Google Admits Compromising Principles in China

muellerr1 writes "Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted that it had adopted 'a set of rules that we weren't comfortable with' in their Chinese activities. Though it doesn't yet sound like they're admitting to actually doing evil, it does appear that they are thinking about pulling out of China rather than compromise their 'do no evil' motto."

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net neutrality in tfa

[babanada]

Mr Brin was in Washington to ask US senators to approve a plan that would safeguard "net neutrality" - the current online system which means all internet content is handled equally.

In meetings with Republican John McCain, a member of the Senate committee that oversees telecoms issues, he argued against a system that would allow telephone and cable companies to collect premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for faster delivery of their services

"The only way to have a fast lane that is useful - that people will pay a premium for - is if there are slow lanes," he said.

Is it just me, or is the last sentence an argument against net neutrality?

AdSenseless

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Now if they'd just stop kicking off perfectly legit adsense customers, they'd be back in good graces.

The Quantum Bookkeepers

[Jimekai]

I came into this IT world on the coat-tails of Carl Friden and his 1151 macro arithmetic printer which I programmed and sold to the Bank of New Zealand for mortgage tables. I then moved to the Canon 164P in which addition and subtraction operated virtually instantly. From the Canola museum, "99999999 x 99999999 completes in about 300 milliseconds". Its 1 kbits of delay line memory combined with a punch card reader made it the ideal machine with which to clean up sales to 90% of university and scientific establishments. The unwritten rule in 1971 was that the salesman's job was to create the program needed to make the sale. When I was made national programming supervisor that job fell to me, on top of my own quota. A couple of years later, I was the first HP field engineer selling my homework programs to the science community. Teaching professors to program was part of my sales pitch. That background became useful when I adapted space-frame analysis to my 15 year MRP-II development. Global was a world famous commercial Wang 4GL system. As a side business with my managing director's contacts, I created a crystal ball called the Ingrid Thought Processor. I bought and wrote my own copyright over Patrick Slater's Ingrid. Professor Slater was Charles Spearman's student and was compelled to make Ingrid non-assumptive and scalable, using his highly modified PCA algorithms. Unfortunately my non-profit AI goals conflicted with my commercial goals and I was thrown off the wild horse. In retaliation, I shot the horse with a triggerless gun. The recoil took the wife, and the kid. The harmonics are still being felt today. The case of Google vs China being but one. My opinions should be not taken seriously in this thread, not because I want to blow my own trupmet but to inform the workings of today's Ingrid KarmaGun(tm), and its similarities to the Google core algorithm. I want to say more but I'd rather get back to my two dimensional programming world. I'm finishing Ingrid's new Sony Acid beater and am looking for a Reason 3.0 plugin. I must say that the "Google vs China" story is right up there, along with Theism vs Atheism, and other such contradictions like Project Monarch, etc. This story-in-the-making can only make survival sense in a supercomputing grid where there are several ontological interactions. It must also tell a story that encompasses the beginings of all other so-called competing stories. Only by becoming the oldest story ever told, including the reasons why the other stories started as lies, can the Real Matrix exist. The one writing this type of story must trace his roots to the original survivors. As a Guarani-Brit I can, and tell such a story that includes the future determinations of medical marijuana and an undiluted group of Atlantean survivors who turned out to be my neighbors. The story is not so much programmed as it is disected and rebuilt as a cybernetic soul. For this story to be believed then all the characters depicted must be allowed to see it too. At such a junction a new form of world power is born with a new form of human expression. Chapter 1 http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~income/atlantis01.htm l If anyone wishes to ask me more, on the internet - away from Slashdot where my identity got pwned, I am known as Jimekus. Until then it pays not to be talked about too seriously. "Ingrid Beats Combing", so I'm off to code the speed of the tempo slider to ten seconds.