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One of countless stories on the negative affcts of the technology: facebook

The one platform the people are being hurded onto for all aspects of their lives is the most damaging one, for real people that is. People who dont live fake plastic hashtag lives.

When I search for something, I type in what I'm searching for. As for the rubbish in the article, here you go.

From the FAQ:

When you search for a name, you may see a notice that says that results may have been modified in accordance with data protection law in Europe. We’re showing this notice in Europe when a user searches for most names, not just pages that have been affected by a removal.

This is exactly what multinationals do. They love to have some weird, three-room office in an industrial park near the airport in someplace like Ireland

Main building, Sandyford Industrial Estate. By no means their largest office in the world, but a bit bigger than 3 rooms. They also have 3 other buildings about a mile down the road, here.

This is exactly what multinationals do. They love to have some weird, three-room office in an industrial park near the airport in someplace like Ireland

Main building, Sandyford Industrial Estate. By no means their largest office in the world, but a bit bigger than 3 rooms. They also have 3 other buildings about a mile down the road, here.

PC Write the first word processor for many people. Bargain shareware has power of high priced competition back in the days when Seagate 20 MB drives cost $365.

Before you pat yourself on the back, have a quick look at how many times that particular gem has cropped up before...

Presumably Google does advertising business in Ireland. Nevermind that this site exists.

As the black hole feeds it churns all the matter around it causing it to radiate light. As it pulls stuff in not all of it goes into the event horizon, some just whips around and flys out and smashes into the other incoming matter. This is what makes it a quasar, it is the active galactic nucleus. If its not feeding like the black hole in our galaxy then it would indeed be black. There is some good vids of stars orbiting the invisible mass at the centre of our galaxy actually. http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=stars%20orbiting%20black%20hole&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CD4QtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqJ9IZF8Qdno&ctbm=vid&ei=LyK1Tv76Is-DhQffp7WdBA&usg=AFQjCNH1kwAkgdimMaASf-dllz4HVn30Sg&sig2=rtGLmTUs7GNXkwDeC1pMcg

http://www.google.ie/search?q=predictioneer

Results 1 - 10 of about 57,900 for predictioneer.

Ginormous IS a word. It's just a relatively new word.

That would make it a neologism, a newly invented word, which is also a neologism.

http://www.google.ie/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=cromulent&hl=en

http://www.google.ie/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=embiggen&hl=en

http://www.google.ie/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=cromulent&hl=en

http://www.google.ie/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=embiggen&hl=en

More like

http://www.google.ie/search?q=**filehere**+filetype:torrent

... Richard Bartles book Designing Virtual Worlds. Its really very good.

The masts vary in height, most of them are much higher than that. Have a look for yourself.

Actually the one you linked is the lowest I've seen so far. You picked out the lowest one you could find, didn't you? Naughty!

That's a really good description of an optimal reward-schedule for addiction. Of course, most (all?) people can't distinguish between addiction and fun, hence the huge popularity.

I tried to find a decent description of this on the web (I remember reading an old analysis of how to optimise the payback in slot machines that went into reward schedules) but failed. This is the closest that I could find. The main point it makes is that tedium is essential to addiction. It serves to highlight the non-tedious bits and space out the rewards randomly. Nice to hear a personal, non-clinical, description of it for a change.

Assisting making available is the vaguest law known to man.

Intent won't be hard to prove what with the name of the site, the legal threats section, etc. Then again maybe intent doesn't play such a big part in Swedish Law as elsewhere.

Regardless, here's hoping for a progressive pirate-happy outcome!

There are no stupid questions. But there are stupid places to ask them. Try elsewhere, for better sources of information.

Ahh I see pomposity is alive and well among mathematicians. This is a perfectly good place to ask that question as it was at least on topic. Go play with your derivatives and leave the social interaction to the humans.

There are no stupid questions. But there are stupid places to ask them. Try elsewhere, for better sources of information.

Ahh I see pomposity is alive and well among mathematicians. This is a perfectly good place to ask that question as it was at least on topic. Go play with your derivatives and leave the social interaction to the humans.

There are no stupid questions. But there are stupid places to ask them. Try elsewhere, for better sources of information.

There are no stupid questions. But there are stupid places to ask them. Try elsewhere, for better sources of information.

I wonder if his logic is consistently applied. That leads to some pretty hilarious artifacts when applied generally:
- Jews in Nazi Germany that didn't wear yellow stars or refused to be segregated were NOT protected by the law. Why should they get a get out of jail card? What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?
- In countries where getting raped is a crime, the victim is NOT protected by the law. Why should they get a get out of jail card? What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?

For the time being, you can use a non-US google site and it will still use the old layout. I've been using http://www.google.ie/ig?hl=en to get the old version of the page, but who knows it will be until they release the change for everybody.

As per the Great grand parent's post, the problem there is pagerank. Wikipedia is being given too much credence and influence by Google and has been for quite some time. Don't believe me? Cat, Credence, Conundrum. I'm willing to bet that a wikipedia entry makes an appearance on the first page or search results for 90%+ of Google searches.

Google has had a long standing love affair with Wikipedia, as has most of the internet. Just like when you first fall in love, you tend to overlook most if not all of the other parties faults. However, after a while the honeymoon ends, and you begin to settle down and realize that your perfect partner is indeed only human. Almost everyone has by now come across information on wikipedia which they know to be blatantly false, inaccurate or misleading. Many have experienced, first hand, the office politics and bureaucracy involved in deletionism, notability and general revisionist issues. It's safe to say that the internet's love affair with Wikipedia is over(Though we are still together).

Google on the other hand, is still smitten, and shows no signs of losing its infatuation with what is generally regarded as only an adequate source of information. Why the wikipedia article for eigenvalue should rank higher than the Mathworld one, I don't know. I was going to say that although I think the Wikipedia article is of higher quality, that does not mean that it should be ranked over the more specialized Mathworld one. But, as I went to check it, I see that the standard of the Wikipedia article has, in my opinion, gone down significantly since I last checked it. Regardless, Google still thinks Wikipedia is a better page than the alternatives, and will probably think so regardless of the quality of the eigenvalue article.

We've cut Wikipedia enough slack already. It doesn't need or deserve anymore from us, or from search engines. If wikipedia is ever going to grow up and deal with the issues that have been left to fester for years, then pressure is going to have to be applied. Pressure from users, pressure from competitors, and pressure from search engines. We have one and two, but step three is proving to be the missing link in improving user generated encyclopedias.

As per the Great grand parent's post, the problem there is pagerank. Wikipedia is being given too much credence and influence by Google and has been for quite some time. Don't believe me? Cat, Credence, Conundrum. I'm willing to bet that a wikipedia entry makes an appearance on the first page or search results for 90%+ of Google searches.

Google has had a long standing love affair with Wikipedia, as has most of the internet. Just like when you first fall in love, you tend to overlook most if not all of the other parties faults. However, after a while the honeymoon ends, and you begin to settle down and realize that your perfect partner is indeed only human. Almost everyone has by now come across information on wikipedia which they know to be blatantly false, inaccurate or misleading. Many have experienced, first hand, the office politics and bureaucracy involved in deletionism, notability and general revisionist issues. It's safe to say that the internet's love affair with Wikipedia is over(Though we are still together).

Google on the other hand, is still smitten, and shows no signs of losing its infatuation with what is generally regarded as only an adequate source of information. Why the wikipedia article for eigenvalue should rank higher than the Mathworld one, I don't know. I was going to say that although I think the Wikipedia article is of higher quality, that does not mean that it should be ranked over the more specialized Mathworld one. But, as I went to check it, I see that the standard of the Wikipedia article has, in my opinion, gone down significantly since I last checked it. Regardless, Google still thinks Wikipedia is a better page than the alternatives, and will probably think so regardless of the quality of the eigenvalue article.

We've cut Wikipedia enough slack already. It doesn't need or deserve anymore from us, or from search engines. If wikipedia is ever going to grow up and deal with the issues that have been left to fester for years, then pressure is going to have to be applied. Pressure from users, pressure from competitors, and pressure from search engines. We have one and two, but step three is proving to be the missing link in improving user generated encyclopedias.

As per the Great grand parent's post, the problem there is pagerank. Wikipedia is being given too much credence and influence by Google and has been for quite some time. Don't believe me? Cat, Credence, Conundrum. I'm willing to bet that a wikipedia entry makes an appearance on the first page or search results for 90%+ of Google searches.

Google has had a long standing love affair with Wikipedia, as has most of the internet. Just like when you first fall in love, you tend to overlook most if not all of the other parties faults. However, after a while the honeymoon ends, and you begin to settle down and realize that your perfect partner is indeed only human. Almost everyone has by now come across information on wikipedia which they know to be blatantly false, inaccurate or misleading. Many have experienced, first hand, the office politics and bureaucracy involved in deletionism, notability and general revisionist issues. It's safe to say that the internet's love affair with Wikipedia is over(Though we are still together).

Google on the other hand, is still smitten, and shows no signs of losing its infatuation with what is generally regarded as only an adequate source of information. Why the wikipedia article for eigenvalue should rank higher than the Mathworld one, I don't know. I was going to say that although I think the Wikipedia article is of higher quality, that does not mean that it should be ranked over the more specialized Mathworld one. But, as I went to check it, I see that the standard of the Wikipedia article has, in my opinion, gone down significantly since I last checked it. Regardless, Google still thinks Wikipedia is a better page than the alternatives, and will probably think so regardless of the quality of the eigenvalue article.

We've cut Wikipedia enough slack already. It doesn't need or deserve anymore from us, or from search engines. If wikipedia is ever going to grow up and deal with the issues that have been left to fester for years, then pressure is going to have to be applied. Pressure from users, pressure from competitors, and pressure from search engines. We have one and two, but step three is proving to be the missing link in improving user generated encyclopedias.

As per the Great grand parent's post, the problem there is pagerank. Wikipedia is being given too much credence and influence by Google and has been for quite some time. Don't believe me? Cat, Credence, Conundrum. I'm willing to bet that a wikipedia entry makes an appearance on the first page or search results for 90%+ of Google searches.

Google has had a long standing love affair with Wikipedia, as has most of the internet. Just like when you first fall in love, you tend to overlook most if not all of the other parties faults. However, after a while the honeymoon ends, and you begin to settle down and realize that your perfect partner is indeed only human. Almost everyone has by now come across information on wikipedia which they know to be blatantly false, inaccurate or misleading. Many have experienced, first hand, the office politics and bureaucracy involved in deletionism, notability and general revisionist issues. It's safe to say that the internet's love affair with Wikipedia is over(Though we are still together).

Google on the other hand, is still smitten, and shows no signs of losing its infatuation with what is generally regarded as only an adequate source of information. Why the wikipedia article for eigenvalue should rank higher than the Mathworld one, I don't know. I was going to say that although I think the Wikipedia article is of higher quality, that does not mean that it should be ranked over the more specialized Mathworld one. But, as I went to check it, I see that the standard of the Wikipedia article has, in my opinion, gone down significantly since I last checked it. Regardless, Google still thinks Wikipedia is a better page than the alternatives, and will probably think so regardless of the quality of the eigenvalue article.

We've cut Wikipedia enough slack already. It doesn't need or deserve anymore from us, or from search engines. If wikipedia is ever going to grow up and deal with the issues that have been left to fester for years, then pressure is going to have to be applied. Pressure from users, pressure from competitors, and pressure from search engines. We have one and two, but step three is proving to be the missing link in improving user generated encyclopedias.

Exactly, if people actually bothered to know anything bout this, they would know all the powers the EU is given is through a democratic process. If you search Neelie Kroes in the news, she is fighting cartels which is exactly her job. This includes price fixing in her own country over Beer prices, Polish Shipyards and lots of other non-competitive industries. She can't go after them all, and some are politically sensitive [Usually to one or more of the big European countries] (though it does not make them less corrupt) like Airbus, BAE Systems and CAP (Common Agriculture Policy), which means member states would bury them (like the UK did with BAE Systems Defense Contract Dealings with Saudia Arabia).

So please before stupid inane questions at the end of submissions like that, actually know what your talking about. I haven't even mentioned Microsoft, I left that to other posts....

You sir are an idiot. oops! I just ruined out rapport

Here in ireland, we had a price hike on absolutely everything that costs money to recycle. We call it WEEE here in europe, its a good initiative to be honest, it seems to be working here, WEEE Ireland has more details . But there is also a very large market for PC Recycling, where the old machines are taken, upgraded and then sold as systems primed for solely surfing the web. With a DSL modem and a recycled pc, you can be surfing the web for less than $300.

As much as I love the country, remember that you're talking about a nation that banned the sale of condoms to minors for a long time. They're simply more conservative over there; I don't believe that makes them wrong (or right, for that matter).

Along those lines and speaking of fraud, I was researching a web promotion group, which promises high page results (and seems to deliver too) and I found the most peculiar thing. Take a look at this. If you look at the results there, there are hundreds of links from sites like 6246.u2mme6.info, but if you look at the code for these sites, they aren't as such links. The pages don't load in a browser because of an iframe to a non existent site, but if you download the pages via httrack or one of those, you see the a page of bizarre code. An example of that is here (you'll have to look at the page source to see it, I don't know how to show it in slashdot)...

Spain Car Rental Airport Alicante Car Hire Spain Malaga Faro Car ...Cheap San Diego Car rental. City Car Rental San Diego: San Diego Airport Car ... Cheap Dallas Exotic Car Rental  " Dallas Fort Worth Airport Car Rental ...
http://www.pro.ie/marketing-ireland/every-air port-car-rental.htm Cached - Similarpages

Has anyone got any idea what is going on here, or how that might affect their page ranking? Should I report them to google?

As a result, news sources are selected without regard to political viewpoint or ideology, enabling you to see how different organisations are reporting the same story.

Google News is a highly unusual news service in that our results are compiled solely by computer algorithms, without human intervention. As a result, news sources are selected without regard to political viewpoint or ideology, enabling you to see how different organisations are reporting the same story. This variety of perspectives and approaches is unique among online news sites, and we consider it essential in helping you stay informed about the issues that matter most to you.

Is it really censorship when a news syndication site doesnt find your 'news' to be of enough worth for them to carry?

But Google purports themselves to carry the entire content of the web. Yet they choose not to carry some sites because.... they are unworthy.

So are we to conclude that Google indexes only those pages worthy of its approval? That doesn't seem to be part of their stated philosophy.

glxgears is a benchmark for graphics acceleration.

glx gears is NOT a benchmark, the numbers it produces are meaningless for anything other than 'how fast does glxgears' run. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe this ATi-er saying glxgears is not a benchmark?.

I have to disagree with that. I've had problems in the past (getting my computer to recognise my SATA drives that is) but the mother board should supply the required drivers. And you can always create slipstreamed backups of windows that include new drivers, service packs, applications etc http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=slpstream+wind ows&meta=

saved me a bunch of time searching

Not really. First result on a google search for 'stair dismount'

So please, do us all a favor, go read up on the theories on pagerank and then, please please please, stay with the uninformed designer mac-zealots over at digg.com

I've just emphasised that little gem in your tirade. Neither you nor I nor in all likelihood Beatles-Beatles knows exactly how Google pagerank works. But we, and he, can make educated guesses. You think **Beatles-Beatles is just doing this for kicks? This is a professional search engine spammer we're talking about here.

He's doing this for a reason. Is that reason to get Kudos on Slashdot or to try and increase his Google pagrank. I'll let the good people in the audience figure that one out.

Note please that it doesn't actually matter if this method is working or not. **Beatles-Beatles is attempting to abuse Slashdot to gain pagerank, and he is succeeding in making fools of the editors even if his pagerank remains in the doldrums.

He's making us all look bad. But as you say, I suspect Google are wise to this sort of thing, even if the Slashdot eds aren't.

And by the way, Slashdot stories get copied almost verbatum by a multitude of other sites, so Beatles-Beatles' story, name and sitelink is going to be plastered all over quite a number of sites across the net.

You don't believe me? Here's the a Google search of "ObsessiveMathsFreak writes". Notice the one and only submission I ever got posted is in more sites thatn Slashdot. The list used to be much, much higher.

This came to my attendtion because after posting the story, I was bombarded with spam. My email was included in the article, and with the articles proliferation across the net, so too was my email address duplicated everywhere for all the spammers address crawler bots to see. I've since had to abandon that address. A note of caution to all posters.

Now. Replace email address by site address, and "spammers address crawler bots" by "Google pagerank" bot, and you can see exactly why Beatles-Beatles is doing what he's doing. Let's hope the eds do as well.

Google knows this, look:
http://www.google.ie/
http://www.google.co.uk/

Google understands the difference between the UK and Ireland, meaning I get to keep a gmail.com addy even if the UK is made go to googlemail.com

Unlike Microsoft, who now offer you a hotmail.co.uk adress if you say you're in Ireland.

No, that's why it was so sucessful at first - it did exactly what people wanted to do, at a sane price point. Making something that worked, and had weeks of battery life at typical usage (and many hours of continuous use), with the hardware available at the time (remember, they were designing this thing in 1995), was a major achievement.

It was usable, acted very well as a 'tentacle' of a desktop machine, and had just (barely) enough juice to attract third-party developers, which ended up coming in droves. Programming for it is quirky but doable, and despite some limitations stemming from the very restricted original configuration (128KB of RAM - remember, 1995), very neat things could be done with it. The sycing Just Worked - unlike ActiveSync which still has issues from what I gather.

But Palm didn't expand the platform very well. I don't mind using Dragonballs per se - their power consumption is tiny compared to even modern ARM processors - but their software model needed updating badly. You just can't write a reliable server-type program on PalmOS, or do any multithreading (or even multiprocessing). That makes it way too hard to get anything sophisticated done on the device.

Even given those limitations it's remarkable what can be done on a Palm platform. See, e.g., this little gem. Does all kinds of neat things (including WiFi and such) and yet a wondrous battery life (6 hours of continuous WiFi traffic, anyone?).

If they'd gotten a real update to their OS to at least enable multitasking of some kind, even cooperative multitasking - they wouldn't be in the situation they are today. There were ways to do it without even trying that hard. Oh, well.

Results 1 - 10 of about 703,000 for how to achieve world domination. (0.15 seconds)

Google search for EA and Ubisoft

Now, Ubisoft will redirect resources to most likely making shit repetitive sports games only with "euro" commentators for the soccer games, the skiing games and the rugby games.

In the end, all we will have will be a recreation of every sports game on the planet on the same engine with updates every year.

Just as extra info, Google is also advertising for a ACD/IVR Telecom Administrator, for their european headquaters in dublin.

You're probably thinking of Kate. And "article".

China couldn't care less if Linux is breaking patents - their response to GM's claim of car design theft should explain that. Here's a link to Forbe's article on that http://www.google.ie/search?q=cache:DRIMvkRStB8J:w ww.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2004/09/06/ap1531296.html+g m+china+car+copied&hl=en&client=firefox-a/

If Intel's efforts will bring down the price of PCs in India, its an excellent move, and of course, with relatively cheap admins at their disposal, Banking and other firms wouldn't think twice to cease the opportunity, like AIB did. http://www.computerweekly.com/Article131652.htm/

Before the threads about Linux/Open Source not being a viable business model start(Balmer, this means you), please take a peek at this link

I live in Ireland. I did have to kill people to get my 512:128 RADSL line, 24:1 contention (was 48:1 when I got it, best I could get) and 16G/month cap for 45/month! Thankfully everyone I killed was from errorcom (via google to save the poor small mirrors keeping alive what WAS errorcom.com until eircom called the owner (parents) and had it taken down). Plenty of people aren't as lucky as me and it doesn't matter who they kill, they won't see broadband.

I feel guilty complaining, it looked for many years like our government had done everything in it's power to ensure broadband for the masses could never happen. Firstly trialing a cable modem service on some small sections of the semi-state main cable tv company to pump the sale price which ended up the highest cable company per subscriber in the planet. Bought up by NTL, who have since been able to afford to do nothing with it, cable modems essentially don't exist in Ireland (well maybe 1000 at very best do). Then they floated the public owned monopoly telecom onto the market (after giving the staff a significant percentage) which has since been bought up (more for the staff) so until very recently (when the communications regulator finally managed to get something to happen) we effectively had a public monopoly telecom privately owned and run preventing cheap broadband as they held all the cards and would make more from dial-up/isdn (or hi-speed as they call it)/leased lines!

Honestly I think the only reason we have dsl now in Ireland is that Wireless arrived to finally threaten the last mile of errorcom!