They should use something more evolutionary and more suitable for giant company, like: Google Plus Picasa Photo Service

courier could have been pasting just PGP armoured blobs. Or maybe he did encrypt buy his password was "infidel".

Stopping engineers from touching keyboards is important part of maintaining one's cloud infrastructure. From experience.

he meant "cost to the environment" to build, run and operate his Prius

..as "we give up and will participate in doing evil", then yes.

Was he fired for lack of creativity?

.. to reverse a String during the interview? ;-) Seriously, Google needs to stop hiring ivory tower theoreticians and get some "normal" devs to clean up their act.

.. back in 60s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7

.. your genitalia?

8 women not 9. It is a stretch goal.