” is to recycle. [...]