CMP Says It's Not Blocking Google

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China Blocking Google or Google Blocking
China

China Blocking Google or Google Blocking
China 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
Wide spread reports are coming in that access to Google from China is being blocked. It is unclear whether this is a Google action or a Chinese action. From the reports, it sounds like it is on Googles end.

MSN rivals Google with its own pop-up
blocking toolbar

MSN rivals Google with its own pop-up
blocking toolbar 01/27/2004 06:39 AM
Revolution Jan 27 2004 10:34AM GMT

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms 12/12/2003 03:10 PM
A few months back, France fined Google for selling ads based on trademarked terms. I was surprised, because in my own experiments with Google ads, I've had a few ads that were rejected because they (according to Google) contained trademarked terms. Personally, I don't see how buying a keyword is, in any way, a violation of trademark. The point of a trademark is to protect the company from having someone else appear to be you. You can't sell Bob's Cola and put a Coca-Cola label on it. However, if someone is looking for Coca-Cola, there's nothing wrong with suggesting they might also want to look at Bob's Cola, as well. Anyway, now it looks like Google may get hit from the other side as well. They've been fined for selling ads based on trademarks, and now, apparently, they're going to ge t sued for blocking ads based on trademark complaints. The pending lawsuit apparently says that Google is banning ads on terms that aren't trademarked as soon as anyone complains. That is, Google doesn't check to see if there's an actual trademark - they just ban the ad as soon as there's a complaint. The group that's going to sue says they've brought together over 3,000 complaining advertisers who have had ads blocked. As mentioned, I've had my ads blocked too, but this seems like a ridiculous lawsuit. Where in the law does it say that Google has to sell you ads for whatever you want? They have the right to reject ads for whatever reason they want. It is their system, after all. If people believe they're blocking ads unfairly, then isn't that an opening for competitors to better serve advertisers by offering them something that Google doesn't?

Is Google blocking third party GMail
notifiers?

Is Google blocking third party GMail
notifiers? 08/31/2004 03:16 PM
Search Engine Journal Aug 31 2004 6:18PM GMT

Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When
Blocking Spam

Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When
Blocking Spam 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence: when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where spam results manage to rise to the top, very few -- sometimes zero -- results will be returned. Examples: motorcycle candle, keyboard bracelet. These are common words for which you'd expect to see results (in fact, the latter even says there are thousands of results) but the bug prevents them from being seen. Eliminating the spam pages (by blocking a word, antenna, that appears on them) allows full results to be displayed. It's pretty amazing that such a serious bug made it past Google's tests. It will be interesting to see how quickly it's fixed....

Quick Tip: Blocking Some CNN Ads

Quick Tip: Blocking Some CNN Ads 01/11/2004 07:56 AM
Techfocus Jan 11 2004 3:41AM ET

AOL Blocking 95% of all Newsletters

AOL Blocking 95% of all Newsletters 02/13/2004 02:30 PM
14 out of 15 newsletters could not make it through the AOL filters.

RF-Blocking Wallpaper

RF-Blocking Wallpaper 06/20/2004 06:50 AM

Blocking Generic Ads

Blocking Generic Ads 01/03/2005 08:20 AM
Got the Ebay, Shopping.com, etal AdSense saturation blues?

Blocking RSS advertising

Blocking RSS advertising 12/17/2004 06:38 PM

Jason Kottke talks with RSS reader developers about blocking ads in RSS feeds.

China blocking bl0ggers

China blocking bl0ggers 01/15/2003 10:49 AM
Shellen said the start-up was starting to approach Chinese officials to resolve the issue and might seek advice from search engine Google, which suffered a ...

Is Commerce Blocking Science?

Is Commerce Blocking Science? 11/01/2003 06:27 PM
CBS News Nov 1 2003 4:52PM ET

Blocking sick surfers

Blocking sick surfers 06/07/2004 07:05 PM
USA Today Jun 7 2004 10:13PM GMT

Microsoft Turns Off XP SP2 Blocking

Microsoft Turns Off XP SP2 Blocking 04/12/2005 02:49 PM
TechWeb Apr 12 2005 6:55PM GMT

Distributive Worm Blocking

Distributive Worm Blocking 06/06/2004 11:20 AM

Yahoo blocking Trillian again!

Yahoo blocking Trillian again! 06/24/2004 04:40 AM

I Love Trillian and I am not real Happy with Yahoo at this moment seems the idiots over their are blocking those of us using Trillian as our IM client. Who in their right mind wants 4-5 Instant Message clients sitting on their taskbar especially when the can run one program and have them all. It is a beautiful thing I don't get spam advertised and I used to be able to login to all 4 of my IM accounts.

The solution is simple tell all of those that I chat with on Yahoo to move to one of the remaining services that are not blocked. Yahoo just doesn't get it do they, no wonder they continue to loose the browser war and screw up every other half assed service they run. [ZDNet]

Blocking "generic" AdSense Ads

Blocking "generic" AdSense Ads 01/04/2005 12:26 AM

Firefox to Strengthen Pop-up Blocking

Firefox to Strengthen Pop-up Blocking 04/05/2005 11:52 AM

say goodbye (again) to pop-ups!: Here's why a lot of sites have managed to get around Firefox's pop-up blocking lately.

A lot of people have been reporting a new breed of pop-ups on the web. This increasing menace is rooted in the pop-up capabilities of plug-ins like flash and Java. If you're seeing pop-ups and pop-unders, you're probably visiting sites that have flash or other plug-ins and those plug-ins are being exploited by advertisers to abuse you with annoying pop-ups and pop-unders.

Mozilla is taking steps to strengthed pop-up blocking, which is good news because I've seen it get a lot worse lately. Via Slashdot.

Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking

Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking 04/04/2005 01:17 PM
ZDNet UK Apr 4 2005 5:14PM GMT

Bed blocking threat to A&E unit

Bed blocking threat to A&E unit 04/15/2005 10:07 AM
An NHS trust admits 200 beds are blocked by patients who do not need to be in hospital, causing 'chronic problems' for Cardiff's main casualty unit.

Saudi site blocking

Saudi site blocking 09/14/2004 03:12 PM
At the Berkman Center this afternoon, the lunch-time topic was countries that block access to particular sites. We heard about the Berkman's study of Saudi Arabia's practices. Jonathan Zittrain helped start the project when he realized that many people assume that if you could overcome the economic obstacles to global access, everyone would magically be on line. But even when the connection is there, countries are imposing limitations on what can be accessed. The project checks what's being filtered by the local ISPs. The study began in 2000 and is being done in conjunction with U of Toronto and U...

Who's Blocking Verified E-Voting?

Who's Blocking Verified E-Voting? 06/11/2004 05:51 PM

Battle over pop-up ads and ad blocking
escalates

Battle over pop-up ads and ad blocking
escalates 04/29/2004 12:40 AM
Pop-up blocking has become de rigeur, and even more so with the upcoming version of Internet Explorer. A German company is now touting a solution that beats pop-up blockers (and annoys surfers).

Ad Blocking with CSS3 Selectors

Ad Blocking with CSS3 Selectors 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
joe comments on the old ad blocking post: Check out my use of CSS3 selectors supported by mozilla and NS7. I use it to block ads based on substring matches in the href of a link for links that contain images. I find that matching on the link href is...

Jason Kottke on RSS Ad Blocking

Jason Kottke on RSS Ad Blocking 12/17/2004 06:32 PM
Jason is writing about RSS Ad Blocking: Given that people who use newsreaders are still of the early adopter sort who are used to blocking ads with Firefox or fast-forwarding through commercials with their TiVos, it seems likely that blocking advertising in RSS/Atom files might soon become an issue. He goes on to post the responses from the authors of PulpFiction, FeedDemon, and NetNewsWire. It's worth a read. And I'm sure the discussion will be interesting as always....

Blocking unwanted programs

Blocking unwanted programs 04/12/2004 07:37 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 12 2004 11:56AM GMT

AOL blocking LiveJournal referrals

AOL blocking LiveJournal referrals 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
So, according to this Slashdot piece, AOL is blocking referrals from LiveJournal. Now, after a scan of Evan Martin's post...

Bed-blocking criticised by watchdog

Bed-blocking criticised by watchdog 05/07/2004 02:10 AM
A report on health services in Wales which found bed-blocking affects a quarter of hospital beds calls for urgent reforms.

Spam Blocking Techniques

Spam Blocking Techniques 08/10/2004 06:01 PM

Firewall could be blocking Web images
from your PC

Firewall could be blocking Web images
from your PC 07/10/2004 04:54 AM
Seattle Times Jul 10 2004 8:23AM GMT

PopUp Blocking Comparison Test

PopUp Blocking Comparison Test 03/23/2005 01:31 PM

Is Hotmail Blocking Gmail Invitations?

Is Hotmail Blocking Gmail Invitations? 06/09/2004 10:57 AM

This could just be an isolated incident, but last night I got my first Gmail invites, so I sent one to my girlfriend's Hotmail account and it bounced. So not only may Hotmail be blocking the Gmail invitations (which, honestly, I doubt, but it's just shady enough to question it), but I wasted an invitation that I won't get back. Anyone else had this problem?

Court rules against state Web-blocking
law

Court rules against state Web-blocking
law 09/10/2004 04:16 PM
WASHINGTON - A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers (ISPs) to block Web sites the state's prosecuting attorneys deem to be child pornography has been reversed by a U.S. federal court, with the judge ruling the law violated free speech rights.

EarthLink Debuts Pop-Up Ad Blocking Tool

EarthLink Debuts Pop-Up Ad Blocking Tool 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a move to woo subscribers away from rival Internet service providers, EarthLink has released a new feature that allows Web surfers to block pop-up ads. Each time an ad window is suppressed, the blocker will alert the user with an optional sound effect and a brief change in the appearance of the mouse icon.

Court ponders Web site-blocking law

Court ponders Web site-blocking law 01/06/2004 01:01 PM
CNET Jan 6 2004 12:25PM ET

Blocking Spyware Via the ActiveX Kill
Bit

Blocking Spyware Via the ActiveX Kill
Bit 07/22/2004 08:12 PM

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Free registration is required to read the article. “…The way this is done is via a little-known function of ActiveX controls called the “kill bit,” as described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 240797. The “kill bit” is a flag in the Class Identifier, or CLSID, for the ActiveX control. The CLSID for any given ActiveX component is found in the Registry, under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \CLSID, but Internet Explorer maintains a separate list of compatible ActiveX controls…

ISS unveils attack-blocking devices

ISS unveils attack-blocking devices 11/18/2003 09:14 AM

Feds Recommend Blocking Oracle Bid

Feds Recommend Blocking Oracle Bid 02/11/2004 06:13 AM
San Jose Mercury News Feb 11 2004 10:07AM GMT

Regulators advise blocking Oracle

Regulators advise blocking Oracle 02/11/2004 05:23 AM
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice have advised the government to block Oracle's hostile $9.4bn bid for rival Peoplesoft
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University Policy Handbook Index

University Policy Handbook Index 12/05/2003 05:31 PM
University Policy Handbook Index
http://www.campus-adr.org/Staff_Admin_Building/searchpolicies.html

The primary purpose of the University Policy Handbook Index is to assist users who are exploring the creation / revision of Conflict Resolution policies at their institution. The index does this by providing access to examples from other institutions. You can search all of the Policy handbooks in the index or narrow your search to a category that matches the audience you are creating / revising a policy for. The index is not limited in any way to Conflict Resolution related policies, but rather attempts to index all the web-accessible handbooks at major institutions in the United States. Thus it should prove useful in a broad range of circumstances. As of October 1, 2003 there are 975 records in the Policy Handbook database from 691 universities / colleges in the United States.

Tender: Lancaster University needs
routers for Education network

Tender: Lancaster University needs
routers for Education network 07/19/2004 02:49 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 19 2004 7:17AM GMT

Philips funds intellectual property
education at People's University

Philips funds intellectual property
education at People's University 04/19/2004 05:32 AM
Xinhua News Agency Apr 19 2004 9:20AM GMT

Boston University Corporate Education
Center Joins ITTC as Platinum Sponsor -
Project Management Assessment Tool to be
Featured

Boston University Corporate Education
Center Joins ITTC as Platinum Sponsor -
Project Management Assessment Tool to be
Featured 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
Boston University's Corporate Education Center joins the ITTC conference as a Platinum sponsor. The 27th annual edition of ITTC is being held June 21-23, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Newport, RI. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

Suck

Suck 12/15/2002 12:23 AM
The store is really messy, so I get to work 3pm to 11pm tomorrow, Sunday. I get to work until 11pm on a Sunday. Ass.

Suck it, NYC!

Suck it, NYC! 06/11/2004 07:56 AM
The latest affront in a war of good vs. evil.

I Suck

I Suck 11/15/2003 12:02 AM
I tried making an AppleScript for iTunes that would change the case of articles in ID3 tags, I got it to work, but it removed...

Suck on this!

Suck on this! 07/12/2004 08:42 PM
Selfellatio (NSFW) [via Jane's Guide]

“Why does Windows still suck”

“Why does Windows still suck” 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
read the whole article .. and answers it

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/note s020405.DTL
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Deadlines still suck

Deadlines still suck 03/26/2005 01:16 PM

Even when you're doing work you love. In other news: today I finally finished Chapter 14: Blog Your Build Process and Chapter 15: Blog From a Chat Room.

Verbs Suck

Verbs Suck 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
Joe Gregorio: XForms doesn't support the DELETE verb.

I find this very amusing< /a>.

Forget SOAP. Forget ReST. Consider the following flow. I POST an email address to a URL. An SMTP message comes to that address. In the body of that message is a URL. Issue a GET on that URL. You get a cookie.

It's just data.

It is a very big world out there

Sites That Suck

Sites That Suck 04/15/2005 09:55 AM

Sites That Suck: This site is worthy of a browse — it's a gallery of painfully-designed Web sites (sadly, the site itself doesn't look all that great). I like the use of vacuum cleaners instead of stars to measure how much a site "sucks," and great commentary like this:

I would assume that at some point, an actual person decided that a hit counter wasn't enough, and that it needed to be an animated hit counter that comically rolled at such a speed that it caused you to imagine traffic so intense that the poor counter couldn't keep up. Oh the hysteria!

It's in blog format, so there's an RSS feed.

All KVMs suck.

All KVMs suck. 04/04/2005 11:57 PM
MacInTouch: All KVMs suck.

Why, oh why, does Windows suck?

Why, oh why, does Windows suck? 02/05/2005 09:35 PM
A SFGate columnist (and Mac user) has asked a hot question, but I think those looking to Microsoft to solve all their ills are missing part of the social landscape that keeps the company cozy.

Why Does Windows Still Suck?

Why Does Windows Still Suck? 02/05/2005 09:08 PM

"Why does Windows still suck?"

"Why does Windows still suck?" 02/07/2005 02:02 AM

but tweakers still suck

but tweakers still suck 04/11/2005 07:45 PM
I told you Ecstasy was good for you. "The study of Ecstasy for the terminally ill will involve 12 cancer patients who have less than a year to live. They'll receive varying doses during two strictly supervised therapeutic sessions. The drug, once hailed as 'penicillin for the soul,' is a chemical cousin to amphetamines that reportedly induces feelings of profound empathy. It will be combined with traditional psychotherapy, and, [Dr.] Halpern hopes, 'enable them to open up in therapy so they can talk about challenging issues and resolve their grief.'" (reg rq'd)

Air America Might Not Suck

Air America Might Not Suck 08/05/2004 10:54 PM
I've made fun of Air America once before for having way too many people on staff for a radio station, but things might not look...

Webl0ggers Suck

Webl0ggers Suck 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
You're all a bunch of sad, lonely hosers and I've only been blogging for the last 18 months to work my way into your affections in order to get to a position of trust from which I could then undermine you all with my real thoughts and opinions on the subject of blogging. Just to make you feel bad about humanity. Blow me.

Filipinos Suck Eggs

Filipinos Suck Eggs 11/11/2003 06:57 AM
In the Philippines, if you stay out late and get too drunk, don't be surprised if you wake up the next morning with the taste of boiled duck fetus on your breath. (11-08)

Why registration-sites suck

Why registration-sites suck 07/20/2004 06:15 AM
Wired News has a good piece on the backlash against the growing trend of news-sites requiring logins to read their articles, covering automated tools like the Mozilla bugmenot plugin that automatically spoofs your logins to 14,000+ sites.

The point that everyone seems to miss is that no one can possibly keep track of a thousand passwords for a thousand websites, which means that these sites undoubtably contain recycled passwords (admonishments from security experts to never recycle a password are the infosec equivalent of telling people to "eat less and exercise more" -- simplistic doctrine that is vanishingly unlikely to be adhered to in the field).

The more you recycle a password, the higher the likelihood that you will use it in a sensitive context -- a bank site, a message board, an IM client, an auction site -- where someone might impersonate you or even commit identity theft crimes against you.

What's even worse is that while these news-sites are willing to spend the computational cycles necessary to receive your password, none that I've seen use SSL for their login, which means that the NYT and others demand that you send your password in the clear when you sit down at a WiFi cafe and want to read the password. This is a potential disaster if that NYT password is also a sensitive one somewhere else: it's a case of really callous disregard for user privacy and security. Link

Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?

Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck? 01/02/2005 02:06 PM
I'm a not a big fan of Wiki technology, mostly because I find the markup annoying and the random nature of Wiki changes difficult to follow. However, many Wiki software packages offer RSS feeds so that one can subscribe to a feed of changes in your favorite aggregator. But they all suck. At least all the ones I've tried do. Rather than take advantage of the fact that most people are reading RSS feeds in something capable of displaying HTML,...

You Can Pay For Your Homework Online,
But Most Likely It Will Suck

You Can Pay For Your Homework Online,
But Most Likely It Will Suck 04/07/2005 02:24 AM
In the last few years, one of the biggest issues that teachers and professors have had to deal with is that many students are buying papers off the internet. There are a number of tools, like Turnitin, that try to catch students in the act, but now some are pointing out that, students who buy papers online may get "rewarded" in another way. Most of the papers are just plain bad and won't get the student a particularly good grade. Of course, this was hardly a scientific study. It was just one professor checking out a few different essays available online. However, it still makes you wonder what sort of person would buy a paper online when there's absolutely no way to judge the quality of it? Oh, right, the sort of person who buys a paper online probably is too clueless to recognize that quality might matter.

For Speeders, Hybrids Suck Gas

For Speeders, Hybrids Suck Gas 05/21/2004 05:30 AM
One of the biggest selling points for hybrid cars is their fuel-efficiency, but some disappointed owners still have a case of the gas-pump blues. They're discovering that, just like with regular cars, driving styles dictate mileage. By John Gartner.

charter schools suck

charter schools suck 08/18/2004 03:08 PM
AFT-funded study .. an NYT article

nytimes.com/2004/08/17/education/17charter.html
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Batteries Continue To Suck

Batteries Continue To Suck 11/11/2003 09:15 PM

Data centres suck it up

Data centres suck it up 07/10/2004 01:16 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 10 2004 5:21AM GMT

who says mini-jacks suck?

who says mini-jacks suck? 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
How to convert LPs to CDs. Many audiophiles will mock the software they suggest using as well as the hardware pictured, but this is aimed for the everyday people that don't have a laser turntable or ProTools . All in all, a decent introductory guide.

Blogging Tools Suck

Blogging Tools Suck 06/26/2004 05:42 PM
people *are* more important than tools... i can't disagree with a word fred's written

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT 06/22/2004 07:46 AM
Hey, that's our money you're throwing away

CMP Says It's Not Blocking Google

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