Why on gods green one would you buy a Volvo for £50K?
Posts by Sparx
19 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2009
Volvo V60 Polestar: Speak softly, carry a big stick, dress like a Smurf
Planning to fly? Pour out your shampoo, toss your scissors, rename terrorist Wi-fi!
ISPs' pirate-choking blocking measures ARE effective – music body
Five unbelievable headlines that claim Tim Berners-Lee 'INVENTED the INTERNET'
Although technically incorrect "the internet" being WWW is an feature of popular misnomers describing 'complicated' technologies that are taken over by the ease of access to non-techies.
like
'my ipad' actually being an android tablet
'my pc' being a desktop mac
etc etc etc
'the internet' is one we all use daily and could be forgiven for (surely?) eg:
"have you seen that 'thing' on 'the internet'"
but granted, maybe shouldn't the larger news sources actually be correctly headlining for the masses :
"Technology underpinning the way Web Pages are created and displayed turns 25"
cant see it happening, more likely they'll choose a more colloquial
"internet turns 25"
As we are talking colloquially: What Evs.
California kids win right to delete digital past
"Even if you make sure not to post photos of yourself, you can't stop your friends from doing so. If you use drugs and there are pictures of you doing that and you apply for a job, you won't get hired."
I really don't understand why people still have such a problem understanding this concept. Internetz be public unless you KNOW only you can see it or better still don't put it on the bleeding thing.
Speaking in Tech: You hit Y for YouTube at work and up pops YouPor..
HGST unveils 12Gbit/s SAS SSDs for bankers, gamers and cloud-pushers
Big labels try for ISP blocking on 3 more 'pirate' sites
Only buy Huawei or ZTE if you like being SPIED ON - US politicos
Eddie Murphy heading for worst movie ever glory
Brit censor stamps on The Human Centipede
Microsoft sends IE9 'do-not-track' tech to W3C
Mexican woman gets litigious on Top Gear's ass
Make your iPhone patriotic - for free
Twitter airport bomb joker loses second job
BT quotes pensioner £150,000 to get broadband
Google tweaks search results with mystery site speedometer

Sounds alot like..
Google are giving a clear bias toward whatever hosting they will be doing, surely the 'fastest' servers will be in googles own network across the globe? that being the case, its just a matter of marketing the fact, and boom, before you know it peeps will be clambering over themselves to get some Google Server action to help them clamber up the rankings