European Union regulators have launched an in-depth investigation into Google's $3.1bn (£1.5bn) takeover of online advertising firm DoubleClick.
The EU Commission said its initial probe had shown the deal would raise competition concerns.
It has set itself a deadline of 2 April 2008 to reach a decision.
Google said it would work with the Commission to show how the acquisition would benefit publishers, advertisers and consumers.
"We seek to avoid further delays that might put us at a disadvantage in competing fully against Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and others whose acquisitions in the highly competitive online advertising market have already been approved," said Google boss Eric Schmidt.
The European Commission is working closely on the case with the US Federal Trade Commission, which has been reviewing the deal since May.
Both Google and DoubleClick are involved in online advertising, although they have different roles.
DoubleClick helps link up advertising agencies, marketers and web site publishers hoping to put ads online and track them.
Google allows firms to target advertising at people using particular search terms and also stores information about users' internet surfing habits.
Instead of the 3 local televangelist channels and 1 UFO nutjob channel I'm used to, I'm now going to get another dozen or so of the former and a generous helping of the latter.
Considering that Windows 2000 is still used by at about as many people as use Vista, I don't think it matters whether they've fixed it in XP or not. They've still got to answer to all the 2000 users.
Is it guaranteed that my purchase will be matched by the delivery to a child, or am I simply throwing my money into a huge black pit, in the hopes that the number of people who buy one in the US will be the same as those delivered to children, apart from their already-planned deliveries?
Here are the emails for the county officials and city council for the largest cities in his district. Make sure to send Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) so they might actually read it.
Subject: George Miller hides language in H.R.4137 that would remove federal funding from colleges unable to stop file-sharing
This is unbelievably unconscionable and corrupt on the part of your elected representative. The MPAA is applauding Rep. George Miller for introducing an anti-piracy bill that threatens the nation's colleges with the loss of $100 Billion a year in federal financial aid, should they fail to have a technology plan to stop illegal file sharing.
The proposal, which is embedded in a 747-page bill, has alarmed university officials. "Such an extraordinarily inappropriate and punitive outcome would result in all students on that campus losing their federal financial aid -- including Pell grants and student loans that are essential to their ability to attend college, advance their education, and acquire the skills necessary to compete in the 21st-century economy," said university officials in a letter to Congress. "Lower-income students, those most in need of federal financial aid, would be harmed most under the entertainment industry's proposal."
I don't think the "campaign finance reform" you talk about is what I had in mind. I would rather the candidates not do any fundraising, or be able to use any of their own funds. Provided that they have enough initial support, the government should provide them equal outlets.
The problem with organizations like this, that are trying to tame copyright laws, is that they don't have any money, which is the only language politicians speak. I don't know if we should blame the politicians, or blame the media for forcing politicians to raise enormous sums. I would still blame the politicians, because I think given the choice between federally-mandated/funded campaigns, and raising millions of dollars, they would still rather raise millions of dollars (plenty of wiggle room for personal profit) and so aren't passing the necessary campaign finance reform laws that could easily level the playing field for the average Mr. Smith.
Gasperini claims this is a new discovery, and yet in 2001 he was publishing papers indicating this belief. I think he's exaggerating when he says "we didn't have a clue that Lake Cheko might fill a crater" before finding this latest evidence.
Either that, or National Geographic is misrepresenting his Gasperini's quotes to make a story where there isn't one.
I was there for all the construction too. I remember they had these blue protective plastic covers over every little metal tile, and the construction crew had to peel them off, except they wouldn't peel off, so for several weeks we had a blue metal building with little bits torn away.
From the article: "Snow and ice cascaded dangerously from window boxes and other projecting roof areas, blocking emergency exits and damaging other parts of the building, according to the suit."
This exact same problem is encountered every year at Gehry's Peter B Louis Building on the CWRU campus. We call the building the metal kleenex box, because it looks like a wavy brick building with a lot of useless big metal waves coming out in every direction from the top. The problem is that in the winter, these metal waves get covered in snow, which inevitably slides off onto the people below (Gehry strategically placed the largest such avalanche directly above one of the two main sidewalks on that corner).
This region is already completely ignorant about HIV/AIDS and how to have safe sex (thanks in part to the Catholic church sucessfully spreading the baseless belief that condoms have tiny holes in them that let HIV pass through).
Now they are being told that circumcision will help protect them against AIDS. These newly-circumcised people will likely be less afraid to have sex with random individuals, and won't bother using condoms (after all, their safety is questionable!). And how long will it be until their education gets distorted to the point that they believe circumcision stops AIDS altogether?
These researchers seem to be completely ignorant of the consequences of their actions.
Everyone I talk to refers to Napster in the past tense... "back when Napster was around"... "I used to use Napster all the time", etc. Rather than fight, it gave in. That's why users have moved on.
I think the submitter purposely wrote the summary to mislead. It is clear from their conclusions that they haven't done anything that is being claimed in the summary; they only suggest in the end that if there were some sort of advantage in selecting certain balls, someone could take advantage of that (seems obvious).
"Interesting as these trends may be, they will not assist in making the odds of winning the MegaMillions lottery any better if the system is truly fair and random. However, in the event there is some peculiar factor skewing the ball selection such that any of these trends continue, a player stands a mildly better chance of winning a partial prize through the selection of weighted numbers."
"We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver from a single carbon nanotube. The nanotube serves simultaneously as all essential components of a radio: antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier, and demodulator. A direct current voltage source, as supplied by a battery, powers the radio. Using carrier waves in the commercially relevant 40-400 MHz range and both frequency and amplitude modulation techniques, we demonstrate successful music and voice reception."
Slashdot Mirror
Not much to it:
EU will investigate Google deal
European Union regulators have launched an in-depth investigation into Google's $3.1bn (£1.5bn) takeover of online advertising firm DoubleClick.
The EU Commission said its initial probe had shown the deal would raise competition concerns.
It has set itself a deadline of 2 April 2008 to reach a decision.
Google said it would work with the Commission to show how the acquisition would benefit publishers, advertisers and consumers.
"We seek to avoid further delays that might put us at a disadvantage in competing fully against Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and others whose acquisitions in the highly competitive online advertising market have already been approved," said Google boss Eric Schmidt.
The European Commission is working closely on the case with the US Federal Trade Commission, which has been reviewing the deal since May.
Both Google and DoubleClick are involved in online advertising, although they have different roles.
DoubleClick helps link up advertising agencies, marketers and web site publishers hoping to put ads online and track them.
Google allows firms to target advertising at people using particular search terms and also stores information about users' internet surfing habits.
Instead of the 3 local televangelist channels and 1 UFO nutjob channel I'm used to, I'm now going to get another dozen or so of the former and a generous helping of the latter.
Yay!
Unfortunately, the court order was sent via email, and was filtered along with all judicial and legislative correspondence, directly to the Trash.
And so it continues...
It's a security flaw that they built into their software. I doubt that the EOL argument would hold any water in a high profile lawsuit.
Considering that Windows 2000 is still used by at about as many people as use Vista, I don't think it matters whether they've fixed it in XP or not. They've still got to answer to all the 2000 users.
By specifically channeling my money to a fund that is used only for this purpose, and unusable toward their previously-planned deliveries.
Is it guaranteed that my purchase will be matched by the delivery to a child, or am I simply throwing my money into a huge black pit, in the hopes that the number of people who buy one in the US will be the same as those delivered to children, apart from their already-planned deliveries?
Here are the emails for the county officials and city council for the largest cities in his district. Make sure to send Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) so they might actually read it.
Subject: George Miller hides language in H.R.4137 that would remove federal funding from colleges unable to stop file-sharing
BCC: LDare@cao.cccounty.us, pburk@contracostatv.org, cwamp@contracostatv.org, bkondylis@solanocounty.com, ceward@solanocounty.com, jfsilva@solanocounty.com, mpalmaffy@solanocounty.com, JPSpering@solanocounty.com, sgoerkeshrode@solanocounty.com, cmcook@solanocounty.com, jmvasquez@solanocounty.com, pknelson@solanocounty.com, mjreagan@solanocounty.com, FCZaragoza@SolanoCounty.com, cao-clerk@solanocounty.com, bwagenknecht@co.napa.ca.us, mluce@co.napa.ca.us, ddillon@co.napa.ca.us, bdodd@co.napa.ca.us, hmoskowite@co.napa.ca.us, Diane_Holmes@ci.richmond.ca.us, natbates@comcast.net, tom.butt@intres.com, Lopez.Ludmyrna@comcast.net, johnemarquez@aol.com, elirapty@aol.com, harpreet.sandhu@comcast.net, tony_thurmond@ci.richmond.ca.us, Maria_Viramontes@ci.richmond.ca.us, aevenson@ci.pittsburg.ca.us, mayor@ci.vallejo.ca.us, jdavis@ci.vallejo.ca.us, tpearsall0285@aol.com, sgomes@ci.vallejo.ca.us, tbartee@ci.vallejo.ca.us, hsunga@ci.vallejo.ca.us, garycloutier@sbcglobal.net, citycouncil@ci.concord.ca.us
Dear Sir or Madam,
News source: http://www.news.com/2102-1028_3-6217943.html?tag=st.util.print
Bill source: http://edlabor.house.gov/bills/HEAReauthorizationText.pdf
This is unbelievably unconscionable and corrupt on the part of your elected representative. The MPAA is applauding Rep. George Miller for introducing an anti-piracy bill that threatens the nation's colleges with the loss of $100 Billion a year in federal financial aid, should they fail to have a technology plan to stop illegal file sharing.
The proposal, which is embedded in a 747-page bill, has alarmed university officials. "Such an extraordinarily inappropriate and punitive outcome would result in all students on that campus losing their federal financial aid -- including Pell grants and student loans that are essential to their ability to attend college, advance their education, and acquire the skills necessary to compete in the 21st-century economy," said university officials in a letter to Congress. "Lower-income students, those most in need of federal financial aid, would be harmed most under the entertainment industry's proposal."
Because people who grew up having to make their own food from scratch are going to suddenly stop doing that and start buying the Kraft brand.
I don't think the "campaign finance reform" you talk about is what I had in mind. I would rather the candidates not do any fundraising, or be able to use any of their own funds. Provided that they have enough initial support, the government should provide them equal outlets.
The problem with organizations like this, that are trying to tame copyright laws, is that they don't have any money, which is the only language politicians speak. I don't know if we should blame the politicians, or blame the media for forcing politicians to raise enormous sums. I would still blame the politicians, because I think given the choice between federally-mandated/funded campaigns, and raising millions of dollars, they would still rather raise millions of dollars (plenty of wiggle room for personal profit) and so aren't passing the necessary campaign finance reform laws that could easily level the playing field for the average Mr. Smith.
Gasperini claims this is a new discovery, and yet in 2001 he was publishing papers indicating this belief. I think he's exaggerating when he says "we didn't have a clue that Lake Cheko might fill a crater" before finding this latest evidence.
Either that, or National Geographic is misrepresenting his Gasperini's quotes to make a story where there isn't one.
I was there for all the construction too. I remember they had these blue protective plastic covers over every little metal tile, and the construction crew had to peel them off, except they wouldn't peel off, so for several weeks we had a blue metal building with little bits torn away.
Because lasers travel at least 42 times as fast as radio waves!
Here's a good photo of the death trap in question.
From the article: "Snow and ice cascaded dangerously from window boxes and other projecting roof areas, blocking emergency exits and damaging other parts of the building, according to the suit."
This exact same problem is encountered every year at Gehry's Peter B Louis Building on the CWRU campus. We call the building the metal kleenex box, because it looks like a wavy brick building with a lot of useless big metal waves coming out in every direction from the top. The problem is that in the winter, these metal waves get covered in snow, which inevitably slides off onto the people below (Gehry strategically placed the largest such avalanche directly above one of the two main sidewalks on that corner).
Are you sure MojoKid wrote that? If so, he forgot to add the presentation slides to his slashdot submission.
"My Macbook is the first machine that simply just works.. close the lid when you're done, stash the machine."
Just make sure you don't do this with your iPhone if you're outside the US.
This region is already completely ignorant about HIV/AIDS and how to have safe sex (thanks in part to the Catholic church sucessfully spreading the baseless belief that condoms have tiny holes in them that let HIV pass through).
Now they are being told that circumcision will help protect them against AIDS. These newly-circumcised people will likely be less afraid to have sex with random individuals, and won't bother using condoms (after all, their safety is questionable!). And how long will it be until their education gets distorted to the point that they believe circumcision stops AIDS altogether?
These researchers seem to be completely ignorant of the consequences of their actions.
Everyone I talk to refers to Napster in the past tense... "back when Napster was around" ... "I used to use Napster all the time", etc. Rather than fight, it gave in. That's why users have moved on.
I think the submitter purposely wrote the summary to mislead. It is clear from their conclusions that they haven't done anything that is being claimed in the summary; they only suggest in the end that if there were some sort of advantage in selecting certain balls, someone could take advantage of that (seems obvious).
Not much in the way of conclusions...
"Interesting as these trends may be, they will not assist in making the odds of winning the MegaMillions lottery any better if the system is truly fair and random. However, in the event there is some peculiar factor skewing the ball selection such that any of these trends continue, a player stands a mildly better chance of winning a partial prize through the selection of weighted numbers."
Their project page has videos, simulations, and audio playback samples: NSF Nanotube Radio
Here is their journal abstract:
"We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver from a single carbon nanotube. The nanotube serves simultaneously as all essential components of a radio: antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier, and demodulator. A direct current voltage source, as supplied by a battery, powers the radio. Using carrier waves in the commercially relevant 40-400 MHz range and both frequency and amplitude modulation techniques, we demonstrate successful music and voice reception."
"They're moving in herds... they do move in herds!"
"We decide things on a case by case basis."
I gave you two cases. Were they around today, and their various arrests more recent, would they be admissable?