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Yeah what he said !!

You hear the word "monopoly" thrown around a lot these days, especially about Google and Apple. After Google's bid to acquire Motorola, the integration of Google+ signals in Google Search and the announcement of Google's consolidation of privacy policies and data gathering across Google services, critics have been saying Google has a monopoly in the search market. Consumer Watchdog, referring to Google, said: "The Internet is too important to allow an unregulated monopolist to dominate it." U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said this week that "Google's move to eradicate consumer choice all together across their various platforms raises additional questions about how the company's monopoly power might hurt competition." And after Apple last week announced new software, services and initiatives related to education and electronic publishing, critics of that company have used the word "monopoly" to characterize Apple's position in thetablet market. OS News asked: "What about Apple using its tablet monopoly to push into textbooks and locking students in?" Last weekend, I appeared on Leo Laporte's netcast "This Week in Tech," in which fellow guest and columnist Ed Bott said that just as Microsoft used its operating systems monopoly with Windows to make Internet Explorer the leading web browser, Apple is "leveraging their dominant position in the tablet marketplace with the iPad and then creating a proprietary, incompatible version of an open industry standard" with iBooks Author and iBooks 2. The "monopoly" accusation is made freely. But is it true? Are Google and Apple actually "monopolies"? What is a monopoly, anyway? Economists view any given market as ranging somewhere between two theoretical extremes. At one end of the spectrum is something called "perfect competition," which involves, by definition, a huge number of companies selling into that market. At the other end of the spectrum is "monopoly," for which there are three criteria: There is only one company in the market. There is no close substitute for the product or service offered by that company. Barriers exist for other companies to enter the market. The idea here is that with perfect competition and many companies, no one company has control over the price it can charge. Prices are determined by the market. In a market controlled by a monopoly, that one company can determine prices because of the three criteria listed. That definition alone technically invalidates everyone who says Google or Apple is a monopoly. That these companies are monopolies is obviously, literally and provably false. But calling either Google or Apple a "monopoly" is just a lazy exaggeration to imply that it has a "monopolistic" position in the market, which means that although it's not actually a monopoly, it's close enough to be deemed "anticompetitive." Does Google have monopoly power in search? Time magazine Policy & Law columnist Jerry Brito wrote recently that Google can't be charged with violating antitrust law, mainly because it has only 65% market share for search. Brito didn't specify his source for that number, but it's likely he was referring to comScore rankings, which count the number of queries conducted by users, rather than the number of users or the number of advertising dollars. One underappreciated dimension of the M word when applied to Google is that it should not be about the percentage of queries, or even search users, who are not the customers. It's about search advertising. That's the "market." That's where the money is. Markets are correctly measured in dollars, not in the nebulous currency of "queries." A good search engine reduces the number of queries for each user, anyway. It turns out that Google owns more than 80% of the search engine advertising revenue market. If you choose to segregate mobile search engine advertising, Google has something close to a perfect monopoly: about 98%. So Google may meet the first criterion for a monopolistic company by today's legal standards. On the other two criteria, however, Google fails the monopoly test. For example, there are obvious substitutes for Google, including Bing and a few others. And these alternatives are easily embraced. Just type the URL, or the name of the search engine into Google, and you've switched. There are zero significant barriers to switching to the competition. There are barriers for other companies to enter the market, but they appear surmountable. For example, a search engine called Blekko launched recently. And one called WireDoo will soon be launched. It's not theoretical. Companies are in fact entering the search engine market and competing with Google. To me, there's no question: Google does not have monopoly power in search -- not literally, not legally and not actually. Does Apple have monopoly power in tablets? The claims against Apple are more easily dismissed than those against Google. First, Apple's share in tablets has been well below the 75% threshold for some time, and now hovers around 57% or 58%. And the overall trend is toward Android tablets gaining market share at the expense of Apple, so Apple's share is declining. The fact that companies are selling touch tablets at $200 and below demonstrates that Apple is not in control of pricing. Literally dozens of new entrants into the market prove there are no insurmountable barriers to entry. Any claims that Apple enjoys a monopolistic position in tablets are unsupportable and directly contradict the facts. But that doesn't settle it According to my own reasoning, neither Google nor Apple should be considered a monopoly or even monopolistic. But I'm not in the FTC. And I'm not a judge. Such determinations are at least partly governed by politics, public opinion, the influence of competitors and other factors that have little to do with law, facts or reason. Some court may declare at some point that one or both of these companies are monopolistic enough to require government "remedies." The important fact, however, is that such a ruling has not been reached. Google is merely being investigated. And Apple is merely being accused. No official or legal conclusion on this question has been reached. So if the material facts match the definition of monopoly, then you can say Google or Apple are monopolies. But they don't, so you can't. Or if a government agency or judge declares either of these companies a monopoly, then you can call them that. But they haven't, so you can't. So as far as I can tell, charges of Google or Apple being monopolies, monopolistic or wielding monopoly power are simply false. And those who use the M word about these companies are misleading you.

yup just do /cs register #roomname password description, /cs set #roomname founder johnson..or if you dont feel to register it then just do /join #roomname and thats all.

Just did a bit more on the nicklist with icons notting fancy but different!!

Well Finally I can say that we have made a lot of changes on chainscriptz from PHPbb3 to Drupal but the best is now we are using IPB. yes after hearing so much about it and seeing Koach also move to it and err0r has been after for years to go with IPB, it's has been done, and to be honest I happy with that choice its incredable and so much easier to do things. The only main thing we are still trying to establish is if we will be using content or the same as what err0r uses. I have also change the icons and structure a lot of stuff with the help of my partner Eyecu and err0r who has taught me a lot. Its comming along great and its suiting my needs quite well and I'm happy with the out come so far. We als now have intergrated our webchat on the website and let me tell you that wasnt an easy task for Eyecu, but he did it last nite and prevailed. the only thing is that you have no need to sign in with password as the server dosent use what the website forum dose. all you have to do is sign in the forum and then click on webchat and your name will appear in the box already, no need for password. we will be still workin gon things but hey its a huge stepping stone for us. As now we dont have to build a frame around our webchat we use the best thing our website!! Also we have changed the emoticons to different ones as i have taken out the standard ones and added these new ones as i felt i need a whole new look not just the big things but also the little things, So far as I see it the project is at 55% completed, we still have a ways to go but its a start and comming along nicely. And the best part is i have a err0r smiley and a fiesty smiley LOL hehehehe. Hope you all like the new look!!

pfffffftttttt I love IE9

This why I dont bother with my webchat, I was going to work around it and make a frame and etc, but I really cant be bothered. I have my IRC chat and server and thats really all I need. if anything my place is Buzzen and will always be. I do my testing of scripts on my server and make my script for IRC and do my codings, other then that theres way too many chats going up, and to be honest a lot will jusr close in this comming new year. But there is one chat that is booming and becomming known..( Chatcore) they are impressive!! other then that CCN was a good, but Admin didnt keep up with there own responsiblities, and left it to others!!

Dam out of all people to be late on this topic I have to be, So sorry my friend as we go back a long ways and i forgot it was your Birthday, yes you can yell and give me shit LOL sorry and I wish you all the best on your belated birthday wish!! Happy Birthday Bro

Have been giving Information that CCN Chat is closing there doors and no longer will be. Yes this has been comfirmed with one of the Administrations and was Given to me. They have no plans on continuing with the chat as it's been a long time thinking of one of the Administrators to close but waited Until the proper time to decide, and now its happen and theres no turning back the decession has been done. We are sorry to hear about it and wish them all the best in whatever they decide to do!! Source: CCN Administration

Happy new years to you also Koach and all the best to you and your family

"Twas the week before Christmas, and in Canada, Was ChainScriptz, far far away. No stocking to hang by the chimney this year, Instead in a bar, with a big warm beer. Wrapped tight in a coat, with a scarf to match, It's hard to imagine, being hot at the back of the bar, a sip here a nut there, more sipping, plus burping. The only thing to be pink is a big juicy chop! In my head there'll be no need for a fire, Over here, to be without is really rather dire! To keep fingers and toes from turning deep blue There's Red and white wine and cider, hot Nachos too, Montreal is jolly, with tinkling lights galore, Things can be quite pretty, even offshore! While hoping for snow, we don't want it too thickly, Cause then it turns mushy and really quite slippery! Back home at Montreal, in your antipodal location You will do similar to us in our Family situation Eat drink and be merry, with a noon snooze or two, Please help Mum with the dishes, com'on boys, that's you! To my family, to yours as i repeat. So I say to you, in this festive rewrite: Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

Nice job Koach I like the site is looking good and best way to go with LightIRC this is the same as I use on my server, and apparently a lot more have. I've played with the icons and changed them, not its the frame work. If you need any help or info let me know as err0r and I have played with it.

From what I'm hearing is they are having issues with there Database. So just give them a chance to sort stuff out.

Police have discovered the existence of a mobile phone known as "the Hub" which was used by News of The World journalists to hack over 1,000 voicemails between 2004 and 2006, according to The Independent. The phone sat on the news desk of the now-defunct newspaper and was used to illegally access 1,150 numbers between 2004 and 2006, according to Met officers working on the case codenamed "Operation Weeting". The phone was registered to News International and the Met appear to have found the detailed call logs for the handset. An ex-NOTW journo confirmed the existence of the phone and described it to the Indy as being "at the heart of the NOTW newsroom". The reporter also said that it had been used to hack phones "on an industrial scale". The Independent learned about the phone from victim of the hacking scandal Tom Rowland, a former TV exec who worked on Big Brother. Met police inspectors told Rowland about "the Hub" when he met them in police headquarters in Putney to get an update on the case. Mr Rowland said: "They [Weeting detectives] showed me a phone log taken from inside News International. They said it was the 'NOTW hub' and showed a pattern of calls made to my mobile phone." The log reveals his mobile number being accessed over 60 times, with specific dates listed. The phone would be one of the most significant pieces of evidence to emerge in the case so far. Police are now trying to establish who kept the phone and who hid it. The Metropolitan Police refused to comment. Source:

Security researchers have unearthed a flaw in Amazon Web Services that created a possible mechanism for hackers to take over control of cloud-based systems and run administrative tasks. The flaw, which affected Amazon's EC2 cloud and has already been plugged, could have been abused to start and stop virtual machines or create new images in an EC2 virtual environment, for example. The root cause of the security weakness stemmed from poor cryptographic practices. A team of researchers from Germany's Ruhr University found that an XML signature-based attack can be used to manipulate SOAP messages in such a way that EC4 authentication systems fail to detect that they have been doctored

Malware writers have derived a new Trojan for Mac OS X by porting an older Linux backdoor Trojan horse onto another platform. The newly discovered Tsunami Trojan is derived from an earlier Linux-infecting backdoor Trojan, called Kaiten, which phoned home from infected machines to an IRC channel for further instructions. Security firms are still in the process of analysing Tsunami but early speculation suggests it may be a DDoS attack tool. "Mac users are reminded that even though there is far less malware in existence for Mac OS X than for Windows, that doesn't mean the problem is non-existent," writes Graham Cluley of net security firm Sophos. "We fully expect to see cybercriminals continuing to target poorly protected Mac computers in the future. If the bad guys think they can make money out of infecting and compromising Macs, they will keep trying. My advice to Mac users is simple: don't be a soft target, protect yourself." Mac Trojan authors have previously used Windows backdoor code but the Tsunami Trojan is the first case we've across, at least, where malware tricks from the world of *nix have been turned against Macs. Source: the register

A new worm doing the rounds is turning servers running older versions of the JBoss Application Server into botnet drones. The malware behind the attack is significant both because it targets servers rather than PCs and for its reliance on exploiting a vulnerability that is over a year old – a flaw in JBoss Application Server patched by Red Hat in April 2010 – in order to attack new machines. The worm's payload includes a variety of Perl scripts, one of which builds a backdoor on compromised machines. Marcus Carey, security researcher & community manager at Rapid7, said that outsourcing practices had exacerbated the patching deficiencies that the worm exploited. "Many businesses outsource web application development and once the application is deployed, service contracts may lapse or IT staff may not be paying much attention to them," Carey said. "The use of this new malware associated with JBoss is something we have not seen before. However, the actual vulnerability it is exploiting should have been snuffed out years ago. This is far more a business failure than a software security failure at this point," he added. The last edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report found that exploits with a patch available for over a year accounted for 3.2 per cent of compromises. By comparison zero-day attacks were responsible for just 0.12 per cent of malicious activity

Hello everyone, Finally, AndroIRC 3.0 is out after three betas. Thanks to anyone who've tested it, this version 3 has a lot of bug fixes, and some great new features : FiSH support ! As FiSH needs Blowfish in order to encrypt / decrypt, FiSH support is limited to devices running Android 2.3 or above. History support: by default, the latest 20 typed messages are stored. You can navigate through history using the up / down key (the DPAD also works!) Nick completion: just press the search button while typing, and it will automatically complete your nick. Press search again to cycle through nicks. Redesigned user list. A long press on a nick append the nick in the textbox, while clicking on it show a little menu. Partial Android 3.0 Honeycomb support Support for irc:// links in Android browser A quick start dialog when first launching AndroIRC, and a what's new dialog when upgrading We have also fixed a lot of issues, like BNC support /me & queries issues fling / gestures are now less sensitive better detection of network connection, and better handling of connection lost and reconnection better disconnection from servers bugs fix Unfortunately, Android 1.5 is no longer supported. You'll have to stay with AndroIRC 2, or upgrade to a newer Android version. Like requested many times, you'll now find a premium app on the market. Install this app if you want to support us! As a result, ads will be disabled on AndroIRC! Thanks to anyone who participate to the beta, and enjoy AndroIRC! Source: http://www.androirc.com/

Textual is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X. It was designed with simplicity in mind. Textual has taken the best of IRC and built it into a single client. Its easy-to-use functionality combined with scripting support makes it an ideal IRC client for novice to advanced users. For up-to-date news about Textual be sure to follow us on Twitter: @textual What's New in Version 2.0.7 2.0.7 is a small maintenance update to try and improve the overall usability of the Textual IRC Client. This is the last minor update before version 2.1 which will provide support for SASL, a brand new user interface, and more. NOTE: It is not required, but is recommended to delete the folder "[Home Folder] > Library > Application Support > Textual" as Textual no longer needs this folder based on Item #3 of the change log shown below. Official change log: - [NEW]: Experimental support for Regular Expression highlights using the PCRE library syntax. - [CHANGED]: Logging has been disabled by default. - [CHANGED]: Scripts, Extensions, and Themes that are packaged with Textual by default are no longer copied into a separate folder. They are stored exclusively in the application so that only custom items are stored in the old location. - [CHANGED]: All fifteen colors introduced in version 2.0.6 have been recreated in order to improve on the background color of specific themes such as Simplified Light. - [CHANGED]: The "xsysinfo" script has been updated to latest version. - [FIX]: Fixed backlog being lost when changing themes. Source: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textual-irc-client/id403012667?mt=12

Well finally been playing with the icons on the nicklist. now its to do the coloring for each position on the nicklist!! heres what it looks like so far, after its making a base around the lightirc!

Well for now all I know is that they have been working on getting the servers up for irc, and are working on the rest as we speak. so there isnt a timetable as of yet on the development on the website. But will keep posting with new updates when i get them bro!!

I was just Notified that the irc servers for SPCN are up and running, so hurry up and get back to the chat that you all have missed. The original owner of the chat is no longer. and there is a new team that are taking it over, well not new but some of the old staff from SPCN. So I'm happy to Announce that SPCN is back. Servers: 1. 96.47.40.243 2. 96.47.40.244 3. 96.47.40.245 Source: SPCN STAFF

Well the word that is going around is that Sparkpea has closed and had a few conflicts. This i cannot say is 100% but from chatting to people on other servers they say sparkpea is no more. maybe the Admins from there will shed light as to whats going on!!

Ok did a few updates played with colors and came up with a nice theme, been working on modules and setting things up. By september this will be the new ChainScriptz.net. Have a few modules to install but have to modify a few of them. looking for simple and non scrolling website, easy on the member just a click away. The site will be mainly for IRC and coding and scripts with a few chat servers such as Buzzen and etc. the ones that stay on line for a few years. Plus a lot of the IRC servers. Due to the lack of IRC websites this is why I decided to go this way. Anyways enough of the blah blah its going to be fun working with this website.

Stop whinning ya baby la la gawd ya starting to become like the old geezer over there lol. hey irish great seeing you again been ages