More countries need to start doing this.
Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
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Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree, wells are equal to or better than municipal water, and can often be cheaper while being higher quality. the inverse can be true. the analogy holds imo.
I'm sure there are different geographical and utility costs, but every well I've ever priced was between 25-100 years to break-even .
How long to break even after building your own search engine?
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#443Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're making a category error in your analogy. DuckDuckGo is much more like Google than "dig a well" is like municipal water.
Isn't DDG just a frontend for Bing? I can host my own searx instance, but that's not a real search engine and it shouldn't count IMO.
No, or at least not only. They mix a few sources.
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#444But I have multiple choices for email, search, video hosting and browsers. I don’t have any choice for water, electricity, sewer, on any other public utility. I am sure there are a bunch of people on here that don’t use any Google products and are using DuckDuckGo, Firefox, ProtonMail, Vimeo. There are many choices.
DuckDuckGo is 10 characters while Google is 6. That is a 67% overhead. If it was ddg or duck I would be more tempted to use it.
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#445A big problem with software and people who write software (often) is that software doesn't like all the ways that human beings misbehave, change their minds, don't have immutable states, and don't fit into the categories you build for them. So any system that has a duty to serve everyone eventually ends up with an operational component that has almost as much human interaction and problem solving required as the soft…
There are plenty of rational reasons for not wanting a smart meter. Don't let the irrational people detract from the fact that there are many real problems with smart meters. Especially lots of privacy issues. In the UK, I report my own meter readings and the electrical company probably only really ever goes out once every few years when tenancies change. So I actually don't see what money it saves them asides from t…
When it comes to smart meter security and privacy (and perhaps in this day and age diversity and equity) concerns let's discuss them when there's an evidence that they have caused problems.
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#446But I have multiple choices for email, search, video hosting and browsers. I don’t have any choice for water, electricity, sewer, on any other public utility. I am sure there are a bunch of people on here that don’t use any Google products and are using DuckDuckGo, Firefox, ProtonMail, Vimeo. There are many choices.
All alternatives for Google search end up being Bing and it sucks when compared to Google.
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wells dug with modern equipment are a perfectly good alternative to municipal water - they can free one from over-regulated or poorly managed utilities. Even in the outskirts of California metros it's sometimes the only option without shelling out hundreds of thousands for extensions. DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, is just Google with bangs, an insignificant spec compared to the latter. Edit: DuckDuckGo US market sha…
> Wells dug with modern equipment are a perfectly good alternative to municipal water ... in certain geologic areas. And this doesn't work if you live in an apartment. I do feel like this is a big example of the "why don't you just" discussion from last week.
Water (or mineral) rights are often not included when you buy property within a city, too. "Just dig a well," is often literally illegal. Water rights are notoriously complicated and obscure.
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#448Well, isn’t this a fun filled comment section
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, but that's a technicality. What matters is, if you want to make a living, you have to host on YouTube. (You can host elsewhere, but over 99% of your revenue will come from your notoriety at YouTube, if not YouTube directly.) And if you want videos, they're all on YouTube. You can search for them elsewhere but most of the content is on YouTube, and you won't avoid it even if your search started from a general…
What kind of living are you making just posting videos to youtube? A random example but most stage hypnotists sell their shows via vimeo. If you ever go to a show and want to buy a copy they will send you there. The stuff they post on youtube is mostly highlights or lower quality video. It would take them 100,000 ad views (1,000,000 regular views) to equal one copy sold. Youtube could get you some views but you need…
Have you not heard of YouTubers? There are a lot of people who make a living off of YouTube.
Re: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
What step were they unable to complete in the process of changing their browser's default search from Google to Yahoo? (With your walking them through it, I mean?)
They need to be able to get to Yahoo Mail from their home page and the search engine result page. This is a hard requirement.
I second whynaut's suggestion.
That's precisely what I did for the elders.
I set up pinned bookmark shortcuts on the 'tab bar' (had to enable the 'show bookmarks bar' option).
Now they have a button for 'mail', one for 'search', one for 'maps', and one for 'facebook' etc. Those buttons are always visible, no matter how far they venture into the internet. Solved the problem for them (or rather, for me, lol)