Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment

Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by thezilch on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @10:48PM (#2893830)

I'm not convinced that Google doesn't know the manufactoring nor device game. For one, they have designed and provisioned their own servers, racks, and data centers for "ever." As well, they have had their hands in building out both Nexus devices.

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Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by bdonlan on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @11:12PM (#2893902)

Servers in a data center are a very different beast than portable devices. They also have far fewer regulatory restrictions than cell phones; you don't need to register your custom server with the FCC, after all.

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Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by olefoo on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @02:59AM (#2894417)

The unfortunate thing is that it's all too easy to imagine a scenario where you do have to get approval from a .gov regulator to put a server on the internet.

Or worse, several of them. Your copyright license, your permit for attaching to the internet, your Homeland Security Virus Scanning permit, etc.

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Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by ma2rten on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @04:58AM (#2894619)

Man, it's the internet. Just put your servers in another country.

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Re:Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment by olefoo on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @11:11AM (#2895578)

Didn't work for Google in China all that well, did it now?

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