There is, or will soon be, an alternative to the Big Brother in your pocket problem. Purism is working on a smart phone ( https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ ) with microphone ( and other ) hardware kill switches so you know that the damned thing can't bug you.
This is nothing but product placement by another name. We laugh at Microsoft when we see them do it on TV shows. This is no different. People just have to learn to ignore such obvious attempts when they see them.
Why would Intel invest in a company whose product reduces the number of computers and chips its customers use ? Look at IBM. Their chips and servers are now so powerfull, they're selling far fewer systems altogether and have had to turn themselves into a services company. The only reason I can see that makes sense is to somehow sabatage VMWare. Unfortunately the cat is out of the bag with products like XEN so Intel can never kill virtualization.
This is a solution to the wrong problem. What would really be usefull ( and I might even pay for ) would be a utility to scan windoze boxes for ALL software installed on them and ( ideally ) just report on software that is not part of our corporate standard for workstations. Although our users have read ( or at least signed ) our Acceptable Use Policy, which states that prior permission is required before installing software on company boxes, we still waste a lot of time diagnosing problems caused by unauthorized software.
What this really means is that on average the ISPs are screwing over half their customers, who are paying for something the ISPs are not providing. What the ISPs really want is to screw over three quarters of their customers, and charge the other quarter twice as much.
This will only effect retailers in the US right? If price floors are still illegal elsewhere, consumers could still tell they were being gouged and be able to purchase offshore.
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If the adds are included in the streams, is it really piracy, or just increasing the advertisers reach at no charge to them ?
There is, or will soon be, an alternative to the Big Brother in your pocket problem. Purism is working on a smart phone ( https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ ) with microphone ( and other ) hardware kill switches so you know that the damned thing can't bug you.
This is nothing but product placement by another name. We laugh at Microsoft when we see them do it on TV shows. This is no different. People just have to learn to ignore such obvious attempts when they see them.
Why would Intel invest in a company whose product reduces the number of computers and chips its customers use ? Look at IBM. Their chips and servers are now so powerfull, they're selling far fewer systems altogether and have had to turn themselves into a services company. The only reason I can see that makes sense is to somehow sabatage VMWare. Unfortunately the cat is out of the bag with products like XEN so Intel can never kill virtualization.
This is a solution to the wrong problem. What would really be usefull ( and I might even pay for ) would be a utility to scan windoze boxes for ALL software installed on them and ( ideally ) just report on software that is not part of our corporate standard for workstations. Although our users have read ( or at least signed ) our Acceptable Use Policy, which states that prior permission is required before installing software on company boxes, we still waste a lot of time diagnosing problems caused by unauthorized software.
What this really means is that on average the ISPs are screwing over half their customers, who are paying for something the ISPs are not providing. What the ISPs really want is to screw over three quarters of their customers, and charge the other quarter twice as much.
This will only effect retailers in the US right? If price floors are still illegal elsewhere, consumers could still tell they were being gouged and be able to purchase offshore.