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Actually, this search reveals that bmw.de is not listed on Google, period, and that's definitely BMW's official site for Germany... Of course, they haven't de-listed bmw.com, which does link to their German language site.

I see absolutely no reason to blame Google in this instance. Redirecting certain users based on the client they are using to different content is directly against the spirit of the 'net... Redirecting to different data based on the users' client can be good for only a couple of things: 1) joke sites that tell IE users to switch to some other browser 2) intelligent redirecting to a page with mostly the same content, but formatted to be friendly to portable devices.

Pagerank whoring aside, I still think BMW's web designer was in the wrong--as if there could be any confusion about bmw.de in the first place, I'm sure there's a half bazillion German websites linking to that site, putting it at place #1 by default. I guess that it's just a matter of Google breaking their foot off in BMW's ass for being stupid.

This is completely ridiculous. For the vast majority of legitimate web pages, this will change, affect absolutely nothing. For those few major websites that do break the terms of service, then there will be consequences. This is barely a slap on the wrist, BMW's site is still accessable, try this: Google Query: BMW. See, BMW's site is still acceptable from Deutschland. Now, quit whining.

Parent is correct. There is no bmw.de in GoogleSpace. If you want to verify this, try:
this search or
the English equivalent.

OK, try this: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=bmw&btnG=Googl e-Suche&meta=

For me, BMW _international_ comes up as #3 -- http://www.bmw.com./ But you do NOT see http://bmw.de/

Google.de really means business here!

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=bmw+cars&btnG= Suche&meta=

Looks to me like it shows up just fine.

Can someone point me to a google query that indicates that its results were filtered in accordance wuth US laws? Or am I misreading that?

They're referring to take-downs resulting from copyright enforcement, especially under the DMCA. However, a private party fighting to keep its IP from being widely disseminated is a very different thing than outright censorhip, like in Germany and China.

The US doesn't have actual censorship[1], at least not as far as Google results are concerned. This, this, and this are all examples of searches which, had they been conducted in China relating to similar items in Chinese history, would most certainly have been blocked. Also compare this result from Germany.

Oddly enough, a search at chillingeffects.org turned up only one result for sender=france|french and recipient=google, and while I don't read French it looks like it's more about a copyright infringement than any kind of censorship.

[1] I suspect that the one search that might turn up some kind of "censorship" result would be searching for kiddie porn on Google. But since I'm at work, and that kind of thing can get you fired, I'm not going to test it right now.

So google are letting us know when they are censoring results?

Shouldn't the chinese google results look the same as the others, but letting you know which links are censored?

http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&q=tiananmen+s quare&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=tiananmen+s quare&meta=
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=tiananmen+ square&meta=
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=tiananmen+squa re&meta=
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=tiananmen+squa re&meta=

Us germans love to mess with the original English words, so I'd conjugate this verb like zwicken:

to brick -> bricken
he bricked his iMac -> er brickte seinen iMac
I have bricked my iMac -> ich habe meinen iMac gebrickt
the iMac is bricked -> der iMac ist gebrickt

Yes, I love it and I'll use it, as others apparently already do:

http://www.google.de/search?q=gebrickt

It's more sophisticated that you might think:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google/
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php /1488031

Notice:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=nazi&btnG=Goog le-Suche&meta=
Ergebnisse 1 - 10 von ungefähr 28.300.000 für nazi. (0,03 Sekunden)
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&ie=ISO-8859-1&q= nazi&btnG=Rechercher&meta=
Résultats 1 - 10 sur un total d'environ 28 300 000 pour nazi. (0,05 secondes)
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en- us&q=nazi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Results 1 - 10 of about 29,900,000 for nazi [definition]. (0.04 seconds)

See the search count numbers? Don't blame it on language. Lets search for Nazi in ... Japan:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=Nazi&btnG=%CF%EE% E8%F1%EA+%E2+Google&lr=
Nazi 29,900,000 1 - 10 (0.05 )

Neat, huh?

Keep in mind, unless you specify google to focus on your language, the search results should be _exactly_ the same across local sites. Except if they tamper with the results, which both Google and Yahoo do for Germany and France.

Research on Similar experiences with china:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/

Sadly, you can't test the Chinese version from outside China. cyberlaw sometimes has a proxy running in China that will allow you to test it, but its currently down. A google filters those results based upon whether your IP block is Chinese or not.

Here's someone's test. You don't have to believe it, I guess:
http://www.dit-inc.us/report/google200409/google.h tm

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_blocked _by_search_engines_in_Mainland_China

Interestingly enough, looks like our Congress criters may be trying to change this behavior:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6026733.html

"Not that Google in France or Germany would allow you to, either."

What the hell are you talking about?

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=nazi&btnG=Goog le-Suche&meta=
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=Nazi&btnG=Rech erche+Google&meta=

You're absolutely right. Just last week FFII and Nutzwerk settled in a German court about, amongst others, FFII referencing to the translation of a Dutch article by WebWereld, also published in English on the site of the author, Brenno de Winter. De Winter published statements by Nutzwerk CEO Holzer where he called FFII Chairman Pilch a "catagoric lyar".

WebWereld reports(Dutch) that in the settlement FFII and Nutzwerk agreed that FFII stops commenting on Nutzwerk and Nutzwerk stops sueing them.

An interesting detail about Nutzwerk is that they used to maintain a link farm in order to get high ranks in Google. Amongst the files in the farm, was a file scheiss_juden.htm which was apparantly meant to increase the probablility googling jew haters would find their anonymity services. According to a German article, the link farm was set up as to allow only web-crawlers to the farm contents and at some point Google had 51.000 links pointing to the Nutzwerk site. At this moment only 908 remain, after apparantly the Google cache has been wiped.

Now some fun: Google for the combination of "Rene Holzer" (Nutzwerk CEO) and "Michael Koustiniko". You'll probably find this post, where Mr. Koustiniko signs as "Rene Holzer". Digging a little further shows that our friend used this alias to advertise his products.

What's also interesting is that in their previous legal actions against Cobion AG, during which 2 of Nutzwerk's software patents were invalidated, Nutzwerk was represented by Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, an attorney well known in the computer scene. For instance, he was was behind the much publicised Tanja campaign where he tricked computer users into sending a list of pirated software to "Tanja", on the receiving of which he sent them a cease and desist notice along with a request for payment, he shut down emule.de (German), extorted SuSE, demanded Linus Torvalds to drop the Linux name and last but not least was involved in the cases around MobiliX as the registrar of the trademark Obelix.

A more famous case is the former German tennis star Boris Becker.
Just google for "Boris Becker" "broom cupboard"

In short: after losing a match at Wimbledon he took comfort in a quick BJ from a Russian model who impregnated herself (BJ happened in a broom cupboard of a restaurant, hence the query terms) .

Indeed the rest of the world can set up their own DNS servers for a new TLD (say '.earth'), but they can't force anyone to contact the root server for that domain. The result will be chaos.

So how exactly would this change the way we access Web sites ?

Yeah, because these guys, and these guys are also basically the same, because they are all christian.

Yeah, because these guys, and these guys are also basically the same, because they are all christian.

http://xe.com/ for all other currencies apart from USD. It looks like Google only converts to USD, even the non-.com. I'd expect the .co.uk to convert to GBP and the .fr or .de to convert to EUR. But no:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=85+million+kronor
http://www.google.fr/search?q=85+million+kronor
http://www.google.de/search?q=85+million+kronor
OK, so the French one doesn't work (presumably the French for Kronor isn't Kronor).

Well, I said this in the past and I have to say it again: let google do the math before you post any calculations on slashdot:
(100 - 99.9)% of (1 day) = 1.44 minutes

Well, look, I'm not saying I'm for gang rape as such or anything. It's not like I've singled that out as the only punishment fit for him or anything.

I just want the guy to suffer, that's all. I want the next one who gets such an idea to cringe at the very thought.

Yeah, ok, thinking logically and on a general level, I'll even aggree that we should abolish prison rape. Seems like a reasonable thing to expect from a civilized country, after all.

But nevertheless, a little nasty part of me wants the spammers to suffer for the large scale damage they're doing, even in some other way. That's all I'm saying.

To be honest, I don't really care in which way he suffers. Put him in solitary confinement for 15 months, for all I care. (Which would also prevent any kind of rape, right?) Make him hand-write an apology to each and every single person in those 25 million accounts he's sold, like someone else suggested. At 10 seconds per apology, if he writes reasonably fast, and a (humane) 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, schedule, he should be done with it in about 23 years and 9 months. Whatever, really.

See, the point isn't that we want him to have an orgasmic good time in prison. Everyone who's wishing ass rape upon him, well, that's just the point. We want him to suffer as horribly as possible.

In fact, personally I'd even wish for a death sentence for that kind of thing. Does it seem disproportionate compared to the crime? Let's do some maths.

We're talking a scumbag who's caused 7 _billion_ spam mails to be sent. Even assuming it takes only a second to delete a spam mail (it takes more, but ok), then 7 billion seconds is 221.8 years he's stolen out of other people's lives.

Again, that's on a _very_ conservative 1-second-a-spam-mail rate. A more realistic estimate (including the unholy amounts of time spent configuring filters, dealing with false positives, help relatives clean their computer after they got 0wn3d by clicking on some spam link, etc, because of that spam) would be in the thousands of years range.

By comparison a murderer deprives someone of how many years? 20? 40? And we can hang someone for that.

What these spam/virus/phishing/whatever fucktards are doing is, if you will, the difference between stealing 1000$ from someone, and stealing 1$ each from 100,000 people. The collective time wasted and the damages done each year are in the same range as murdering several hundreds of people per year.

So why is everyone that horrified when one goes to jail for that? (Or when in this case we wish really horrible things happening to them there.)

Even leaving that kind of maths out, their deed against society isn't some mild victimless mis-demeanor. It's outright plundering and laying waste to a valuable resource, on a scale that makes the pirates of the Carribean look like mild mannered gentlemen. _And_ causing a _major_ waste of time and money to everyone, for a far lesser gain to themselves.

We're talking the kind of looter and pillager that causes billions in losses to gain maybe 1/1000 of that.

And so far I haven't even counted indirect damage, such as the fact that the resource as a whole has become a lot less useful or used. We're at the point where an email from a stranger, and doubly so one with an attachment or from another country, is more likely to get deleted than read, and some people argue for mass-blocking whole countries off the net. We had a valuable communication resource, and these fucks polluted it until it became all but useless.

So why is it that wrong to want bad things to happen to them? I know, it's not nice, it's not humanitarian, etc. But they _are_ doing very bad things to all of us as a whole, so, well, it's not hard to end up wishing some nasty things would happen to them in return.

clear link: http://www.google.de/search?q=haskell+monads&sourc eid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf -8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:de-DE:official this would work in haskell > think = use brain just define use and brain. ;P

I've seen an astounding number of people say "claustrophobic and lonely" to describe Metroid in the last couple of weeks.

Uhm. That's because Metroid is claustrophobic and lonely. I haven't read any articles about Metroid in the last month, so I have no idea who else classified it in that way, but if anyone did, it's because it's the truth.

It's simply not true that other platform shooters from that time were similar. Games like Contra, Turrican or Mega Man were very different. Metroid was dark, you played it underground, most of the time in small caves. The music was haunting, and there were not many enemies. Those that were there were mostly slow and silent. Gameplay was rather slow, too, compared to frantic games like Contra.

It's very different from the other platform shooters from that time.

(By the way, I was curious about your remarkt. Google shows one page which calls Metroid "claustrobhobic and lonely", and it's a post from the gamefaqs forum. Haven't read that.)

But how many decimeters per troy ounce does it get?

28532

Google offers some pictures, small but neat. Excellent story :-)

Even weirder: compare

• query on google.nl - clicklogging redirects
• same query on google.com - no redirects
• same query on google.de - no redirects

Well, maybe you are right that there are papers that do not turn up on the internet, but why does this guy has to spread his ideas the way he does when the media will happily magnify the dissenting ideas of one person, while just mentioning the consensus in a sidenote?

I also wonder, if he is researching the impact of climate change on ancient civilizations, shouldn't he be more open to the idea that climate change may affect our civilization? Or am I to conclude that he has studied his field only to find out that the topic he is researching is bunk? Which would be sad then.

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Though I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say ...

That the update managers not always worked for me as expected (I am especially considering gentoo which I installed about a year ago on an AMD64). This might have been my fault, and the same holds (of course) for Debian.

I am not so sure, however, with regard to kernel updates, but I suspect the problem here is too broad semantics of update.

CC.

P.S.: The bottom line is that I should have obeyed the imperative of my current sig.

Your text is neither new nor yours in any sense of the word.
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%22I've+been+s itting+here+at+my+freelance+gig%22&btnG=Google-Suc he&meta=/
And it is old too.
http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks/

mfg. Julian

And in the interest of high standards, it's rIdiculous. That has to be one of the most mispelt words on Slashdot.

To even further improve standards I might add that "existance" is a much better candidate than "rediculous"

"Mispelt", though, is more at the end of the /.-ranking, though commonly - and this is where the geeks diifer - it is said to be among the 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

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And in the interest of high standards, it's rIdiculous. That has to be one of the most mispelt words on Slashdot.

To even further improve standards I might add that "existance" is a much better candidate than "rediculous"

"Mispelt", though, is more at the end of the /.-ranking, though commonly - and this is where the geeks diifer - it is said to be among the 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

CC.

And in the interest of high standards, it's rIdiculous. That has to be one of the most mispelt words on Slashdot.

To even further improve standards I might add that "existance" is a much better candidate than "rediculous"

"Mispelt", though, is more at the end of the /.-ranking, though commonly - and this is where the geeks diifer - it is said to be among the 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

CC.

Google *does* host the localized start pages. Some examples: Polish, German, Russian, French.

Forbidden in Germany and restricting the freedom of speech are child pornography, certain other types of pornography (like bestiality), right wing extremist "hate" sites, incitement to commit crimes, race discrimination, treasonable conduct as an agent for sabotage purposes, glorification of violence, or offence against the law for the protection of the youth. For example, the game Wolfenstein 3D - a predecessor to Doom - was censored in Germany because of Nazi imagery. So were certain punk music albums popular with German teens.

At least the German google isn't suppressing that story from above.

Why only French and German to the exclusion of Italian [...]?

Yes, and batteries are expensive, e.g. EUR60 for 75Amp hours at 12V, or about a kilowatt hour.

Mind you, it occured to me that if you don't care about portability, there's another way to store energy. Consider a 1000kg weight attached to an electric motor.

You could use the motor via some gears to lift the weight in the day, and use it as a dynamo to generate power at night. The 1000 kilo weight would be a large barrel of water, or rubble or something - the idea is tha you'd sell the energy storage device unloaded, and the customer would fill it up when they got it home. If the weight was water, you could obviously pump it instead.

Now 1khW=3.6E+6 Joules.

Potential Energy = MgH where M is mass in kilos, g is 9.8m/s^2 and H is the height in kilos.

So you would need to lift the weight

h = 3.6 x 10^6
----------
M x g

h = 3.6 x 10^6
----------
1000 x 9.8

h ~ 3.6 x 10^6
----------
1 x 10^4

h ~ 3.6 * 10^2 = 360m.

Somewhat endearingly, Google can also do this calculation

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=1+kilowatt+hou r+%2F+10%5E4+kilos+m%2Fs%5E2

Hmm, doesn't sound practical does it? - 1 metric tonne is lifted by 360m. On the other hand, you can reduce h by increasing M. You could design the house so that the whole thing is the weight for example. That way, the house would be lifted in the day by the power from solar panels, and would gradually sink at night as the potential energy was extracted.

In German, the cries of anguish "oh je" and "ohjemine"/"oh jemine" are common idioms.

Microsoft's mail/news client Outlook Express is ridiculed as OjE on the German-speaking part of Usenet due to its brokenness.

In German, the cries of anguish "oh je" and "ohjemine"/"oh jemine" are common idioms.

Microsoft's mail/news client Outlook Express is ridiculed as OjE on the German-speaking part of Usenet due to its brokenness.

In German, the cries of anguish "oh je" and "ohjemine"/"oh jemine" are common idioms.

Microsoft's mail/news client Outlook Express is ridiculed as OjE on the German-speaking part of Usenet due to its brokenness.

In German, the cries of anguish "oh je" and "ohjemine"/"oh jemine" are common idioms.

Microsoft's mail/news client Outlook Express is ridiculed as OjE on the German-speaking part of Usenet due to its brokenness.

Yeah, we do some bad things, but we also invented the transistor and the microprocessor. We gave GPS and the internet to the world basically for free.

And then there's always Paris Hilton, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, etc. I'm not particularly fond of them myself, but if the google zeitgeist is anything to go on, they are internationally quite popular.

If you don't like the new itnerface, just use it with a country code domain rather than .com. I've checked the UK, Canadian, French, German, and Australian versions, and all have the classic interface, rather than the new one.

Legal battles, fucked up politicians and an ever receding economy. I thought we Europeans were bad, the US makes us look good.

Man!

The US is so fucked up - I just see Google News and the top international stories literally speak volumes.

On one hand, Bush is supporting Pakistan and on the other hand, Putin wants better economic ties with India. Are you people so fucked up that your president cannot even choose clearly between a democratic country and an Islamic fundamentalist nation ruled by a military dictator?

Wow, I'm amazed and amused.

The land of the free, home of the brave indeed. Retards.

mispellings of popular cites

No.

Presumably more likely.

CC.

mispellings of popular cites

No.

Presumably more likely.

CC.

You could check out c[o]eliac disease, too. Sometimes it comes with...

night sweats, heart pains and most disturbingly severe liver pain...all kinds of unexplainable and very serious seeming symptoms.

Just try Google.

at least, there are (maybe) arguments ...

googlarized: bsd security mac os

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Just look it up on Wikipedia ;-)

Actually, I tried to Google it

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=hamilton+1757+ &btnG=Google+Search
109,000 Hits

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=hamilton+1755+ &btnG=Google+Search
138,000 Hits

Hmm, not particularly decisive

One of the hits
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/hamilton/secti on1.html
Interestingly, the exact year of Alexander Hamilton's birth is unknown because historians have found two sets of birth records. One set claims Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755, while the other says he was born in 1757. Hamilton himself maintained that he was born in 1757.

Maybe the fuzziness in Wikipedia just reflects the fuzziness in what we know about history.

Just look it up on Wikipedia ;-)

Actually, I tried to Google it

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=hamilton+1757+ &btnG=Google+Search
109,000 Hits

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&q=hamilton+1755+ &btnG=Google+Search
138,000 Hits

Hmm, not particularly decisive

One of the hits
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/hamilton/secti on1.html
Interestingly, the exact year of Alexander Hamilton's birth is unknown because historians have found two sets of birth records. One set claims Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755, while the other says he was born in 1757. Hamilton himself maintained that he was born in 1757.

Maybe the fuzziness in Wikipedia just reflects the fuzziness in what we know about history.

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I guess Suunto would put a note in the feature list if the transfer protocol would be based on a standard like NMEA or TAIP. I found a MacOSX GPS program called GPSy, but googling for GPSy Suunto returns ten useless results.

Here is a list of communication protocols (real-time and data-transfer).