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kudos:4 |  Google deal limits news views for some publishers
»tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20091201···iagoogle
Google on Tuesday said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.
Google said publishers can join a First Click Free program that lets the Internet firm index website content but prevents Web surfers from having unrestricted access once they reach the online locales. An Internet user's first click leads to the desired Web page, but attempts to delve deeper into a website are routed to payment or registration pages, according to Google.
"Now, we've updated the program so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing."
The change announced Tuesday means Google users may start seeing registration pages pop up when they click for a sixth time on any given day at websites of publishers using First Click Free, according to Cohen. I wonder if this well known Google bypass to registration will still work?
Sticking this in front of the news URL: »www.google.com/url?q=
Example: »www.google.com/url?q=http://onli···491.html
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Tulsa, OK | Re: Google deal limits news views for some publishers My guess is they still won't be happy. They'll want Google to pay them for people clicking in on links. | |
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| Authorities will never abuse power .... See, I'm sure law enforcement, Government Bureaucrats and bored employees will NEVER abuse the power and violate people's privacy.
We all know that all eight million GPS traces done on Sprint user's cellphones revealing their locations and activities were done within the law with judicial approval and the proper warrants...... NOT.
Posterchild issue about why the EFF is right and things like warrantless wiretapping and related are completely wrong.
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| Re: Authorities will never abuse power .... said by KrK:We all know that all eight million GPS traces done on Sprint user's cellphones revealing their locations and activities were done within the law with judicial approval and the proper warrants...... Is there a law prohibiting the release of positioning information?
I know there's a law against releasing call records (except under a few circumstances which were expanded by the 2006 Patriot Act). But, positioning/location information isn't call records. What law did Sprint violate?
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| Re: Authorities will never abuse power .... Well, that's a shocker. Apparently accessing a user's Cellphone data isn't protected like accessing their call records is. So apparently no law has been broken. Unless they were residents of New York, anyway.... the New York Appeals court ruled earlier this year that police can't use GPS tracking locations without a warrant. However, apparently this is a "new" gray area and at the moment protection is lacking.
But hell, sounds like we need a new law!
This is some very interesting reading: »paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-m···nce.html
I really like the part about how much money Cox Communications charges for your data. Note, not protecting you; How much they make in SELLING it.
Guess you'd better not have a stalker or ex or someone who can track your location via your phone....
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| Re: Authorities will never abuse power .... said by KrK:I really like the part about how much money Cox Communications charges for your data. Note, not protecting you; How much they make in SELLING it. All the private databases bother me. We have this strange revulsion to a national ID even though we use a variety of IDs that are less controlled than most countries apply to their national IDs.
We oppose a national ID because it could lead to a "big brother" database. But, we have a variety of private databases that you (as an individual) have no hope of monitoring and correcting (in ways that other countries make an individual right).
Have you ever requested your ChoicePoint "full disclosure" file? That's an eye opener. They allow one request per year. This is going to be the next credit-reporting movement. Except, they don't report your credit rating. It's everything from unemployment and worker comp claims to insurance claims, or how long you went without coverage. Vehicles registered to you. Driving record. And education.
That's just one database. There's many more. ChoicePoint is offering annual free reports just to stay ahead of the fallout that's bound to occur as more people realize how personal details are available to anyone.
Also, they say they don't store any info about your credit-card purchases. But, they're a subsidiary of Lexus Nexus who does maintain that info, and sells it to a different line of customers.
I'm not concerned about the info being available to those with a need to know. Just the lack of control we have over our info. The plurality of databases. Not knowing how it's used or who's accessing it.
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2 edits | number of libraries in the usa »www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices···eet1.cfm
There are an estimated 122,356 libraries of all kinds in the United States today. No annual survey provides statistics on all types of libraries.
ok 3,400,000 / 122,000 = 27$ if every library got that
can you spend 1$ a day and beat Microsoft and make them look like cheapos?
5 states:
216 in Arkansas ($735,207)= 3400$ per library
might pay for 2 Microsoft computers and the internet for a year WOW go BILL and thats saying its done at ALL public libraries. Most likely its going ot be ones that USE ONLY MS SOFTWARE and do not use opensource which BTW LISCENING AHOY they get the 3400$ back pretty quickly
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New York ($947,517)
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| Psystar what ????? Bankrupt Psystar is claiming "Fair Use" in Florida pre-trial offerings to the court. How can they claim "Fair Use" when Mac OS X software is not only licensed and copyrighted, it was not offered to the Open Source community.
Maybe Pystar can dig themselves out of bankruptcy by selling a #200 PC with linux installed?
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| Re: Psystar what ????? I don't know that either one is more evil than the other. They both own copyright on their proprietary software. If Psystar was in Microsoft's cross-hair they would have the same problem. So far Psystar has avoided it.
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| Why is the FCC looking for a "White Space" database minder when they plan to rearrange the TV channels again anyway?
There are 2 initiatives this week that are mutually exclusive:
The unlicensed WiFi on Steroids between TV channels, and taking the TV channels away and giving them to phone companies so they can make you pay for TV shows that used to be free.
This is obviously a ploy to make all the airwaves "conditional access". No $$ no TV. | |
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