There was a large ad campaign that supposedly touted wireless access within the library and the ILC (integrated learning center....ballyhooed name for underground classrooms if you ask me;) ) Anywho, the campus uses a Cisco VPN dialer to authenticate everyone via their email ID and password. The whole thing is rather shoddy, as the VPN dialer rarely works as it should. Often, logging in leads to a short-lived connection, and then the VPN dialer returns an error of "VPN subsystem lost"...Repeated attempts afterward to get back online wirelessly fail. Really a worthless system if you ask me, as I go around with an ethernet cable to get a connection anywhere on campus...
I doubt anyone is surprised by Microsoft's, AOL's, etc, complaints, but Google and the like? That seems a bit odd. A big cash cow for "Google and the like" is targeted ads...Of course they'll be first in line to protest this bill. IMHO, I think targeted or paid ads should be banned anyway...In my own experiences with search on Google, etc, I've seen many targeted ads come up something like this -
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There was a large ad campaign that supposedly touted wireless access within the library and the ILC (integrated learning center....ballyhooed name for underground classrooms if you ask me ;) ) Anywho, the campus uses a Cisco VPN dialer to authenticate everyone via their email ID and password. The whole thing is rather shoddy, as the VPN dialer rarely works as it should. Often, logging in leads to a short-lived connection, and then the VPN dialer returns an error of "VPN subsystem lost"...Repeated attempts afterward to get back online wirelessly fail. Really a worthless system if you ask me, as I go around with an ethernet cable to get a connection anywhere on campus...
I doubt anyone is surprised by Microsoft's, AOL's, etc, complaints, but Google and the like? That seems a bit odd.
A big cash cow for "Google and the like" is targeted ads...Of course they'll be first in line to protest this bill. IMHO, I think targeted or paid ads should be banned anyway...In my own experiences with search on Google, etc, I've seen many targeted ads come up something like this -
William Shakespeare For Only $.99!
or
research+DMCA Dirt Cheap!