Google is not a charity - it provides the Google News service because it makes money off the Google News service. And, given it's making money off the service, there is room for it find a compromise with the content providers - or, for a competitor to do so if Google pulls out.
I'd feel better about this if they'd also spell out exactly who else can access this sort of information about Android phone owners - but I suspect the honest answer would be "everyone with a business relationship with Google".
"A lot of the criticism around the biggest issues has been fair, but I do think that if we are going to be real, there is this bigger picture as well, which is that we have a different world view than some of the folks who are covering us,"
My world view: I have a right to privacy and to control my own information
Zuckerberg's world view: I will do my utmost to monetize you even if you do not have a Facebook account
KFC was short for Kentucky Fried Chicken for most of the company’s existence. Same with BP = British Petroleum. Both companies eventually rebranded officially to just the initialisms as part of attempts to revive somewhat moribund fiscal performance.
KFC’s attempts to get away from chicken haven’t really been successful - they seem to have mostly backtracked. I wouldn’t be surprised if another rebrand officially brings them back to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
OJ wasn't a great actor, by any stretch of the imagination. But when I watch a movie he was in nowadays, I see things a little differently in hindsight, for whatever reason.
Like in Naked Gun - they're doing a riff on the train station scene from The Untouchables. OJ saves the baby... and then spikes it like a football.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for the past few years - it works well enough.
You can even get it to redirect to Google’s search results by adding “!g” after your search terms. I do that occasionally to check whether Google gives me better results... but the Goog generally shows me the same list as DDG (sometimes in a slightly different order, but that’s about it).
We should cut this guy a little slack. Yes, it was a dumb thing to do in the first place - but he did own up to it, which may deter someone else from doing the same stupid thing. I expect a lot of people who found themselves in this situation would just clam up and hope no one found out.
The linked NASA obit reveals that John Young was a moonwalker. That’s pretty cool - when I was younger, I tried over and over to figure out how MJ did that but never was able to master it.
God knows why this is the case, but after looking at a lot of code I've become convinced that a non-trivial number of web developers "learned jquery" and never bothered to actually learn javascript, so to speak.
”Microsoft now has more employees contributing to [the] open source projects on GitHub (which they recently purchased) than any other company or organization (7,700 employees), followed by Google (5,500), Red Hat (3,300), U.C. Berkeley (2,700), and Intel (2,200).”
FTFY.
Given that Red Hat has well over 12000 employees, it’s apparent the original statement was inaccurately worded.
Parviz brought that with him to Google from his short tenure at UW, and he moved over to Amazon several years ago. When you can't claim you (or your employee, at least) invented something, it probably becomes less interesting to the Goog.
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Google is not a charity - it provides the Google News service because it makes money off the Google News service. And, given it's making money off the service, there is room for it find a compromise with the content providers - or, for a competitor to do so if Google pulls out.
Google will not pull Google News out for any appreciable amount of time, since if they do another company will quickly step in and fill the void.
Google knows it needs all that data about its users in order to keep its true customers happy.
I'd feel better about this if they'd also spell out exactly who else can access this sort of information about Android phone owners - but I suspect the honest answer would be "everyone with a business relationship with Google".
"A lot of the criticism around the biggest issues has been fair, but I do think that if we are going to be real, there is this bigger picture as well, which is that we have a different world view than some of the folks who are covering us,"
My world view: I have a right to privacy and to control my own information
Zuckerberg's world view: I will do my utmost to monetize you even if you do not have a Facebook account
KFC was short for Kentucky Fried Chicken for most of the company’s existence. Same with BP = British Petroleum. Both companies eventually rebranded officially to just the initialisms as part of attempts to revive somewhat moribund fiscal performance.
KFC’s attempts to get away from chicken haven’t really been successful - they seem to have mostly backtracked. I wouldn’t be surprised if another rebrand officially brings them back to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
OJ wasn't a great actor, by any stretch of the imagination. But when I watch a movie he was in nowadays, I see things a little differently in hindsight, for whatever reason.
Like in Naked Gun - they're doing a riff on the train station scene from The Untouchables. OJ saves the baby... and then spikes it like a football.
Wasn’t that a Raffi song - “baby bioga”?
They’re gonna stop eating that abomination known as “lutefisk” and instead power their ships with it?
Ivanka’s personal email is being hosted on a server running in Hillary Clinton’s basement.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for the past few years - it works well enough.
You can even get it to redirect to Google’s search results by adding “!g” after your search terms. I do that occasionally to check whether Google gives me better results... but the Goog generally shows me the same list as DDG (sometimes in a slightly different order, but that’s about it).
We should cut this guy a little slack. Yes, it was a dumb thing to do in the first place - but he did own up to it, which may deter someone else from doing the same stupid thing. I expect a lot of people who found themselves in this situation would just clam up and hope no one found out.
The linked NASA obit reveals that John Young was a moonwalker. That’s pretty cool - when I was younger, I tried over and over to figure out how MJ did that but never was able to master it.
God knows why this is the case, but after looking at a lot of code I've become convinced that a non-trivial number of web developers "learned jquery" and never bothered to actually learn javascript, so to speak.
Get rid of the bloody framework. Why include 200K of compressed javascript when you're only going to use two five-line functions.
Not to mention all the potential security vulnerabilities you just needlessly included in your code.
Thank goodness Stallone and his team didn’t succumb to avarice and produce any cookie-cutter sequels.
”Microsoft now has more employees contributing to [the] open source projects on GitHub (which they recently purchased) than any other company or organization (7,700 employees), followed by Google (5,500), Red Hat (3,300), U.C. Berkeley (2,700), and Intel (2,200).”
FTFY.
Given that Red Hat has well over 12000 employees, it’s apparent the original statement was inaccurately worded.
It’s a legendary assembly-language instruction - Halt and Catch Fire.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
The HCF reference outs you as an old-timer.
And my saying that outs me as an old-timer.
You looked pretty silly carrying that Macintosh with you as you walked down the street, though - doubly so with that ginormous extension cord.
Here’s what I found on the web regarding “Bombay florists”...
Parviz brought that with him to Google from his short tenure at UW, and he moved over to Amazon several years ago. When you can't claim you (or your employee, at least) invented something, it probably becomes less interesting to the Goog.
Who knows, though, maybe Andy Griffith can save us.
Haha, I remember Salvage 1. Didn’t like it nearly as much as Quark , although neither one garnered much of an audience.
It won’t be in my lifetime, but I hope that - some day - we really do have an honest-to-goodness deep space network.
Why would you NOT want to be “stuck” with a phone which doesn’t require extra dongles and overpriced, easily lost earbuds?
I’m sure podcasts sound extra great through the $170 wireless ear buds, though.
It looks like some of society's nastiest vultures (sorry Realtors and real estate developers...) have found a loophole.
I didn’t realize that paying Google a fee was considered a loophole.