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> we're so righteous we won't take Pentagon contacts. I think you mean "won't renew". They already took them.
by reificator 8y ago
> we're so righteous we won't take Pentagon contacts.
I think you mean "won't renew". They already took them.
- craftyguy 8y agoYea, joke is on us, because they'll still develop the thing they told the pentagon they would develop, all while appearing to be 'good guys' to people (which is apparently quite a few people) who don't understand how contracts work.
- dba7dba 8y agoWhether google does it or not, China will.
- RandomBK 8y agoThose existing contracts are about see quite a few "scope changes"
- craftyguy 8y agoI doubt that, and you have no way to prove it.
- brian-armstrong 8y agoNew ReCAPTCHA: select the correct person for a drone strike to proceed.
- schoen 8y agoI don't think it's original to him, but Joey Hess (joeyh on Hacker News) posted an image of that concept: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/prove_you_are_not_an_Evil_corporate_person/ https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/prove_you_are_not_an_Evil_corp...
- nickpeterson 8y agoI like to pretend that google is asking users to answer captcha questions to help waymo cars drive. "Which images contain a stop sign"...
- la_oveja 8y agoVery probably they actually do.
- cbzbc 8y ago.. but in real time.
- a1369209993 8y agohttp://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1897:_Self_Driving http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1897:_Self_Driving
- nickpsecurity 8y agoI also thought they were training image recognition for self-driving cars. I also thought it was an ingenious way to solve two problems at once.
- oldgeezr 8y agoWhat stops Google from forming a shell corp to handle government contracts? They can profit off the shell corp while allowing them unfettered, royalty free access to their internal technology. They can staff the shell corp with smart people who aren't anti-government, and even continue to employ them at Google so no one knows what's going on.
- nine_k 8y agoI don't see why working on your country's DoD contract is for "bad guys". Remember the guys building ARPANet for, well, the military's Advanced Research Projects Agency.
- palferrari 8y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=pentagon+google&ei=Je0UW8mlK8qYtgWOjb24BQ&start=0&sa=N&biw=1680&bih=803 https://www.google.com/search?q=pentagon+google&ei=Je0UW8mlK... It's kind of strange how the query 'penatagon google' returns pages of uniform results, only articles containing variations of 'Google won't renew Pentagon contract'