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Something funny happened on Mitt Romney‘s way to the acceptance speech in Tampa this coming summer. People took a look at the man, his positions, his stances, his flip flops on the issues and said, “Meh… what’s that other guy’s name?”
“No, not the mean old man who wants to put orphans to work scrubbing toilets on the moon. The other one.
“No, you’re talking about that nice old crackpot who wants to end war and legalize drugs and sell off all government-owned land. I’m talking about that other guy. What’s his name again?
“Yeah. Santorum. Sure, he’s a wingnut. Of course, he wants to keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen whippin’ up a nice meatloaf for her man. But I’m a Republican. I want those things, too!”
http://deepbrainmedia.com/2012/02/08/santorum-surge-stains-romneys-cloak-of-inevitability/Something funny happened on Mitt Romney‘s way to the acceptance speech in Tampa... more
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Google is working on a top secret project that is not a secret any
more! Google is working on a stealthy secret project in its Google X
labs and it was revealed that the company is working on a heads-up
display (HUD) wearable glasses that runs on the company’s mobile
Android operating system. The eyeglasses design is now in prototype
stage and may be co,....
http://www.itgrunts.com/2012/02/07/7991/Google is working on a top secret project that is not a secret any
more! Google is... more
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Facebook and Google say they have complied with an Indian court directive and removed "objectionable" material.They are among 21 web firms, including Yahoo and Orkut, facing a civil suit in Delhi accusing them of hosting material that may cause communal unrest.
link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16903765Facebook and Google say they have complied with an Indian court directive and removed... more
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Google’s new plan to link user data across its email, video, social-networking sites has come under fire from critics who say it’s an invasion of privacy because of the sheer volume of information collected and the inability of users to opt out.
Under the plan, information collected about individuals will be integrated across 60 Google products including Gmail, YouTube and web search. Users will have to agree to a new privacy policy that will encompass data including location measurements collected on mobile devices.
The result is that Google will soon know more about who users are and what they do on the web, allowing it to target search results and advertising. Users will not be allowed to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1.
However, the changes have provoked an outcry from critics who say Google is abusing its dominance in internet search to drive more traffic to its own services.
"Privacy advocates say Google’s changes betray users who are not accustomed to having their information shared across different websites," wrote Cecilia Kang of the Washington Post. "A user of Gmail, for instance, may send messages about a private meeting with a colleague and may not want the location of that meeting to be thrown into Google’s massive cauldron of data or used for Google’s maps application."...
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http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=18449Google’s new plan to link user data across its email, video, social-networking... more
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According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Google spent approximately $390,000 (out of $3,760,000.00 total) on SOPA and PIPA lobbying including efforts to educate lawmakers on SOPA and the DMCA. The question, then, is whether the massive search and advertising giant was for or against the bill – and why so much money was spent to argue the case.
The document, available online in PDF here, is fairly succinct and covers a number of topics, thereby explaining the massive cash outlay. Here’s the specific mention of SOPA:
Here’s the specific mention of SOPA:
S. 968 – Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011; S. 978 -
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Stop Online Piracy Act; Digital Millennium Copyright Act service provider safe harbors; Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Google was unavailable for comment for this piece but it’s clear that most organizations with a dog in the fight spent some money on lobbying. Wikimedia spent a mere $10K on their efforts, at least according to documents we found. The MPAA made its interests clear in the media but less clear in FEC filings, pouring in $850,000.00 in lobbying money while mentioning nothing of its stance.According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Google spent approximately... more
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Will he endorse a candidate? If so, which one? If not, will he finally jump into the ring himself. And as what? A Republican? Too late to get on the ballot, isn’t it? An independent? Could be. Who knows?
Whatever. But it’s official. You know it’s official because Donald “tweeted” it himself on his Twitter doohickey.
http://deepbrainmedia.com/2012/02/02/trump-to-make-major-announcement-thursday/Will he endorse a candidate? If so, which one? If not, will he finally jump into the... more
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you optimistic about the future of civilization. Stop it. By the time you’re done with this story you will join those of us pessimists who pray that the Mayans were right about their 2012 prediction.
We present…
Another reason to weep for our nation.
Yahoo, the web portal that wishes it were Google, has come up with a web app that lets you know what the most popular headlines of the hour happen to be. By demographic.
The results? Depressing.http://deepbrainmedia.com/?p=23you optimistic about the future of civilization. Stop it. By the time you’re... more
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Google cloud print is a technology that allows you to give print jobs to your home computer from anywhere. In more simple terms, you can ask your home printer from any location to print documents. Not only that, you can even assign the printing job to your home printer with the help of Google Chrome, Android, iOS devices or for that matter any mobile device and including your PC or MAC. We will guide you on how to set up /sync your printer with the help of Google Cloud Print.
http://hoowstuffworks.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-print-text-messages-and-more.htmlGoogle cloud print is a technology that allows you to give print jobs to your home... more
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Former fellow of George Soros’ Open Society and current Stanford University scholar Evgeny Morozov has called on Google and other search engines to become thought crime enforcers, by providing warnings about websites that contain “conspiracy theories” such as the belief, held by a majority of Americans, that global warming is not primarily man-made.
Morozov, whose biography confirms him as a well-connected insider, decries in a Slate piece how the Internet is a useful tool for “People who deny global warming” as well as “the anti-vaccination movement,” calling on Google to provide a “socially responsible curated treatment” that would marginalize such beliefs by amending search results.
His solution is to, “Nudge search engines to take more responsibility for their index and exercise a heavier curatorial control in presenting search results for issues like “global warming” or “vaccination.” Google already has a list of search queries that send most traffic to sites that trade in pseudoscience and conspiracy theories; why not treat them differently than normal queries? Thus, whenever users are presented with search results that are likely to send them to sites run by pseudoscientists or conspiracy theorists, Google may simply display a huge red banner asking users to exercise caution and check a previously generated list of authoritative resources before making up their minds.”
Morozov describes the potential that such a move will be judged as Google “shilling for Big Pharma or for Al Gore” as “a risk worth taking”.
This represents a similar argument to Cass Sunstein’s “cognitive infiltration,” an effort by Obama’s information czar to slap government warnings on controversial websites (including those claiming that exposure to sunlight is healthy). In a widely derided white paper, Sunstein called for political blogs to be forced to include pop ups that show “a quick argument for a competing view”. He also demanded that taxes be levied on dissenting opinions and even suggested that outright bans on certain thoughts should be enforced.
Giving companies like Google, which has grown to virtually become the gatekeeper of the entire Internet itself and is already engaging in SOPA-like acts of censorship, the power to denote which political and scientific positions are acceptable and which are fringe “conspiracy theories” is an insult to free thinking and smacks of Chinese-style thought control.
Morozov’s argument is also completely undermined by the fact that the two so-called fringe “conspiracy theories” he forwards as being in need of Google’s thought crime control, skepticism about global warming and the dangers of vaccines, are views held by millions of Americans and are not “fringe” at all.
According to the most recent polls, less than half of Americans now believe that global warming is caused by human activity, a number that has been slipping for the past several years.
FULL STORY HERE:
http://www.infowars.com/soros-mouthpiece-calls-on-google-to-police-conspiracy-theories/Former fellow of George Soros’ Open Society and current Stanford University... more
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By David Edwards
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on Sunday that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s thumping of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in South Carolina Saturday showed that the Republican base was “revolting” against the party establishment.
During a round table discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd explained that Gingrich’s win was “about Mitt Romney.”
“He hasn’t made the sale to conservatives,” Todd observed. “And losing in South Carolina, he can’t dismiss it. This is the heart and soul of the conservative movement, the folks that show up at telephones, that knock on the doors — and he doesn’t have their support.”
“There’s no doubt about it,” Scarborough agreed. “The party base is revolting, but they are revolting against the Washington Republican establishment anointing Mitt Romney.”
“Just like Herman Cain was not about Herman Cain. It was a rejection of Mitt Romney. Rick Perry, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Michele Bachmann, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich wave one, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Now we have Newt Gingrich wave two, a rejection of Mitt Romney.”
Scarborough continued: “Mitt Romney could attack Newt for not being a conservative because Newt is not a conservative. Google it! We [Republicans] ran him out of Congress in 1998 because he sold us out on taxes, he sold us out on spending, he went to the floor and he sided with Democrats on his last speech, calling us the perfectionists caucus. He called us jihadists. He’s not a conservative, he’s an opportunist. But here is the problem: So is Mitt Romney.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/22/scarborough-gop-base-is-revolting-against-romney/
Watch this video from NBC’s Meet the Press, broadcast Jan. 22, 2012.
"They still don't have the Balls to say they do not support Mitt because he is Mormon!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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As a fairly astute observer of fine print everywhere that affects me (well, except for Facebook’s) I took a gander at some of Google’s fine print leaking out from an unseemly hole under the pocket. No, I’m pretty sure it was fine print, not santorum. Having read it, I had this to say on Facebook, where I may enjoy all of the privacy in the world.
Sites with Google ads may not include or link to:
Pornography, adult or mature content
Erm, what is “mature content?” I advocate against rape here on FB, I’m sure I will there, too [my own blog], eventually. I link to anti-porn sites like gaildines.com. Surely those are “mature” subjects, if not of the xxx variety. What about some of the biblical stuff I might be prone to? Onan has a bit of a sloppy story, not that I think I’ll be using that one.As a fairly astute observer of fine print everywhere that affects me (well, except for... more
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Unfortunately for James the candidate, he now finds himself embroiled in a controversy that has gone viral. Just Google “Craig James killed five hookers” and you’ll see what I mean. The story has even infiltrated a site dedicated to soliciting donations for James, with one donor insinuating a poem with a clever acrostic calling James a “hooker killer.”Unfortunately for James the candidate, he now finds himself embroiled in a controversy... more
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S&R's Tech Curmudgeon looks at people who are more important to technology than Steve Jobs could have ever been in his (or his true believers) wildest fantasies.S&R's Tech Curmudgeon looks at people who are more important to technology... more
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Google had been expected to take on Apple with its own tablet but sources suggest it may be aiming for Amazon's Kindle Fire. Last month, the chairman of the search engine giant, Eric Schmidt, revealed the company would be launching an own-brand Android tablet in the next six months.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8996325/Google-to-launch-iPad-and-Kindle-Fire-rival-tablet-in-spring.htmlGoogle had been expected to take on Apple with its own tablet but sources suggest it... more
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