<a href="http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml?articleid=<nobr>1<wbr></wbr></nobr> 0000">Nullsoft has an article</a> that says Gnutella and other such networks are now <b>legal</b>. So once KaZaA <i>finally</i> gets the axe, we can all migrate to Gnutella and like ourselves all the better for it!
Dammit it's getting harder and harder for the average guy to run his own fucking SMTP server. I mean, the ones that I use are unreliable so I run my own, is that so crazy you anti-spam fascist motherfuckers?!
While I'm not a huge fan of Yahoo!, I can only hope the ultimate answer is yes. I hope it is possible for a web-based company to own the web and not a software based company (M$!)....I would rather a grass-roots anti-google, anti-yahoo movement to arise from the settling dust that once was the wild wild internet, I don't see this happening.
Bill Gates already controls too much, if at the very least the/. community would boycott google after M$ co-opts it, that would be a big chunk. Not to mention a direct action perl script campaign against the search engine, we might even be able to shut the mofo down.
These are the thoughts that bounce around my fat, but small, yet large head.
WTF? If you want such options then just suggest them or implement them yourself. If you're a programmer, adn you think you should hide your code from everyone, then do it. But guess what? It won't improve because the less people that have the oppurtunity to work on it the more human its limitations become.
That's mucho excellente. I can't wait till I get a good bit of free time..there are a few things I'd like to see in ole OOo... also, I'm impressed and joyous that they're giving a 900 page book to go along with it!
Wow, and that's where Thom Ridge is from. Not entirely surprising, just a bit surprising that the state takes this action publicly...can they do that?!
Excuse the above web-chro-nym, but this definately calls for it. About half an hour after I posted my previous comment, I recieved this:
Subject: Re: [#1908026] Infoshop News
From: news-feedback@google.com
Date: 5:16 PM (which makes no sense because I run the server..)
To: PJ
Hi,
Thanks for requesting that we include infoshop.org in Google News. We are
working on this, and hope to include Infoshop within a few weeks.
Regards,
The Google Team
I wish this were a lie. I'll forward the e-mail to anyone who requests it.....!
In fact, Google is not politically neutral at all. Google NEWS is especially guilty in this aspect. They refuse to list Indymedia as one of the search possiblities and *almost* stopped
http://unknownnews.net from listing a PAID ad on in the search results of very appropriate keywords. You can read about that Here. They're also blacklisting Infshop INews, which is alot like Slashdot indeed. I don't know if Slashdot is blacklisted. But I was never able to find anything from Raise The Fist! on there either. You can read their various excuses on the unknownnews page. The reason this gets even more away from politically neutral and further disqualifies their excuses is via the fact that most if not all of the sites mentioned in this comment were listed there before. Here is a little e-mail between me and google news team you might be interested in reading:
My First Message To Them:
Subject: Infoshop News
Sender: PJ
Date: 3/22/2003 12:29 PM
To: News-Feedback@google.com
I am writing to encourage your editoral team to
include in the new Google news feature, (which I use quite frequently throughout the day) the news
reports and services of infoshop.org
If you continue to reject your users the right
to use such a great service as Infoshop News, we will organize a boycott of google, which you
should know, I have bought products thru your
little in-search advertisements, but I am willing
to give this up if google is going to be a
nationalistic, plutocratic, indymedia hating group
of individuals. I will do my searching elsewhere.
Thank you for your time,
--Paul Madore, Frequent Google User
Their First Response:
Subject: Re: Infoshop News [#1908026]
From: news-feedback@google.com
Date: 3/24/2003 6:10 PM
To: ph uck auth ority at maineindymedia.org
Hi,
Thanks for your email. Google News is highly unusual in that it provides a
news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without any
intervention from human editors. To ensure high quality content on Google
News, we require the following criteria from our news sources:
(1) the organization must be made up of more than one individual and (2
) they must guarantee that all articles will be reviewed by their
respective editors prior to publication on the web.
Infoshop.org does not meet these requirements. We appreciate your taking
the time to provide feedback on Google News and hope you will contact us
in the future with additional observations and suggestions.
Hi,
Here is my future observation,
Firstly, I have had articles rejected from infoshop's Inews section. So therefore THEY ARE REVIEWED. Secondly, Chuck0 is not the only person reviewing them, he is just the head editor. How does this sound to you?
"BOYCOTT GOOGLE, BOYCOTT FASCISM"
It's up to you.
And to think, I actually wrote a comment awhile back that said "Google is coogle"...
Think what you want guys but Im thinking that this google boycott may be just the thing..we can do better anyways..if we pull together..I know we can..I mean google started out as a college project..
I have to agree, and am sickened by this fact. Perhaps wes hould salvage the code that is there right now and start the "TrueMozilla" project, to keep this outstanding product on track. Argh Im pissed.
Oooh the fastest browser? MAYBE THATS BECAUSE THE MOTHERFUCKERS EMBEDDED IT, thereby monopolizing the market and making things like netscape and mozilla rarer and harder to find..Furthermore, IE sucks, idiot.
Slashdot Mirror
<a href="http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml?articleid=<nobr>1<wbr></wbr></nobr> 0000">Nullsoft has an article</a> that says Gnutella and other such networks are now <b>legal</b>. So once KaZaA <i>finally</i> gets the axe, we can all migrate to Gnutella and like ourselves all the better for it!
Well, Mitnick was kind of a lamer anyways..
You suck at grammer.
Jeeze..Slashdot's getting slow..I heard this yesterday morning on the school bus radio..
Im thinking we need to take direct and immediate action against all rich bastards involved in this and the Palladium project.
Truth, spoken.
;)
It costs $11 to get fedex to send me something in 2 days and it costs me $5 to have USPS send the same thing in 3-4.
Priority Mail is still the fastest, baby.
ROFL.
Dammit it's getting harder and harder for the average guy to run his own fucking SMTP server. I mean, the ones that I use are unreliable so I run my own, is that so crazy you anti-spam fascist motherfuckers?!
I hope not, because I have vowed to never touch a piece of Microsoft Hardware.
Haha. I know what you mean though, my moms like:
"wtf are you looking at porn for? i just want my damn game to work!"
Precisely why we true geeks dont actually buy M$ licenses, on the rare occasion that we use their software. ;-)
PLEASE BOOST MY KARMA.
True. Plus if you have mozilla you can block images and popus there for faster cracking time.
While I'm not a huge fan of Yahoo!, I can only hope the ultimate answer is yes. I hope it is possible for a web-based company to own the web and not a software based company (M$!)....I would rather a grass-roots anti-google, anti-yahoo movement to arise from the settling dust that once was the wild wild internet, I don't see this happening.
/. community would boycott google after M$ co-opts it, that would be a big chunk. Not to mention a direct action perl script campaign against the search engine, we might even be able to shut the mofo down.
Bill Gates already controls too much, if at the very least the
These are the thoughts that bounce around my fat, but small, yet large head.
And? What's your point? They'll make the footprint as small as possible with time, duh.
WTF? If you want such options then just suggest them or implement them yourself. If you're a programmer, adn you think you should hide your code from everyone, then do it. But guess what? It won't improve because the less people that have the oppurtunity to work on it the more human its limitations become.
When will my Karma get better?
LMAO.
That's mucho excellente. I can't wait till I get a good bit of free time..there are a few things I'd like to see in ole OOo ... also, I'm impressed and joyous that they're giving a 900 page book to go along with it!
Wow, and that's where Thom Ridge is from. Not entirely surprising, just a bit surprising that the state takes this action publicly...can they do that?!
Not true man. It is a fact that the US Gov't has stockpiled more of every single weapon than every other nation combined. Yep, every weapon.
Subject: Re: [#1908026] Infoshop News
I wish this were a lie. I'll forward the e-mail to anyone who requests it.....!From: news-feedback@google.com
Date: 5:16 PM (which makes no sense because I run the server..)
To: PJ
Hi, Thanks for requesting that we include infoshop.org in Google News. We are working on this, and hope to include Infoshop within a few weeks. Regards, The Google Team
My First Message To Them:
Subject: Infoshop News
Sender: PJ
Date: 3/22/2003 12:29 PM
To: News-Feedback@google.com
I am writing to encourage your editoral team to include in the new Google news feature, (which I use quite frequently throughout the day) the news reports and services of infoshop.org
If you continue to reject your users the right to use such a great service as Infoshop News, we will organize a boycott of google, which you should know, I have bought products thru your little in-search advertisements, but I am willing to give this up if google is going to be a nationalistic, plutocratic, indymedia hating group of individuals. I will do my searching elsewhere.
Thank you for your time,
--Paul Madore, Frequent Google User
Their First Response:
Subject: Re: Infoshop News [#1908026]
From: news-feedback@google.com
Date: 3/24/2003 6:10 PM
To: ph uck auth ority at maineindymedia.org
Hi,
Thanks for your email. Google News is highly unusual in that it provides a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without any intervention from human editors. To ensure high quality content on Google News, we require the following criteria from our news sources: (1) the organization must be made up of more than one individual and (2 ) they must guarantee that all articles will be reviewed by their respective editors prior to publication on the web.
Infoshop.org does not meet these requirements. We appreciate your taking the time to provide feedback on Google News and hope you will contact us in the future with additional observations and suggestions.
Regards,
The Google Team
My Response To That:
Subject: Re: Infoshop News [#1908026]
From: PJ
Date: 3/25/2003 5:36 PM
To: news-feedback@google.com
Hi,
And to think, I actually wrote a comment awhile back that said "Google is coogle"...Here is my future observation,
Firstly, I have had articles rejected from infoshop's Inews section. So therefore THEY ARE REVIEWED. Secondly, Chuck0 is not the only person reviewing them, he is just the head editor. How does this sound to you?
"BOYCOTT GOOGLE, BOYCOTT FASCISM"
It's up to you.
Think what you want guys but Im thinking that this google boycott may be just the thing..we can do better anyways..if we pull together..I know we can..I mean google started out as a college project..
Thanks,
-CapitalSucks
Haha about the amazon thing, yeah, fuck intellectual property and intellectual propertarians.
I have to agree, and am sickened by this fact. Perhaps wes hould salvage the code that is there right now and start the "TrueMozilla" project, to keep this outstanding product on track. Argh Im pissed.
You are a fucking troll, aren't you?
Oooh the fastest browser? MAYBE THATS BECAUSE THE MOTHERFUCKERS EMBEDDED IT, thereby monopolizing the market and making things like netscape and mozilla rarer and harder to find..Furthermore, IE sucks, idiot.
Thanks for your idiot troll time.
You can kill yourself too, please, do the geek community a big favor and shut end your life right this instant.