Fuck you, asshole. If my experience in life isn't the same as somebody else's and I make a comment or ask a question based on that, it doesn't make me a troll. It might make me less informed or uninformed, but it doens't make me a troll. YOU are a troll, on the other hand. Go back to 4chan where you belong, along with all the other 8th-grade anons.
There are already enough damned cameras all over the place in public these days, I don't need one in/on my vehicles as well! Where I go and what I do with whom is NOBODY'S BUSINESS. You could offer me FREE insurance and I STILL wouldn't go for it, you could offer to PAY me to have it there on top of free insurance, and I'd STILL say NO!
With the way most people drive, I see this as a completely useless gadget that will end up being turned off, disconnected, or raising complaints from drivers of cars using it. People habitually tailgate, pass in an unsafe manner, etc etc etc. The damned thing would be going off constantly, and the average driver is going to assume it's broken instead of actually questioning their own driving habits.
Regardless of what they're calling the "system of control" of our legally-purchased music and other media these days, it's irrelevant -- because by tomorrow there will be a way of stripping it all away, leaving nice, unencrypted content that we can do what we like with, which is the way it should be.
This will actually be a good thing in the end: Having the CoS back net censorship in Australia should be an unmistakable sign to Australia and the rest of the world that net censorship is bad and needs to be stopped immediately.
Am I supposed to hide my face in public if I don't want advertising targeted to me? Oh, wait, in most places you get arrested for hiding your face! Where is my choice? Am I supposed to stay home to avoid it? I don't like this and don't want this -- and I don't think I'm alone in this.
Why not just charge every man, woman, and child who has working hearing an annual fee for every snatch of music they hear and MIGHT remember while you're at it? Come on, you'd do it if you thought you could get away with it!
At AM broadcast frequencies a tinfoil hat would work wonders; they must be out of tinfoil, somebody just ship them a free Costco-sized roll of the stuff, pat them on their pointy little heads, and send them off to their prison cell.
And who exactly is going to be creating programming to watch on these so-called 3DTV's? Anyone? Bueller? Will I be able to watch Mythbusters in 3D this fall? Next fall? Fall of 2020 even?
"We want to keep raising our profit margins, we know we'll get our asses handed to us if we raise prices significantly, so we'll use the shrink-ray on the product instead."
Twitter-enabled refrigerator, so everyone knows you're cheating on your diet? How about a twitter-enabled condom, so everyone on your friends list knows when you get lucky? Twitter-enabled shoes, so you send a message with every step? Twitter-enabled toilet? After all, don't all your friends need to know every time you go take a dump?
Hear, hear! I live in California, and it's been illegal to use a cellphone without a handsfree option of some sort now for months, and I see people breaking that law every day. It's about time someone, somewhere, started cracking down on this!
Agreed. This idea is made of 110% FAIL. It's exactly the kind of bullshit that our completely uninformed, non-technical politicians would go for. Everyone should be glad it's only $100K and not $100M.
What if they find humanity guilty? Put everyone in jail? ..whoops, sorry, shouldn't have said that out loud; now the Secret Police will come to take me to the gulag. D-:
Seriously, though: I agree with the EPA on this one. It's frivolous at best, and a huge waste of taxpayer money at worst. This is not a matter to be decided upon through litigation, it's a matter to be decided through careful and thoughtful scientific observation.
If there was "someone" (in this context meaning "some company" or more likely "some government agency") was "in charge" of the internet, I think it would probably be much worse off than it already is! Having the underlying technology essentially owned by no one has, in my opinion, kept the playing field much closer to level than if there was anyone "in charge" of it; if it was a company, then they'd eventually leverage the technology to their own advantage and charge everyone else for the privelege of using it, and if it was a governmental agency, then fixes for any problems that arose would likely get mired in red tape to the point where it would take years, if not decades, to get anything significant done. There needs to be a consensus between all the companies that you'd consider the big players in the internet game, however, and sadly we're far from ever seeing that, either.
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Fuck you, asshole. If my experience in life isn't the same as somebody else's and I make a comment or ask a question based on that, it doesn't make me a troll. It might make me less informed or uninformed, but it doens't make me a troll. YOU are a troll, on the other hand. Go back to 4chan where you belong, along with all the other 8th-grade anons.
There are already enough damned cameras all over the place in public these days, I don't need one in/on my vehicles as well! Where I go and what I do with whom is NOBODY'S BUSINESS. You could offer me FREE insurance and I STILL wouldn't go for it, you could offer to PAY me to have it there on top of free insurance, and I'd STILL say NO!
With the way most people drive, I see this as a completely useless gadget that will end up being turned off, disconnected, or raising complaints from drivers of cars using it. People habitually tailgate, pass in an unsafe manner, etc etc etc. The damned thing would be going off constantly, and the average driver is going to assume it's broken instead of actually questioning their own driving habits.
Why the fuck mod me down as a troll? Interns the world over tend to be treated like second-class citizens; I say again, this doesn't make any sense..
Or is this whole story a joke of some kind? Why would M$ treat interns this well?
So now everyone can have a Jumbotron in their house if they want? I wonder what a Bluray movie would look like on the thing?
This will work out great, I'm sure -- until someone manages to BSoD the server they're working on, and need to physically go and reboot it.
They should have destroyed that little pervert a long time ago! Now he's spreading his fruit-fucking diseases around!
Regardless of what they're calling the "system of control" of our legally-purchased music and other media these days, it's irrelevant -- because by tomorrow there will be a way of stripping it all away, leaving nice, unencrypted content that we can do what we like with, which is the way it should be.
You can get arrested for being a Muslim?
Funny, and a sad sign of the times as well -- but a bit obvious. 8/10.
This will actually be a good thing in the end: Having the CoS back net censorship in Australia should be an unmistakable sign to Australia and the rest of the world that net censorship is bad and needs to be stopped immediately.
Am I supposed to hide my face in public if I don't want advertising targeted to me? Oh, wait, in most places you get arrested for hiding your face! Where is my choice? Am I supposed to stay home to avoid it? I don't like this and don't want this -- and I don't think I'm alone in this.
Why not just charge every man, woman, and child who has working hearing an annual fee for every snatch of music they hear and MIGHT remember while you're at it? Come on, you'd do it if you thought you could get away with it!
At AM broadcast frequencies a tinfoil hat would work wonders; they must be out of tinfoil, somebody just ship them a free Costco-sized roll of the stuff, pat them on their pointy little heads, and send them off to their prison cell.
Obvious AC hasn't ever taken a BMW motorcycle out for a ride before. :D
And who exactly is going to be creating programming to watch on these so-called 3DTV's? Anyone? Bueller? Will I be able to watch Mythbusters in 3D this fall? Next fall? Fall of 2020 even?
"We want to keep raising our profit margins, we know we'll get our asses handed to us if we raise prices significantly, so we'll use the shrink-ray on the product instead."
Yes, I'll also take option C): Not pay exhorbitant data fees for A) or B), and just provide my own damned music -- and keep it indefinately.
Twitter-enabled refrigerator, so everyone knows you're cheating on your diet? How about a twitter-enabled condom, so everyone on your friends list knows when you get lucky? Twitter-enabled shoes, so you send a message with every step? Twitter-enabled toilet? After all, don't all your friends need to know every time you go take a dump?
I'm actually glad now that I never allowed myself to become a comic book collector; I'd be extremely depressed now. Disney will likely ruin Marvel.
Hear, hear!
I live in California, and it's been illegal to use a cellphone without a handsfree option of some sort now for months, and I see people breaking that law every day. It's about time someone, somewhere, started cracking down on this!
Agreed. This idea is made of 110% FAIL. It's exactly the kind of bullshit that our completely uninformed, non-technical politicians would go for. Everyone should be glad it's only $100K and not $100M.
No, more likely they don't want kids learning combat tactics and techniques from video games, so they won't be effective in the coming revolution.
What if they find humanity guilty? Put everyone in jail?
..whoops, sorry, shouldn't have said that out loud; now the Secret Police will come to take me to the gulag. D-:
Seriously, though: I agree with the EPA on this one. It's frivolous at best, and a huge waste of taxpayer money at worst. This is not a matter to be decided upon through litigation, it's a matter to be decided through careful and thoughtful scientific observation.
If there was "someone" (in this context meaning "some company" or more likely "some government agency") was "in charge" of the internet, I think it would probably be much worse off than it already is! Having the underlying technology essentially owned by no one has, in my opinion, kept the playing field much closer to level than if there was anyone "in charge" of it; if it was a company, then they'd eventually leverage the technology to their own advantage and charge everyone else for the privelege of using it, and if it was a governmental agency, then fixes for any problems that arose would likely get mired in red tape to the point where it would take years, if not decades, to get anything significant done. There needs to be a consensus between all the companies that you'd consider the big players in the internet game, however, and sadly we're far from ever seeing that, either.