Exactly. A quick look at his little history (especially with Yahoo a few years back) shows that he's only in it to score some meat from a dying company while the victim is still breathing. Notice that he doesn't really go after healthy, growing companies - only those which show signs of being in serious trouble.

It would be niftier if it would let you use it as a block cache in front of any filesystem, instead of just one located on a specially-prepared partition. dm-cache will do this but isn't up to date.

What Wikipedia doesn't tell you is that Skynet had humble beginnings as a network clock...

Any idea how much bandwidth this would involve?

And when that happens, you are no longer in a 'free Democracy', if the USA was ever one to begin with.

I'd be seriously amazed if they aren't already doing this.