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Tech at Night: Pushing Obama to oppose China online, Microsoft to default Do Not Track?, EFF hypocrisy

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 2nd, 2012 at 12:00 AM  | 

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Tech at Night

It’s funny how certain names come up again and again in this space. There are just certain Republicans who are becoming solid Tech leaders. Marsha Blackburn is one of them, pushing to force Barack Obama to take a stand against the Chinese online.

Again, a Republican governor comes out for the sales tax compact, this time Governor Christie. The Marketplace Fairness Act I still say needs firm, explicit protections against a national sales tax added onto the state harmonized sales taxes, but the principle is reasonable.

Cue the gnashing of teeth at Google when Microsoft enables Do Not Track by default in MS Internet Explorer. You know there’s no chance Google would do the same with Chrome. Remember that point in case someone accuses Microsoft of abusing market power.

More business model protection: When you have to criminalize people merely having a copy of your software because you’ve made up some ludicrous theories about how much money you’re “losing” on those copies (hint: the marginal cost to them of those copies is $0.00), you’ve moved beyond copyright and to government handout.

When I heard about EFF going off on Apple, insanely comparing use of iPhone with going to prison, I just thought they were on drugs. Well, Jerry Brito asks the key question: is EFF subtly making a call for regulation?

New Tech site I’m going to have to watch: Communications Liberty and Innovation Project. The word innovation is so key there. We need a pro-innovation environment. The left claims massive regulation promotes liberty, but they can’t say that government dictates create innovation, not when they’re trying to regulate every new thing out of existence.

CLIP is starting out with a technical argument against yet another FCC mandate idea. Funny how the “pro-liberty” EFF is ranting about free private choices Apple customers make, while we “authoritarian” rightys are the ones calling out government action, eh?

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  • The_Gadfly

    Particularly given the sound thrashing you insisted on giving me when you claimed they’d suffered a major setback. Fair is fair Neil, particularly when you’re going to highlight an attack on them instead.

    Not that I disagree with you about that item, just that I don’t want ammo for their side to say we are just being fed a steady stream of propaganda. Leave that to their side.

  • dodgeone

    I to was surprised to not see anything about the big Win for Google but then I got my info about this stupid lawsuit not from the main tech web sites I got it from Groklaw.net

  • dodgeone

    As for IE 10 having Do Not Track on by default I did not know IE even offered such an option. I have IE 8 that does not even offer DNT as an option. I use Fire Fox and it has offered the option of me turning on the Do Not Track option for a very long time. IIRC it was over a year ago that I noticed DNT in Fire Fox. I’m sure most users of FF turn on the DNT option and to date have not read nor heard about Google being up set over DNT.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I vented all my outrage on the Tweeters. :)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    The judge ruled that Google can take Oracle’s open source code, ignore the licenses and make its own clone, then do its own thing.

    So Google gets to ignore copyright while not innovating.

    Google is now Microsoft. Embracing and Extending Java while not contributing back. Remember, Android 3 wasn’t even open source.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I don’t care what they think, and neither should you. They are evil.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    They were caught deliberately hacking around Safari’s no-track option.

  • dodgeone

    I think you need to find a new source to get your information from other then from someone like Oracles bought and paid for propaganda stooge Mueller. Also I have read most of the legal doc filed in this lawsuit over at groklaw.net including what the Judge him self wrote in his ruling on the API’s not being copyrightable, if you have not read his ruling you should it may open you eyes.

    And if API’s could be copyrightable like Oracle thinks, Oracle would find them selves in big trouble along with others in the computer software industry that need API’s to make there programs run. Oh you do know that Android is not Java nor have they ever called it Java, what they are doing is not even the same or close to what Microsoft tried to do to Java.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    When your first sentence includes attacking me as ignorant and then using the same old Socialist “paid for propaganda stooge” line that the Socialists use against *me* all the time, I have to conclude you’re full of it.

  • dodgeone

    When I wrote the above it was not intended on being an kind attack Sorry you feel that it was. FYI I was not trying to say your ignorant, based on what you have written do think you should rely more on getting the facts first hand instead of using information base on what a tech reporter thinks went on in the court room or who was lazy and reported what O’s lawyer thinks happened, that is why I suggested you read the judges ruling your self ( all 41 pages of it) hoping it may help you to see that some of what has been written by biased reporters is not accurate.

  • The_Gadfly

    But we need to keep it honest to win the squishes. And there are consequences on the other side of The Great Divide as well.