The best April First pranks…
Inigo Montoya: Let me ‘splain.
[pause]
Inigo Montoya: No, there is too much. Let me sum up…
OK, just one: Google TiSP, a plan by Google to offer wireless internet service to homes through local sewage systems and home plumbing… Bringing together the best of Google with the best of many internet users.
In the typical Google datamining style that has caused privacy concerns in the past, Google said of the free/low cost service,
To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward
Of course, this was April 1, wasn’t it? It’s not as though this were a newsflash from Congress where one expects this kind of nonsense to be seriously proposed…
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