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- aaronbrannt, on 09/08/2008, -3/+50What kind of ***** drawing is this?
- seraph582, on 09/08/2008, -1/+36"AN WAVE?!" Ugh!!
- MrOllie, on 09/09/2008, -0/+33Now they're really surfing the web.
- georgemason01, on 09/09/2008, -9/+33Zaibatsu loves MrBabyMan. He diggs submissions almost as fast as him as well: http://digg.com/users/zaibatsu/history/diggs
- m1zl3d, on 09/09/2008, -0/+23Zaibatsu had 37 diggs in one minute that I can see. That's pretty impressive considering I can't find 37 things worthy of a digg in one day much less a minute. Script much?
- velocity92c, on 09/09/2008, -0/+17Google, first company with servers on the Moon, Mars?
- SVOboy, on 09/08/2008, -1/+13I spose the wudder would help with cooling costs, eh?
- Matt2k, on 09/09/2008, -1/+13Article links to
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2086/
Which cites a brief on
http://www.fashionfunky.com/2008/09/google_turns_t ...
And I really do appreciate the relevant contextual double-underline popup ads on words such as "Infrastructure". That ***** is swell.
Which links to the article here (Who is quoting from a /. article)
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News ...
Which links to the ACTUAL PATENT HERE
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P ...
HOLY *****, INTERNET. WTF.
Seriously, does the same person own all three sites? - digjam, on 09/09/2008, -6/+18PLEASE BAN ZAIBATSU ALSO. HIS DIGG SPEED IS ALMOST SAME AS MRBABYMAN
/DIGG UP TO BAN ZAIBATSU - serend, on 09/09/2008, -1/+12most patents are very crude like this. typical patent.
- Spire3660, on 09/09/2008, -0/+8This is a serious question...why is it so hard to convert natural kinetic energy (waves) into electricity . Am I missing something? Is it a scale problem? storage problem?
- MikeonTV, on 09/08/2008, -3/+11Google did? Okay good.
- fuzzmeister, on 09/09/2008, -0/+8Somehow, the simplest grammar mistakes are the most painful.
- xptoast, on 09/09/2008, -0/+7"For *****$ $ake, $top with the anti-MrBabyBan $hit, it'$ about as $tupid a$ people $pelling Micro$oft with a dollar $ign."
Angry much? All I $ee i$ dollar $ign$.
$orry. Ju$t wanted to bug you. Have to do $omething to entertain my brain and take a break from work right? I am ju$t pa$$ing on the $trangne$$ of life to you. Enjoy. Did I mi$$ any? - digjam, on 09/09/2008, -2/+9Zaibatsu and MrBabyMan dugg u down... I dugg u up!
- pradvan, on 09/09/2008, -1/+6***** you, two of my friends died using that meme
- nobody98, on 09/09/2008, -0/+5Down with digg whores!
- plhofmei, on 09/09/2008, -1/+5A patent? If it were MS that made the patent application you guys would be ALL OVER them. Come on, frivolous patents are bad, regardless who makes them.
Someone already patented wave power generation.
Server farms are older than the moon, surely not one of Google's ideas.
Sticking them together does not a new "novel" idea make! - aWombat, on 09/09/2008, -1/+5A patent application is NOT the same thing as a patent. Just because you file an application, does NOT mean you will get a patent for it, or anything resembling the breadth of what you claim.
- iliketurtles2, on 11/20/2008, -1/+5Direct link to patent:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P ... - ElBeh, on 09/09/2008, -0/+3http://instantrimshot.com
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -0/+3 How can you patnet aq mix of two ideas like this? The patent should be for the wave technology alone. There should not be a different patent for every application of the technology, or for every system you decide to marry it to.
- Owwmykneecap, on 09/09/2008, -2/+4Can Zaibatsu get 5 stories on the Front page.
Stay tuned to find out. - burden555, on 09/09/2008, -5/+7But can it run Crysis?
- superoven, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2lol truth
- stringerbell, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2How ludicrous! So, you're saying they got a patent for using existing technologies, in existing ways?!? They're just taking wave power buoys (existing power technology) - using it to power servers (existing technology) - and putting it all on a boat (existing technology - and lots of boats have servers already, so this is nothing new or patentable). So, if that's the case, I hereby patent using WIND TURBINES to power COMPUTERS in an OFFICE BUILDING! And, solar cells to power electronics on planes! And, geothermal to power televisions in your living room! Wow, I'm gonna be as rich as Google!!!
- Chicken, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2About 5 minutes ago but it just went down.
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2the best way to deal with either or both is to not digg and or not comment on their submissions
to not even read them is best - grungemusic3001, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2wouldn't it also make the server farms vulnerable to storms and/or hurricanes?
I can just see it now: "Oh ***** my server is down because of the tropical storm" - Jedakiah, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2I came up with this idea, including the water cooling, months ago. I guess my idea was not original at all.
An ocean server farm would not only be efficient, but the only costs are initial investments and upkeep.
But the biggest advantage would be placing it in international waters. Of course the IFPI is probably not above hiring a mercenary army to lay waste to said farm. - ptFoe, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2another obvious patent
- zippy757, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2going to be a little tough to enforce the patent...the military did this as far back as Vietnam...
- nymphetamine, on 09/09/2008, -1/+3Hey, you stop that logical thinking there. We won't have none of that.
- s0crates82, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1wudder?
- guitarman018, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1All it will take is for the oil to run out, give it another 10-20 years at the rate we're going.
- grodrigu, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1If google wants to do it, it must be okay
- ihateaubergine, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Taking all predictions... when will Google's share price go over $1000 a share?
- Ymeg, on 09/09/2008, -0/+130 years ago they took my baby away for hiding that meme.
- zex18ro, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1FLUID karma... yes.
- Navicerts, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1I think the problem is the efficiency of the conversion (but it's getting better). Meh, don't quote me on that.
- polyp2000, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Hmm ... What happened to do-no-evil google?
Patenting an eco-friendly technology so that no-one else can use it strikes me as a fairly evil thing to do.
N. - myusernamerules, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1we could form a sweet band of merry folk and destroy the worlds oil supply, that way there would be no other choice then to use alternative power.
like babies with bottles ya gotta ween em off it, or just take it away and replace it with something better. - 1ShotJake, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1liquid karma?
- opticwind, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1I was reading this on my iPhone earlier and it loaded (from the frames of the page) as "Yes, Google did patent the ocean"...and I thought nothing of it.
- shpoffo, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Then you'd have a choice: enjoy the storm, or search Google.....
- 1SockChuck, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Here's a good analysis of the data center design innovations in the patent and how they can address the huge cost of data centers. Keep in mind that Google currently spends $600 million on each of its new land-lubber data centers:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/0 ... - Carnage6669, on 09/08/2008, -1/+2well hopefully they actually carry it out... I'm kind of tired of seeing all these "alternative energy" things and i cant help but realize that it will never happen because there is no way to make billions off it compared to crude oil.
- Navicerts, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1I don't understand why they would have it on a boat; I guess so they could move it easy? why not put it under water: more appealing to look at, less disruption from storms, currents are stronger on the ocean floor? Better yet why not place it along the bottom of a man made canal that could be dual useful somewhere, charge for canal use and get huge currents with strategic placement (tides).
I'm going to patent the one under Hollywood BLVD, all those tourists will power my data farm. - Navicerts, on 09/09/2008, -1/+1For gods sake just digg things you like and bury things you don't. Why make it more complicated?
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