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September 14, 2007 4:00 AM PDT
Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal
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A more recent hint about legality comes from a 2003 appeals court decision related to a copyright dispute over the file-sharing service Aimster.
In that opinion, 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner concluded that, based on earlier court rulings, commercial-skipping creates "an unauthorized derivative work, namely a commercial-free copy that would reduce the copyright owner's income from his original program, since 'free' television programs are financed by the purchase of commercials by advertisers." By "derivative work," he was referring to a concept from copyright law that says it's generally unlawful to make a new work out of an existing copyrighted one without permission.
The second argument claims that a Web site's terms of service are a "browsewrap" or "clickwrap" agreement that are legally binding. To apply, the notice must be "conspicuous enough to the visitor, so they they're aware that their visit is governed by these terms," said Cydney Tune, a lawyer who heads copyright practice at law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in San Francisco. (A "clickwrap" license that requires a visitor's agreement to proceed is more likely to be enforceable, however.)
Still, just because a Web site's terms of service prohibits ad-blocking doesn't mean that lawsuits will necessarily ensue. "This is a conversation that comes up a lot," said Anil Dash, chief evangelist for SixApart, which owns LiveJournal. "We're not going to chase (them) down. If a kid wants to install a browser and a plug-in on a browser to control their experience, we're not going to fight them doing that."
"The truth of it is, very, very few people run ad-blocking software," Dash said. "Some of them are very vocal about it, but we do respect that."
A Fox Interactive Media representative declined to comment about MySpace.com's terms of service.
While statistics for ad-blocking tools are hard to come by, an estimated 2.5 million users worldwide currently run Adblock Plus, and an even greater number have downloaded the utility, Adblock Plus lead developer Wladimir Palant said in an e-mail interview. He estimated the product is attracting 300,000 new users each month after an initial spike in adoption attributed to people switching over from Adblock, a related utility with a development path that has diverged.
Palant said he believes Adblock Plus is in "no way illegal" and suggested that suing companies like his "out of business" won't do anyone any good. He added that no one to his knowledge makes money, directly or indirectly, off the software.
In addition, because the source code is publicly available, development would likely continue in another nation with different copyright laws. "The software that I am making is open source, even if I stop working on it--each Adblock Plus user has a copy, and any of them could develop it further," Palant said. "If the advertisers have a problem, they will not be able to solve it in the legal way. As long as people want to block ads, they will be able to do this."
(Publisher's disclosure: CNET Networks, publisher of News.com, is one of hundreds of members of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which was mentioned in this article.)
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- Is "Illegal" the right word?
- For it to be illegal, there would have to be some law that made blocking of ads an illegal act. Is there any such law?
As for the web site own terms and conditions, that would be a contractual matter - i.e. Breach of Contract. A site could potentially request users to stop blocking, and pay damages. What damages would be due from someone who would never have click the ads anyway is an interesting question.
As for copyright infringment. I dont buy that. The copyrighted material is the HTML documents and images etc. Ad-blocking software does not additionally copy, modify or distribute this HTML, it only chooses render it differently. Your choice of rendering is surely covered by fair use.
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- Push Advertising: We are just responding by pushing back
- While it does surprise me that litigation is on the rise about the issue of e-ad blocking, I think it is a common reaction to our switch from "pull" advertising to "push", where loads of personal data are gathered on any given consumer & used to "push" service/product to him/her, versus him/her coming to the provider in search of service/product.
Personally, I think the next step is to modify the bill of right to add an amendments about our internet freedoms.
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- This is not copyright infringement
- Website owners would need to copyright every ad combination WITH their sight content 'statically' for that to even be considered. Secondly if ad-blocking is a violation of copyright, under the unauthorized derivative work, then so is censorship, and the FCC and MPAA and all broadcasters, have been violating copyrights for years! Local Broadcasters routinely play local commercials in place of national ones that are occuring in the background on the national feeds, are those national ad agencies screaming copyright infringement? Copyrights are to prevent unauthorized reproduction of works, to block an ad, is not reproducing any of the content, it is simply omitting part of it. On the other hand one could also argue that the internet by design, is making reproductions of everything that passes over it, all the time, are they not all considered authorized, simply by placing them on the internet anyway? Should it not be just accepted as fact that putting something on the internet IS making it a Public Domain work, unless you do something to restrict its access? I think it is outragous to even consider the idea of entering into some kind of legal, binding contract just to view a site. A site that you can post to, maybe, but just browsing? There should be no such thing, and such terms of use should be banned. How about we just pass a law that says you own me money, because I say you do, because thats what the advertisers want, money for nothing. They paid big money to get those security holes and popups and adware capabilities, now they complain because we can turn around and beat them at their own game, without spending a dime. The internet is a free open forum, and try as you might, you can not change it, it was designed that way. I repeat, the internet was NOT desinged, nor implemented or purposed for commerce, end of story. Just because it has started to be used for such, does not give you any guarentee that it will faithfully serve that function.
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- Maybe there will be a PUSH Ad backlash. I love the fact that I can get so much good content for free. I remember when most content was subscription only, and I would hate to see so many web ads blocked that Publishers give up on ad supported free content. I'd rather see Publishers move to a personalized PULL web ad system like the new one from XooXooX.com which allows the publisher to still make ad revenue -- but allows ME to choose what kinds of products the ads I see will be for. Also, I prefer their privacy model, where they keep all my shopping data on my computer where I control it and not on some server where it might be targeted by crackers.
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- Advertisers should blame themselves
- Most people have no problem with advertisements ON web pages. It's when advertisers started to get obnoxious with endless popups and pop-unders that people got motivated to start blocking them. Advertisers take note: NOBODY WILL BUY YOUR PRODUCTS IF YOU ANNOY THEM! Can you imagine opening your New York Times and having adverts start flying out of the newspaper and up into your face? Get real...legal or not, I and everybody I know will continue to use every means possible to keep you from opening windows up on our machines...keep it on the web page that contains the information I want or keep it to yourself!
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- I wouldn't block the ads...
- ... if they wouldn't intrude on the article I may be trying to read simply because my mouse cursor drifted over them.
... if the flash they used didn't slow some aspects of my workstation class computer down.
... if random ads didn't contain annoying sound bites.
... etc etc.
Stop making them annoying and intrusive and I will stop blocking them.
I didn't install AdBlocker Plus bacause I didn't want to see the ads, I installed it because the ads were getting to the point of annoying.
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- money talks
- Good luck trying to find any content. Already mixing editorial and advertising has become an issue, but it will surely become an even bigger eyesore if the suits win this one. One of the reasons people are attracted to the web in the first place is that it represents (at least for the moment) a user experience where we are not overwhelmed with ads. Why do you think people buys Tivos and rent movies. We are sick to death of advertising. Must it always be about sell this ... sell that. What a sad excuse for a culture.
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- Why is no one mentioning WebSense?
- I use websense in a corporate envrioment to block users from sites they shouldn't be browseing at work. I also block the entire list from Ad-Blocker to conserve bandwidth and keep users safe from dangerous ads that if clicks usually load spyware. I've been doing this long before Ad-Block was created.
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- It all doesn't wash though
- There are regular updates to the hosts file that block a lot of advertising out there. Are they going to go sue after those? Are they going to insist on scanning my machine to make sure my hosts file doesn't block their advertising?
What if I make those changes in my DNS? Or point my computer to use such a DNS?
To find such things would be incredibly intrusive, and just to make sure advertising is delivered? That's going to take quite a bit of excellent lawyering to get passed. That in itself could be claimed to be malware or spyware.
If they really can succeed on suing based on unauthorized copyright derivation, what about virus and malware scanning? Would I be forced to take their damaging software as well?
The problem as I see it is that this is MY machine, and I WILL control what goes in and out of MY machine.
If publishers had not made the advertising so obnoxious (pop-up, pop-down ads, interactive ads that *demand* we pay attention to them before we get what we are looking for, I remember an Intel ad that used flash that immediately suck way too much processor time, and I didn't have that fast a processor to begin with - Maybe that was the point?) the means that are out there wouldn't be as sophisticated as they are now.
If it turns illegal, then I guess I'll just remain to be a criminal then.
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- Snooping
- Well, now, this is really adding up. MS has long been spam and advertising friendly, plus the unauthorized "updates" MS has been making (maybe even to the EULA), the patent related to tracking what is on people's computers so MS can "provide" them with advertising related to their interests, and the push for "cloud computing" so everyone using MS has to be online, and what's this about VISTA not working after it has not had a chance to phone home for a while?
The snooping and downloading can also be used to remove the ad blocking software, very easily, and remove entries on the hosts file, and how difficult would it be for MS to stick a second "sites permitted even if prohibited by hosts" file in there? Wasn't there something about MS re-enabling certificates the user wanted revoked?
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- I'm the author of Bork Bork Bork!, a Firefox extension, that is both a travesty (humour) and an ad-blocking/flash/html filter similar to the Adblock extension. I added ad-blocking facilities to the original travesty filter for two specific reasons: Adblock has/had lots of JavaScript bugs and online ads (which I now consider to be akin to spam), pop-ups, blog spam, junk email, IM spam, etc. have become so intrusive so as to interfere with my daily life both at work and home.
The only ads I tolerate are the Google text ads that are short, less intrusive, and typically more relevant.
Historically people have been willing to accept TV, radio, billboards, and traditional print media ads, but when advertising tries to get in my face every where I turn from Internet access, online applications, cell phones, flyers, t-shirts, email, sport events, cars windows, sky writing, lawns, tattoos, and what ever else they can think of, I start to see it as polluting my personal visual and audio space, much like light pollution hides the night sky or white noise masks the sounds of nature. The desire for profit at all costs has diminished the experience of life.
To say ad-blocking is theft is a complete lie and one sided distortion of facts: yes, servers have bandwidth and host costs, BUT so to do office workstations and home computers; we (the end user) pay for our bandwidth, we pay for our computer equipment, we pay for our time online, and so we have the right to chose what we will allow to cross our local networks and computer screens. Internet culture has an old saying "my computer, my rules".
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- Thank you
- I don't think I use your's in particular, but I appreciate you and the other ad blocker program and plug in authors making your work availible to the public.
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- I am a blogger who gets part of my revenue from the ads that people click on when they visit my site. Many of my readers are from a local university that not only blocks the ads, but when my page comes up on the computers there, the page itself has been realigned so that it doesn't even look like there should be an ad there. I agree completely that the user should have the choice of clicking or not clicking. I don't use pop-ups, but I see this sort of like having one side of the church with an offering plate, and the other side not being told where the collection box was hidden. Then we wonder why the priest looks hungry and can't deliver the homily well.
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- Yeah, what sirwumpus said.
Last I checked, I had signed no contracts with ad agencies. They do not have a right to purchase ad space wherever they want. The entities need a contract and nobody needs to agree with advertisements. Advertisers have no right that I know of to force me to watch advertisements; they only have the right to try to do fair business, and fairness includes not harassing a consumer. I change radio stations when they advertise too much. Nobody complaining there! Commercial time on TV? Let in or let out the dog, make popcorn, switch the laundry.... nobody complains there! Post in my blog, visit an online forum, research a product at a manufacturer website, buy a product from an online merchant... nobody complaining there! I don't let telemarketers into my home phone nor into my cellphone. THEY complained about that and they lost. How ironic!
The lesson here is really about moderation. Google ads use only ASCII text, tiny tiny tiny amounts of it. Key word: tiny. Google makes sure the ads are relevant to my interests, not random popups, not jiggeldy 'millionth visitor' fluff, Google posts only one ad here or there, my screen is not littered with 40 ads. I chose to block advertisements as a reaction to avertisers choices to put up big, trashy, flashy, wiggely, swoopy spewage filled with marginal claims. The ads clearly got out of hand, and that is where the internet users drew the line. They lost, they need to get over it.
Advertisers do not have a guaranteed audience. They simply have to make smarter decisions about advertising; demanding laws to force people to suffer advertisements is whining, pure and simple.
FWIW, cNet terms of usage for 'comment reply' says "posting of advertisements... is prohibited". Hmmmmm. Why? How can they enforce that? Hmmmm.
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- Adblock works great
- but a lot of us were blocking advertisements using a host file (that routes calls to sites like doubleclick to 127.0.0.1) long before adblocking programs became popular. And many companies block them at the firewall.
Remember, it's the WORLD wide web and programs that are illegal in the US can be downloaded from offshore servers.
Here's an idea. Don't make your ads so big and so obnoctious and maybe we won't block them.
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- Derivitave Works?
- Oh come on!
Does this mean that when I rip the obnoxious perfume laden ads
out of magazines, I am creating a derivative work and violating
copyright law? What about the blow in cards? Do I have to leave
them in there too? Do I have to leave the volume at the same
level when the loud commercials come on TV? Do they get to
lock our TV and radio channel changers during commercials?
Copyright law is being abused here. I'm not publishing or
redistributing the "modified" web page. If they get this through,
Greasemonkey becomes illegal, after all, it modifies the CSS of
the page. As do page readers for sight impaired people,
changing the font size, setting high contrast color schemes, the
list goes on.
I think the key here is that I am blocking ads, FOR MY USE. I'm
not redistributing, publishing, or claiming it as my work. I also
block spyware, phishing, viruses, spam and malware. Am I
modifying their works too?
As others have said, stop being annoying and we won't want to
block the ads. Unfortunately, (advertising people believe) that
annoying and repetitive ads work. If they didn't, we wouldn't be
assaulted with them. I have given up listening to commercial
radio because of the ads. I rarely watch TV during the initial
broadcast, when I do, I find the ads annoying. Its not that I don't
want to see any advertising, but when I hear the same annoying
ad for the same product five times over a half hour, it grates on
As for the loony that blocks Adblock users, I don't want to read
your delusional ramblings anyway.
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- Fair Use Exception Would Likely Apply
- Posner, as ususal, is too clever by half. Ad blocking would be no different from me taking a newspaper, cutting out the ads, and then making a copy for myself. I'm not selling the copy, I'm using for myself.
Moreover, if Posner is correct, then any technology that alters a web page creates a derivative product. How about browsers that change type font, color, or size? Is that actionable?
Give me a break.
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- The Anti-Advertising Backlash...
- I'm the author of Bork Bork Bork!, a Firefox extension, that is both a travesty (humour) and an ad-blocking/flash/html filter similar to the Adblock extension. I added ad-blocking facilities to the original travesty filter for two specific reasons: Adblock has/had lots of JavaScript bugs and online ads (which I now consider to be akin to spam), pop-ups, blog spam, junk email, IM spam, etc. have become so intrusive so as to interfere with my daily life both at work and home.
The only ads I tolerate are the Google text ads that are short, less intrusive, and typically more relevant.
Historically people have been willing to accept TV, radio, billboards, and traditional print media ads, but when advertising tries to get in my face every where I turn from Internet access, online applications, cell phones, flyers, t-shirts, email, sport events, cars windows, sky writing, lawns, tattoos, and what ever else they can think of, I start to see it as polluting my personal visual and audio space, much like light pollution hides the night sky or white noise masks the sounds of nature. The desire for profit at all costs has diminished the experience of life.
Most ad schemes typically use a pay-per-click scheme. If a user goes to the trouble to block ads, then it is almost a given they will never click on an online-ad anyway. Also by blocking ads, the user will never click on, they well save the ad supported web site money spent on bandwidth by not downloading additional ad images.
To say ad-blocking is theft or illegal is a complete lie and one sided distortion of facts: yes, servers have bandwidth and hosting costs, BUT so too do office workstations and home computers; we (the end user) pay for our bandwidth, we pay for our computer equipment, we pay for our time online, and so we have the right to chose what we will allow to cross our local networks and computer screens. The Internet culture has an old saying "my computer, my rules".
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- Ad block is not the problem
- I have Ad Block installed, I leave it turned off most of the time, I only activate it when I hit a page with a obnoxious amount of annoying ads (nost flash, video with audio that starts without my permission, annoying blinking ads for mortgages).
The answer is not to go after Ad block (cause there will be a million replacements), its to control the amount and quality of ads you display on your site.
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- Agree, but look at it like this
- Some web site is not going to come after you, they will chase the manufacturers of the ad-blocker, and they will argue that the manufacturer recieved some copyrighted material, created a derivative work, and then passed it on you.
I think thats wrong, but thats the argument.
In my mind, the work in question is HTML, and requires (unless your really hardcore) to be rendered to something more readable. This is exactly the same as a CD (or the pulse code modulated representation of the audio) requiring a CD-play for it to me useful to you.
Now, if we want to tinker with the exact rendering, for me, that's fair use. If I want to sell an CD player that pitch-shifts everying up a minor third, and you want to buy it and use it, there is no breach of copyright going on here.
I suspect there are many examples of perfectly legal devices that provide alternate renderings of copyrighted material. Various devices for people with visual and hearing impairments, for example.
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- Could be.
- Of course, that's a bit like going after the people who make scissors because people cut stories and ad's out of newspapers, or, maybe, the people who make glue and tape for readers who paste the results on another piece of paper.
An ad blocker service, acting as a proxy site, would be most vulnerable. Then the people who supply proprietory software that they retain the title to, just allowing others a license to use.
Open source, under a license that allows the user title to the software, is least vulnerable, IMO.
Slightly different subject: I've gone to web sites looking for specific items to purchase, and been unable to tell what they heck they were selling because they had too much advertising and too little "what is it and what can it do". So, I bought somewhere else.
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- I don't use AdBlock
- I don't use AdBlock. I've eliminated most of my web annoyances by installing the FlashBlock extension and turning off image animation. The only annoyance that I have now is sometimes ads will cover what I want to read, forcing me to activate the flash so I can search for the tiny "close" button on the ad. Interstitial ads are cumbersome, but not as annoying.
In my opinion, the advertisers got what they deserved. By being loud, obnoxious, and "in your face" the public turned on them. I used to mute the volume on the TV when ads came on because the ads were louder than the program. The problem now is that there is too much advertising. It's much like telemarketing. Back when people only got a few calls, very few complained. When the volume of calls increased to the point where people were getting a dozen calls a day, they complained and a law got passed and now there is almost no telemarketing.
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- What about *MY* policies?
- I hereby declare that it is illegal and somehow copyright-infringing (still looking at the details with my phony lawyers) to display, transfer, or otherwise show adverts by any means on my network and all computers connected to it on my side of the router.
Now for once i'll let it slip, but next time prepare to be fined $5000 per advert, and be thankful i use adblock so most of it doesn't get through.
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- Long Life to AdBlocking
- Yep! I guess we should all unite and get our "phony lawyers" together to file suit against the intempestive ad providers.
Because if we aren't allowed to use adblock, then very logically we are entiteled to ask for substantial compensation.
1º)for the loss of time while clicking them off and chasing more when by doing so they maliciously open 3 or 4 other ads!
2º)for more loss of time and posible damage to our OS or browser settings while trying to clean up the ad garbage.
3º)for loss of bandwidth while the programs dropped by the ads sending data about us...
4º)and last for not respecting our individual rights to privacy.
...and last, what would happen if in the real world you'd just get into their home and office and trash every table and desk you can find with stickers with this message written on it!!!
hummm... I'm burning to do it!!!
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- Hosts file
- Hmmm...well, if they sue the pants off the people that make the browser plugins, there's always editing your Hosts file and adding Advertiser's IP numbers ... though it's hardly the most elegant way to block Ads, but it does work. I'm sure the online Ad industry couldn't sue everyone for editing their own Hosts file.
ja ne
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- If you don't want them block?
- do hog my bandwidth,
I surf at 4+ pages at the same time doing a shuffle between why others load.
nothing is worse than having to sit through advertisements.
what is next foo
pop-up blocking no longer legal?
subsidize my 35$/month on Internet, and I'll have your stinking ads on my home page.
I recommend a felt marker plugin
next they be telling us it is illegal to deface a newspaper.
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- Two sides to this
- On the one hand, blocking web ads is harmful to publishers AND to users. Many people create websites and instead of charging a premium for the content, they rely on the revenue from ads. This is perfectly acceptable, IMHO. I typically ignore all ads (even boycot companies if their ads are invasive enough to **** me off) but if the website owners are making money from impressions, what's the harm?
Now, as for skipping commercials, I am all for that. We as consumers pay a premium for our television. I pay almost $100 a month for premium programming. I see NO reason that I should be subjected to commercials. Sure, broadcast networks that are freely available over the airwaves, it is acceptable for them to have commercials. But when networks charge customers to watch their content, I do not accept ads. Those networks are simply sticking to an outdated business model and they know it. They believe that the public has gotten used to ads while watching television so they figured they could slip in commercials while no one noticed. Then you have networks like Comedy Central who are now showing an amount of ads that are equal in running time to the content or even worse, the ad time is actually HIGHER than the content. That is pure theft, IMHO. Theft of my money. I already pay them a premium (via my provider) to watch that content. They have no business showing ads.
So, I will not run ad blocking software. If the content I am looking at is free, then I accept it. But for ads to be displayed on a website that I have to pay for? No, that I will not accept. The same goes for television. If I am watching a program on a broadcast network, I won't skip the commercials, but if I am watching Mythbusters, you can be sure that I will not see one single commercial.
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- The "real problem"...
- The "real problem" for advertisers is that people still have a choice when it comes to viewing ads, and that's what they don't like. Where do they get the idea that I have to look at their ads? I am not legally obligated in any way to view their ads, and as far as I know there is nothing in the Constitution that says I have to. If it's going to show up on my monitor and I don't want to see it, I will take action to filter it out, and no amount of legal action is going to change that.
If advertisers were going to take legal action at some point against third party creators of ad-blocking plugins, the only thing they would succeed in doing would be to drive plugin developers underground. These plugins might become illegal, but you can bet that you would still be able to find them somewhere on the web.
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- They should do it!
- They should sue AdBlock/AdBlock Plus. They'll waste a bunch of money (not exactly waste - give it to their lawyers). At the very best, they may close down U.S. operations, but as Palant rightfully points out all that has to happen is the ad blocking has to move to another country like anywhere in Europe where Copyright law isn't as broad.
Go for it! The case will be "free advertising" for the ad blocking software. If anything there would be a spike in use.
In any event, the Copyright Act was recently amended to allow customers to remove objectionable content from dvd's (See Family Movie Act on Wikipedia). While there was some agreement the Act was unnecessary, pressure was put on Congress to pass it because studios got all huffed up about families skipping soft porn parts of movies. While that may not immediately cover Internet Ads, the same logic applies- making non-permanent copies to remove objectionable conduct is not the same as creating a derivative work. If these content providers push it, they may get an Act all of their own.
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- The content for advertising model is broken
- I would estimate that at least 60-80% of the ads that are pushed in my face when I read the Web or watch TV are completely meaningless to me and will never impact my behavior.
I will never buy an IBM server, I will never buy a Chevy pickup, I will never buy Breck hairspray, etc, etc.
So how is anyone being defrauded if I strip out ads for mortgage refinance, erectile dysfunction drugs, credit assistance, etc etc?
What is the material harm done if I <don't> see an ad that is not applicable to me?
If I look away from ads, as I have been for years, am I defrauding also?
It takes a real twisted sense of logic to see this as illegal.
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- Twisted sense of logic...
- That's the problem with a world full of self-serving attorneys. When a mere 2.5 million Internet users worldwide are smart enough to use ADP, the issues isn't nearly large enough to warrant an expensive struggle in the U.S. legal system. Those legal thugs will bang this issue around the court system until they've either made enough cash or received enough publicity to justify their efforts.
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- Websites need my clicks more than I need their ads
- There is no common sense in any of these arguements. If a person wants the ads blocked, they aren't going to click on them anyway. If a person wants the ads, they aren't going to block them.
I don't mind most ads in spite of the fact that the chances I'll click on one are about 100,000:1. The ones that I would, and do, block in a heartbeat are pop-ups and animations. Use a pop-up ad or an animated one and I won't buy your product even if I'm in the market for it. Sorry guys; live with it.
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- How dare you show me over 5 pop up ads under 20 seconds!
I have 5 computers in my house now.
4 for gaming and one just for browsing that has flash uninstalled and edited host file banning intellitext and its evil kins. Also banned by IP address other sites as well and the list keep growing.
the browsing pc is so fast with no ads and popups!
sites load up so quick!
Destroying the quily of browsing by slowing the site down with laggy ads will not make me return.
Do you hear that Matt Drudge?
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- First guilt trip, now weird legal case
- I think web advertising people, including the people at cnet, are reacting poorly to technology in this instance. So now, in order to get people to stop blocking ads, you are giving them a guilt trip, as in a previous article and now as some odd legal case.
I believe you can either take this odd approach or do something constructive like see this as an opportunity to listen to what your customers are saying. This is a new way to receive feedback.
Personally, I don't mind static image ads or text ads. The reason why I typically block ads is because they have gone too far - a la so distracting I can't focus on and read the content. There was the video commercials cnet recently tried. There are "win an ipod", "hit the gnome", "pick your state for mortgage rates", or even very distracting IT ads. All typically flash different colors, use movement, and other things to distract attention away from the things that the user came for in the first place.
I would think that intelligent site owners would advertise the fact that their site uses non-distracting and non-obtrusive ads. I would actually consider white-listing a site that I knew wasn't obnoxious about ads.
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- ABP is great
- illegal to block ads?
The only decent clean ads are the google ads. They are text, off to the side, and usually relate to something you're looking for anyway.
I love Adblock Plus. It gets rid of all the annoying and vulgar ads that most other companies insist on making. Do I really want to see some trashy-looking scantily clad woman advertising something that promotes immoral living? No, I think not. (Matthew 5:28) (Let's not even start talking about the annoying video ads, and the low interest loans.)
I'll keep using my ABP to keep these and other ridiculous ads OFF MY SCREEN.
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- And?
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With more diverse groups of foreigners coming to Korea, some prefer creative tours to simple standard sightseeing. A German chef learns how to make tofu by grinding beans using a matdol, or millstone, during a multi-day culinary tour by O'ngo Food Communications. Provided by Daniel Gray
Inspection season is nerve-wracking for Lee Gil-su, an engineer at a company in Yeouido, central Seoul, who must examine stacks of assembled parts for export. Another dreaded task is coming up with itineraries for foreign clients visiting Korea.
"I had to greet a group of Iranian guests a couple of years ago", says Lee. "It was about the time almost all Iranian clients started their business e-mails with 'Dae Jang Geum'."
Aired on a national network in Iran, the period drama "Dae Jang Geum" set in the Joseon Dynasty amassed a whopping viewer rating of 86 percent. When the drama series aired in Korea in 2003 and 2004, it drew 55.5 percent of viewers.
"The Iranian guests wanted me to take them to Dae Jang Geum Theme Park as soon as they landed, so I picked them up and drove there, but I was shocked by how it looked", Lee says. "It seemed deserted. Except for a couple of life-size cardboard cutouts of leading actors and actresses, there was nothing except wrecked outdoor sets".
The 40-year-old engineer once thought about using travel agencies, but he didn't want to pay thousands of won for cookie-cutter tours.
Hooked, then lost
These days, Korea is again in the spotlight as a potential international tourist destination, thanks to "Gangnam Style" and the second wave of K-pop, according to Korea Tourism Organization (KTO).
A recent survey conducted by the United States branch of KTO found that 60 percent of 200 residents of Los Angeles and New York said they developed an urge to visit Gangnam after watching Psy's music video.
However, tourism experts say that other than shopping, the country doesn't have much more to offer tovisitors today that when Lee was ferrying his Iranian clients to the decrepit Dae Jang Geum Theme Park. And that means there are few reasons for foreign tourists to return.
"Korean tourism achieved rapid growth in terms of the number of tourists, higher than any other country", says Lee Hun, a professor of tourism at Hanyang University.
About a million foreigners visited Korea in 1978, and that number rose to 2.3 million in 1988 when Seoul hosted the Summer Olympic. This year, the KTO estimates the Korea will attract 11 million tourists.
"Korea has achieved growth in quantity, but it is hard to say that it has succeeded in increasing quality. We've come to a stage where we should think about turning quantitative growth into quality experiences", Lee adds.
In fact, seven out of 10 foreign tourists last year said they intend to visit Korea again, but a few of them return, the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute says. For instance, 43.7 percent of tourists were repeat visitors in 2009 and 39.2 percent in 2011.
"We should offer more cultural content in addition to sightseeing-oriented tour courses so we can induce foreign tourists to visit again", Lee continues.
Korea's major tour agencies offer similar packages, typically including Gyeongbok Palace, the National Folk Museum of Korea and Insa-dong, once an area of fine antique shops that is now brimming with shoddy purveyors of souvenirs and cosmetics.
"Think about it. A tour guide keeps telling you how Korean foods are nutritious and healthy. But if you can have a chance to learn how to make local food during your stay, it will make a huge difference", says a tour guide for North American businesspeople in Seoul for the past decade who asked to remain anonymous. "But most tour programs are quite stereotypical and lacking in creativity and originality".
The standard itineraries at Cosmojin Tour, which specializes in foreign VIPs, are not that different from those of other agencies. Palaces and long-running nonverbal performances like "Nanta" is where cash-rich, time-poor important guests head.
"Sometimes they drop by Opera Gallery in southern Seoul, but we don't have specialized art or culture tours for them yet", says Jason Kim, a public relations manager at PR Bridge on behalf of Cosmojin Tour.
Storytelling matters
People who work in the tourism industry say Korea needs destinations with stories to achieve sustainable growth in tourism.
"Ideas are needed if we really want to captivate foreign tourists", said Kang Woo-hyon, CEO of Nami Island, Gangwon, during lunch with a group of reporters a few months ago.
Nami Island attracted 2.3 million visitors last year and 420,000 of them were foreigners.
Before Kang arrived in 2001, however, Nami Island attracted about 260,000 people per year.
The island was a popular destination in 1970s and 1980s, but its appeal waned as central Seoul and other cities developed.
It didn't take long for the island to be littered with trash and soju bottles by binge drinkers.
By 2000, it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
However, Kang, who oversees the island for its private owner, saw cash in the trash left behind by all those partiers. Green soju bottles were pressed and made into tiles and the whole island was decorated with discarded items.
It didn't hurt that the island became famous throughout Asia when it was featured in the popular drama series "Winter Sonata" in 2002.
Dae Jang Geum Theme Park and Nami Island both were featured in popular drama series, but their similarities end there. The lack of a story was one of the reasons Dae Jang Geum Theme Park closed earlier this year, while Nami Island succeeded by rewriting its story from the remnants of failure.
"If Korea wants to mature as a tourist destination, it has to pay attention to the current trend", says Choi Kyung-eun, a researcher at Korea Culture and Tourism Institute. "People used to look around at sightseeing places and take photos. They found it pleasant because trips were not very common. But today, everyone leaves on a trip wanting to do something more than just watching.
"If we can work on this issue, it will make travelers visit this country again".
From left: Tasting street food is one way for foreigners to get to know Korea. Provided by Korea Tourism Organization; The Korean Night Dining Tour is inspired by hoesik, or the company outing. Provided by O'ngo Food Communications
Niche market
Many of Korea's leading tour operators have a poor understanding of what visitors want, but some businesses are starting to think outside the box.
"Before winery tours were launched in the United States, nobody took American wine seriously", says Jia Choi, president of O'ngo Food Communications. "But Napa Valley winery tours added value to American wine. I wanted to make foreigners feel Korean culture with their hearts and hands, and that was the beginning of our food tour".
O'ngo Food Communications offers a wide range of food-related tours, such as one-day programs like the Korean Night Dining Tour, where travelers experience the drinking culture of Korea. The tour exposes participants to the hoesik, or company outing, culture of the nation. Not to mention boilermakers (beer and soju).
Another option is the Korean Taste Tour, where visitors sample street food and other tours that visit places like Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market. The tour is fun and lively enough to change the minds of some foreigners, who prior to visiting the market would have refused to eat live small octopus. A guide accompanies group travelers and explains the roles of a variety of food in Korean culture and the proper way to indulge in street food.
"It is a whole different experience if you visit a museum by yourself or look around the museum with a curator", says Choi.
O'ngo started to offer food tours in 2008. The company name comes from a Chinese phrase ongojisin, which roughly translates to revitalizing tradition through modernization. The company also offers multi-day food tours where travelers can learn the basic components of Korean food. The tour includes visits to farms and a kimchi factory, and is popular among foreign chefs.
At TripAdvisor, O'ngo's food tours rank first, ahead of such tourist staples as Gyeongbok Palace, Insa-dong and Itaewon.
An American professor identified as Tony R. wrote, "O'ngo Food was a perfect introduction to Seoul".
Such rave reviews have helped the company grow bigger and more stable.
"Sales used to be dependent on the seasons, but now we are immune to seasonal factors", says Choi, who has a Ph.D. in food and nutrition.
"The best thing about this work is when we see travelers who return to Korea. After the food tour, they plan a trip to Busan and Jeju.
"After all, nobody wants to see Gyeongbok Palace again".
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Yevgenia Watts says she is "addicted to painting" and speaks watercolor. She fell in love with the creative process, choosing the path of an artist.
Her artwork has been described as expressive, fresh and vibrant. Watts enjoys experimenting, letting the paint take each piece in its own, free-flowing direction.
"I like to push my own boundaries," she explains. That's why watercolor paints are her medium of choice. "I really like the way it behaves like a living thing: it floats, it blooms, it has a mind of its own and it constantly surprises me."
Watts is originally from Ukraine, where she studied classical, European artistic traditions. She moved to the U.S. in 2003 and received a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley. But ultimately she chose to focus on her art.
When her son was born in 2009, she stayed home and began developing her career as a painter. Today her work can be found in private and public collections around the world.
As a talented artist, observing the world around her is important. Watts is always watching for anything that might inspire her to pick up her paintbrush.
"It can be something that catches my eye with a beautiful light and dark pattern, or strong color contrast that excites me or grey foggy landscape that reflects my mood. It can be an expression on a stranger's face or an idea that came to me in a dream. The possibilities are endless," says Watts.
In addition to her own endeavors, Watts helps other artists discover the joys of watercolor painting. She teaches classes in-person and online to adults as well as young people.
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2007 B.A. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
2003 The Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (3 years), Odessa, Ukraine
1996 Visual Art School, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
2014 Award of Merit, Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons Annual members show ("Awash With Color"), Sacramento, CA
2013 First Place, San Bernardino County Fair Plein Air Competition, Victorville, CA
2013 Second Place, Fine Art, Watercolor, San Bernardino County Fair, Victorville, CA
2013 First Place, Watercolor, Lake Arrowhead Rotary Art & Wine Festival, Lake Arrowhead, CA
2014 "20/20," Kennedy Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2014 Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons Annual members show, SFA, Sacramento, CA
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Fans of Apple's mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad often wonder why can't scrolling on Android phones and tablets be jerk-free as on iOS devices. It's been something of a mystery, especially taking into account how the original iPhone had nailed smoothness more than four years ago and on sub-par hardware which was substantially slower than the beefy chips powering today's Android super phones.
Growing tired of misinformation about how graphics rendering works on Android, engineer Dianne Hackborn set the record straight today on Google+. Android has always used some hardware accelerated drawing, she began. "Since before 1.0 all window compositing to the display has been done with hardware", Hackborn said.
Apple's user interface has been hardware-accelerated thoroughly from day one, cynics might say. Truth be told, Apple designs the hardware, the chips and the operating system, allowing them to target iOS specifically for a specific CPU and GPU, a luxury Android does not have. Let's not forget that Android does true multitasking and background processes execution, unlike iOS, which adds to the overhead. Also adding to the overhead: Native iOS apps are binaries pre-compiled for their own hardware while Android uses the Dalvik virtual machine with just-in-time compilation to run Dalvik dex-code (Dalvik Executable), which is usually translated from Java bytecode.
To be perfectly honest here, Google should be credited for treating each platform update as an opportunity to perfect the hardware acceleration features. For example, they just enabled smoother graphics in all Ice Cream Sandwich apps that rely on the new APIs.
In case you've been wondering, menus being shown, sliding the notification shade, transitions between activities, pop-ups and dialogs showing and hiding – Android does offload all those bells'n'whistles to the GPU. The speed of the GPU and the memory bus bandwidth directly impact the smoothness of the interface, Hackborn explained:
As device screen resolution goes up, achieving a 60fps UI is closely related to GPU speed and especially the GPU's memory bus bandwidth. In fact, if you want to get an idea of the performance of a piece of hardware, always pay close attention to the memory bus bandwidth. There are plenty of times where the CPU (especially with those wonderful NEON instructions) can go a lot faster than the memory bus.
But the GPU "is not a magical silver bullet to butter-smooth UI", she argues. The new Galaxy Nexus smartphone (9to5Google will be reviewing it shortly) uses a number of tricks to achieve smooth scrolling of lists, web pages and other content in apps, including turning off OpenGL hardware acceleration in parts of the interface that would otherwise cost 8MB of RAM and take away from other things, such as background process and multitasking. Provided the phone's CPU is fast enough, it can draw graphics without the overhead of the GPU. And in the case of the Nexus S:
Nexus S has no trouble doing 60fps rendering of all the normal stuff you see in the Android UI like scrolling lists on its 800×480 screen. The original Droid however struggled with a similar screen resolution.
Summing up, hardware acceleration is not a be-all-end-all solution to the smooth user interface simply because there's only that much a smartphone GPU can do. For example, Nvidia's Tegra 2 GPU found in some Android smartphones can do every pixel of a 1280-by-800 screen about 2.5 times at 60 frames per second, leaving little room for complex, layered animations:
Now consider the Android 3.0 tablet home screen where you are switching to the all apps list: you need to draw the background (1x all pixels), then the layer of shortcuts and widgets (let's be nice and say this is .5x all pixels), then the black background of all apps (1x all pixels), and the icons and labels of all apps (.5x all pixels). We've already blown our per-pixel budget, and we haven't even composited the separate windows to the final display yet. To get 60fps animation, Android 3.0 and later use a number of tricks. A big one is that it tries to put all windows into overlays instead of having to copy them to the framebuffer with the GPU. In the case here even with that we are still over-budget, but we have another trick: because the wallpaper on Android is in a separate window, we can make this window larger than the screen to hold the entire bitmap. Now, as you scroll, the movement of the background doesn't require any drawing, just moving its window… and because this window is in an overlay, it doesn't even need to be composited to the screen with the GPU.
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I blame Java.
Last weekend I spent £520 on a Galaxy Nexus, and I feel so stupid for doing so. I have been rooting for Android since the beginning, and have spent a small fortune on SIM free Android handsets. This will definitely be the last time even that I will be a pioneer and part with my hard earned cash for handsets that, quite frankly, feel 'second class'.
Android does true multitasking and background processes execution, unlike iOS. This does not say that there in NO multi-tasking within iOS, just that it does not do true-multi-tasking like the Android OS does.
Frankly, I believe iOS multitasking paradigm is much more advanced than android's. Android does brute-force multi tasking, there is no intelligence built-in on how to do it efficiently considering the fact that it is running on mobiles. It basically does the same thing on mobiles, what used to happen on desktops. iOS on the other hand has fine-tuned multi-tasking to an extent where it is efficient for the mobile world, the largest gain being in the battery life.
Indeed iOS does clever multitasking but there is a couple of things it simply cannot do. You can only use the background services their API offers; nothing else.
IOS does multitasking! I can't believe they wrote that it cannot.
It can't. Its not REAL multitasking. Its fake.
@Amber Android is on different devices from different manufacturers. Being open has it's benefits but also it's disadvantages. Since the iPhone hardware and software are controlled by Apple the experience can be tweaked to optimum performance. Since Android is so spread out, it's taking Google a bit longer to get it right.
I don't think that's the reason. The problem, to me, is how Android was designed from the start, how they took shortcuts (in my laymen thinking) to quickly adapt to the touch interaction paradigm, and how that is now coming back to bite them in the rear.
They put the UI processing in the main thread with normal priority, AFAIK. I believe that was a decision made back in the Android 1.0 days, for all the obvious reasons regarding the smartphone paradigm.
When the touch input became standard, they took the easy road: instead of changing the core (not sure if that was even needed), they kept it the way it was, and hoped that the hardware would evolve quickly as to dismiss this nuisance.
However, as we all know, the hw evolved, but the needs evolved too. Clearly it has been 3 years and the hardware didn't evolve quickly enough to mask this (see Galaxy Nexus early reports), and then MS saw the obvious and redesigned WP from scratch, leaving Android as the last big OS that is doing stuff "the old way". Not accounting that WP7 is "embarrassingly smooth" with much slower hardware.
Here says an Android user with a Nexus S (i love it, by the way…) that came from a 3GS. And no, I wouldn't change because of that, but if the Android experience could be improved, I'd be all for it. Android is vastly more powerful (in what it can do) compared to all those others OSes. When I saw it from inside and experienced some of the complex apps in the Market, that became my opinion. Besides, it's open source and the development freedom they give you is second to none.
In my laymen mind, I hope they can figure it out, if that is even possible under the current stack. My question is: back in the days when we were transitioning from 1.0 to 1.5, shouldn't they had took a little more time and do it thinking about the future? For example, I give props to Samsung for scratching the latest Galaxy Tab so they could build and beat (hw-wise) the iPad. No wonder the Tab is the Tab, and the Xoom is a dissapointment if it were not for being a "Nexus" tablet (see the latest Xooms and how they flopped).
Dont tell me why Android cant do it. Just Do IT! If Android is supposed to be so much more amazing than iOS with so much more powerful phones and they cant even match the glitch free scrolling then something major is wrong. I'm going to switch to Android soon to try it out and if it cant even handle basic graphic scrolling then the phone and OS are a joke. I expect Android and the Nexus to be a lot of steps ahead of the iphone 3gs I now have. If not then I will have to laugh in Androids face and be very disappointed. This article sounded like a lot of excuses.
Why would you want to switch to Android? Why do you still have a 3GS?
Overall Android is more amazing than iOS is. If "smooth scrolling" gives you that much, you better stick to Apple.


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Nearly unique among nations, the U.S. broadly imposes extraterritoriality– in the case, the enforcement of U.S. laws in other, sovereign nations.
An Exceptional Nation
Many examples of extraterritoriality grow out of America's archipelago of military bases around the world, where Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) allow service members exemption from local laws, even when they commit crimes against host country people. The U.S. also stations Customs and Border Patrol agents in other nations, denying boarding on U.S.-bound flights from Canada, for example, to Canadian citizens otherwise still standing in their own country. Imagine the outcry in America if the Chinese were to establish military bases in Florida exempt from U.S. law, or if the Russians choose which Americans could fly out of Kansas City Airport. Never mind drone strikes, bombings, deployment of Special Forces, invasions and CIA-sponsored coups.
The snowballing NSA revelations have already severely damaged U.S. credibility and relationships around the world; nations remain shocked at the impunity with which America dug into their private lives. NSA spying has also cost American tech firms $180 billion in lost revenues, as "We're not an American company" becomes a sales point.
A New Level
An American court has just taken things to a new level of extraterritorial offensiveness by requiring Microsoft to turn over to the U.S. government emails it holds on its servers. But in this case, those servers are located in Ireland, a European Union nation with its own privacy laws. Those laws are apparently of no real concern to the United States.
In a July 31 ruling upholding a lower court decision, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Francis in New York ruled that an American search warrant can be applied outside the country and served on a foreign company if that company has some business connection to an American corporation. The ruling makes all data in the world subject to a U.S. court, assuming some nexus to an American entity can be found. The nexus question is important; U.S. law holds that a company doing business in the U.S., say Malaysian Airlines, can be sued in the U.S. for some event that occurred abroad, such as an air crash in the Ukraine. The court ruling could in theory require Credit Suisse to open its servers in Zurich to the U.S. government simply because they have an office in Manhattan.
In the current case, the theory was that because Microsoft owned and controlled a foreign subsidiary company based in Ireland, any data stored in that overseas office or its data centers fell within (virtual) U.S. territory. This exposes massive amounts of foreign cloud-stored data, including emails and web searches, to American law enforcement working through an American court system that has been compliant in satisfying its needs post-9/11.
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The Judge went further is his decision, claiming official channels between countries that currently allow for cross-border law enforcement operations, called mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), are "generally… slow and laborious, as it requires the cooperation of two governments and one of those governments may not prioritize the case as highly as the other." The judge added: "The burden on the government would be substantial, and law enforcement efforts would be seriously impeded."
MLATs, the system that has been in place for many, many years prior to this week's court ruling, are formal treaties whereby countries agree to share law enforcement information when it is to the benefit of both sides. They are subject to transparency and scrutiny, court review and have numerous steps built in to protect the rights of the accused. An example of an MLAT's typical use might be a cross-border investigation into an alleged narco trafficker doing bad things in both nations. MLAT's are usually administered abroad through the FBI's Legal Attache stationed at the U.S. Embassy.
EU Data Laws
The American court's ruling, allowing the United States to simply demand Microsoft's data from Ireland for whatever purpose it may decide to use it, is a big, big deal. European information law is very strict. Data held by a company in Europe is considered to ultimately belongs to the citizen who generated it. A citizen can request access to his or her own data, and when it's no longer needed, it must be deleted.
In the U.S., data is considered the property of the tech company that has its hands on it at the moment. So, in America, your Facebook posts and Instagram pictures don't really belong to you, and you can't block those companies from giving them to the government, or selling them to a third party for that matter.
Yet the most amazing thing about the judge's ruling is its sheer audacity. In the immediate wake of the revelations that the NSA has been stealing Europe's data, the judge has ruled that it is in fact now legal for the U.S. government to simply demand that data.
Microsoft to Appeal
In hopes of salvaging its business in Europe, Microsoft is appealing the decision. http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/verizon-files-amicus-brief-in-support-of-microsoft Verizon, Apple, AT&T, and Cisco, despite handing over their data to the NSA domestically willy-nilly, are supporting Microsoft in its efforts to block the European grabs.
In its appeal, Microsoft summed up the issue concisely:
A U.S. prosecutor cannot obtain a U.S. warrant to search someone's home located in another country, just as another country's prosecutor cannot obtain a court order in her home country to conduct a search in the United States. We think the same rules should apply in the on line world, but the government disagrees."
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Reader Ed B. sent a link to this fun little article about some NXT tech we all wish we had in our box. Thanks, Ed!
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- megamindstorm101 said...
Wow I love the optical mouse sensor and the wireless sensor 1km is far distance :)
- Aug 19, 2009, 7:32:00 AM
- Jarren said...
Man, i so want that optical mouse.
Do you know if they are for sale?
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I don't think they are for sale. If you look at the article it says they were made on a course on custome sensors. But I guess one of them might begin selling...
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I was looking for instructions, but I couldn't find any. It is a bit confusing. Anyway, this is the original site. Last post: 02/16/09.
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I hope those are for sale!
'course, I don't have any money...
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Ok, thanks for helping me with my last question, but now I have another one...
I am currently trying to make a robot with a tactile switch at the front. When that tactile switch is pushed down the robot reverses and turns around. Here is the cool part though, when the switch is pushed down it will also send data to processing, causing a face to jitter onscreen. So far I have been able to make the code for the face jitter (except on mouse over) Here is the code if anybody is curious:
void setup(){
size(400, 400);
void draw() {
background (255);
if (mouseX >100 && mouseX < 300 && mouseY >= 100 && mouseY <= 300)
translate(random(-5, 5),random(-5,5));
rect (140, 120, 45, 45);
rect (220, 120, 45, 45);
rect (140, 250, 120, 30);
Anyways, now I am trying to get the face to jitter when a button is pushed down on the arduino.
Here is the processing code for it:
//A face that jitters when a switch on a robot is on.
Serial myPort;
void setup(){
myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[3], 9600);
size(400, 400);
void draw() {
background (255);
rect (140, 120, 45, 45);
rect (220, 120, 45, 45);
rect (140, 250, 120, 30);
while (myPort.available() > 0) {
int inByte = myPort.read();
if inByte = 'A'{
translate(random(-5, 5),random(-5,5));
With this code I keep getting the error expecting LPAREN found inByte. And now the arduino code to match that:
const int buttonPin = 12;
int buttonState = 0;
void setup()
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
void loop() {
buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
if (buttonState == HIGH) {
With this code I get multiple errors including "couldn't determine program size" and "undefined refrence to serialWrite"
Sorry for the super long post/ confusing writing.
Just for a heads up, I tried
Just for a heads up, I tried the sketch just a few minutes ago.. I got it to work, but I had to up the Translate random values to about -20 and 20 each.. and it's not really a twitter, it doesn't move the mouth itself, but actually puts another box up, and it disappears just as fast as it came in.
Indeed, you may not have any other items connected.. so a simple way to test that is just use the Processing Example under File->Examples->Libraries->Serial and choose the Serial read. It has the Arduino code at the bottom so you can just upload it, this way you can test the number to see which com port you need to connect to. (The examples work without any adjustments, other than the COM port, so should be fairly easy)
But yeah, I'm no good in processing yet, so I'm afraid I'm no help in terms of programming! (other than finding minor errors)
But yeah, in terms of using [ and ] look at the Array section on Arduino, will kind of explain it to you:
I'm sorry if I wasn't
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear..
Did you try setting the com port to 1, or 2?
In my Arduino IDE, my two arduinos come up as COM3, and COM4. But you do NOT use those names in the Processing IDE. When you're using the Serial.list, you're accessing a list of the Serial ports available. Starting with 0, and counting up.
The use of [ and ] accesses an array.
If you have nothing else connected to your computer (well, chances are your mouse or keyboard still count if they're using USB), then it should be COM1, or COM0 So, would look like this:
myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[1], 9600);
the 0 connects to my Mouse, since my mouse is the first USB connection. (doesn't receive any actual information) and the 1 connects to my Arduino. If I have Two arduinos connected, it's either 1, or 2 respectively.
Do keep in mind when you're
Do keep in mind when you're using that code, it's an array.. starting from 0 to whatever..
Mine is Com1 to my Arduino, since it's always the second thing hooked up. It's not necessarily the name of the port, but where it's located in terms of the array. But as far as changing it to com 0, you'd have to change your USB settings, and it's just easier changing the code.
Try using port 1 instead, or 2. It's not very likely (for me anyway) to have that many USB connections, using COM3 like you're suggesting, means you have 3 other USB connections, other than the Arduino. (4 total)
My mouse is my first connection (com0), my first arduino is com1, and second arduino is com2, only when they're all connected. If you unplug the First arduino, the second arduinos comport becomes com1.
I'm sure I missed something again but hope this kind of explains! :P
I'm not really sure.. I
I'm not really sure.. I copied and pasted your code and got the same error, but I started from the first sketch, and compiled with no errors, try this code :
Keep in mind, I only know some of the code because of the Arduino, as far as the Drawing goes and such, you're going to have to research that part.
import processing.serial.*;
Serial myPort;
void setup(){
myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
size(400, 400);
void draw() {
background (255);
rect (140, 120, 45, 45);
rect (220, 120, 45, 45);
rect (140, 250, 120, 30);
if (myPort.available() > 0) {
int inByte = myPort.read();
if (inByte == 'A') {
translate(random(-5, 5),random(-5,5));
Omg... I forgot the most
Omg... I forgot the most important part in my last post...........
in your if statement, you almost have it right! You just need to add the { brackets after you begin the if statement.
so it should look like :
if (inByte == 'A'){
translate(random-5, 5), random-5,5));


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> So I'm using lighttpd and fast_cgi, which occasionally has a problem where
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Brandon Jacobs signed with the 49ers in the offseason after spending his entire career with the Giants. One six-year-old Giants fan was so sad to see him go, he sent Jacobs $3.36 to convince him to re-sign with the team after being told that the defending Super Bowl champs couldn't afford to keep him.
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He sent me 3.36 cent
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And once again we've seen that young fans are often the best. Well, unless they're Eagles fans.
Helmet knock to Niners Nation via Deadspin
Gotta love kids.
Very touching.
Its truly all he is worth.
wow, you totally missed the entire meaning of this story - JERK!
My son sent Hines Ward a $20 bill four years ago, and asked for an autographed glove. All he got was nothing - now @mvp86hinesward has $20 more in his retirement account!
How sad
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There's a small snag with George Seaborn's idea for a frozen (and thus tiltable) mercury mirror (Letters, 12 August). So far I haven't managed to work out what precisely you would use a mirror covered in frozen water vapour for.
It seems that what is really needed is some material that is solid at room temperature and has a low coefficient of thermal expansion. It could then be melted, spun to the mirror profile, and allowed to cool. I think that an ideal material might be a mixture of fused silicates - or glass.
Anyone wishing to take up this idea has my permission.
Reading your article ("Spinning images from mercury mirrors", 15 July), one would never know that it was Ermanno Borra of Laval University in Canada who was responsible for reviving the idea of liquid mirror telescopes. It was he who showed that one could overcome the difficulties ...
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