"I used to ask Siri, 'What are the five biggest lakes in California?' and it would come back with the answer," he said. "Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listings...."
"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery" ... continued with several tweets, attacking Google as the "Piracy leader" for streaming movies free. In later tweets he called Google a "great company."
It is interesting that a man who so tightly controls the opinion expressed by one of the largest media empires would go to Twitter to tell us what he really thinks.
You can read more about the issue on Ethan Zuckerman's blog and my blog where we have cross-posted a longer post on the topic.
I dissagree that, "the goal to try to minimize the dissemination of copyright materials online is laudable." The dissemination of knowledge is good and this is ultimately why authors publish.
In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill.
Sadly, SOPA's counterpart in the Senate, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) will still be pushed forward, meaning we must remain vigilant. Despite all of this, Wikipedia has announced it will join the blackout coming Wednesday. ... It was pretty clear for anyone with even a modicum of political sense that SOPA had simply accumulated too much of a negative connotation to be pushed through without repercussions.
The pressure is working, keep it up. Techrights reports elsewhere that Smith promisses to continue work on SOPA
[Google's Senior Policy Counsel Rick Whitt] said that at least a portion of TV broadcasters' spectrum should be devoted to unlicensed use, "We want a couple of public beaches.
The statements of Neil Fried, senior telecommunications counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, are particularly repulsive because FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was there to discuss quickly adding broadband to Lifeline, a program to assure telecommunications for the poor. Open Spectrum can do that. Auctions will give us expensive access owned by incumbents known for spying on those who can afford their rates. Both the FCC and Congress are portrayed as wanting auctions but the FCC was lobbying for unlicensed spectrum. Even tech laggard Microsoft says they want unlicensed TV White spaces and has systems ready to use.