On: Yahoo's new killer app

[susi22]

Serious question: Could they build their IT center on big boats like casinos?

Sure, the traffic would still go through US, but that can be encrypted (with something better than SSL).

[threeseed → susi22]

Sure they could.

They could also spend billions buying every block of lego to create a Yahoo logo visible from space. Which makes about as much sense as introducing significant legal risks to their business all for a few thousand new email accounts.

[junto → susi22]

How do you power the data centre?

[jeffasinger → junto]

A low latency uplink without a single point of failure is another major problem too.

[uptown → junto]

waves and sea snakes:

http://knowledge.allianz.com/environment/energy/?246/sea-sna...

[rorrr2 → susi22]

They could, but that doesn't change anything, Yahoo is still US based and can be forced to do whatever they want.