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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

gross

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

duTrieux. posted:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYear=2014

in the beginning of 2014, google spent more on lobbying than any other single corporation

*shits pants, uses dirty underwear to scrawl 'don't be evil' on the wall*

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

cremnob posted:

As expected, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls on the European Commission to consider a break-up of Google as a potential solution to its dominance in the European search market.

Google is currently embroiled in a long-running antitrust case with the European Commission over the way it uses its search dominance – it has more than 90 percent of the European market — to push its own services (among other things). The Commission is also looking into complaints about Google’s bundling of its services with Android.

The resolution was passed on Thursday by 384 votes to 174, with 56 abstentions, urging the Commission to consider “unbundling” Google’s search business from its other interests. The Commission does have the power to force a company’s break-up (the European Parliament cannot itself initiate any such plan) but has never before done so. Nor has the European Parliament ever urged such a move in this way.

For a vote that didn’t decide much in concrete terms, it was certainly preceded by furious lobbying and plenty of behind-the-scenes mudslinging.

In the days leading up to the vote, the New York Times revealed that Andreas Schwab, the German conservative who initiated the Google break-up proposal, provides competition policy expertise to a German law firm whose parent company has done work for publishers that are involved in the antitrust case against the company.

Then, after some U.S. congresspeople and senators wrote to the European Parliament chief to decry the draft resolution, it emerged that three out of the four signatories have received campaign funding from Google.


https://gigaom.com/2014/11/27/eu-parliament-calls-on-commission-to-consider-google-break-up/

lol, of course the liberals opposed this vote

(both the conservatives and socialists voted in favour :ussr:)

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Beeftweeter posted:

why cant gmail just do whatever icloud mail does for push on ios

wait dont answer that i already know :sigh:

just use Mailbox.app

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

mailbox has always had push for gmail, but that's because you give mailbox direct access to your gmail account and they run push themselves

i think apple just doesn't want to bother setting up the infrastructure to do that because it's really not their problem.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

that doesn't sound like google at all

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Snapchat A Titty posted:

wont a UK passport give you the biggest area of visa-less residence/employment? presumably youd get the EU plus the commonwealth that way?

you wouldn't get the commonwealth, there's no free movement of labour/people deal between commonwealth countries

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

i'm never sure from day to day if belgium currently has a government or not

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

they've had a government for two whole months now, after spending six months without one

way to go, belgium :unsmith:

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

PleasureKevin posted:

just make a military industrial complex thread jfc

google is the MIC
they own killer robots

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

sure, the face of modern panopticon dystopia spent hundreds of millions of dollars on sophisticated killer robots as a "distraction" and they have no idea what they're going to do with them

checks out, i believe it. now let me join google plus and tag photos of me and my friends so the robots can recognise me, and buy an android phone so that google can always know where i am.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

we're lucky the coast guard shut down their floating mobile command centre

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oaIxcgNKgk

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

it's more expensive than hover

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

gandi is awful

but i had to use them to register the european tld i needed to buy myfirstna.me

Pinterest Mom fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jan 16, 2015

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

just gonna crosspost this

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

PleasureKevin posted:

lol

google released 0-day exploits of OS X, all of them requiring physical access to the machine.

some google guy showed up in the comments on Ars and someone pointed out a bug in chrome, to which he says "oops forgot to assign that ticket to someone"

then there's a big fight about the quality of chrome. i gotta laugh that apple's "don't talk to the press, or for that matter the loving comments section" policy would have served him well here

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/google-drops-three-os-x-0days-on-apple/

what's up with google releasing zero days for both windows and os x lately, that seems like a dick move

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

LastInLine posted:

the carrier deals google signs are for nexus devices only and those are fully patched

google to manufacturers: you can't use google services unless you can guarantee timely patches for (24 - 36 months)
manufacturers to carriers: welp our hands are tied

(or maybe samsung just switches to tizen, idk)

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

i just got an email from google+ suggesting "a few Google+ posts you might like"

looooool

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

btw i really do think pinterest is gonna break from the pack on advertising. they've very nearly found a way to make display ads into intent-harvesting devices, because like 90% of pinterest traffic is people "pinning" consumer goods.

at some point they're gonna figure out how to get referral marketing or demographic targeting or something to work there. it won't be stupid like facebook. you'll get ads for mercedes when you pin a bmw, not while you're idly chatting with your aunt sally

they're "developing a buy button" that's getting rolled out in the next 6 months

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Today, Google is announcing a "pilot program" on the Google Play app store which will allow app makers to purchase a spot at the top of search results. The program will work very similarly to how ads work on a traditional Google search, but instead of highlighting websites, developers can highlight their apps. That means that individual search terms will be bid on by advertisers, and sponsored results will have a small "Ad" tag on them.

Google says that the pilot program will begin in a very limited way, accessible only to a pre-chosen "pilot group" that has already begun pushing their apps via ads in traditional web searches — but it's reasonable to assume it'll open up to more app makers in relatively short order.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

"first step towards true ai"

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009


lol @ bringing in european architects who correctly recognise that the car as a mode of transport is a dead end and socially destructive

and, in the same video

have a google self-driving car serve as the illustration for "what transit will look like in the future"

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

don't you think Google already has city council 100% captured though

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

For the third time in a year, Google has a new leader for its social network, Google+. And in keeping with the trend of trios, Google+ is getting split into three different products: Streams, Photos and Hangouts. Google VP Bradley Horowitz is taking the reins of the former two products, which until now have been part of Google+.

:rip:

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

fart simpson posted:

i have a french coworker who smokes both real cigarettes and e-cigarettes

il fume et il vapote.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

i don't think france thinks about québec v. much or at all

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Mister Macys posted:

the queen visits every couple of years or so; when's the last time Sarkozy or any other french presidente visited Canada outside of the Olympics (if that)?

last november

(the current french pres is hollande, not sarko)

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Mister Macys posted:

I know that, but Sarkozy is their only cool one :dance:

excusez-moi mais,

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

taking that thing out as president and parking it outside your movie star mistress' apartment is baller af

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

google isn't taking the breakup with firefox well

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

"bugged"

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

SIGSEGV posted:

no, that was just the Xbox division

schmidt has a sex dungeon / dog kennel hybrid though

IIRC, it was post-Xbox Allard who was involved in the sex right

so it at the very least involved the Zune division

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

PleasureKevin posted:

is this real talk or like a running joke fan fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmkzaYwU4g&t=4514s

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

A Pinball Wizard posted:

was he like loving on the clock or something? how is that a fireable offense

A VP running a sex ring that includes his reports and goes all the way down to secretaries?

Yeah why would that be an HR issue idgi.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

THC posted:

because their sex lives involve other employees at the same company, often employees that report to them

and also it's j allard, whose career trajectory is



to



to

zune

and it's impossible to not be fascinated by that

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

THC posted:

ukulele music. and memes

i still get enraged, five years later, whenever i think of this ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpAkNyHAtQ

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Wheany posted:

is that a power button above the backspace?

like on every modern laptop, yes

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Wheany posted:

holy loving poo poo, whose dumb idea was it to autoplay suggested videos on youtube, goddamn.

you don't have to think very hard to figure out why they did it do you

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