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Wikipedia, please watch Google's messaging.

I'm happy to see that Google has gone with a clear, direct anti-SOPA message: "Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S."

And their call-to-action message on the home screen: "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!"

Simple and clear.

Wikipedia's message is much more vague and indirect: "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge ... Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet." [How?]

And then their detail page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn...) spends the first three bullet points talking about details about the Wikipedia action (how long they will be blacked out for, how they decided, etc.) before getting to: "SOPA and PIPA are real threats to the free and open Internet." Okay you've got my attention. Go on... "Although recent media reports have suggested that the bills are losing support, they are not dead." Argh! If I haven't been following this debate, why do I care about the current health of the bill? Tell me what's going on and why it's important!

This reminds me of their recent banners soliciting donations, which other commentators have pointed out were indirect and not as effective as they could have been.
Google has phones? ;)

This is more than just a doodle. And it's a day long event at a ton of websites. People will notice the doodle. They'll notice that wikipedia is down. They'll notice Wordpress' page. They'll notice the front page of Huffington Post. In the context of everything that's happening today, people will perk up.
let's just win now.
Wikipedia works if the javascript is disabled.
Thanks to wikipedia team for placing back doors, students can still do home works if they disable javascript.

Wishes for the movements against SOPA and PIPA.
um, im sure that Google had no idea about Wikipedia's plans and let their spider autocrawl the domain without manually overwriting its settings.

I would rather find it in Google's best interest to keep Wiki pages high up in results, btw.

Further, Google spider can "apply" CSS and "see" which elements of the page cover other content with divs.
Yup that one.

This financial mess we're in which started with a housing bubble in part caused by crazy loans? He was Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee which oversees that sector and received a special loan as a "friend" of Countrywide Financial, which was one of the biggest problem lenders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_financial_political...
You can also just, you know, disable Javascript.
SOPA/PIPA Image and Inforgraphics gallery
SOPA image gallery
http://umbu.com/audiblecode/set/sopa%20collection/
Like most things in life. Love for example.
Tell people that this is what it will be like to access information online if anything like SOPA passes.

I wonder if a lot of people are going to be searching for "how to access wikipedia" now? Pity it will be too late by tomorrow, or you could inform them yet again. Oh well.
AVC.com blackout page
Why is being jaded mutually exclusive to being for or against the legislation?
I'm totally happy with what Google did to their homepage. It will definitely get attention. I'm disappointed about their call to action. It vaguely points users to a message that "Congress" (who in Congress?) is doing something bad. Sign another worthless petition. Why not give people a way to call them? Why not list the bill's co-sponsors? The companies that are supporting it?
BitBucket.org also taking part in the SOPA blackout
Tell Congress: Don’t censor the Web
[...]
Too much is at stake – please vote NO on PIPA and SOPA.

First Name
Last Name
Email address *
Zip code *

hmmm... where is this info going to?? another Goog mousetrap?
Access Wikipedia during the SOPA blackout (if you really need to).
Google Blacks Out #SOPA
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook among others use tax dodges to pay negligible amounts of tax in the United States.
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Most Linux users don't normally use any out of tree drivers. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Installation indicates that Virtualbox is shipping via DKMS, which is infrastructure for automatically rebuilding the Virtualbox code every time the kernel is updated.
Could anyone give screenshot or direct URL to the doodle? I'm always redirected to .com.my every time I open Google.
The use of a PDF for an infographic was a very poor choice. The design of it was very unusable for a browser, since its really wide and detailed.

This page is much more interesting and should of been the homepage: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/
Unblackout wikipedia bookmarklet - http://blog.nparashuram.com/2012/01/wikipedia-unblackout.htm...
If it's possible for the user to use their own key then GPLv3 may permit you to ship signed code without the signing key - the user will just be able to sign modified versions themselves. Microsoft's current requirements include the ability for users to install their own keys.
Because I don't think your average user will bother to call. They will be made aware of the problem - perhaps it will come up in conversation at the water cooler - but I doubt they will care enough to place that actual call. I wish there was more call to action - and more importantly, an easier to read info graphic.
The vast majority of my friends work in the entertainment industry, and I fully support protecting copyright.

But SOPA is over the line, and it has to be stopped.
I thought it was a glitch until I went onto hacker news and saw this post.

I was expecting a blackout and still didnt notice it. I cant imagine many other non-technical users would.
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Get on Twitter and search "wtf wikipedia". Enjoy the show.
Reading the comments, I have feeling many people outside HN would miss the essence and only think of it as a challenge ("Look, I can access the content! I'm JavaScript ninja!").
They were speaking independently and from what I can tell, their assumptions are that the prevention of piracy was all that would happen if these bills passed.
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Personally I wish that the peeps over at Wikipedia could use nice design like the black out page on their donation drives.
Eh, I'll bite. We've got a bunch of entrepreneurs here-- has anyone reading this tried to start a business, overcome every major impediment to that goal, and been on the cusp of true success, only to be foiled by the insurmountable obstacle of government paperwork?

I won't argue that the government makes running a business easier, or that there aren't legitimately oppressive or protectionist regulations that should be taken off the books. But if a failed business owner tries to tell me that they would have gotten away with it if only they didn't have to pay taxes or comply with labor laws, well... That sounds to me like a business I'm just as happy doesn't exist.
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Ever heard of a PAC?
They're routinely publicly accusing Google of supporting piracy.

Why isn't Google, in turn, publicly accusing them of corruption and bribery?
I was prepared for an un-circumventable blackout myself, and on reflection also think that the JS overlay is pretty smart.

I'm certainly over-thinking this, but perhaps there's also a parallel between the way that many people will be finding out how to dive into their configuration and turn off Javascript, install bookmarklets or whatnot today, and the way that people may be finding out how to set their machines up to use alternate DNS servers if and when SOPA's DNS blocking ever comes to pass.
Why don't big tech companies lobby congress to protect the web?
Shouldn't Google, Facebook, and others have more money and lobbying power than the MPAA and RIAA?
Google does not respect intellectual property rights (look at picture)
http://www.google.comhttps//www.google.com/landing/takeactio...

If there is anyone here from or with contacts to google, my igoogle banner links to this instead of the proper url. Oops.

edit: nevermind, they seem to have noticed
I disagree.

On a quick glance, I assumed there was a page error.

Their page works if you take the time to read it, but I assume most non technical users will open the page, see the page error, assume the page is down for technical reasons, and go about the rest of their day.
There are companies that have a legitimate interest in keeping counterfeits off the market, counterfeits that are damaging their brand and that can even endanger the life of customers.

This is one way SOPA/PIPA was sold to some of the companies supporting it. Unfortunately, neither of them are going to stop counterfeits, or piracy.
That's a nice sound bite, but "piracy" means "copying things". I've yet to see a plan that both prevents people from copying things and preserves liberty.
Great! Shall I add this to the Post?
Not Piracy
You're right. Most users won't. But if 1% of users actually do that's an enormous impact. Right now, there's nothing to even push them in that direction. Even users who get riled up will probably feel their work has been done by signing that aimless petition and not bother looking up how to contact their representatives.
We made some deliberate decisions to try to make it look as little as possible like a real error code. I think most people will realize that it's not an actual technical issue, nothing else on our site looks like this and we've given them plenty of warning through posts.
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it would probably be a pretty easy bash script to write
Great article, but that text shadow is horribly distracting. I'm a fan on header text, but not so much on main content.
SOPA entry on Wikipedia is not blacked out.
BoardGameGeek SOPA Awareness Notice
One idea is to put sensitive data into an image (for example the prices), and only serve the image to the user. While images themselves can be scraped, it is much harder than text.
We are not doing that. Of course.

I wish I could edit the headline.
I consider this kind of legislation to be a symptom of a wider problem, even if these bills are defeated, more will come.

Wealth has been held above all other value, and that myopia guarantees an endless succession of ever more retarded policy. Only fundamental electoral and economic reform can stem the global tide of blind individualism. Once you are chasing wealth, there is never "enough", even making a huge profit is insufficient if it wasn't more profit than you made last quarter.

The saddest part is that so much of this greed is no longer even perpetuated by humans, with some %60 of global fast trades being done by algorithms, we have invented heartless entities to worship our corporate gods and to unquestioningly do their bidding.

These companies are not being destroyed by pirating, they are not on the ropes looking for a handout. The content industry is making record profits, pumping out derivitive schlock that is creatively bankrupt and rakes in the cash. But even that is not enough for them, they must have more, they must crush their opposition and monetize everything.
103 characters with native js:

d=document;f='getElementById';d[f]('mw-sopaOverlay').innerHTML='';d[f]('content').style.display='block'
If you want to know, I'd suggest clicking the "How we use your information" link.
Well, no, but the fact that more ethanol isn't the cure for ethanol poisoning is not exactly MD-level subject matter.
No, how about we not end either?

Can anyone demonstrate to me that Piracy is actually such a huge problem? These media corporations are making record profits, piracy is not killing them, they are just being greedy.
I documented a ton of ways here to get around it: https://gist.github.com/1631355
It is cumbersome enough that many end users won't use it.

Wimax is not part of 4G/LTE, so naturally that is what will replace it.
The only thing that's really preventing me from fully opposing the bill is just how clearly it's made that SOPA would apply only to sites "dedicated to the theft of U.S. property". I might just be naive, but it seems like the use of SOPA to take down benign sites, as has been suggested, would be blatantly illegal.
(The downvotes kind of prove both our points, and point to the kind of behaviours we should expect from politicians: you get more votes for saying what people want you to say than what you believe the truth is.)

Regarding "proving the lies" sites like http://www.politifact.com/ are quite good.
I am very supportive of the wave of support against SOPA/PIPA from major web players. I am also proud of the wiki foundation for taking a large, and the first very public step. Seeing this, I wish we had such powerful players in the fight when either the CTEA (Sonny Bono Act) was passed or the anti-circumvention rules of the DMCA were introduced.
Wordpress Blacked Out
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This is why such swat teams need to be hidden or actively shielded. Motorola's Droid team was completely separate and able to stand on its own feet. The Google Wave team was based in Australia and had its own incentives and structure. Obviously, swat teams are hit and miss like any startup; they're essentially startups within a corporation.

Or you need to be actively shielded. I was part of such a swat team for internal tools in my first job out of university. The IT department did everything possible to kill us, get us fired, etc. We needed support from the CEO down to stay alive. In the days before I came on board, our managers and directors would disguise the team, telling other people, "Ah, they're just business analysts working on miscellaneous stuff. Not important. Ignore them."
Google maybe think that anyone who saw this, and want to call the congress, they will use Google to find out the door way to contact the congress?
These are command line utilities, why worry about the language? Just pipe data into and out of csvkit's tools and level up!
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This mini-site they put together about these bills is really, really well done... much moreso than most of the "stop SOPA script" landing pages.

I've linked banners across all of my websites to Google's https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
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1) Their "regular" keyboards work just fine with Macs (see the link in 2) for more;

2) The Das Keyboard is nice but still not as good as Model M / Unicomp SpaceSaver: http://jseliger.com/2009/11/01/product-review-das-keyboard/ . I used the review copy with an iMac.

3) Virtually any mechanical keyboard is a HUGE improvement on the default keyboards that most manufacturers ship.
Shh. You'll break the reality distortion field.
Bloc is protesting SOPA
Now, it’s Easy to Get PC Remote Support  
which stormed the world in the past few years, has opened new avenues for businesses dwelling in remote assistance or help. Files or data shared during remote support is effectively encrypted.
How is wanting to protect your IP ( whether or not you agree with the very notion of IP ) being greedy?
Apparently this thread is full of people who are better at being CEO of a multi-billion dollar company than anyone at Yahoo in the last several years.
I don't know about that. The current Apple keyboards are fantastic once you get used to them. My only complaint is that the caps wear down slightly faster than other keyboards because the plastic flakes off more easily under heavy wear.

If you're a mechanical nut, you still have the Matias Tactile Pro (http://matias.ca/tactilepro3/index.php) which has the added bonus of not just the proper keycaps, but the indicators for the additional characters possible with option and shift.
I think there's something about the "before they were cool" statement that Higgs-Boson-like goes back in time and prevents it from happening.
Thanks. Automated testing, yes. But e.g. TDD?
Great move by Amazon, consolidating its position for all things cloud. However, I am always disappointed by the search on Amazon's own site. rarely has it produced the exact thing I am looking for.
One hopes that this Search Service is much (infinitely) better than their current search technology.
Something hilarious about the infographic linking Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf) when it'll be down today.
If it's a high-level decision, why were Larry & Serge so dumb as to have the contractors do it from a Google IP, when they could, for example, do it from home?
Don't censor the web
Technically the Das Keyboard Ultimate (ie blank keys) is already mac-compatible because the appropriate keys would automatically be assigned.
It's interesting to analyze what that decided to put on the front page as their key features:

- 3 points (#2, #3 and #8) related to USB functionality

- 3 essentially identical points (#5, #6 and #7) about what type of keys they have

- Only points #1 and #4 are something that could be considered as real differentiator by a layman

- Gold-plated contacts are mentioned 4(!) times on the first page - I wonder if they provide any advantage over silver or metal ones

- They also mention Darth Vader(!) somewhere on their front page

- They also have a chart that should communicate some additional value that the keyboard provides (and it probably does)

Overall, my impression is that they overdid their marketing. Thoughts?

Update: They also mention (in a system requirements sections that nobody reads) that to use the hub functionality, you would need to occupy two ports of your mac, not one, which somewhat lessens the value proposition
Yes, but only for 12 hours, starting tomorrow at 8am ET:

"Reddit will not be offering its regular service between the hours of 8AM ET and 8PM ET, which is also when Mozilla will be redirecting the Mozilla.org and Mozilla.com English webpages to a similar "action page" inviting users of its software to voice their concern."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/18/2715300/sopa-blackout-wiki...
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But that is not how one gets government endorsement. It happens through connections and contributions(of the $$ kind).
On mobile site it's showing up like a banner ad.

Once I moseyed over to the nonmobile version I saw the blackout... It's done well and (I hope) it will be effective.
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Even the keys for volume, iTunes, brightness, and Mission Control?
This jacks up the header for me in Chrome.
Yep that sounds about right. The other problem is that these "low to mediocre quality middle managers and employees" do not realize that they are "low to mediocre quality".
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I think this poll might be more useful if you split the "against SOPA/PIPA" option into something like "against SOPA/PIPA, but for alternative piracy legislation" and "against SOPA/PIPA and against any new piracy legislation". I'm in the latter camp.
yeah lot of ways to access wikipedia during the blockout

use the noscript is one and using wget the other and a lot of other such .

i want it block whole if they really wanna balckout . :(
The update to the article addresses items 1 & 3, claiming it's the same IP, but not the same people. Apparently two people made about 20 troll edits to OSM. They've been fired for abusing Google's network policies.
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Like the takedown of Dajaz1 that was blatantly illegal? It was only down for a YEAR, and finally released back to the owners with no apology after they discovered that the site actually didn't infringe at ALL. [1]

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120110/11395317367/websit...
I was sitting here trying to figure out if it started yet because all the pages kept loading. This is good though, almost anyone who has javascript disabled is probably aware of the issue and against it.
I use an Apple Extended Keyboard: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/m_kbdm3501.jpg

It requires a rather hefty ADB to USB adapter, which ran me about fifty bucks (http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-2001-ADB-iMate-Universal-adapt...) but to me, it was worth it.

Modern Apple keyboards look beautiful sitting in a pristine environment, but the lack of key travel, too-flat form factor, and decent spacing makes typing unpleasant.

My old Extended Keyboard takes up more space on my desk than my laptop does. It's noisy as hell. It's about as pretty as a Soviet gas station. And I can type all day long on it without my hands ever tiring.
Hardware encryption should mitigate that issue, just so unsigned kernels aren't allowed access to the keys (which would prevent you from running hardware encryption with an unsigned kernel, but that's sensible.)
It is mentioned nowhere in accelerate framework that it uses atlas, and they removed functions like ATL_buildinfo. I doubt it has changed much in the last 5 years as well, and I am not sure what makes you think there is ( significant) non-atlas code in there ? Besides symbols starting with ATL, I see mostly the BLAS/LAPACK API, although I did not try to check very carefully.
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Aren't so-called infographics supposed to make information easier to understand? This, hell, I'm not going to call it an infographic, this, "graphic," does the exact opposite. I downloaded the PDF and attempted to see what it's trying to convey, and I gave up after zooming way in and still not being able to read the text after waiting for what seemed like an eternity for it to re-render.
Those are my feelings as well. I do understand the concern of a precedent being established, but I really do tire of all the hyperbole surrounding this bill. I can't tell how many times I've seen people make the claim that if someone where to post infringing material on to a site like whitehouse.gov, the authorities would have no choice to take it down. Bogus claims are bogus claims regardless of their intentions.

I think the most damage brought by this bill would not be manifested in legal cases, but rather a climate in which people are far more hesitant to take risks on the web, etc.
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Would be interesting to know which features?
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