Everything except for some of the Google X Labs projects, of which this is one.
I'm going to take an optimistic tack and say they're doing this for the PR benefits of being seen as creating new technology that gives people tools they never thought they could have, somewhat like Microsoft has done with the Kinect.
Microsoft made bank with the kinect. Also, google is in serious danger of being killed by facebook (more data = better search results), so google needs another huge profit stream. Running the entire transportation infrastructure can be that (there will be competitors, but with google's superior tech talent, their vehicles will be safer and hence win).
If I were them, I would just run the vehicles as a fleet. The have many billions in cash and borrow any amount, so why not. Then innovate on the maintenance of the fleet with robots as well. Maybe start with franchising. Plus, they automatically set the rates for each individual journey dynamically and extract as much as possible.
If you file a DMCA notice and the infringing party files a DMCA counter-notice, would you have to register the copyright before you could sue for infringement?
I believe the answer is yes, you need to first register before filing suit. If the offending work continues to be published, you can register and then sue.
An exception is foreign works, whose owners can file a suit without first registering, since treaty obligations don't allow the U.S. to subject foreign holders to "formalities". However foreign holders are limited to recovering "actual damages" in such suits, and need to register to be eligible for per-copy statutory damages.
He is right to fight for Free software because it empowers the weak, the poor, the oppressed, and also hobbyists, even though there is certainly non-Free software that does so as well (routers for example may carry speech freely but may not be Free themselves). He takes this philosophy to extremes to make his point.
Hand waiving, hand waiving.
Last I heard oppressed were quite empovered by twitter, facebook and mobile phones—those parasitic and evil tools, according to rms. I am talking about Arab Spring.
That's the best example that he is talking bullshit. I see no point of admiring man just be cause he is too stubborn not to ignore reality. Would I admire young earth creationist sticking to his believs despite all the science? No way.
rms has zero understanding of all things social, about what makes "normal" people tick. His fantasies have little to do with the reality and the future.
In the world where everyone is a programmer his vision might hold some water, but
the days when all computer users were programmers and sysadmins are long gone and will never return.
And I'm sure rms would do more good if he fought for food and water for poor in Africa.
The point is, he did not resolved to do it, just like his resolve is not fighting dictators. If not helping folks oppressed by tyranny government, then we all are talking bulshit, although it's less true with regard to Stallman, since free software helped Twitter and Facebook happen.
Yes we are identifying which ones are affected. Due to changes over the years of how account information was handled, we want to be extra sure we are identifying the proper accounts, if any.
So this post inspired me because I've been doing a lot of the Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/) problems and this seemed in a similar vein.
I let it run a few hours in Python on a fastish laptop (although I could only use one core) and only got to ~23%. I became interested in the number of minutes it took to advance each step, and found an interesting pattern:
To go from 7% to 8% takes 2.719 times as long as 6% to 7%, and 8% to 9% takes 2.719 times as long as that. The period eventually settles at e (2.7182818...). Using this, it should be easy to calculate the total number of minutes as such: I found it took 100210581 minutes to get to 19%, so:
100% = 100210581 * e^(100-19) = 1.509e+43
I checked my math by using another number (36865412 is ~18%) so while I don't understand the underlying mathematics, I'm at least confident that this is correct. It also contradicts my intuition which says that as the ant gets closer to the end, the rubber band stretching goes on mostly behind him and he should be able to make % increases in fewer minutes.
Anyway, here is my python script which never gets past 23% (I'm on minute 14803200000, or year 28,164):
https://gist.github.com/1871474
In essence, what's being computed is the sum of 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... (which we call the harmonic series), and you're trying to figure out how fast it reaches a given number. You've experimentally verified that it takes exponential time, which is another way of saying that the sum grows like a logarithm.
To verify this mathematically, use the "integral test" [0] twice. The linked proof shows that the sum of k terms is larger than ln(k+1). It turns out that, by drawing the rectangles under instead of above the curve, you can also show that the sum of k terms is less than 1+ln(k+1). Thus, the long-term behavior of the sum is essentially the same as the long-term behavior of a (base e) logarithm.
There are definitely at least two different, shall we say classes of crawlers: The Googlebot and the Google Web Preview crawler. I don't know the extent of Googlebot's javascript parsing but the web preview crawler appears to parse javascript like plain webkit.
I believe this crawler renders your pages for the preview snippets you get in search results when you hover over the arrow that appears on the right side of a result.
The previews I've seen would only look that way if javascript was being rendered and allowed to run for ~10-20s by my estimation--based on the progress of an animation that was previewed.
Sorry to split hairs but responding with a "we took down this content based on your takedown notice" and actually taking down the content are two different things.
I've had companies take down content after a DMCA notice but never inform me they have done so; there is no requirement for them to do so.
I assume you're referring to the latter meaning though--that they left up infringing content after receiving notice. If they did that then they're in deep. ...As long as the US has jurisdiction to prosecute, which they probably do.
They have a list showing 26 hosts on that IP that were defaced. Randomly checked four of them (which are fixed now), all WordPress. But then #5 looked like a static HTML site (http://outrightoriginal.com/), so I'm going to go with server compromise, not CMS compromise.
I'm going to take an optimistic tack and say they're doing this for the PR benefits of being seen as creating new technology that gives people tools they never thought they could have, somewhat like Microsoft has done with the Kinect.