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Unless the Australian courts claim jurisdiction over alleged crimes in Iceland and the European Union...

It won't matter if he's in the EU. It looks like a European Arrest Warrant is going out for him.

Julian is a wanted man.

Remember, the ones that they gave to "all" of their employees? Or at least the 50,000 US employees, presumably.

That sounds like a fair outlook on things, keep in mind the word "piracy" is pretty heavily abused. When I say it, I really just mean "disobeying copyright law" (note, I did misuse the term in my last post; I don't actually encourage people to pirate my wares given that I licence them CC0 so there is no copyright to infringe upon.. slip of the tongue :S)

As evidenced by my own vocabulary error, you can work with public domain or copyleft content and get some of the benefits of cultural liberty without infringing upon copyright, and you can encourage people to use copyleft instruments to avoid the negative ramifications of copyright. I see that you approve of these, as I do also.

But to be clear I do additionally champion the direct infringement of copyrighted works because I do personally believe that copyright law is foundationally immoral.. not to mention gapingly unenforceable in the face of today's technology and globally connected marketplace.

"Intellectual Property" literally means owning ideas, and ideas exist only as irremovable components of the minds of people who have learned them. Thus IP directly means owning the thoughts of other people, and controlling who can express those parts of themselves and who cannot.

Laying claim over other's minds is as bad an incentive to create art as laying claim over other's bodies is to process cotton. Sure, it drives your profits up immensely, but only on the backs of others. On the one hand there are countless ways to make money from art without first censoring the entire planet. On the other hand, it is literally not my concern how art gets funded. I simply want the freedom to share my thoughts, and if every selfish artist in the world simply stopped all their creativity for want of funds as a result I would still see the tradeoff as an enormous gain. Hell I can produce my own art and I will when I'm bored enough. Would I become the last artist in the world? How would people not outbid each other to hear me hum off key if nobody else is even doing it?

I create art, and having to vet clearance against other people's copyright makes that job technically impossible — if practically only very difficult. I guarantee every new piece of art infringes someone's copyright, it's just that you hope whoever you step on in the crowded sea of toes never notices. That is a terrible game of Russian Roulette to even pretend to play.

When we craft (or modernize) law we compare the law against certain maxims, and one such popular yardstick is that possession is nine tenths of the law. Directly, I possess everything in my mind, and I possess every megabyte of information on the hardware I physically own from mp3 players to computers to media center. That makes it my prerogative should I choose to share that data with another person, or should another person choose to share similar data with me.

Intruding within that well established and strategically easy to defend personal property arrangement to add complicated enforcement of Intellectual Property rights from people all over the planet is realistically absurd. No one has the capacity to prevent my sharing that information; Nobody could afford to even make an attempt. You'd have more luck trying to enforce a law that no wild birds may fly greater than 50 feet from the ground, and all violating birds will somehow be ticketed and fined.

It's a stretch to imagine a law so ineffective and ignored with such volume could have any impact on commercial artwork to begin with. Every piece of digital information is being shared freely somewhere right now, yet art continues to be made and Youtube accepts more than 24 hours of video upl

This should come out next year in the U.S.

http://mashable.com/2010/10/22/galaxy-player-50/

his sources. As reported on CNN from Mashable:

Unveiled Wednesday at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is the world's fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark.

Tianhe-1A was designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China, and it is already fully operational.

To achieve the new performance record, Tianhe-1A uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs.

It cost $88 million; its 103 cabinets weigh 155 tons, and the entire system consumes 4.04 megawatts of electricity.

Tianhe-1A ousted the previous record holder, Cray XT5 Jaguar, which is used by the U.S. National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

It is powered by 224,162 Opteron CPUs and achieves a performance record of 1.75 petaflops.

According to Nvidia, Tianhe-1A will be operated as an open access system to use for large scale scientific computations.

Just sayin...

Obviously, if you're going to use pirated or [i]any[/i] other illegal kind of software ...

In the US it is not illegal.

OK, then perhaps you can explain why they could sue limewire but not torrent? Honest question?

Why don't you research it? Two minutes of Googling got this:

The court ruling listed 5 factors that, taken together, establish that LimeWire "intended to encourage " infringement: 1) LW’s awareness of substantial infringement by users, 2) their efforts to attract infringing users, 3) their efforts to enable and assist users to commit infringement, 4) LW’s dependence on infringing use for the success of its business; and 5) a failure to mitigate infringing activities.

Everybody likes to make gun manufacturer analogies, but Limewire and sites like Mininova, Pirate Bay, and so on are like gun clubs that list places to go to kill people. If Smith & Wesson offered software to trade gun information and 95% of the information exchanged contained content like "Where to kill Caucasians", "Where to kill Blacks", "Where to kill Asians", "How to rob a bank using your Smith & Wesson", and so on it's rather difficult to argue that the manufacturer is not liable because a gun is simply a tool that can be used legally or illegally.

Using the above five factors, Smith & Wesson's hypothetical court case might find that 1) S&W was aware of substantial use of their firearms for illegal purposes, 2) S&W actively marketed to attract customers who would use their firearms illegally, 3) they enabled and assisted customers to kill people using their firearms, 4) S&W depended on revenues from illegal uses of its firearms for the success of its business, and 5) S&W failed to respond to or mitigate any illegal activites.

Nobody has ever or will ever get in trouble for distributing a torrent app.

OK, then perhaps you can explain why they could sue limewire but not torrent?

Honest question? Was limewire providing servers or something tangibly different?

Sometimes it seems that if you can get a sympathetic judge, you can argue all sorts of things in court. Sometimes, they'll even find in your favor.

That is unless someone cal tell me how a move to an [open source alternative] would be better. Even these OSS alternatives have to be supported. The last time I checked, their support was anemic! Just ask the University of California.

Once Google decides Wave is dragging themselves down, it will optionally disappear, just like old YouTube profiles and Blogger FTP.

The people complaining that there is no way that this will ever fit into their entertainment cabinets appear to be misinformed.

“Rest assured the Boxee Box will fit into your entertainment center. If the look doesn’t quite fit with your decor, not to worry. The RF remote means you can place the box out of sight and still control it. Of course, the Boxee Box prefers being on top.” http://mashable.com/2009/12/09/boxee-box-2/

It's no taller than a can of Coke. If you don't appreciate the design, you can hide it. It uses an RF remote and Wireless N. No line of site is necessary.

Look, a mom and pop operation can get away with selling "rosebuds" in a glass cylinder, or a "glass pen" that's clearly a crack pipe at your corner store. An international corporation like Microsoft has to adhere to the legal fabric and political construct of the market they find themselves in. In this environment it's perfectly acceptible that the cooperate with censoring web search results in China or even turning in dissident web searchers. That is the law of the land after all, and obedience to the law is the highest moral choice, right?

Rebels like Google might get away with abandoning China search entirely to preserve their moral high ground, but Microsoft is pragmatic about the expectation of its shareholders to deliver continuing growth in these markets despite the cost to human rights. They will win in the end because people in the first world (you and me) don't really care about how badly the people in the second and third worlds are oppressed as long as they keep making our iPods affordable. Microsoft will win because you and I could not care less about the plight of our fellow humans. The fact that we don't care about this is actually the core of Microsoft's market strategy.

He is talking about the ridiculous "sunken cube" shape of the boxee box.

No we didn't know that. Thanks though; I'll benefit. He never will 'cos he already bought an Android 'cos he didn't know that when he went to the shop. Perhaps Nokia marketing should concentrate on explaing that instead of hiring tacky porno girls to promote their new phones. In fact perhaps they should concentrate on marketing a phone OS instead of investing so much of their money into Symbian.

Silly, Mom invented social network analytics.

http://mashable.com/2010/07/02/futurama-apple-twitter/

Don't be too hard on the guy. Snoop Dogg is something of a victim of his own success here. What's he going to do to follow up cameos in a Kate Perry video, and doing publicity stunts to promote Facebook games? When the bar's set that high, you've really got to hustle for opportunities. And don't think he can just appear in some computer ad, either, because his fellow gangsta rapper Dr. Dre is already doing HP ads. No, he's really got to go all out, and find something totally square to promote for cash. Stay in school is a bit played out, and "don't do drugs" is out of the question, but this is a perfect opportunity. Hey kids, don't break into computers! Your pal Snoopy wouldn't!

The tablet doesn't look too different (in size) from this, does it? The watch is probably similar (other than color) to the one in the picture, isn't it? No idea about the handheld device, although I assume it's a phone, and that it's probably running WebOS. I'd be very surprised if it looked radically different from the Pre or Pixi (although from the looks of it, my imagination goes more towards a Pixi look than a Pre one.

Of course, I could be completely wrong on all counts, but I'd be surprised if the phone and tablet looked radically different.

Like the smartphone? If you're going to be rewriting everything anyway, you can choose a new platform. The reason LotD never took off is because of many things, but mostly because of the lack of backwards compatible application support. If Microsoft Office had ever come out for Linux, and all of the Linux vendors had stopped smoking hash and developed a unified target for desktop development, I think things would be very different indeed.

Android is still open source, but is spearheaded by companies who are invested in it's development. In my opinion, it's going to be the most popular operating system by far in about five years. With HTML5 and browser speed improvements, very few people will bother with native development.

http://mashable.com/2010/08/02/android-outselling-iphone-2/

According to new data from Nielsen, smartphones running Google’s Android operating system outsold those running Apple’s iOS in the first half of 2010 by a margin of 27% to 23% of the US market. The news builds on data from NPD that showed the same result in the first quarter, when Android claimed 28% of smartphone sales to iPhone’s 21%.

It should be noted that iPhone 4 only went on sale in the last week of the second quarter... [but] the longer-term trend remains intact – as more and more Android devices launch across manufacturers and carriers, it continues to gain marketshare in the US and around the world (another study out today shows Android shipments up 886% year-over-year worldwide).

Apple's multitouch patent is well documented.

There's plenty of examples, I'm not sure why you're so blind to them. I actually quoted Apple's press release which was also quoted in the article so if its misleading or sensationalistic then it is Apple behaving that way. Feel free to discount what you don't agree with even though you're arguing with recent history.

Firefox To Make History, About To Surpass IE in Europe

Firefox to make history by surpassing IE? I don't think it's really making history, considering Opera has always had up to 50% market share in CIS countries.

Also as it happens, IE is no more losing market share, but increasing it at the cost of Firefox.

Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, gaining market share for the third month in a row, mostly to the detriment of Mozilla Firefox.

Internet Explorer increased its share of the browser market in July by 0.42%, for a total share of 60.74%. Firefox, on the other hand, took the biggest hit: a loss of 0.9%.

In addition to IE regaining some momentum, Chrome usage has also been soaring. At the short end of the stick though is Firefox, whose market share peaked in April at 24.59% and has steadily dropped since.

These stats fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that Internet Explorer is doomed to decline against the superior speed, extension capabilities and HTML5 support of FirefoxFirefox and ChromeChrome. And there’s an even bigger wrench that will soon be thrown into the mix: Internet Explorer 9, which boasts superior hardware-accelerated speed and strong support for open standards.

Not everybody is a fan.

While I appreciate Mozilla's efforts, I think they should put more efforts into fending off the renewed assault from IE. According to these statistics, IE is on the path of eating Mozilla's lunch. And that's not good to hear.

are clutching at straws, when all you're really after is faster BitTorrent.

The simple answer is: Download is for clients, Upload is for servers.

... and there's the other shoe. You must be a media shill, right? You don't give a damn about what a user is capable of doing, you only care about there being a gatekeeper somewhere where all bits have to pass in order for people to communicate.

And how could you possibly argue that position unless you work for the only people that network topology could possibly benefit?

Unless you've got a good reason you want residential properties to suddenly be servers, making things a *lot* more difficult on the security and management front...

And what would you know about "security and management"? Speaking as Senior sysadmin of a residential ISP, I am in charge security and management. And do you know what straws I see to grasp at from this position? 70% of our user base, bless their hearts, can't tell their computer from their monitor and think their web browser is named "Foxfire". Yet an overlapping 30% I have personally assisted in configuring realtime video conferencing, running security cameras and IP-based security systems at their homes, running VPN tunnels and remote desktop from their office to their home connections, and diagnosing trouble playing online games including hosting their own servers.

What you don't seem to get, Dot, is that the backbone of the internet itself is decentralized. We run a tier 1 network and follow transit prices like the goddamned stock market. Today we might be routing most of our outbound traffic through Level 3, tomorrow we slurp all the inbound requests to our colo through 360 Networks because they've bumped up their link budget.

Who gives a damn about Bittorrent when the ultimate decentralized protocol is BGP? Do you really think the internet would have scaled to the sizes we see today if all transactions had to route through some centralized point of failure controlled by a media monopoly?

Didn't you learn anything when Darpa's rag-tag network of networks dwarfed both AOL and Compuserv's walled gardens over the span of a couple of years in the early nineties? That was only possible because every hobbiest bulletin board could simply link to the cloud (yeah, that is the correct use of the term) and lend access to everyone who was already dialing into them.

But the hub-star configuration simply isn't the way to go. It doesn't scale, and like you it discourages participation and expects everyone to be neither seen nor heard. If that were the future, then America Online wouldn't be Offline already and we'd all still be watching television instead of trading up to hulu, slingbox, and youtube.

But we all know you're really just trolling, don't pretend otherwise. If you really believed what you were saying, you would stop pushing ascii characters the wrong way up your cable to say things on slashdot. That, obviously, takes greater upload capability than a simple TCP ACK.

Our security for timeouts was linked to that timing in Firefox. Firefox changed it to fix Facebook, broke our timing-based security.

So you were relying on firefox timing out non-responsive flash apps after 10 seconds and them changing it to time them out after 45 seconds broke your timing based security? Thats sounds a bit far fetched.

If it really is the case then I would suggest you take a good look at what you are doing and try and figure out a better way of achieving it without being reliant on a plugin being closed or reloaded after 10 seconds. To be honest though this whole things sounds completely bogus as the version of firefox before they implemented this never timed out a non-responsive plugin, it just left it up to the user to close the browser.

http://mashable.com/2010/06/28/firefox-3-6-6-farmville/

A web that gives you only pretty pictures won't help the world, and likewise won't hurt a government.

No? How about these pretty pictures?
(Wikileaks video of US military killing civilians)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&has_verified=1

(Tienanmen Square)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

(Protests against Iranian election results)
http://mashable.com/2009/06/20/iran-youtube/ ...and that's just a start. We as geeks may have buzzwords like "semantic web" that we like to
trot out, but the fact is that whenever you give people new tools to talk openly to one another on a mass scale, whether that's text, audio, or video, oppressive governments tremble.

And the great thing about the Internet is that it's designed from the ground up to reject authority. Cracking down on free speech on the Internet, no matter what form that speech takes, is like wrestling a greased pig.

than reading nonsense tweets..

Let's face it, that 4G network wont build itself.. Didnt they proved that tweeting makes you dumber and Facebooking makes you smarter? No, was not kidding..

http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/facebook-smarter-twitter-dumber/

Dude! WTF do you think the KINDLE is!? Which has been out for ages - and on avg gets better reviews then that iPad.

You do realize that the iPad has fairly big uphill battle taking on Amazon as they only have 1 of like 7 publishers that Amazon has on side.

Amazon has recently released this ...

http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/amazoncrossing/

IMHO this opens them up to a new dimension here one that is Apple has so far away from competing in. Apple still needs to get their book publishers under control.

Current tablets ..

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/02/seven-more-ipad-alternatives/

Up and coming tablets

http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/9-upcoming-tablet-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipad/

Read my sig mate, it sums up Apple in nutshell, they get on the news and everyone knows about them. Meanwhile the rest of the market uses traditional forms of marketing to get their message out and gets to their targets audiences.

I have a tough time trusting the news when it comes to half the crap they put out there, i certainly don't trust them when it comes to whats the "best" technology out there.

Dude! WTF do you think the KINDLE is!? Which has been out for ages - and on avg gets better reviews then that iPad.

You do realize that the iPad has fairly big uphill battle taking on Amazon as they only have 1 of like 7 publishers that Amazon has on side.

Amazon has recently released this ...

http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/amazoncrossing/

IMHO this opens them up to a new dimension here one that is Apple has so far away from competing in. Apple still needs to get their book publishers under control.

Current tablets ..

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/02/seven-more-ipad-alternatives/

Up and coming tablets

http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/9-upcoming-tablet-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipad/

Read my sig mate, it sums up Apple in nutshell, they get on the news and everyone knows about them. Meanwhile the rest of the market uses traditional forms of marketing to get their message out and gets to their targets audiences.

I have a tough time trusting the news when it comes to half the crap they put out there, i certainly don't trust them when it comes to whats the "best" technology out there.

http://wetab.mobi/en
http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it/
http://www.slashgear.com/dell-streak-5-inch-3g-android-mid-leaks-2161220/
http://mashable.com/2009/11/12/vega-android-tablet/
http://www.slashgear.com/icd-vega-and-ultra-android-tablets-hands-on-video-0869180/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4OCItW6ecc
http://www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/4d5337e2
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/quanta-tegra-2-prototype-hands-on/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/msis-10-inch-tablet-launching-this-year-at-500-patently-ignor/

Yeah, I to wouldn't want to run my whole desktop on a smartphone... and not on an iPad either. Probably better to design an UI which work well on the smaller screen ..

Depending on what it is.

IS IT OK FOR GOOGLE TO REMOVE NEGATIVE PRESS ABOUT ITSELF, WHILE THE REST OF OUR LIVES ARE EFECTED BY WHAT GOOGLE DISPLAYS ABOUT EACH OF US. THEY HAVE WON IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, BUT NOW THEIR MONOPOLY EFFECTS ALL OF US AND THEY HAVE A FEDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WORLD TO ACT ETHICALLY AND THEY ARE NOT!!! I NEED HELP AND ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT GOOGLE. I THINK WAHT THEY DID WAS ILLEGAL AND JUST WRONG!! My name is Rob Shambro, I am the CEO of GenosTV (www.genos.tv) a global broadband cable operator launching on January 6, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show. GoogleTV Invigorates the IPTV Market and Genos' CEO, Rob Shambro, Dissects the AlternativeTV Space. Here is a link to hte article. It was an upstanding, educational release just stating the FACTS in the IPTV marketplace. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2010/05/21/prnewswire201005211326PR_NEWS_USPR_____AQ08961.html In the press release I state, "A quick Google search on GoogleTV today, shows very mixed emotions on the service, leaning towards the "not so impressed." A. Do you think I would even dare to say that if it were not true? Absolutely NOT! B. I issued the release around 9am PST. Here is the good part, at around 10 am I go back to Google and do another quick search on GoogleTV and every single negative press article was gone. I could not believe it. C. On top of that the search results were nice and neatly organized in near chronological order! Do they not have to live by their page rank software? I printed out everything, 30 search results pages deep, before and after. The change would have been IMPOSSIBLE using their software. D. My press release above ranked in the top 100 releases for MAY in PRNEWSWIRE. This release was picked up everywhere, yet it’s nowhere to be found on Google unless you absolutely search for it. E. Then I went to Bing.com and did a search on GoogleTV and Google TV and printed out the search results pages, 30 deep. This how their software would display the search results. F. The NUMBER ONE article about GoogleTV is HULU Unlikely to Run on GoogleTV on mashable.com. http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/hulu-google-tv-android/ In the past I had some negative articles posted by some anonymous people that showed up first every time you did a search on my name. This was like that for years. It has cost me millions of dollars in financing and stress. I almost gave up and never started another company again because of Google.. Just recently a 10 year old negative article that came up first in my search results and CAUSED ME NOT TO GET a $500,000 investment from a local investor. I can prove it. You hear horror stories about Google ruining people's lives because of negative press showing up first in their search results. I am sure I am not alone here!!! I wish I could go into my search results and change them around so they all look positive and neat, JUST LIKE THEY DID. This is NOT fair. You hear about doctors that can not get a single patient because on Google is some old domestic violence case that happened 20 years that comes up first on a search on their name. Google should have to live by the same rules as everyone else. I think this is illegal. They have caused me soo much stress in my life. I am an entrepreneur, I love GOD, I help every person in the world I can, I try to do great things, I really try to create things and put it into motion. I am a doer not a talker yet a simple search on Google throws that all in the trash and makes me out to look like a really bad person. I want answers, compensation and I want the rest of the people around the world to stand up and get behind me on this issue. They are playing with people's lives and yet the first time their software works against them, they log in and delete delete delete, and put positive press first. We all wish we could do that. Tha

I think this quote applies here: As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. Commissioner Pravin Lal "U.N. Declaration of Rights" source

IS IT OK FOR GOOGLE TO REMOVE NEGATIVE PRESS ABOUT ITSELF, WHILE THE REST OF OUR LIVES ARE EFECTED BY WHAT GOOGLE DISPLAYS ABOUT EACH OF US. THEY HAVE WON IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, BUT NOW THEIR MONOPOLY EFFECTS ALL OF US AND THEY HAVE A FEDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WORLD TO ACT ETHICALLY AND THEY ARE NOT!!! I NEED HELP AND ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT GOOGLE. I THINK WAHT THEY DID WAS ILLEGAL AND JUST WRONG!! My name is Rob Shambro, I am the CEO of GenosTV (www.genos.tv) a global broadband cable operator launching on January 6, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show. GoogleTV Invigorates the IPTV Market and Genos' CEO, Rob Shambro, Dissects the AlternativeTV Space. Here is a link to hte article. It was an upstanding, educational release just stating the FACTS in the IPTV marketplace. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2010/05/21/prnewswire201005211326PR_NEWS_USPR_____AQ08961.html In the press release I state, "A quick Google search on GoogleTV today, shows very mixed emotions on the service, leaning towards the "not so impressed." A. Do you think I would even dare to say that if it were not true? Absolutely NOT! B. I issued the release around 9am PST. Here is the good part, at around 10 am I go back to Google and do another quick search on GoogleTV and every single negative press article was gone. I could not believe it. C. On top of that the search results were nice and neatly organized in near chronological order! Do they not have to live by their page rank software? I printed out everything, 30 search results pages deep, before and after. The change would have been IMPOSSIBLE using their software. D. My press release above ranked in the top 100 releases for MAY in PRNEWSWIRE. This release was picked up everywhere, yet it’s nowhere to be found on Google unless you absolutely search for it. E. Then I went to Bing.com and did a search on GoogleTV and Google TV and printed out the search results pages, 30 deep. This how their software would display the search results. F. The NUMBER ONE article about GoogleTV is HULU Unlikely to Run on GoogleTV on mashable.com. http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/hulu-google-tv-android/ In the past I had some negative articles posted by some anonymous people that showed up first every time you did a search on my name. This was like that for years. It has cost me millions of dollars in financing and stress. I almost gave up and never started another company again because of Google.. Just recently a 10 year old negative article that came up first in my search results and CAUSED ME NOT TO GET a $500,000 investment from a local investor. I can prove it. You hear horror stories about Google ruining people's lives because of negative press showing up first in their search results. I am sure I am not alone here!!! I wish I could go into my search results and change them around so they all look positive and neat, JUST LIKE THEY DID. This is NOT fair. You hear about doctors that can not get a single patient because on Google is some old domestic violence case that happened 20 years that comes up first on a search on their name. Google should have to live by the same rules as everyone else. I think this is illegal. They have cau

IS IT OK FOR GOOGLE TO REMOVE NEGATIVE PRESS ABOUT ITSELF, WHILE THE REST OF OUR LIVES ARE EFECTED BY WHAT GOOGLE DISPLAYS ABOUT EACH OF US. THEY HAVE WON IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, BUT NOW THEIR MONOPOLY EFFECTS ALL OF US AND THEY HAVE A FEDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WORLD TO ACT ETHICALLY AND THEY ARE NOT!!! I NEED HELP AND ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT GOOGLE. I THINK WAHT THEY DID WAS ILLEGAL AND JUST WRONG!! My name is Rob Shambro, I am the CEO of GenosTV (www.genos.tv) a global broadband cable operator launching on January 6, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show. GoogleTV Invigorates the IPTV Market and Genos' CEO, Rob Shambro, Dissects the AlternativeTV Space. Here is a link to hte article. It was an upstanding, educational release just stating the FACTS in the IPTV marketplace. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2010/05/21/prnewswire201005211326PR_NEWS_USPR_____AQ08961.html In the press release I state, "A quick Google search on GoogleTV today, shows very mixed emotions on the service, leaning towards the "not so impressed." A. Do you think I would even dare to say that if it were not true? Absolutely NOT! B. I issued the release around 9am PST. Here is the good part, at around 10 am I go back to Google and do another quick search on GoogleTV and every single negative press article was gone. I could not believe it. C. On top of that the search results were nice and neatly organized in near chronological order! Do they not have to live by their page rank software? I printed out everything, 30 search results pages deep, before and after. The change would have been IMPOSSIBLE using their software. D. My press release above ranked in the top 100 releases for MAY in PRNEWSWIRE. This release was picked up everywhere, yet it’s nowhere to be found on Google unless you absolutely search for it. E. Then I went to Bing.com and did a search on GoogleTV and Google TV and printed out the search results pages, 30 deep. This how their software would display the search results. F. The NUMBER ONE article about GoogleTV is HULU Unlikely to Run on GoogleTV on mashable.com. http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/hulu-google-tv-android/ In the past I had some negative articles posted by some anonymous people that showed up first every time you did a search on my name. This was like that for years. It has cost me millions of dollars in financing and stress. I almost gave up and never started another company again because of Google.. Just recently a 10 year old negative article that came up first in my search results and CAUSED ME NOT TO GET a $500,000 investment from a local investor. I can prove it. You hear horror stories about Google ruining people's lives because of negative press showing up first in their search results. I am sure I am not alone here!!! I wish I could go into my search results and change them around so they all look positive and neat, JUST LIKE THEY DID. This is NOT fair. You hear about doctors that can not get a single patient because on Google is some old domestic violence case that happened 20 years that comes up first on a search on their name. Google should have to live by the same rules as everyone else. I think this is illegal. They have caused me soo much stress in my life. I am an entrepreneur, I love GOD, I help every person in the world I can, I try to do great things, I really try to create things and put it into motion. I am a doer not a talker yet a simple search on Google throws that all in the trash and makes me out to look like a really bad person. I want answers, compensation and I want the rest of the people around the world to stand up and get behind me on this issue. They are playing with people's lives and yet the first time their software works against them, they log in and delete delete delete, and put positive press first. We all wish we could do that. Thanks for your advice, support a

From John Gruber: Adobe Flash: Almost as Open as Microsoft Office ...let's concede that Flash is "open" because Adobe has published the partial SWF 10 file format spec. Microsoft published the OOXML file format specs for its Office apps. And not only did they publish the specs, they submitted them to a widely-respected industry standards organization, and now they're ISO standards. Adobe's Flash specs have never been submitted to a standards body, let alone accepted, thus, anyone who argues that Adobe Flash is open would agree that Microsoft Office is even more open."

From Christina Warren: Adobe and Apple: Please Spare Us the Platitudes About "Open" While Adobe can argue that elements of Flash (through its Open Screen Project) are indeed open source, Flash itself is not an open standard. While Adobe cites some open source implementations in its "truth about Flash", like Gnash -- the open source Flash alternative -- those same runtimes cannot achieve parity with the closed-source alternatives [emphasis added] because parts of Flash associated with DRM and other content controls aren't available... Unlike HTML5 and CSS3 and related technologies, Flash is not an open standard on the web. Adobe might license some of its technology free of charge, and it may have some of its SWF spec available, but the entirety of the Flash ecosystem is not open, nor is it a web standard.

From GNU Gnash page - Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.

From Wikipedia - SWF v7 (the one that Gnash supports "most of") came out in 2003--SEVEN YEARS AGO. They support "some" of the new features in v8 and v9 and, based on the omission, none of the features that are new in v10.

That's a good thing. I wish they could stop all illegal downloads of music, videos and software. When people finally can't download any free content from the mafia (i.e. content industry) the people will finally see how expensive and restricted the legal alternative is and turn to free and independent sources.

Imagen, if you can't download Windows, Photoshop or MS Office anymore. Maybe than people will see and embrace the free alternatives which are more than sufficient for at least 99% of the users. The same with music, that people can discover that there are plenty of independent music bands with music good as on MTV. And there is plenty of DRM free games, a few free to download, like the http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/world-of-goo-huge-success/

Interesting that you cite mashable.com, since they actually say that Chrome share amongst their users was 14.8% two months ago.

Chrome has grabbed 20% market share in one year

Only if you round up from 6.7% to 20%. Kind of casts doubt on the rest of your comment, huh?

This has been dome for a long time (spelling paypal with similarily looking cyrillic characters. i.e.: "raura" but in cyrillic. or "eVau" for "eBay").
Most browsers circumvent it by either displaying the escaped characters (a.k.a. Punny Code) or by using a different colour to tag non-lating characters (don't know which browser uses this technique).

The current difference now, is that the top-level domain, too could be done in non-latin caracters.

i.e.: up until now, the hacks only spellt "PayPal" with seemilarily-looking cyrillics. starting from today a new TLD could be created which looks like "com" but is instead cyrillcs ( "som" in this instance )

Browsers will simply react by showing the escaped form or flag the letters with a different colour.

Nope and your links all agree with me.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/194465/adobe_announces_flash_for_android_beta_testing.html
"Adobe Announces Flash for Android Beta Testing" aka it isn't released yet and it is not an open beta.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/android-flash/ [mashable.com]

"Google Confirms Android 2.2 Will Support Flash"
Will and 2.2 has not shipped yet.
AKA it doesn't exist yet.

"http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/01/1426209/Flash-Support-Confirmed-For-Android-22?from=rss [slashdot.org]"
  "Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2"
Let me explain. Will have, announces beta, and confirmed for an unreleased OS all mean that it doesn't exists yet.
At least not in the hands of the customer base.
And I really guess you didn't bother to read my post so let me show you.
"1. Flash on mobile sucks. Adobe likes to flame Apple for not allowing Flash on the iPhone but Adobe has not delivered Flash for Android, WebOS, or RIM. Flash Lite is terrible and out of date and is the only current "Mobile Flash" solution for most people. Yes I know Adobe has Mobile Flash in Beta but that isn't delivered now is it?"
Read the last bit. It covers your entire post in a nut shell. A closed beta == not delivered it is vaporware until it ships.
Is that really so hard to understand?

No Flash for android?!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/194465/adobe_announces_flash_for_android_beta_testing.html

http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/android-flash/

Or hell, just a few days ago here on slashdot, with the typical slashdot-delayed reports ;) :

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/01/1426209/Flash-Support-Confirmed-For-Android-22?from=rss

To fully understand the problem, one must consider the platform. Flash still works on Apple desktops, but is not supported on the Apple mobile platforms. An article I recently read and found helpful goes to demonstrate why this is an issue Adobe COULD address, but has chosen not to.

The problem for Flash isn’t that it can’t adapt to contain other types of video; it is that software and hardware, particularly on the mobile side, have moved in a direction that natively supports the playback of H.264 content. Why bother using a container if you can play the file natively and get the memory advantages of not having a container plus hardware optimization?

Adobe does not deserve to be included because it is "the way of today" if it is a redundant interloper with a damaging effect on the mobile device user experience. At least not when there are viable alternatives without suffering the same problematic consequences.

http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/flash-nexus-one-demo/

Also ... Not sure if you've seen this ...

http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/flash-nexus-one-demo/

If you read Slashdot daily you'd have seen them yourself.

Amazingly enough, a quick Google search shows me a blind study of Google, Bing and Yahoo search results.

http://mashable.com/2009/06/07/blindsearch/

Guess who won in convincing fashion?

Don't try and call me a liar. I don't appreciate it.

Google is doing its part.

Apple did the same with the iPhone, and it was discovered only last year. And I don't think Apple is failing.

"Bad routers", now "bad analysts"...

Apple expects to sell 10 million tablet computers in the product's first year, according to a former Google executive.
http://mashable.com/2010/01/01/apple-tablet-10-million/

Seems to be mostly a slam job on Wikipedia.

I was puzzled, though, by one thing. The letter goes off on how Eric Moeller must be a pedophile because some of his edits on Wikipedia are "indicating that pedophelia is something that’s less than evil."

Wow. There's a pretty tough standard: if every single edit does not explicity state "pedophelia is evil," then you must be a pedophile, or at least support pedophilia?

The link was to this blog post, which gives the specific examples of his Wikipedia posts. The problem is, none of his edits seem to be even the least bit problematical. One of the edits that is highlighted, for example, is this:

He inserted the following text into the article on Human sexual behavior:

It is generally acknowledged that children are capable of feeling sexual pleasure, even if they are not yet able to engage in sexual intercourse with each other, and/or are not yet biologically able to reproduce.

Yea, so? Is this even the slightest bit controversial? I'd say it's a simple statement of fact. It is generally acknowledged that children are capable of feeling sexual pleasure even before puberty. Duh. Anybody who disagrees with this, I assume, has never actually been a child.

And all of the edits quoted are equally blandly factual. One discuses the definition of pedophile in the context of sexual abuse of minors. I might accuse this edit of engaging in pedanticism, but not pedophilia-- he is being pedantically correctly about the definition. Another of his edits that is shown as an example is:

“A small minority believes that children are capable of consenting to homosexual acts with older men, but all major pro-homosexual groups have rejected that view.”

He's not advocating the opinion, just stating that it exists-- and that the opinion is widely rejected. Is the argument now that if you even acknowlege that an opinion exists, you must agree with it?

(Posting this one as AC because that article quoted says that because of those posts, the guy should be fired from any job other than underwater basket weaver. I happen do like my job, and I really don't want nut jobs writing to my employer saying that I am posting to the internet posts that defending somebody who wrote something that might be read as defending pederasts, so I must be a pederast. Sheesh.)

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According to this article: http://mashable.com/2007/04/19/ticketmaster-sues-ebay/ , eBay owns StubHub and was sued by Ticketmaster. Now I'm really confused.