Google helps build Faster cable under Pacific Ocean - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The cable, dubbed Faster, will connect the US with Japan and cost about $300m (£179m; 225m euros), the consortium said. The trans-Pacific fibre cable would be capable of handling 60 terabytes per second - enough to send more than 2,000 uncompressed HD films a second. The cable will be operational by 2016. [/QUOTE] Saucy sauce [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28754235[/url]

I remember reading about this elsewhere and people were already trying to discredit by saying that it was only 60 terabits per second.

Monopolies aren't always bad.

sharks are just gonna eat it anyway [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPVhyrng[/media]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;45716691]Monopolies aren't always bad.[/QUOTE] If there was one company to rule the planet in an all powerful mega corporation, I wouldn't mind Google being it.

"Let's connect an area with great internet to another area with great internet" "What about Australia" "nah" [img]http://eightface.com/files/images/2012.02.submarine.cable.map.jpg[/img]

What if you had such a giant cable just for your own internet I know it's not possible,but 60tb/s man

[QUOTE=Scratch.;45716813]"Let's connect an area with great internet to another area with great internet" "What about Australia" "nah" [img]http://eightface.com/files/images/2012.02.submarine.cable.map.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] What the hell exists above Finland???

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;45716936]What the hell exists above Finland???[/QUOTE] Probably the excess cats that fill the tubes

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;45716936]What the hell exists above Finland???[/QUOTE]secret soviet base

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;45716936]What the hell exists above Finland???[/QUOTE] North pole wifi

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;45716936]What the hell exists above Finland???[/QUOTE] Svalbard, belongs to Norway. It reaches 4-6 degrees in summer and averages -16 to -12 in January. In 2012, it had just under 3k people living on it for some reason.

[QUOTE=Duck M.;45716751]If there was one company to rule the planet in an all powerful mega corporation, I wouldn't mind Google being it.[/QUOTE] People have the most alarming tendency to [I]want[/I] to give Google the keys to their lives. They want google to do our email, maps, videos, to run our internet service, our cars, they want them on our fucking face, and a variety of other things, under the assumption that google is a flawless moral company. They're not, and I don't care that their slogan is 'Don't be evil'. EA could us that as a slogan if they wanted, hell, anyone could. Google has plenty of their own shit they're not telling you, just like every huge company. Saying you're not evil don't mean you're not evil, and I would probably flag Google as one of the more evil companies because of their flagrant never-ending expansion, consumption, and monopolization of internet services, usually to a drop in quality but who cares more money more money. I don't know why Google gets such a free pass then skip off in joy while we bitch about Youtube. Youtube sucks ass, with no other real options. Guess who you have to thank for that? Monopolies and all powerful mega corporations are never good and Google by far is not the exception.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;45719110]People have the most alarming tendency to [I]want[/I] to give Google the keys to their lives. They want google to do our email, maps, videos, to run our internet service, our cars, they want them on our fucking face, and a variety of other things, under the assumption that google is a flawless moral company. They're not, and I don't care that their slogan is 'Don't be evil'. EA could us that as a slogan if they wanted, hell, anyone could. Saying you're not evil don't mean you're not evil, and I would probably flag Google as one of the more evil companies because of their flagrant never-ending expansion, consumption, and monopolization of internet services, usually to a drop in quality but who cares more money more money. I don't know why Google gets such a free pass then skip off in joy while we bitch about Youtube. Youtube sucks ass, with no other real options. Guess who you have to thank for that? Monopolies and all powerful mega corporations are never good and Google by far is not the exception.[/QUOTE] if you buy into the idea of google, then there's really no problem with it google doesn't want to sell your data, because the reason they make shitloads of money, is because they specialize in data. jo shmo the advertiser never sees "lordcrypto" he sees "white male with theses interests" and what, a company isn't supposed to expand if no one else is doing it? back when gmail first came out people said "wtf is google doing they're a search company why should they bother with gmail" tell me how youtube sucks ass by the way.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;45717069]Svalbard, belongs to Norway. It reaches 4-6 degrees in summer and averages -16 to -12 in January. In 2012, it had just under 3k people living on it for some reason.[/QUOTE] They do science there. [editline]17th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=itisjuly;45716691]Monopolies aren't always bad.[/QUOTE] Monopolies are bad by definition.