Don't they know that mass data collection is for the FBI, CSI, NSA, IRS, DHS, DMV, Customs and Border Protection, Department of State, Department of Defense, National Counterterrorism Center and any local police departments that care to get in on the party?
Chooseco has no IP granting them exclusive rights to the concept of a choose your own adventure. They have copyrights over the individual works, but that only applies to those specific works. There is no patent for choose your own adventure books because they've been been around since the mid-70s, well before our patent system was completely subverted. Chooseco is just hoping to get a few bucks with the threat of a lawsuit. If it goes to trial, Chooseco will lose.
It wouldn't surprise me if Netflix reveals that they licensed IBM's patent prior to making Bandersnatch. If they didn't license that patent, then IBM is the company that Netflix should fear a lawsuit from.
Or, you know, just don't use the service and let it die a quiet death from disuse. Not using it takes a lot less effort than what you've described and it frees up time that you can spend doing something more enjoyable.
Yeah, sure... "Windows" is the one installing Candy Crush. Not the users. Nope. They're completely innocent and definitely didn't have anything to do with it.
Punch cards do have a lot of downsides, but they are (or can be) an extremely durable storage media. if you made them with archival paper and stored them properly, they could still be viable thousands of years later.
Granted, you'd need a small warehouse just to store the data for one Blu-Ray DVD, but it's a small price to pay to ensure that your great-great-great grandchildren can watch a high quality copy of the Emoji movie.
You do realize that people who pirate the software are downloading cracked copies without the DRM stripped out or disabled, right?
The only people complaining about Denuvo causing problems for them are the people who legitimately bought the games and didn't pirate them, so they're saddled with the intact DRM.
The plastic doesn't interfere with or survive the aluminum recycling process due to the melting point of aluminum being over 650C. There is a small amount of pollution generated, but it's far less than what's generated in the process of smelting raw aluminum ore.
The iPhone 6 had a headphone jack and was thinner than any model they've made without the 3.5mm headphone jack. Removing the jack has nothing to do with making the phone thinner.
No, you can't find good phones with full qwerty wide format slider keyboards because "good phone" and "full qwerty format slider keyboard" are antonyms.
is the dumbest fucking thing I've read today... except I didn't read it or even bother reading the summary. I just read the title of the summary and jumped to a conclusion.
Hitting the back button in the browser takes you to the previous site in the history. If the redirects from your shady site weren't going into the history, hitting the back button would go to what was in your history, not a redirect page that would keep you trapped on the site.
Here's tip: When you're trying to sound super intelligent, make sure that you haven't gotten the logic in your post ass-backwards.
A few trillion more in tax breaks for corporations which go directly into stock buybacks to pump up prices and make the CEO's stock options more valuable like the last trillion did will surely trickle down next time!
Cell phones provided something that consumers didn't have; portable connections. The sudden takeoff in adoption corresponds to the introduction smaller, non-brick style cell phones with better battery life and price tags under $1000.
3D is just an enhancement over the 2D things consumers already have. Most people aren't willing to pay a huge premium for an enhancement to what they already have as long as they feel that what they have works well enough.
Would these would be the same US executives who have given us some the worst broadband access in any first world country while charging us more than virtually every other country?
Would they be the same executives who have actively opposed any regulations that would help the consumer and then forced consumers into one-sided arbitration agreements to take away their ability to even sue the companies?
Would they be the same executives who load up hidden fees on contracts, making any advertised price you see a complete joke?
Would they be the same executives who forced data caps down the customers' throats?
Would they be the same executives who have been using data caps and speed throttling to make using competing streaming services while allowing their own streaming services to be unhindered?
I could go on, but I think I've made up my mind. Fuck those executives. Every goddamn one of them can rot and die in a Chinese prison. The rest of us will be better off without them.
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Don't they know that mass data collection is for the FBI, CSI, NSA, IRS, DHS, DMV, Customs and Border Protection, Department of State, Department of Defense, National Counterterrorism Center and any local police departments that care to get in on the party?
Now we just need the neural network to see further so anyone can really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look to concepts.
Your personal info is probably only worth about $250, unless you're wealthy, so the only $100 car you're getting is a Power Wheels model.
Netflix won't pay much, if anything, to Chooseco.
Chooseco has no IP granting them exclusive rights to the concept of a choose your own adventure. They have copyrights over the individual works, but that only applies to those specific works. There is no patent for choose your own adventure books because they've been been around since the mid-70s, well before our patent system was completely subverted. Chooseco is just hoping to get a few bucks with the threat of a lawsuit. If it goes to trial, Chooseco will lose.
IBM, on the other hand, actually got a patent on choose your own adventure movies in 2003 (well after our patent system was subverted and anything could be patented if you added "on a computer" to it).
It wouldn't surprise me if Netflix reveals that they licensed IBM's patent prior to making Bandersnatch. If they didn't license that patent, then IBM is the company that Netflix should fear a lawsuit from.
Perhaps the big boys will just pay each other off or otherwise collude to keep the small fry at bay.
There's no "Perhaps" to it. That is exactly what the big tech corporations have been doing for decades.
Or, you know, just don't use the service and let it die a quiet death from disuse. Not using it takes a lot less effort than what you've described and it frees up time that you can spend doing something more enjoyable.
Yeah, sure... "Windows" is the one installing Candy Crush. Not the users. Nope. They're completely innocent and definitely didn't have anything to do with it.
Also...
How many people use Alexa?
How many people know they have it installed?
Amazon pushed it out to all Kindle Fire tablets and it's always on, so it kills the fuck out of older tablets' battery life.
Punch cards do have a lot of downsides, but they are (or can be) an extremely durable storage media. if you made them with archival paper and stored them properly, they could still be viable thousands of years later.
Granted, you'd need a small warehouse just to store the data for one Blu-Ray DVD, but it's a small price to pay to ensure that your great-great-great grandchildren can watch a high quality copy of the Emoji movie.
"And, sure, I was paid $250,000 to do it, but obviously I should only be fined $10,000 at most. Anything more would be unfair."
I, for one, would love to see what cult-like Orwellian crap Apple would shit out and call original programming for their users to watch.
I'm betting it would give Scientology ads a run for their money.
You do realize that people who pirate the software are downloading cracked copies without the DRM stripped out or disabled, right?
The only people complaining about Denuvo causing problems for them are the people who legitimately bought the games and didn't pirate them, so they're saddled with the intact DRM.
The plastic doesn't interfere with or survive the aluminum recycling process due to the melting point of aluminum being over 650C. There is a small amount of pollution generated, but it's far less than what's generated in the process of smelting raw aluminum ore.
Try again.
The iPhone 6 had a headphone jack and was thinner than any model they've made without the 3.5mm headphone jack. Removing the jack has nothing to do with making the phone thinner.
No, you can't find good phones with full qwerty wide format slider keyboards because "good phone" and "full qwerty format slider keyboard" are antonyms.
30-40 other industry people advised the US government, offering many suggestions on rewriting the amendment to make it more open to other businesses besides Amazon.
And congress listened to them and made changes, which basically made everyone happy except the government contractors who were making a killing selling $37 screws, a $7,622 coffee maker and $640 toilet seats to a government that wasn't allowed to buy from other sources.
And all this happened over a year ago.
is the dumbest fucking thing I've read today... except I didn't read it or even bother reading the summary. I just read the title of the summary and jumped to a conclusion.
FTFY
Not that these transitions have been used in movies since the 1930s or anything.
But they're on a phone now, so that makes it totally fucking original.
Hitting the back button in the browser takes you to the previous site in the history. If the redirects from your shady site weren't going into the history, hitting the back button would go to what was in your history, not a redirect page that would keep you trapped on the site.
Here's tip: When you're trying to sound super intelligent, make sure that you haven't gotten the logic in your post ass-backwards.
At what point in your thought process did you think "slashdot will surely understand this better if I use a sports-based metaphor"?
At this rate, the only way you're going to be able to vote for Trump in 2020 is if you're on his parole board.
True, but watching the enemy of my enemy screw my enemy over using the same tricks my enemy screwed me over is fucking hilarious.
A few trillion more in tax breaks for corporations which go directly into stock buybacks to pump up prices and make the CEO's stock options more valuable like the last trillion did will surely trickle down next time!
Cell phones provided something that consumers didn't have; portable connections. The sudden takeoff in adoption corresponds to the introduction smaller, non-brick style cell phones with better battery life and price tags under $1000.
3D is just an enhancement over the 2D things consumers already have. Most people aren't willing to pay a huge premium for an enhancement to what they already have as long as they feel that what they have works well enough.
Would these would be the same US executives who have given us some the worst broadband access in any first world country while charging us more than virtually every other country?
Would they be the same executives who have actively opposed any regulations that would help the consumer and then forced consumers into one-sided arbitration agreements to take away their ability to even sue the companies?
Would they be the same executives who load up hidden fees on contracts, making any advertised price you see a complete joke?
Would they be the same executives who forced data caps down the customers' throats?
Would they be the same executives who have been using data caps and speed throttling to make using competing streaming services while allowing their own streaming services to be unhindered?
I could go on, but I think I've made up my mind. Fuck those executives. Every goddamn one of them can rot and die in a Chinese prison. The rest of us will be better off without them.