Time to defend Google: It’s unfair to attack them for excluding Youtube from its “anti-piracy” penalties, when they’re also excluding every other popular site driven by user-generated content. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Youtube are four sites that, whether Google-owned or not, need to be indexed and valued to a degree. The point of the penalty is to punish illegitimate sites, not legitimate sites with some illegitimate users. So, yeah, lay off this time.
However I see I’m not the only one who thought Google got off easy over the Safari privacy hack perpetrated at Google, that led to the paltry $22 million fine of Google by the FTC. I still wonder if somebody should have gone to jail over it. Who was responsible? Where was the oversight that leads up to Larry Page and Eric Schmidt? Google should have named names.
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Having trouble with Darwiin Remote on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? So was I. The Remote would be picked up by Mac OS’s Bluetooth rather than Darwiin Remote. That was disappointing.
But, thanks to a user at Sourceforge, there’s a fix. I’ve rebuilt the framework and created a quick zip file with the updated bundle, including the fixed Framework with the last released version of the app.
Read on for the raw source of the patch:
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