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FTC Says Google Did Not Violate U.S. Antitrust Law | TIME.com
business.time.com
"There is no doubt that Google is dominant. The Web titan based in Mountain View, Calif., accounted for 74.5% of all U.S. search advertising revenues in 2012, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, Microsoft’s share of U.S. search advertising revenues reached just 8% in 2012."
#Google #bullshit #pub
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Did Google Get Off Easy With $7 Million ‘Wi-Spy’ Settlement? | TIME.com
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#Google #bullshit #pub
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"No Starch Press and I have decided to release this free ebook version of Hacking the Xbox in honor of Aaron Swartz. As you read this book, I hope that you’ll be reminded of how important freedom is to the hacking community and that you’ll be inclined to support the causes that Aaron believed in.
I agreed to release this book for free in part because Aaron’s treatment by MIT is not unfamiliar to me. In this book, you will find the story of when I was an MIT graduate student, extracting security keys from the original Microsoft Xbox. You’ll also read about the crushing disappointment of receiving a letter from MIT legal repudiating any association with my work, effectively leaving me on my own to face Microsoft."
#aaron_swartz #hacking #rebellion #mit #formal_education #bullshit #unfair #deceptive #pub
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Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard | Jim Newell | The Baffler
www.thebaffler.com
Adam Wheeler receives a year of jail because he cannot stop his "dishonesty" of saying he went to Harvard…even though he did. But because the courts say he can't profit from his story for 10/15 years or say he got a degree from Harvard, he has to go to jail.
#bullshit #harvard #formal_education #elitism #class #social_classes #law #Horrible #pub
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The Open WhatsApp project
openwhatsapp.org
"Dear Blackberry,
Before you decided that OpenWhatsapp violates WhatsApp's terms and that you could not accept it in App World, have you been fully aware that YOU are the ones who got me started on this project? You are the ones who convinced me to port this application to BB10. You are the ones who explicitly proposed and provided me with internal support from your OWN developers to get my port ready ASAP. You are the ones who sent me a Dev Alpha even when I explicity and CLEARLY stated and described what app I am working on. I understand this was back at a time when WhatsApp decided to ditch your platform. But throwing away my work upon a request of WhatsApp was just a cheap shot!
Do you think it's cool to get a developer work on a DAMN app for several months, and then just throw it away in the end?! Do you realize how hard it is to deliver an app that is as polished as OpenWhatsapp?! I understand how NOW you are trying to keep friends with WhatsApp and all that, but do you think this is the appropriate way to treat developers who "really" believed in your platform ?! Or was I just being used?.
And I'm sorry, your limited edition device is not enough "compensation" for my work which again, YOU STARTED, and now simply threw away. I don't want anything that reminds me of this betrayal.
Worst Wishes,
Tarek
OpenWhatsapp Developer"
#pwned #bullshit #lame #pub
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How Blackberry run their Business II
openwhatsapp.org
"Seriously?! Blackberry altering their store users’ opinions?! What a shame! It looks like you do have a lot of cheap moves indeed to push your platform forward. I wonder what’s next?!"
#blackberry #sucks #bullshit #corruption #pub
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OpenWhatsapp for BB10 rebranded to OpenWA
openwhatsapp.org
"So WhatsApp has sent me their lawyers. They didn't do it when Wazapp was out a year ago, they didn't do it to prevent me from entering Blackberry World and handed that job over to BB, they took that action now, which makes me wonder if it has anything to do with becoming BFF with Blackberry. Wazapp users would know WhatsApp were aware of the project all the way though. So why now?"
_Whatsapp [and Blackberry] both are asses.
#bullshit #whatsapp #lame #pub
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Appfog's lack of transparency of loyalty. - Google Groups
groups.google.com
AppFog takes away the stuff that separated it from others from their free plan for existing users
#appfog #heroku #PaaS #bullshit #pub
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www.cvs.com
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#android #Google #bullshit #pub
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Mac App Store - imHASH - a common hash tool
itunes.apple.com
Lol, the app is using Bootstrap. An app that is readily available online for free is in fact a website…and yet review says it crashes anyway.
#app_stores #bullshit #Mac #apple #pub
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Mac App Store - Dock Battery
itunes.apple.com
#app_stores #bullshit #Mac #apple #pub
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Mac App Store - HTML Generator
itunes.apple.com
#app_stores #bullshit #Mac #apple #pub
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Upworthy: Things that matter. Pass 'em on.
www.upworthy.com
Amazon's Drone Fleet Delivers What Bezos Wants: An Image of Ingenuity - Businessweek
mobile.businessweek.com
#Amazon #bullshit #butthurt #corporations #status_quo #pub
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Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For "Browser" After Sponsored Post Penalty
searchengineland.com
#Google #bullshit #butthurt #pandering #status_quo #zeitgeist_bs #pub
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New York Times Continues Paid Link Outing Stories, Looks At Online Flowers Industry
searchengineland.com
#Google #bullshit #butthurt #pandering #status_quo #zeitgeist_bs #pub
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Of course don't mention how bad lobbying is. Just that this is bad. Such bullshit.
#bullshit #politics #unfair #pub
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Donald Trump is totally fine with the idea of Lena Dunham moving to Canada - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com
When Trump was alerted to the comments during a "Fox & Friends" interview on Tuesday, though, he didn't seem too worried -- quite the opposite, actually.
Lena Dunham hospitalized after ovarian cyst rupture
"Well, she's a B actor and has no mojo," Trump said. "I heard Whoopi Goldberg said that, too. That would be a great, great thing for our country if she got out."
#bullshit #funny #liberals_eh #rekt #pub
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Bogus Meme Targets Trump
www.factcheck.org
He didn't come up with The Weeknd moniker! Jeremy Rose/Zodiac did
#assholes #lies #bullshit #patterns_media_perpetuates_bs_stories #pub
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Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with ‘drain the swamp’ - The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com
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