Comment Re:Government moved fast (Score 1) 529
Argh! B0rky b0rky b0rk b0rk b0rk...
Microsoft's IE7 Search Box Bugs Google 803
tessaiga writes "The New York Times reports that Google is crying foul over a new IE7 search box feature that defaults to MSN Search. Although the feature can be modified to use Google or other search engines, Google asserts that "The best way to handle the search box [...] would be to give users a choice when they first start up Internet Explorer 7." Google goes on to assert that the move "limits consumer choice and is reminiscent of the tactics that got Microsoft into antitrust trouble in the late 1990s". I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available."
Comment Re:US citizen prefered party registration (Score 1) 471
I should find some reference material for this, but I'm too lazy.
My understanding is that in the past the parties chose their own candidates without the help of the state governments. This generally meant that a few powerful members of the party -- the elite or rich -- chose their candidate in what was seen by the public as secret, corrupt "smoke-filled rooms". Especially in a two-party system, this bothered the voting public, so reforms were passed to help make sure there was a fair and open system for the parties' to choose their candidates.
My understanding is that in the past the parties chose their own candidates without the help of the state governments. This generally meant that a few powerful members of the party -- the elite or rich -- chose their candidate in what was seen by the public as secret, corrupt "smoke-filled rooms". Especially in a two-party system, this bothered the voting public, so reforms were passed to help make sure there was a fair and open system for the parties' to choose their candidates.
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