In 2000, Google's founders defined a set of principles for a quality search engine: [W]e expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers...[W]e believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.
Today, about 95% of Google's $1B+ revenue comes from advertising, and Google's lawyers forgot to to check the "This will be an academic-only IPO" box on their SEC paperwork.
Four years from now, will Google's institutional shareholders feel bound by today's Software Principles?
to destroy the human race they create a sexy blonde android that seduces our best programmer
Agreed. It would have been much more realistic if the Cylons had created a middle-aged suit-wearing Business Consultant who outsources Boltar's job to a distant planet.
Maybe they should just sell disposable printers instead.
No, I think the next step will be free printers and ink cartridges, but a large Doubleclick ad is printed in the middle of each document.
In 1991, Warner was a defendant in the case of rap artist Biz Markie after he was accused of copyright violation for "sampling" a track...One of the defenses they put forward was that they "should be excused from liability for infringing copyright because others in the rap music business were also [sampling music].".
Maybe poor IIS didn't know about the "everybody's doing it" defense.
I wonder if they sent one to AOL... Domain Name: AOL.COM
Registrant:America Online, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
Created on..............: Nov 22, 1999
Expires on..............: Nov 22, 2001
Could it be...the Business Software Alliance?
In their
Guide to Software Management, they say business owners should
"Ensure that software can not be downloaded from the Internet by employees without special approval."
They further suggest automated tools to help enforce this rule and say employees should sign an agreement to abide by it.
It also suggests, BTW, that software that is "free" or available for unrestricted downloading from the Internet is probably "too good to be true" and should be avoided.
My personal biggest annoyance with the ICANN is that they have been dragging their feet...
Well, the RIR's (APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE) can certainly handle policy without dragging their feet. Check out ARIN's last trustee meeting:
>John Curran called the meeting to order at 10:20 a.m. EST.
[new officers elected]
[multihoming and address space issues decided]
>Scott Bradner moved to adjourn the meeting at 10:40 a.m. EST.
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads
According to this Sept 2001 article, 2/3 of Google's revenue is from advertisements.
Google can't survive without ads, but it's ironic considering the founders Brin and Page once said"...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers...[A]dvertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is...in the academic realm."
One reason cited for why Reporters (those who find flaws) go public: ...malicious intent to damage the reputations of specific vendors
If you find a glitch with a competitors product, why is it automatically evil to publicly disclose? One valid tactic of advertising (in the US) is to denigrate competing products. When Microsoft announced that Windows NT beat Linux in performace tests, did they give Linus private notice and 30 days to respond before issuing the press release? Does Compaq let IBM know beforehand that it has better TPC numbers?
After Dateline NBC staged exploding gas tanks, did the Wall Street Journal give them a month to come clean before revealing the scam?
If you worked at Be in 1998 knew of a fundamental, nearly unfixable flaw in Windows, how much time would you grant Microsoft to address it?
Google's Toolbar does the same thing, according to their official-until-we-change-it legalese:
"Periodically, the Google Toolbar contacts our servers to see if you are running the most current version. If necessary, we will automatically provide you with the latest update to the Google Toolbar."
Though refusing to read spam and installing spam filters help clear the inboxes of./ users, they won't discourage the bulk-spammers of the world. Make-money-fast marketers aren't targeting sophisticated Internet users, they're looking for the newbies and the gullible, folks who don't use filters.
Even worse, sellers with legimitate products (such as Orbitz and X10) will always find spamming cost-effective. It's not the response rate that's attractive, it's the cost.
The burden may shift to the defendant in copyright cases, depending on which of the
accusor's facts they dispute, and how.
"
...when a negation of a fact lies peculiarly within the knowledge of the defendant[,] it is incumbent on him to establish that fact."
State v. Williamson, 206 N.W.2d 613, 618 (Wis. 1973).)
The common-law argument is that it's impossible to prove that someone didn't do something.
Microsoft can't track every single moment of Joe Businessman's life; therefore,
no matter how hard they try, they can't prove that Joe never acquired 50 copies of XP legally.
Congress mentioned this (though they got the exact phrase wrong) as their intent during
deliberations on Title 17
in these notes. (Congressional intent
can be referenced in court, even if the law doesn't fully express that intent.)
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In 2000, Google's founders defined a set of principles for a quality search engine:
[W]e expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers...[W]e believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.
Today, about 95% of Google's $1B+ revenue comes from advertising, and Google's lawyers forgot to to check the "This will be an academic-only IPO" box on their SEC paperwork.
Four years from now, will Google's institutional shareholders feel bound by today's Software Principles?
Maybe they took it down because it was running on an unlicensed OS.
to destroy the human race they create a sexy blonde android that seduces our best programmer
Agreed. It would have been much more realistic if the Cylons had created a middle-aged suit-wearing Business Consultant who outsources Boltar's job to a distant planet.
...because the word "Euro" is trademarked in the US.
Well, since Sitefinder is running Linux, wouldn't Linux now be running an infinite number more sites than Windows Server 2003?
"California" firmy CorpNumber=C2461936
Fighting for honest email
Based in Delaware
http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/corpdata/ShowAllList?Quer
Coincidentally Vint Cerf, currently the ICANN Board of Directors chairman, is a WorldCom Vice President.
Most people do not like to attract negative attention to themselves, therefore they do not push big red buttons.
Some do.
Maybe they should just sell disposable printers instead.
No, I think the next step will be free printers and ink cartridges, but a large Doubleclick ad is printed in the middle of each document.
In 1991, Warner was a defendant in the case of rap artist Biz Markie after he was accused of copyright violation for "sampling" a track...One of the defenses they put forward was that they "should be excused from liability for infringing copyright because others in the rap music business were also [sampling music].".
Maybe poor IIS didn't know about the "everybody's doing it" defense.
I wonder if they sent one to AOL...
Domain Name: AOL.COM
Registrant:America Online, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
Created on..............: Nov 22, 1999
Expires on..............: Nov 22, 2001
Yeah...Why bother trying "Inurv.com"?
Or, you could try the California Corporations database to find Inurv, Inc. or their parent, Nash Business Services:
Nash Business Services, (818) 243-1977, 210 N Central Ave, Glendale, CA 91203
Could it be...the Business Software Alliance? In their Guide to Software Management, they say business owners should
"Ensure that software can not be downloaded from the Internet by employees without special approval."
They further suggest automated tools to help enforce this rule and say employees should sign an agreement to abide by it.
It also suggests, BTW, that software that is "free" or available for unrestricted downloading from the Internet is probably "too good to be true" and should be avoided.
Try the anagram: "Morrison & Foerster LLP" == PORN AD TROLLER IN FOR MESS
Well, the RIR's (APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE) can certainly handle policy without dragging their feet. Check out ARIN's last trustee meeting:
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads
According to this Sept 2001 article, 2/3 of Google's revenue is from advertisements.
Google can't survive without ads, but it's ironic considering the founders Brin and Page once said "...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers...[A]dvertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is...in the academic realm."
One reason cited for why Reporters (those who find flaws) go public:
...malicious intent to damage the reputations of specific vendors
If you find a glitch with a competitors product, why is it automatically evil to publicly disclose? One valid tactic of advertising (in the US) is to denigrate competing products. When Microsoft announced that Windows NT beat Linux in performace tests, did they give Linus private notice and 30 days to respond before issuing the press release? Does Compaq let IBM know beforehand that it has better TPC numbers? After Dateline NBC staged exploding gas tanks, did the Wall Street Journal give them a month to come clean before revealing the scam?
If you worked at Be in 1998 knew of a fundamental, nearly unfixable flaw in Windows, how much time would you grant Microsoft to address it?
...the article submitter didn't use an email address link on his name.
If you propose on ./, is she allowed to answer "CowboyNeal"?
No more 25-man midnight raids that cart off your entire data center. Now the FBI or BSA can just pick up your search applicance.
Google's Toolbar does the same thing, according to their official-until-we-change-it legalese:
"Periodically, the Google Toolbar contacts our servers to see if you are running the most current version. If necessary, we will automatically provide you with the latest update to the Google Toolbar."
Though refusing to read spam and installing spam filters help clear the inboxes of ./ users, they won't discourage the bulk-spammers of the world. Make-money-fast marketers aren't targeting sophisticated Internet users, they're looking for the newbies and the gullible, folks who don't use filters.
Even worse, sellers with legimitate products (such as Orbitz and X10) will always find spamming cost-effective. It's not the response rate that's attractive, it's the cost.
Congress mentioned this (though they got the exact phrase wrong) as their intent during deliberations on Title 17 in these notes. (Congressional intent can be referenced in court, even if the law doesn't fully express that intent.)
On Feb. 1, Microsoft also posted links to this WinInformant story on their press page with the title "Windows more secure than Linux? Yup."
(The story says that there are more BugTraq entries for Linux than Windows 2000. QED.)
TrustE should just make membership in this program opt-out instead of opt-in.