I hope Apple gets spanked for this. It was their lack of due diligence, and even if Apple was aware of this other company, it chose to engage this "Imma show you whose boss" mentality. Apple decided to play the game, so too damn bad if they lose.
As any frequent and long-time user of YouTube knows, it is notorious for dumping stupid interface changes on the user community. Due to the massive negative outpouring that some of these generate, it's hard for me to believe that they perform any usability trials before release. There are still some remnants of this junk - most notably the gray bar at the bottom of the screen. This is probably the one least-used, most annoying "feature" that refuses to die. I hope Netflix isn't using the same methodology, because it doesn't work, and it doesn't require an MBA to figure this out.
According to sources I've read, the notion of corporate "personhood" only became viable when a court reporter took a judge's comment made during a case (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company), and elevated it to the status of a ruling by including it within the case's headnotes. No such ruling per se, ever took place. This "ruling" was clearly the result of a coincidental set of events that, under ordinary circumstances, may well have never happened.
Believe or not, copyright law prevents random photographs of certain properties. While photographers do benefit from an exception with regard to buildings, they do need to be careful if their images include any artistic works (e.g. sculptures, statues, etc).
There are third party services (like messagelabs offered by Symantec) that provide email scanning and archival. This puts an interesting kink into the model, because now the path includes more than just other email hosts. These services can have their own retention and privacy policies, and you, as merely one endpoint in a communication process, may have no idea that such a third party is being used.
> It would really help if a few of you guys would stop that stupidity. The 'corporations' don't run our elections. The Media and their lefty masters do.
What difference does it make? This is an irrelevant detail - the alternative I've mentioned would not be changed by this. In order for any real fix, the current political ethos would need a complete overhaul.
Who says violence is required? This nation's citizens could organize and do a complete end-run around the corporate-funded election process.
That's the biggest problem - people keep participating in the same process, listening to the same diatribe election after election, and electing the same kind of corporate-funded whores that run as the mainstream choices. I'm not convinced that it has to happen this way, but everybody is familiar with it, so even though it sucks, and is destroying our country, they refuse to try anything different.
Say what? Look at almost EVERY world conflict, every instance of brutality, oppression, or abuse of one group of humans against/by another, and there will likely be some religious underpinning.
Unfortunately, nobody has any idea where *else* this data winds up. What would stop a company from selling it to other commercial interests? Any time you provide identifying information, it should be a (sad) expectation that it will be prostituted in some manner by the company in its possession. Bottom line? Protect yourself.
Not really. I've been handed new cards a number of times - they don't care if it's filled out or not. Of course, they'd like it to be, but I never have....even once. Albertson's would give you a card and give you a choice as to whether or not you provided any info. KS is a bit less flexible, but it's not that much of an ordeal to get past that.
If tomorrow, everyone who cared about these issues stopped buying anything from those companies, and stopped copying their products as well, all that would change is they'd use the slight dip in sales to bolster their arguments about piracy
I've heard that argument too - while this may happen initially (and for good reason), there will be a point at which the false piracy claims can no longer be rationally justified. It is part of a corrective process. Nothing can change if the piracy doesn't stop.
I hear those argument all the time - I don't buy it. Your position has been used as an unfortunate justification to continue escalating this war on freedom. If people would just let the market work, it will. The only factor that has had a major impact is the fact that people can walk away with copies of something with comparatively little effort - many have the mistaken belief that this affords them a level of entitlement that simply doesn't exist.
BS. The one true freedom that people fail to realize, and fail to use, is the freedom to say "no," as in, "Thanks for the crappy stuff you continually produce, but no - keep it. And I'll keep my money."
Right on the money - I do not believe that the mere act of being in public (which is something, for all practical purposes, we must do), erases a right to privacy. When I walk out my front door, it is not an implicit invitation to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to turn my life into public spectacle if they so choose.
In my personal opinion, it is as good as the iPad 2, so there's no reason to need to deep discount it, is there?
Of course there is - Apple is king of the hill right now. Just because you have a comparable product doesn't mean people will be beating down your door - you have to build mindshare among consumers, and that's one thing that a lower price would help to accomplish.
Heavy use comes from accessibility, both in terms of the app itself, AND the means to purchase it. I haven't purchased a single Android app yet for my Tab- it's not that I don't want too, it's that I'm not going to surrender a whole lot of personal info just to pay a few dollars for an app. What I'm suggesting here is that Google could do itself a world of good if it implemented a gift card much like Apple has for iTunes. This seems like a no-brainer, but Google has apparently been ignoring the growing number of people asking for it.
Exactly - and you see Obama crowing about the rights of the Egyptian people, but then you wonder - what would happen if the same events were occurring here? I'm willing to bet that Obama would be singing an entirely different tune. Further, the initial intent of the "kill switch" was to mitigate damage in the wake of cyber warfare. However, just like everything else the federal government has done in the name of "national security" since 9/11, it *will* be re-purposed for other non-defense uses.
That model doesn't work for me. $600 is way to much to be spending on a mobile device with such a limited scope. I can get a good laptop for that kind of money.
Absolutely - this really kinda ticks me off - I just paid $600 for a tablet that has been effectively dead-ended. I wonder how many of the original customers they screwed on the first round will feel like bending over to take another jab when they fork out another $600 to upgrade their OS. What a freaking waste.
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Who needs to post anonymously with intellectual gems like this? oh...wait....my bad.
I hope Apple gets spanked for this. It was their lack of due diligence, and even if Apple was aware of this other company, it chose to engage this "Imma show you whose boss" mentality. Apple decided to play the game, so too damn bad if they lose.
As any frequent and long-time user of YouTube knows, it is notorious for dumping stupid interface changes on the user community. Due to the massive negative outpouring that some of these generate, it's hard for me to believe that they perform any usability trials before release. There are still some remnants of this junk - most notably the gray bar at the bottom of the screen. This is probably the one least-used, most annoying "feature" that refuses to die. I hope Netflix isn't using the same methodology, because it doesn't work, and it doesn't require an MBA to figure this out.
According to sources I've read, the notion of corporate "personhood" only became viable when a court reporter took a judge's comment made during a case (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company), and elevated it to the status of a ruling by including it within the case's headnotes. No such ruling per se, ever took place. This "ruling" was clearly the result of a coincidental set of events that, under ordinary circumstances, may well have never happened.
Is that pre-1990, or post? Every reference I've seen so far makes this distinction.
Believe or not, copyright law prevents random photographs of certain properties. While photographers do benefit from an exception with regard to buildings, they do need to be careful if their images include any artistic works (e.g. sculptures, statues, etc).
I'd like to add one - in my case, I also see a company. If it's Apple, I'll go for a competing product.
There are third party services (like messagelabs offered by Symantec) that provide email scanning and archival. This puts an interesting kink into the model, because now the path includes more than just other email hosts. These services can have their own retention and privacy policies, and you, as merely one endpoint in a communication process, may have no idea that such a third party is being used.
> It would really help if a few of you guys would stop that stupidity. The 'corporations' don't run our elections. The Media and their lefty masters do.
What difference does it make? This is an irrelevant detail - the alternative I've mentioned would not be changed by this. In order for any real fix, the current political ethos would need a complete overhaul.
Who says violence is required? This nation's citizens could organize and do a complete end-run around the corporate-funded election process.
That's the biggest problem - people keep participating in the same process, listening to the same diatribe election after election, and electing the same kind of corporate-funded whores that run as the mainstream choices. I'm not convinced that it has to happen this way, but everybody is familiar with it, so even though it sucks, and is destroying our country, they refuse to try anything different.
Religion does far more good than harm
Say what? Look at almost EVERY world conflict, every instance of brutality, oppression, or abuse of one group of humans against/by another, and there will likely be some religious underpinning.
Unfortunately, nobody has any idea where *else* this data winds up. What would stop a company from selling it to other commercial interests? Any time you provide identifying information, it should be a (sad) expectation that it will be prostituted in some manner by the company in its possession. Bottom line? Protect yourself.
Not really. I've been handed new cards a number of times - they don't care if it's filled out or not. Of course, they'd like it to be, but I never have....even once. Albertson's would give you a card and give you a choice as to whether or not you provided any info. KS is a bit less flexible, but it's not that much of an ordeal to get past that.
...for movies and stories, why not for ads?
New vector for surveillance. We all know that the government never exceeds the scope of its stated intent.
If tomorrow, everyone who cared about these issues stopped buying anything from those companies, and stopped copying their products as well, all that would change is they'd use the slight dip in sales to bolster their arguments about piracy
I've heard that argument too - while this may happen initially (and for good reason), there will be a point at which the false piracy claims can no longer be rationally justified. It is part of a corrective process. Nothing can change if the piracy doesn't stop.
I hear those argument all the time - I don't buy it. Your position has been used as an unfortunate justification to continue escalating this war on freedom. If people would just let the market work, it will. The only factor that has had a major impact is the fact that people can walk away with copies of something with comparatively little effort - many have the mistaken belief that this affords them a level of entitlement that simply doesn't exist.
BS. The one true freedom that people fail to realize, and fail to use, is the freedom to say "no," as in, "Thanks for the crappy stuff you continually produce, but no - keep it. And I'll keep my money."
Right on the money - I do not believe that the mere act of being in public (which is something, for all practical purposes, we must do), erases a right to privacy. When I walk out my front door, it is not an implicit invitation to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to turn my life into public spectacle if they so choose.
In my personal opinion, it is as good as the iPad 2, so there's no reason to need to deep discount it, is there?
Of course there is - Apple is king of the hill right now. Just because you have a comparable product doesn't mean people will be beating down your door - you have to build mindshare among consumers, and that's one thing that a lower price would help to accomplish.
I think Anonymous, in this case, will be destroying a cultural icon. I mean, come on - the site reads like a web comedy.
Heavy use comes from accessibility, both in terms of the app itself, AND the means to purchase it. I haven't purchased a single Android app yet for my Tab- it's not that I don't want too, it's that I'm not going to surrender a whole lot of personal info just to pay a few dollars for an app. What I'm suggesting here is that Google could do itself a world of good if it implemented a gift card much like Apple has for iTunes. This seems like a no-brainer, but Google has apparently been ignoring the growing number of people asking for it.
Exactly - and you see Obama crowing about the rights of the Egyptian people, but then you wonder - what would happen if the same events were occurring here? I'm willing to bet that Obama would be singing an entirely different tune. Further, the initial intent of the "kill switch" was to mitigate damage in the wake of cyber warfare. However, just like everything else the federal government has done in the name of "national security" since 9/11, it *will* be re-purposed for other non-defense uses.
That model doesn't work for me. $600 is way to much to be spending on a mobile device with such a limited scope. I can get a good laptop for that kind of money.
Absolutely - this really kinda ticks me off - I just paid $600 for a tablet that has been effectively dead-ended. I wonder how many of the original customers they screwed on the first round will feel like bending over to take another jab when they fork out another $600 to upgrade their OS. What a freaking waste.