They've already tried that. What happens is that Google removes the offending link from their index and replaces it with a link to the letter they received asking them to remove it.
Then, should Googlebot decide to put it back next time it crawls the web, well that's something Google has no control over.
If you include India in the English speaking world, it is probably pretty close to being the biggest religion. I still consider the swastika to be a Nazi symbol though.
Congratulations to Slashdot for invoking Goodwin's Law in the initial summary.
If you are a spy, just get a pocket camera with a high resolution sensor and crop the unwanted bits. The quality won't be amazing, but it will tell you what's there.
Cell tower geolocation is always available. Your phone might also be able to use Wifi to locate itself, which can be more accurate, or completely inaccurate. My phone is accurate enough indoors to know whether it is at the top, middle or bottom end of my street.
Apparently there's far too many of those calls, and most of them are false alarms for that to be any use. Or at least that is the case in England where you call emergency services using the English number 999 or the EU number 112.
In Britain, taxes are rounded down. For income tax, you round down to the nearest pound, and then apply the tax rate to that. For VAT (sales tax), you round the VAT on each line item down to the nearest 10th of a penny, then round down the total to the nearest penny.
You can get the iPhone on all 5 major phone networks in the UK, and you can buy an unlocked version direct from Apple. That hasn't stopped Android moving into the market.
Linux failed on the desktop because by the time it was a viable alternative, it was too late. Windows Phone 7 will fail for the same reason.
And it is quite clear that that isn't a search result, but rather some info at the top of the page.
The first actual algorithmic search result for AAPL for example is Yahoo Finance (1st two results), then Google Finance, then Wall Street Journal.
I'm in the UK so uk.finance.yahoo.com is first, then finance.yahoo.com. If you are searching in the US, then probably it doesn't show uk.finance.yahoo.com at all or it is much futher down the page along with the likes of sg.finance.yahoo.com.
In the UK, none of these cases has ever been contested in court. There were a few default judgements where people didn't turn up. If it looks like you plan to turn up at court and submit a defence, they drop the case.
You can get a basic phone from Carphone Warehouse for 99p (+ you have to buy £10 of prepaid credit from Virgin Mobile). http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/07/carphone_warehouse_99p_phone/ , so call it £10.99 or $17.52. For that you get an unlocked phone you can use on any European Network. It won't work in the US because it doesn't support the freqencies used over there.
Then I won't be able to phone the grocery store anyway. I suppose I could try and dig out a landline phone from my cupboard and try and plug it in by candlelight, but to be honest it would be quicker just to step outside and walk to the local town centre. For me, and quite a lot of other people, a landline is something you use to attach an ADSL modem to.
I go to google maps on my phone, use the location search to find grocery stores near me and tap on the phone numbers to call them. If there is no battery power left on my phone to do that, there probably isn't any to make the call either.
I find it is much easier to visit wap.thephonebook.com, type in the details and tap on the phone number to dial it. Having said that, in England, most people have opted out of appearing on both the dead tree and online versions of the phone book, so there is usually more chance of finding the number on my phone's address book than in the official phone book.
At Amazon UK and at the likes of HMV, physical CDs can often be cheaper than downloads because the physical CDs are sold from Jersey where sales tax is 2%, and the downloads are sold from Luxembourg where sales tax is 15%. In both cases, they have picked the cheapest jurisdiction for that type of product.
I don't think it will be that big a deal money-wise. Most Beetles fans will have already ripped their CDs onto their iPods. Yes they will sell some Beetles tacks on iTunes, but compared to all the big releases that go on iTunes from time to time, this is probably nothing special. Stockholders were probably expecting something like a Verizon version of the iPhone which would bring a lot more customers to Apple.
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They've already tried that. What happens is that Google removes the offending link from their index and replaces it with a link to the letter they received asking them to remove it.
Then, should Googlebot decide to put it back next time it crawls the web, well that's something Google has no control over.
Sony is one of the members of the MPAA that sued Sony for inventing the Betamax video recorder.
If you include India in the English speaking world, it is probably pretty close to being the biggest religion. I still consider the swastika to be a Nazi symbol though.
Congratulations to Slashdot for invoking Goodwin's Law in the initial summary.
If you are a spy, just get a pocket camera with a high resolution sensor and crop the unwanted bits. The quality won't be amazing, but it will tell you what's there.
The EU government thinks otherwise
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/112/index_en.htm
Cell tower geolocation is always available. Your phone might also be able to use Wifi to locate itself, which can be more accurate, or completely inaccurate. My phone is accurate enough indoors to know whether it is at the top, middle or bottom end of my street.
Apparently there's far too many of those calls, and most of them are false alarms for that to be any use. Or at least that is the case in England where you call emergency services using the English number 999 or the EU number 112.
Excel 2010 isn't any better.
Leaves taken from the street can't be composted because of contamination from other litter.
In Britain, taxes are rounded down. For income tax, you round down to the nearest pound, and then apply the tax rate to that. For VAT (sales tax), you round the VAT on each line item down to the nearest 10th of a penny, then round down the total to the nearest penny.
You can get the iPhone on all 5 major phone networks in the UK, and you can buy an unlocked version direct from Apple. That hasn't stopped Android moving into the market.
Linux failed on the desktop because by the time it was a viable alternative, it was too late. Windows Phone 7 will fail for the same reason.
And it is quite clear that that isn't a search result, but rather some info at the top of the page.
The first actual algorithmic search result for AAPL for example is Yahoo Finance (1st two results), then Google Finance, then Wall Street Journal.
I'm in the UK so uk.finance.yahoo.com is first, then finance.yahoo.com. If you are searching in the US, then probably it doesn't show uk.finance.yahoo.com at all or it is much futher down the page along with the likes of sg.finance.yahoo.com.
In the UK, none of these cases has ever been contested in court. There were a few default judgements where people didn't turn up. If it looks like you plan to turn up at court and submit a defence, they drop the case.
Or the UK, where you get arrested for suggesting you might blow up an airport on Twitter.
Power cables in the UK are generally underground except for the high voltage grid network. Phone cables are sometimes underground as well.
Or try something like the JCB Tough Phone
http://www.jcbphone.co.uk/handset-range
You can get a basic phone from Carphone Warehouse for 99p (+ you have to buy £10 of prepaid credit from Virgin Mobile). http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/07/carphone_warehouse_99p_phone/ , so call it £10.99 or $17.52. For that you get an unlocked phone you can use on any European Network. It won't work in the US because it doesn't support the freqencies used over there.
Then I won't be able to phone the grocery store anyway. I suppose I could try and dig out a landline phone from my cupboard and try and plug it in by candlelight, but to be honest it would be quicker just to step outside and walk to the local town centre. For me, and quite a lot of other people, a landline is something you use to attach an ADSL modem to.
Not really because over this side of the Atlantic, we claim that Bell is Scottish as he was born and educated in Scotland.
I go to google maps on my phone, use the location search to find grocery stores near me and tap on the phone numbers to call them. If there is no battery power left on my phone to do that, there probably isn't any to make the call either.
I find it is much easier to visit wap.thephonebook.com, type in the details and tap on the phone number to dial it.
Having said that, in England, most people have opted out of appearing on both the dead tree and online versions of the phone book, so there is usually more chance of finding the number on my phone's address book than in the official phone book.
Two of the Beetles are still alive, so the count-down to when they enter the public domain hasn't even started yet.
Ripping them with the ALAC codec should give you the same sound quality as the original CD surely?
At Amazon UK and at the likes of HMV, physical CDs can often be cheaper than downloads because the physical CDs are sold from Jersey where sales tax is 2%, and the downloads are sold from Luxembourg where sales tax is 15%. In both cases, they have picked the cheapest jurisdiction for that type of product.
I don't think it will be that big a deal money-wise. Most Beetles fans will have already ripped their CDs onto their iPods. Yes they will sell some Beetles tacks on iTunes, but compared to all the big releases that go on iTunes from time to time, this is probably nothing special. Stockholders were probably expecting something like a Verizon version of the iPhone which would bring a lot more customers to Apple.