I’m pretty sure that Jeff Miller saw a Google Ad. Google tries to match up the ads with keywords found in the site according to some arbitrary algorithm. The site administrators basically have no control over which ads might appear. I wonder if it’s possible that a Microsoft or Novell ad might appear. At least, one can say that the site administrators do not necessarily endorse whatever the ads are promoting.
Yes, that could be right. It is the wide rectangular Flash player box just under your title box of Boycott Novell. May be coming from Google, but coming back in just now I see the exact same ad, for John McCain. A senile old man who I think should spend the rest of his days in some comfortable retirement community — that is NOT in Washington, D.C. It’s on the page with
02.04.08
Links 04/02/2008: Google vs. Y!MS, Military and RHEL, XO Finds Love
as the headline above the posted list. But get rid of that (b)ad.
Heh. I forgot the ads even exist (got AdBlack and NoScript installed). Shane added them back in 2006 and I don’t think they pay more than a dollar a day (just about enough for the hosting bill). I’m too shy to ask him to remove the ads because it’s him who pays the bills.
Sorry about the McCain disturbance. We don’t endorse the man.
The demise of patent trolls in the United States, a trend partly attributable to Alice and other Supreme Court decisions, will likely accelerate soon (later this year) as the future of the Eastern District of Texas courts is at stake
In a letter to Elodie Bergot (as CC) and Željko Topić, who faces many criminal investigations, FFPE-EPO ringleaders reveal their allegiance not to EPO staff but to those who perpetually attack the staff
A potpourri of reports about some of the world’s worst patent trolls and their highly damaging enablers/facilitators, including Microsoft which claims that it “loves Linux” whilst attacking it with patents by proxy
Some of the patent microcosm, or those who profit from the bureaucracy associated with patents, responds to claims made by Techrights (that software patents are a dying breed in the US)
Firms that are profiting from patents (without actually producing or inventing anything) want us to obsess over and think about the rare and few cases (some very old) where judges deny Alice and honour patents on software
The issues associated with the UPC, especially in light of ongoing negotiations of Britain's exit from the EU, remain too big a barrier to any implementation this year (and probably future years too)
India's resilience in the face of incredible pressure to allow software patents is essential for the success of India's growing software industry and more effort is needed to thwart corporate colonisation through patents in India itself
A look at some of the latest spin and the latest shaming courtesy of the patent microcosm, which behaves so poorly that one has to wonder if its objective is to alienate everyone
In defiance of common sense and everything that public officials or academics keep saying (European, Australian, American), China's SIPO and Europe's EPO want us to believe that when it comes to patents it's "the more, the merrier"
The problem associated with Battistelli's strategy of increasing so-called 'production' by granting in haste everything on the shelf is quickly being grasped by patent professionals (outside EPO), not just patent examiners (inside EPO)
Free/Open Source software in the currency and trading world promised to emancipate us from the yoke of banking conglomerates, but a gold rush for software patents threatens to jeopardise any meaningful change or progress
To nobody's surprise, the past half a decade saw accelerating demise in quality of European Patents (EPs) and it is the fault of Battistelli's notorious policies
New trouble for Željko Topić in Strasbourg, making it yet another EPO Vice-President who is on shaky grounds and paving the way to managerial collapse/avalanche at the EPO
The utter lack of participation, involvement or even intervention by German authorities serve to confirm that the government of Germany is very much complicit in the EPO's abuses, by refusing to do anything to stop them
Another example of UPC promotion from within the EPO (a committee dedicated to UPC promotion), in spite of everything we know about opposition to the UPC from small businesses (not the imaginary ones which Team UPC claims to speak 'on behalf' of)
Uploaded by SUEPO earlier today was the above video, which shows how last year's party (actually 2015) was spoiled for Battistelli by the French State Secretary for Digital Economy, Axelle Lemaire, echoing the French government's concern about union busting etc. at the EPO (only to be rudely censored by Battistelli's 'media partner')
In violation of international labour laws, Team Battistelli marches on and engages in a union-busting race against the clock, relying on immunity to keep this gravy train rolling before an inevitable crash
A new year's reminder that the EPO has only one legitimate union, the Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO), whereas FFPE-EPO serves virtually no purpose other than to attack SUEPO, more so after signing a deal with the devil (Battistelli)
Jeff Miller said,
March 24, 2008 at 7:52 am
I love your site. But get rid of that John McCain ad at the top of the page. You’ve contaminated your page and yourself.
Victor Soliz said,
March 24, 2008 at 8:51 am
What John McCain?
Roy Bixler said,
March 24, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I’m pretty sure that Jeff Miller saw a Google Ad. Google tries to match up the ads with keywords found in the site according to some arbitrary algorithm. The site administrators basically have no control over which ads might appear. I wonder if it’s possible that a Microsoft or Novell ad might appear. At least, one can say that the site administrators do not necessarily endorse whatever the ads are promoting.
Jeff Miller said,
March 25, 2008 at 10:08 am
Yes, that could be right. It is the wide rectangular Flash player box just under your title box of Boycott Novell. May be coming from Google, but coming back in just now I see the exact same ad, for John McCain. A senile old man who I think should spend the rest of his days in some comfortable retirement community — that is NOT in Washington, D.C. It’s on the page with
02.04.08
Links 04/02/2008: Google vs. Y!MS, Military and RHEL, XO Finds Love
as the headline above the posted list. But get rid of that (b)ad.
Roy Schestowitz said,
March 25, 2008 at 10:16 am
Heh. I forgot the ads even exist (got AdBlack and NoScript installed). Shane added them back in 2006 and I don’t think they pay more than a dollar a day (just about enough for the hosting bill). I’m too shy to ask him to remove the ads because it’s him who pays the bills.
Sorry about the McCain disturbance. We don’t endorse the man.
Jeff Miller said,
March 25, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Makes sense. I guess there’s little you can do to control that content. Well it’s good to know that he’s not there intentionally! Thanks.