The Tech Industry Is Getting Ridiculous 102
An anonymous reader writes "Columnist Jon Evans points out that the tech industry has been slowly getting stranger over the past several years. When you look at the headlines individually, they all seem to make sense, but putting them together and trying to imagine them popping up a decade ago really illustrates how odd it has become. Quoting: 'In Japan, some half-billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency vanished from a site founded to trade Magic: The Gathering cards. In New Zealand, the world's greatest Call of Duty player has launched a political party to revenge himself on those who had him arrested and seized his sports cars. In Britain, the secret service is busy collecting and watching homegrown porn. Here in Silicon Valley, mighty Apple just revealed that a flagrant, basic programming error gutted the security of all its devices for years. Google, "more wood behind fewer arrows" Google, now has its own navy, to go with its air force and robot army.'"
Oracle has it's own navy and air force too... (Score:5, Funny)
Google, now has its own navy, to go with its air force and robot army.'"
How else do you expect them to defend themselves from Oracle?
Re:Getting? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:When I was young (Score:2, Funny)
It was none of those things. But it did have people wistfully pining for their own bygone Golden Age that never actually existed.
Re: Android FTW (Score:1, Funny)
Shill detected. Citation needed.
The perfect internet story happened last month (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, I'm not sure it gets any weirder than that.