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by yanw 15y ago
Labor camps?! the fuck! they are being paid regular salary. The author doesn't quite understand the concept of social injustice (nor do you) and so he tries to apply it on patterns he'd found with disastrous consequences. He thinks that if
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by yanw 15y ago
They might be contracted by another company with shittier terms. And Google doesn't have to make it's inner workings public.
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by yanw 15y ago
The blog author made his fair share of 'nasty name-calling' as well (bordering on slander, really).
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by yanw 15y ago
Then his company got a better contract.
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by yanw 15y ago
There is a huuuuuuuuuuugly important distinction that has to be made here: The “Book Scanners” are NOT Google employees!!!!! They are the workers of a company that was hired by Google to do this monotonous physical labor, you know CONTRACT
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by yanw 15y ago
But the author is clearly delusional. He doesn't seem to understand the difference between being an employee for a company that was hired by Google and being a Google employee and instead concocts this story about class warfare and injustic
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Chopper crews saved by Google Maps during Queensland floods(heraldsun.com.au)
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Chopper crews saved by Google Maps during Queensland floods(heraldsun.com.au)
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by yanw 16y ago
Alarmists and lawyers (with help from the panic perpetuating media) thrive in this climate: " Christina Gagnier, a lawyer specializing in privacy and copyright, said in an interview last week that there wasn’t enough legislation to protect
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Merchant Sales Reports on Android Market(android-developers.blogspot.com)
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by yanw 16y ago
Adwords recently added phone support.
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by yanw 16y ago
Cell tower and WiFi basestation locations. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/south-korea-europe...
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by yanw 16y ago
From a response they sent to the press: Any location data that is sent back to Google location servers is anonymized and is not tied or traceable to a specific user. It's anonymized. They technically aren't tracking your location but find
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Introducing the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative(blog.webmproject.org)
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by yanw 16y ago
If I understand correctly you suggest that it was a mistake not having launched GDrive as a gate-way service to their 'no file' vision, but I agree with their approach to focus on developing the services that will eventually remove the need
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by yanw 16y ago
I disagree, the 'no file' approach is the forward looking one, beyond DropBox type thing. Why sync files to local machines when they are already accessible through the cloud? that's the 'leap'.
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by yanw 16y ago
Much depends on their press release and convincing the media to tune the hyperbole down a notch.
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by yanw 16y ago
I hope this episode ends with Apple pushing an update to truncate and encrypt the file and people get over the fact that location services by definition use location data.
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by yanw 16y ago
Evidently :)
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by yanw 16y ago
I suppose it's this week's flavor of moral/techno panic so I won't dismiss this question as stupid. Android is opensource so they can use and modify it as they please, as for sending location data, it's the maps app that sends triangulation
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by yanw 16y ago
Copying is allowed! it's a big part of innovating. And to quote Eric Schmidt: "The last new idea in computer science was public key encryption in 1975" It's the implementation of an idea that sets it apart.
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Blogger, Redesigned(bloggerindraft.blogspot.com)
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Google Maps editing in realtime(google.com)
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USPTO Wants To Open Shop In Silicon Valley, doesn't Want The Press To Know(techdirt.com)
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by yanw 16y ago
This debate focuses on search and ignores their other services that are mostly paid for by the search business, also maintenance and uptime are being ignored, all of which nullifies the initial question. These studies can't possible be accu
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by yanw 16y ago
Unnamed sources...
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John McCain & WSJ Should Not Determine the Future of the Internet(readwriteweb.com)
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Pagination comes to Google Docs(googledocs.blogspot.com)
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by yanw 16y ago
They might just do that, he doesn't know and that's my point, he's quick to judge.
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by yanw 16y ago
I wish people would keep some of their opinions to themselves, classifying something as a 'blunder' because you don't agree with it is just bad reporting. You wanted a startup and there you have it, with startups there is a certain amount o

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