Comments on: UK Government To Inspect Google’s Failed Downranking of “Pirate” Sites

By: desbest

desbest — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:41:00 +0000

In the 1st image of “the dictator download” there are 10 illegal webpages linked in the search results.

In the 2nd image there are 7 illegal webpages linked, and 3 legal ones.

Don’t the UK Government and RIAA realise that a COMPUTER FILTERING ALGORITHM can never be perfect?

They should be grateful that Google are so good at making up algorithms, and kindly ask Google to improve and cut it some slack.

What the RIAA and US government wants Google to do, is censor the domains from the top infringers list from the transparency report.

Considering how youtube is the number 1 infringer, that is a bad idea for obvious reasons.

By: austinhamman

austinhamman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:32:00 +0000

google, stop listening to these goons, they will NEVER be happy because they don’t know what they want, or more over what they want is impossible you will never satisfy them, they will always want more and it will be your fault for not giving it to them. make it your policy not to censor results and stick to it, because if you give them an inch they will want a mile.

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By: Roswell1701

Roswell1701 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:56:00 +0000

Well, that’s what pisses me off the most… I like Windows 7. It took them twenty-five years to get it right and now they want to trash it. Anyway, thanks for the input, I really appreciate it. :)

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:04:00 +0000

Except for the scientists who have actually collated empirical data on “piracy” and come to the conclusion that indeed, it does no harm.

I’m sure the clergy in their day chuckled at Galileo also. That didn’t help much.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:51:00 +0000

My experience with Linux is that the latest distros of Ubuntu, for instance, are about as user-friendly as a Mac. There is a learning curve, but it’s hardly steep.

I’d advice installing Ubuntu on an older computer and try it out. There are a number of ways to simply try it – http://www.ubuntu.com/

One of which is downloading and burning the .iso file directly and then boot the computer from the disc (it’ll be very slow as the comp literally runs from the CD, but it will give you a general idea on how it works).

Since you work with video and graphics I would simply google “Open source alternative for [blah]” or “Can [blah] run with wine”?

I can tell you this much – if one of my relatives simply want the computer to work, no questions asked, and doesn’t use it for gaming then I just install the latest version of ubuntu on it and tell him/her to run the updater every week. Usually I get to do by FAR less tech support than i did when they were running xp.

And for the record, yes, windows 8 looks like absolute crap. Windows 7 though, still has good reviews.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:43:00 +0000

That’s basically the Caesarean maxim…

The man who founds a dynasty is usually a genius and one to make his people prosper. His son is an imbecile or a monster, his son again most likely both…

You could no doubt argue that Google is, so far a benevolent monopoly. All it takes is for one guy like Steve Jobs to take over as CEO and said benevolence is lost while the genius remains.

Hence any benevolent monopoly will be very short-lived in that form.

By: Goosmootoo

Goosmootoo — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:13:00 +0000

never end the sarcasm

By: Show Me The Greed

Show Me The Greed — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:10:00 +0000

when have capitalists ever been happy to say “yep that’s enough money, lets stop there”. never gonna happen.

By: Goosmoo

Goosmoo — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:19:00 +0000

Let’s just make things simple. The UK (and US) government should just go to people’s houses and watch what they type real-time so that they can make sure people are not trying to find copyrighted material. There will need to be a lot more government employees for this, obviously, so they should just raise taxes significantly and cut spending in less important areas like health care, education, and national security. Because nothing in this world is more important than making sure people don’t use Google to find the latest episode of some crappy reality tv show. I don’t live in the UK, but I am happy to see the UK government has their priorities straight!

/endsarcasm