Paid in Full, twice

"As for the unmasked Street View engineer, it's relatively easy to find details – via Google search, naturally – about which names were associated with that project for Mountain View between 2007 and 2010."

Several "Engineers", three years, $25k, sounds about the going rate. Those "no poaching" contracts are a wonder.

There, I said it.

I don't miss the <blink /> tag.

Well alright then

"A spokesperson said it had no comment to make due to its IPO quiet period."

My list of annoying entities who should file an IPO just zoomed North of all available Cloud storage.

El Reg, what do I do ?

Pfffttt... Brits

In a democracy like America this would never happen ...

There would be a Pre-Date Department responsible for multiple years, and a Three-Strikes Department in charge of executions.

Sorry to be smug about it.

Harumph

My last cell bill data usage indicates that ATT has already split the electron.

Isn't this a bit like ...

Yes, it is.

And it's also a bit like "Your Slaves picked My Cotton". What neither Oracle nor Google seem to grasp is that they are not intelligent life. They have motivation but no need: A Guitar is not a Lawnmower; although we (ok, me) "intelligent types" can make one sound like the other and if life was fair, I could send Leo and Les an invoice.

Hell, I don't know

But I do know this, Andrew, maybe you can make sense of it ...

1. There is no such thing as a "Private Language". It cannot exist through reason alone, but who ever said IT was reasonable.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/

2. The US LOC who maintains ISO 639, has two sets of codes: one for Terminology and one for Bibliography.

http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/urn/lang/display/ Terminology

http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/urn/lang/person/ Bibliography

3. RFC4646 covers "Terminology" only

"Language tags are used to help identify languages, whether spoken,

written, signed, or otherwise signaled, for the purpose of

communication. This includes constructed and artificial languages,

but excludes languages not intended primarily for human

communication, such as programming languages."

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt

Ok, put this all together and IT has invented that which does not exist (see #1 above)

Oh yes, and one more thing ...

The US governs and writes laws in English (Terminology) but when the Census asks the question differently, "What Language do you speak at home ?" the answer is 110+ different (Bibliography) languages (per American Community Survey). Both Oracle and Google imagine they own the last couple of inches between your ears ... new circle of hell under construction.

Disgusting

The games are obviously targeted at adults with the mental capacity of a 9 year old, and fortunately are heirs to large fortunes so that their guardians say "Oh, why not ?"

Can Apple produce this person ? Why not ?

Hamelin doesn't need a Pied Piper if it has no rats ...

Irony detector

Um, Carpathia, it's like this. I know where the data is and I'm claiming salvage rights.

Happy 100th Titanic.

Optional

Everybody is a content creator. So, you have a server with 100% made up of crap gossip. How do you tell FB to go away ? Google ? Apple ? Microsoft ? robots.txt ? Seriously ?

The content has already been created, got crap and all that.

Creating not(crap) is something all content creators struggle with, but the issue is how do you stop propagation of existing crap.

Ah yes. The insanity defense.

"I have been evangelizing SharePoint since Microsoft produced the first beta in early 2000," he told The Register"

On average

The problem with regression models is that neither wealth nor walking around money is an average.

I wonder why we track a species which for 100k years or so has called home the most inhospitable places on the planet ? It just doesn't seem that humans are reliable when it comes to making good choices. Why don't we keep track of mosquitoes instead ? No problems with invading their privacy and there are a lot more of them, which lets advertisers off the hook, statistically.

Huh ?

"for any lawful non-regulatory governmental purpose."

Please redact the "any". I find it almost multi-syllabic in complexity, and my calendar says Good Friday you ridiculous parody of an empty suit.

Thanks.

Ouch

"The Buzzard of Oz" is having a very bad time of it in the US.

I think they used The Picture of Dorian Gray in the headlines, no, wait, that's Rupert. Poor guy cannot catch a break ....

et tu Google

Is it at all possible that the sensory enhancement of beautiful women has not been a recurrent theme in my adult life ? Let me put it another way ... the ugly like 'em dumber than a brick. Thanks Google.

Having it both ways

"The Economic Man" does not grasp the Law of the Jungle. That is, "no grass, no lions", hold that down vote just a second, lion food eats grass, does it not ?

Whether you are a Wall St. Master of the Universe, or simply a week-end Social Darwinist, you have to admit that playing the game by the simplest rules you can think of will not end well.

In all seriousness ...

Once again, the day after April Fools falls on the second of the month.

Your Tinfoil Hat can't protect you if you don't wear it. Wake Up, Sheeple!!!

Just off the Press ...

Siri mauled by Ideas Bear.

What the Press Boffins are saying ...

"This Story Has Legs, if your weasel little brother doesn't tear them off and hide them from mum"

"The date 4/11 will live in infamy for at least another 10 days"

Spain, Apple thinks you are slackers

Dear Spain,

Please explain to "The Economic Man" that you abandoned the siesta because the late hours were hurting your families and not because you couldn't "compete globally" taking a 3 hour lunch.

After you've explained, throw his disingenuous ass in jail.

Thanking you in advance,

Gannon

Dear Woz ...

... Back in 1976 I bought your new Apple ][. The "Red Book" code had some penciled in changes. I assume you put them there. I know you are thinking ... he never writes, he never calls ... ok sorry, let me make amends.

Siri works wonderfully for me, but I had to teach her to say "do you want fries with that?" at the end of every session. I suggest Apple do the same (no I didn't patent the patch).

Here's the thing: Siri is a "personal assistant", but that is still a social position far below the most overworked, underpaid, and need I say, under appreciated waitress. Apple knows well that slaves are Chinese, you own a bunch of them, but when you suggest that Siri is worth anywhere close to that waitress she'll spit in your soup, rich guy, you can count on it.

Um ...

If you are looking for something you don't want to find, then, what was the question again ?

Tisk.

You are holding the "4" wrong.

It's a "PG" network (Parental Guidance). See? It's your mom's fault. Get different parents. Got it ?

Go forth and sin no more.

Dissembling

Your *choice* of apps for that one.

Expert Witness ?

Has it occurred to anyone that the request for assistance might be completely unrelated to phone equipment ?

Nobody knows Pimpin' Like Google, or as they often put it: "don't be evil".

Coolies who say 'Howdy'

Apple will be right at home. The State money is not an issue, really, Municipalities gotta do what they gotta do. The important part from the long view is the long history of transparent Peonage. You just can't fake that or change the subject - either you have it or you don't.

I see

You mean *not* just their pants ?

um, Eric ?

"Governments will be able to spot the economic makings of a crisis before they happen ..."

Last I heard, Google had $44 Billion in Bermuda awaiting the proper payment of bribes so that it can be repatriated at a lower tax rate. I'm not sure we can afford Governments who are as brilliant as you claim they can be, and yet are so easily gamed by the likes of you.

When all hope is lost ...

... read the directions.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

This is being hailed as ...

... a victory for the Google/Facebook Axis of Evil in the US Press.

True, Obama is paying off his "old friends" for early support.

There are two problems:

1. The EU, world+dog

2. US State and Local Governments.

They all have the same problem. Not the Rule of Law, but rather the Rule of Mom. I don't know how to say "sit up straight, don't talk with your mouth full, no running with scissors, no jumping on the beds ... etc.." in Hungarian. Hungarian kids do, and probably hear it a lot, just like Chinese and American kids. Social Networks with a "man in the middle" short circuit the Rule of Mom. They go around Governments directly to the governed. This will not stand.