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|  EU wants to cripple Google News service
Google must be growing fast enough to threaten the EU's online businesses desire for internet profits. They are now only #2 to Microsoft in EU hatred of US businesses.
Google makes ad dollars from links to EU news sources. Those news sources are now trying to use copyright infringement as an excuse to kill off Google's news service or force Google to pay to list links to their news stories.
This attempt to force companies not to link without payment would kill the very thing that makes the web work at all. Let's hope that Google fights this tooth and nail. They may have to spend some of those huge profits to preserve the right to link without payment.
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| Bell South not the evil monster users claim
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In more evidence that it is embracing WiMAX as a key strategy for delivering broadband, BellSouth said Tuesday that it will extend the wireless high-speed service to customers in Hurricane Katrina-devastated Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss.
The former regional Bell operating company (RBOC) said the pre-WiMAX service will feature downstream speeds up to 1.5Mbps. The firm has installed similar service in some Georgia communities and has offered the service to businesses in New Orleans.
"As BellSouth strategically expands wireless broadband service across our region, we considered it an obvious choice to use this innovative technology for disaster recovery," said John McCullouch, president of the firm's Mississippi operations, in a statement. Is this the same Bell South that users claim is backward and is doing nothing in hurricane damaged areas? But I guess unless they offer free multi-state WiFi, the "give me everything for free" crowd will slam them.
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Re: EU wants to cripple Google News service
"The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years," said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Publishers Council That is the sum of it. Another example of big business needing to change and adapt to the modern world of the Internet. Same deal with the RIAA, MPAA, etc etc etc.
As a web developer, I know that the golden rule is "If you don't want it stolen, copied or misused, don't put it on the Internet".
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Re: Bell South not the evil monster users claim
said by TKJunkMail  :Is this the same Bell South that users claim is backward and is doing nothing in hurricane damaged areas? Yes, yes it is.
You obviously missed the point of those who criticized BS's decision to withdraw the donated building for the NO Police.
It isn't that they should give up everything for free, it is that they appeared to be stingy brats when things didn't go their way. Instead of showing a little compassion for the customer base they are obviously concerned about getting back, they withdrew their gift.
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The user unhappy with Mozilla( »www.theinquirer.net/?article=28145 ) for not generating a list of potential add-ins/extensions not compatible with Firefox 1.5 is all wet in my opinion. The use of extensions is the responsibility of each user that uses them. If he requires that Mozilla test every single extension(thousands of them) every time they make an update, then he will get a browser just like Internet Explorer - one that gets updated every 4 or 5 years.
I updated to 1.5 without problem and the half dozen or so extensions that I use all worked without being updated. And over the next few days updates for problems they had but which I didn't experience were addressed with new releases.
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Re: EU wants to cripple Google News service
said by TKJunkMail :Google makes ad dollars from links to EU news sources. Those news sources are now trying to use copyright infringement as an excuse to kill off Google's news service or force Google to pay to list links to their news stories. Google does not have ads on their news page, so they are not directly making money from google news. Now since people are finding news through google, they are probably searching with google and that's how google is getting paid. The sad part is that these news sites linked to from google probably have ads on them and they are therefore getting paid when people go to their site. And the only reason people go to their sites is because it was listed on google news. I myself have never heard of a lot of sites on google news before, so in a way it's giving exposure to local papers around the world to the world. |
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Re: Firefox 1.5 add-ins problem??
The thing that kept me from taking that article seriously was the name calling.
THE MOZZARELLA Foundation's new version of the open sauce browser Firefox... According to French, Flamingbadger 1.5 blocks the use of any plug-in... Of course, it would probably be nice to make "require extensions to be compatible with version 1.5" to be an option that users could turn off.
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| I think this site doesn't care for Firefox, because I have seen a couple negative stories at the Inquirer that have had the same "misspellings". As far as plug-ins being compatible with the new version, that has to be done by the creator, not Mozilla. They should have been working on them when they had release versions out, so when the official final version came out then they would be ready. So  to Inquirer.
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There are two ways to get old extensions to run in firefox 1.5.
You can type "about:config" in the location bar (as always without the quotes). Right click on any item in the list of variables that shows up, select New then String, add apps.preference.version, give it a value of 1.0. Not as easy as it might be but it works.
Alternatively, you can go into your firefox extensions directory and edit each extension's install.rdf file. In these files there is a variable maxVersion. For the non-working extensions change the value of this variable to "1.5+". Again not as easy as it might be but it works. |
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In all fairness, Mozillla created its own monster through constant renaming of the dumb thing there for a while. I still know people who will only refer to it as "ElementAnimal". |
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Re: EU wants to cripple Google News service
yep but like Napster and the RIAA, the content owners here deploy the lawyers first and consider the future later. by which time its too late.
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