On May 27, 11:15 am, Andre Jute <
fiult...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Monday, May 27, 2013 6:59:21 PM UTC+1, Dan O wrote:
> > On May 27, 10:07 am, Andre Jute <
fiult...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Monday, May 27, 2013 1:15:36 AM UTC+1, James wrote:
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> > > > On 27/05/13 09:22, datakoll aka Gene Daniels wrote:
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> > > > > However, the Google Views Counter, if accurate, clearly displays
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> > > > > posts by Jute are popular where my posts are clearly ignored.
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> > > > BTW, how does google view counter know what I have read, when I don't
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> > > > use google groups?
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> > > Google in effect owns the Usenet. All these posts appear from Google servers, and Google keeps the archive. Your XYZ message server fetches the message from Google and a counter clicks over. So there is every reason to believe a Google count of posts and views is accurate.
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> >
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977
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> Come on, Danno, you know I'm not going to slog through all that stuff. Tell us what it says that's relevant to the present discussion.
>
To be frank... er, honest, I didn't slog through it, either; but I
believe it says the paragraph above it is ignorant BS.
> > > Not an ideal situation. The entire Google Board and management are self-confessed thieves.
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> >
http://www.geek.com/news/eric-schmidt-thought-dont-be-evil-was-the-st...
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> Why am I not surprised. These guys tried to do an evil thing -- the steal from thousands of little people, poor widows and suchlike, and were stopped in their tracks by a judge, and I haven't heard any apologies. BTW, I was one of the people they tried to steal from. I'm not likely to trust Google ever again. Once thief, always a thief.
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Trust is one of those things in the same category as safety; neither
can - by its very nature - be absolute; but (so far) entities like
Google (and there are few) keep hope alive.
> > > They tried to steal every copyright in the world, and were stopped by a wide-wake judge in the States, who should get the Nobel Prize for Literature for that signal service. Expect sooner or later to see advertising on the Usenet
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> > You don't already get "sponsored links" in your browser reading Google
> > Groups?
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> No, I don't. i read
groups.google inside Safari on a Mac, and Apple, bless Steve Jobs and may his time in Purgatory be short, protects me against the depredations of Google and suchlike.
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> >
http://www.giganews.com/usenet-glossary/Usenet-Spam.html
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> In the last week or so ads have been appearing in people's Facebook pages, placed there by Facebook. My protege Dakota Franklin is putting nasty comments on the more inappropriate ones (ads for liquor -- her page is about athletes) in the hope that Facebook operates a "whitelist" of members on whose pages it is too dangerous for paying customers to go. I don't think Facebook, the least competent of these serendipitous great corporations, has the nous to program that, but she reckons they'll catch on as soon as they lose a few big advertising accounts.
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Facebook is the new, mutated and evolved, AOL, and commercialism is
all over it like flies on a rib roast. What kills me is the way they
apply labels like "Like" to their abstraction, such that endorsement
is required for access.
> Over here in Ireland, we now get ads on rented movies... Next they be even on movies you buy.
>
I hear you.