Google Hints of Online Storage 3350

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mathew P. wrote on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:50:35 GMT

I'll give Google Credit Debt for that one, but it's obviously not a black-and-white thing; gray is the order of the day here. And in any event money = power, and one knows what power does: it corrupts.

Google now has quite a bit of money -- about half that of Microsoft, as far as capitalization is concerned, anyway.

It was paved long ago, in the 13th century or so (why else did the Magna Carta get written?), and the Founders were sufficiently smart 5 centuries later to know that checks and balances at least keeps the worst of it from the body politic.

And even then, we have things like the 2004 election, where everything will become Republican -- or at least as Republican as conditions allow, since Bush can't reappoint all 9 justices on a whim. (Good thing, too.)

In 1992 everything went Democratic, and the Republicans had a similar worry that the country was about to go socialist (or as socialist as the Demos would allow; it's not like we're talking true communism here).

Nothing; that's the beauty of it. Google could easily (or be forced to!) produce a "master key" system, where anyone's data is avaliable to the appropriate authorities.

Lucky you. I don't *have* a basement to put such things in. :-)

I do wonder; this whole thing is a little weird. Google must know all this.

Besides, multi-hundred GB drives are relatively cheap. What's to prevent *me* from buying a few for my own use? Nothing, except lack of funds or some law that requires a background check and a 5-day waiting period prior to purchase of such equipment.

(The only way one can kill somebody with a drive is to drop it on one's head from a sufficient height. :-) )

-- It's still legal to go .sigless.