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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by ivank on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:19PM (#10230336)
Yeah, right. How and who exactly would they hand that over to, given that there are privacy settings on the photos that people expect to have respected?
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by BtM909 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:38PM (#10230459)
Sarcasm son....
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by ivank on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:44PM (#10230493)
You'd be surprised at how many people assume these bigcos are open to doing the right thing when they're shutting down.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by dx211 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:12PM (#10230608)
Hey, I've still got my complimentary MySpace zip file kicking around somewhere.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by jsmeaton on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:55PM (#10230954)
I had a hard drive crash on me with all of my photos some years back and my "backup" strategy failed. Dumping a myspace backup got me some of my most precious photos back. Thanks MySpace!
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by ArekDymalski on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:20AM (#10231696)
Even more. Most people don't even realize that things like FB aren't eternal.
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by nl on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:25PM (#10230867)
It isn't even clear what "the right thing" is here.
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