It can be argued that these guys are behind "Noo Meejuh" being an everyday household concept, but I still don't have a facebook account :-)

If anything I'm surprised this hasn't happened already given the size of the company, the talent they attract, etc.

Maybe this will make them innovate and change their game a bit, but for me they seems somewhat like a one-trick-pony and G+ seems to have stolen their trick. /G

Nothing lasts forever. Good luck in your future adventures, CmdrTaco! You've wasted a lot of my time over the years. :-)

If asked, say it wasn't you. Done.

The problem with this kind of tool, and really it boils down to all the increasing surveillance options available to law enforcement (trust me, my ass is fully violated, I live in the UK) - they make it trivial for anyone interested with the correct clearance to go to town and infringe on someones rights. This kind of tool rarely has the correct AAA criteria set up for it (nor does any of the increasing computerised government systems), so more and more of our personal data is being shipped wholesale, without our permission, into the hands of people who are either incompetant or not suitable to handle it.

These kind of tools need peer-review as to their use, and an accountable audit procedure.

As an ISP, you have 3 things:

- stuff you provide on your own network (ISP email, webspace, etc)
- paths to other networks via peering agreements (IX's etc)
- paths to other networks via transit providers (your so called Tier 1's)

All that is happening here is that the amount of traffic pushed over peering links is getting bigger, mainly because a switchport at an IX is way cheaper (and faster, better latency etc) than going via your transit over the internet for it.

No conspiracy here, move along.

At least, they'd recently bought them when I saw their office in 2005. So the guys complaining that Google aggressively pursued the name, well, it was already there, and was probably some kind of assertion exercise that opened up the can of worms.

The 3d web doesn't work. What "problem" are they trying to fix? That's the main reason it keeps failing.

  -- incubus

... Is that they end up regressing, will someone just bite the bullet and fix upstream?!

Regardless of the trolling and fanboyism, I for one would like to wish him well and hope he gets better in due time. Enjoy your rest, Steve, and get well soon!