Epic Guide

The announcement that Google has created a credit card payment system called Google Checkout to compete directly with EBay’s PayPal and the rest of the merchant account industry, is both good and bad news.  This opens up a bigger door to a number of legal responsibly in areas such as Contracts, E-Commerce Disputes, International Transactions, Ethics and Intellectual Property.

Google has always tried to be easy to use and confidential, so the first benefit is to have a system that is safer than using a credit card online. Google stores your credit card data and never gives it to the merchants, so your credit card is not directly used in transactions, which has been PayPal’s exclusive model over the past few years.  This is obviously attractive to buyers, because security is a big issue on the internet.  It also is good for sellers because Google is providing the transaction protection and fraud guarantees to the merchants.

The bad news is that Google is quickly becoming the world’s information giant, which will strongly test Ethics and Intellectual Property rights.  Not only does Google contain the best data mining tools and search ability, but they also store ALL the information they gather.  Google is rumored to have the largest grouping of servers in the world, not to server up web pages searches, but to actually store data, such as whole websites that have been cached, so much of the information found on the internet is actually being stored at Google server farms. Google will now have the ability to collect vast amounts of personal information directly from users, such as address, full names, and credit cards.  Traditionally all information that is in Google databases was collected from other websites, so personal data found on websites isn’t necessarily right or complete, it is only as good as it’s source.  The question must be asked who owns that data?  Does Google because they captured and stored it, or does the creator of that information?

Recently Google refused to turn over information the United States Attoney General about viewing habits of internet surfs in regards to child pornography.  So Google holds its information in high regard and will protect it for as long as possible.  However, once credit cards get tied into the transaction process, more attract against Google may come because of the simple fact that money is involved.

Google must be wary of the contractual agreements with its users.  Credit card information is highly regulated, so they will need to fulfill the government mandated agreements, meaning they may not be able to cross data with search data.  Google will be on the leading edge of the Internet E-Commerce Dispute law, they will need to be prepared to defend against lawsuits and lobby for proper laws and regulations.  They will be the testing ground of internet law.

Got Blog Spam?

We do, I delete atleast 10 spams off our blog every day, what is that all about?  I’m in the crowd that belives that spam is a waist of time, and that content will sell more gadgets than any 10000000 spams will.

Any one who comes to my site to spam will get smacked down.

I just took a look and it seems that I have been quiet for over a month.  That is because I havent been politically pumped lately.  Never fear, I just got a new book by John Stossel, I forgot the name, but it is a book that debunks american myths, such as outsourcing is bad and women earn less then men.  Crazy stuff.  Anyway, its pumping me up big time, so once Im done with this book, get ready for it.

I recently posted a note on some findings of Coke, saying it would just about ruin your body if you drank it.  Well, we put them to the test, and nothing happened, so I guess that means Cokes not to bad.  We videoed the whole thing, well add it to the site soon.
We put a leg of lamb in 2 quarts of coke for a week, nothing happened of any sugnificance.

We put a nail, and a toe nail into coke, not much happened, the toe nail was fine and so was the nail.  The coke with the nail in it was a bit cloudy.

The French 2 Franc had the most damage, it was actually tarnished, just like the french record of war.