Exactly, the issue isn't that people are unhappy with the online delivery methods that exist, it's that the ones that do exist are free.
Most people will not pay for something they can get for free, even if the pay version is just of moderately higher quality. It has to be much, much higher quality.
Since this is just plain text articles, basically - I don't see many people paying for the service when bookmarks work just as well, even on the iPad.
More importantly, they admittedly drive a lot of this from opt-in customer data.
Draw your own conclusions about who really opts in to help Bing, how their behavior online might differ from that of rational Bing users (or internet users as a whole), how this information is gathered, etc etc.
So the excuse is "We don't copy Google, we collect and store browsing information about our users." (as if that's better)
They want everyone keeping all their devices connected to the online hub. This way they can control licensing, require updates, etc., more effectively than they do today.
You might like jailbreaking your console, but will you like it as much if your saved games are inaccessible? (maniacal laughter)
It doesn't matter, on/. every consumer is expected to sideload, install a clean OS, jailbreak, or otherwise do things the average person doesn't know how to do and/or wouldn't care to do if they could.
On/., everyone uses the same way you do. (or would, if they weren't so stupid)
The biases only deal with embryonic stem cell research, which is but a subset of all types of stem cell research. For the record, I don't think you need a religious bias to object to embryo farming or similar (since this is/., we are allowed/required to carry out what-could-happen as far as possible)
Much more important than a petty political point is pointing out that exclusivity contracts in medical research are stupid. We should be attempting to advance as quickly as humanly and ethically possible in these fields, and awarding exclusivity for profit motivated (don't kid yourself, they are) universities and research institutions is damaging and nonsensical.
Re:No dieing to push the envelope. Plain old go fe
on
Challenger 25 Years Later
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
It's an example of a culture of remarkable achievement that had become susceptible to groupthink after a while.
True - but I thought the downfall of custom circuits was that sometimes the operator chickens out. Obviously, those who plan these devices didn't find manually operated or time controlled mechanisms as effective as this, or they'd still be using them...
It's probably just an academic discussion because really, the chances this was going to happen or will happen again are probably slim.
I'm guessing they used an old phone or a burner that was recently (re-)activated and the spam was just sent to a random telephone number with a known-mobile exchange prefix.
They most definitely do store copies of those messages. These records can be subpoenaed and used in a trial like any other telephone records. Many, many examples exist.
Facebook and such, I feel, should be considered public if you have any common sense. Search engines are caching this stuff, it's backed up on volumes all over the place, it's transmitted to others' computers and mobile devices.
Especially if you are one of those who doesn't bother to have privacy settings locked down, I don't feel that we have any reasonable expectation of privacy on facebook and I think judges will continue to interpret things that way.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry Mr. Lacy, we require a license to complain about non-compliance to ignorant bureaucratic rules.
I received an e-reader (not Kindle) as a gift, and I read a lot of print books still.
For one, I'd rather have the physical book to pass along to others for free when I'm done.
Secondly, the cost of e-books doesn't represent much (or any) savings over new paperbacks.
Third, I never buy new books - amazon itself clears jillions of used/like new books so almost all my reading is already basically free.
Because the mods here are just awesome at only selecting things that are newsworthy.
Next up in the firehose... "the paper clip turns 73"
Exactly, the issue isn't that people are unhappy with the online delivery methods that exist, it's that the ones that do exist are free.
Most people will not pay for something they can get for free, even if the pay version is just of moderately higher quality. It has to be much, much higher quality.
Since this is just plain text articles, basically - I don't see many people paying for the service when bookmarks work just as well, even on the iPad.
That would be true, if media only generated revenue on a subscription basis.
Color me shocked that the writer for another website, marketing itself as a "macrosite for news", predicts the failure of another news aggregator.
brings new meaning to the term "dogfooding"
More importantly, they admittedly drive a lot of this from opt-in customer data.
Draw your own conclusions about who really opts in to help Bing, how their behavior online might differ from that of rational Bing users (or internet users as a whole), how this information is gathered, etc etc.
So the excuse is "We don't copy Google, we collect and store browsing information about our users." (as if that's better)
The mobile strategy is pretty lame, after all - setting themselves up as a low-rent copy of Apple.
Combine this with no tablet presence at all, and you have MSFT positioning itself as trying to hold onto the shrinking desktop market.
I DIP YOU DIP WE DIP
(into someone else's IP)
"the revolution will not be tweetivized"
(by the time he got the tweet posted, the revolution was over)
Sic Semper Tytoolus!
I favor a less funny, more useless answer: Internet Explorer.
They want everyone keeping all their devices connected to the online hub. This way they can control licensing, require updates, etc., more effectively than they do today.
You might like jailbreaking your console, but will you like it as much if your saved games are inaccessible? (maniacal laughter)
It doesn't matter, on /. every consumer is expected to sideload, install a clean OS, jailbreak, or otherwise do things the average person doesn't know how to do and/or wouldn't care to do if they could.
/., everyone uses the same way you do. (or would, if they weren't so stupid)
On
Depends... if Ballmer had said the exact same thing, it wouldn't be AS true. In this case since someone who loves Android says it, it's a "gotcha".
I'm sure that Verizon thing won't change the iPhone's market share at all...
The biases only deal with embryonic stem cell research, which is but a subset of all types of stem cell research. For the record, I don't think you need a religious bias to object to embryo farming or similar (since this is /., we are allowed/required to carry out what-could-happen as far as possible)
Much more important than a petty political point is pointing out that exclusivity contracts in medical research are stupid. We should be attempting to advance as quickly as humanly and ethically possible in these fields, and awarding exclusivity for profit motivated (don't kid yourself, they are) universities and research institutions is damaging and nonsensical.
It's an example of a culture of remarkable achievement that had become susceptible to groupthink after a while.
Major malfunction is just NASA-speak.
The guy was struggling with what to say. I think the quote was something like "umm... obviously, a major malfunction".
What do you expect someone to say in that situation?
True - but I thought the downfall of custom circuits was that sometimes the operator chickens out. Obviously, those who plan these devices didn't find manually operated or time controlled mechanisms as effective as this, or they'd still be using them...
It's probably just an academic discussion because really, the chances this was going to happen or will happen again are probably slim.
I'm guessing they used an old phone or a burner that was recently (re-)activated and the spam was just sent to a random telephone number with a known-mobile exchange prefix.
Interesting. I wonder if this delivery method will cause countermeasures to be used to prevent attacks?
Perhaps governments may look at shutting off text messages in a given area, or from a given set of towers, if they perceive a threat to the area.
They already have the rights to kick anyone off PSN that they want to. The fact that you aren't paying for it doesn't mean there aren't any TOS.
They most definitely do store copies of those messages. These records can be subpoenaed and used in a trial like any other telephone records. Many, many examples exist.
Facebook and such, I feel, should be considered public if you have any common sense. Search engines are caching this stuff, it's backed up on volumes all over the place, it's transmitted to others' computers and mobile devices.
Especially if you are one of those who doesn't bother to have privacy settings locked down, I don't feel that we have any reasonable expectation of privacy on facebook and I think judges will continue to interpret things that way.
Remember, ISPs are evil traffic-throttling anti-neutrality daleks