> The WSJ notes an irony: Google is fighting for 'Internet freedom' in the U.S., by resisting the Justice Department's request for information on user searches."
it's not ironic, it's actually pretty predictable.
They're just fighting for the freedom americans used to have before 9/11.
In the US, going against all post-9/11-crap is defending the actual government model. Which is exactly what those companies do in China.
now, instead of having the mail co involved, they will have a website that you will only be able to log in in low traffic hours, with latest IE, latest windows service pack, and latest flash plugin.
> Billions of years ago, when the day was 23 hours long, there was no oxygen in the air and hence no ozone. The surface of the earth would have killed any land based animals pretty quickly.
So, some bilions of years from now, some weird new life form will look at natural history and say "billions of years ago, there was no radiation on earth strong enough to suport energy life. So the nature just made some bacteria thingy make it available for us".
i can see google stock going down very fast after this.
now they will have users suposing they will give firefox suport.
Also this page is ridiculous. You have to click in a hidden link at the bottom to see all of the software. And the "learn more" button for each program gives you frames.
Not to mention installing real player that will make your computer open popups on it's own. realplayer is more intrusive then any spyware you can find.
For a language designed by maketing people and implemented in power point slides, it sure did get a fair amount of adopters.
I had high hopes on java. But it was completely useless in a embeded system, too much hassle in a obscure plataform (irix, beos) and simply extra work on a common base (windows, linux)
if i write the same app on python or,god forbid, C, i have much less work to do, and it will be even more "multi-plataform" then java!
Then, they tried to sell it as "the intraweb language" and all hell broke loose. Even php outdo it!
several companies depends on opera's browser. Can you think of mobile phones that does NOT use winCE?
buying opera, M$ will remove the ground bellow them. Then to have a browser back or those companies develop their own, or ditch the OS and follow the flock with winCE....or, get together to fund open source development of a new browser:)
yep. microsoft saw that apple was selling all those ipods because they capitalized the second best thing on the internet: music piracy
So, now they're investing in the number one best thing on the internet. They are already making deals with hardware manufacturers to ship the OEM version of MS Pr0n by 2009
on the post about some notorious(?) guy having his bio vandalized (was it about he killing JFK?) the general consense here was "oh! he's a moron, he shoulda have changed it! (+5 obvious)"
and by the post, he was correcting it....unles that other guy IS really the co-founder. Either way, he could have erased the changelog, wich he didn't....it's not like he stated that he has a bigger penis or something. Altough i think that if he did, this would be already duped by tac0 by now.
1. apple pays tac0 a buttload of money. tax free 2. apple control what appears on/. behind some expensive design curtains 3. apple gets tons of zealots creating another zealots 4. apple can have a truplicated news when some "injustice" is done to her busness 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!
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> The WSJ notes an irony: Google is fighting for 'Internet freedom' in the U.S., by resisting the Justice Department's request for information on user searches."
it's not ironic, it's actually pretty predictable.
They're just fighting for the freedom americans used to have before 9/11.
In the US, going against all post-9/11-crap is defending the actual government model. Which is exactly what those companies do in China.
torvalds is already implementing DRM in the core of the linux kernel.
it will prevent you using non GPL modules, prevent you from running non GPL program and finally prevent you from listening to non-GPL bands.
now, instead of having the mail co involved, they will have a website that you will only be able to log in in low traffic hours, with latest IE, latest windows service pack, and latest flash plugin.
> Wouldn't the original article link normally be posted in a Slashback?
...newbies. we need a FAQ here, please.
that would be the tetrupe.
tsk tsk tsk
> Billions of years ago, when the day was 23 hours long, there was no oxygen in the air and hence no ozone. The surface of the earth would have killed any land based animals pretty quickly.
So, some bilions of years from now, some weird new life form will look at natural history and say
"billions of years ago, there was no radiation on earth strong enough to suport energy life. So the nature just made some bacteria thingy make it available for us".
c'mon, if the code is in a website, google must know about it.
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and by the way, who in the world uses WMF in a website?!?! This is more suspicious michael jackson in a child porn scandal.
but, here, here is your guilty people.
http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Awmf+doo
here are some more
http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Awmf+cod
i bet that all those windows meta files (suspicious name for an image, uh?) are full of malicious code.
> > Hell, the other day I inserted a gibberish statistic in
> > an article about a city
>
> Why would you do that?
To see if his pal, G, can correct it
blueray is expected to last 1year
hddvd is expected to last 15minutes.
i can see google stock going down very fast after this.
now they will have users suposing they will give firefox suport.
Also this page is ridiculous. You have to click in a hidden link at the bottom to see all of the software. And the "learn more" button for each program gives you frames.
Not to mention installing real player that will make your computer open popups on it's own. realplayer is more intrusive then any spyware you can find.
> Who says Adobe are paying Google to distribute it?
well, adobe payed even tucows to host it.
> Users != Root. ...
>
> --
> "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Only if they were a couple and it was the same cat, runing in oposite directions at the same time.
not tag pr0n?!
And exactly what do you have in such quantities that does need tagging?
how dangerous could it be if someone knows that a file is ready for archival or not?
or maybe you're gonna hide your most valuable files with attrib +h
c'mon, it's M$, it's not like they're gone use into something non dispensable like BeOS' mail over BeFS
Must say they lasted a lot more then i tought.
,god forbid, C, i have much less work to do, and it will be even more "multi-plataform" then java!
For a language designed by maketing people and implemented in power point slides, it sure did get a fair amount of adopters.
I had high hopes on java. But it was completely useless in a embeded system, too much hassle in a obscure plataform (irix, beos) and simply extra work on a common base (windows, linux)
if i write the same app on python or
Then, they tried to sell it as "the intraweb language" and all hell broke loose. Even php outdo it!
> He could be their mascot ...recall Norton?
several companies depends on opera's browser. Can you think of mobile phones that does NOT use winCE?
...or, get together to fund open source development of a new browser :)
buying opera, M$ will remove the ground bellow them. Then to have a browser back or those companies develop their own, or ditch the OS and follow the flock with winCE.
well, let's hope the dupe has more info than those two lines.
god. or you were born with a cauterized anus, or you're the best written gramar nazi bot i've ever seen.
> So he's an expert in robosex, eh?
yep. microsoft saw that apple was selling all those ipods because they capitalized the second best thing on the internet: music piracy
So, now they're investing in the number one best thing on the internet. They are already making deals with hardware manufacturers to ship the OEM version of MS Pr0n by 2009
on the post about some notorious(?) guy having his bio vandalized (was it about he killing JFK?) the general consense here was "oh! he's a moron, he shoulda have changed it! (+5 obvious)"
...unles that other guy IS really the co-founder. Either way, he could have erased the changelog, wich he didn't. ...it's not like he stated that he has a bigger penis or something. Altough i think that if he did, this would be already duped by tac0 by now.
and by the post, he was correcting it.
you give too much importance to a humble 'l'.
maybe freud can toy with this fact for a while.
1. apple pays tac0 a buttload of money. tax free /. behind some expensive design curtains
2. apple control what appears on
3. apple gets tons of zealots creating another zealots
4. apple can have a truplicated news when some "injustice" is done to her busness
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
> If you looked up STUPID in the dictionary it wouldn't have the eBay logo
and that logo would be just bellow allmusic.com's, right?
You can't bipass this one. because it's Encoded Invisible Light
didn't you get it? *invisible*!
you can't hack something that you can't see!
oh boy. I'd like an autograph of the guys that can patent those crap and sell it as a holy grail to anacronical media companys