Forgot your password?   Comment: Too big to fail (Score 1) 189
by gumnam (#27956533) Attached to: Confirmed Gmail / Google App
Outage This makes me wonder is Google too big to fail of the
technology world - as Citibank/Bank of America/AIG are to the
financial world. Would the US government have to prop up Google
and its services some day with massive bailouts because the
failure of google could be catastrophic for the general public.
The cost of this failure to individual users may not be high (a
few minutes of lost access to mail, a hit to efficiency because
you cannot search etc etc) but the cumulative cost across the
globe could be very high.  Comment: Re:HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT?
(Score 1) 463  by gumnam (#16092061) Attached to: Voting
Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections Oh Yea!! this is just
a naive bickering....  on the surface it looks simple.... but
there are tons of things to consider  1. What happens if a voter
presses one button many times? how do you allow one voter only
one vote 2. What hap