You must be new here...or wait, they must be new here. They're not new here yet, but will be new here soon, hence, news about being new here not yet but soon.
Depending on the duration then, this seems like a potentially very solid return on investment for the kind of person who likes to gamble from time to time.
1.) Buy a load of DRM'd music. Thousands of pounds worth.
2.) Wait for the DRM to expire and your collection to become unplayable.
3.) Sue for triple the value of the collection!
4.) ???
The idea that the security of cellphone towers is required to be protected by every single client that uses them is ridiculous. It's obvious to even non-technically minded people that such an approach is ass-backwards. What strikes me as most worrying out of this is Apple equating the need to jailbreak a phone with acts of cyber-terrorism. Jailbreak your phone, get a free oneway ticket to gitmo!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's an acceptable thing, but people really don't have much to complain about when they upload so many personally identifiable details about themselves that are so publicly available. It'd be like complaining about getting a virus from some warez site. No, the virus should not have been there, but you have to accept the risk that comes with what you do. The average facebook clone user I know puts absolutely zero thought into how to protect their privacy, and I'll bet a lot of them are the same way.
Man who continually stands in the middle of the road is hit by a car. Seriously, what are these people expecting when they sign up to a site like Facebook?
You're right, such speculation is a needless waste of time.
Though not quite as silly as reading and complaining about said speculation in response to an article on that very subject.
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You must be new here...or wait, they must be new here. They're not new here yet, but will be new here soon, hence, news about being new here not yet but soon.
Not news new here? Not new.
I've heard that pounding the S in Microsoft will provide a convenient shortcut for Micro$oft.
Great, that means Gentoo users will finish compiling it sometime tomorrow then, right? ;)
No, yours.
Depending on the duration then, this seems like a potentially very solid return on investment for the kind of person who likes to gamble from time to time.
1.) Buy a load of DRM'd music. Thousands of pounds worth.
2.) Wait for the DRM to expire and your collection to become unplayable.
3.) Sue for triple the value of the collection!
4.) ???
and simultaneously abandon all customers without high speed internet access. For the sake of a DVD/Bluray drive? It's not going to happen.
The idea that the security of cellphone towers is required to be protected by every single client that uses them is ridiculous. It's obvious to even non-technically minded people that such an approach is ass-backwards. What strikes me as most worrying out of this is Apple equating the need to jailbreak a phone with acts of cyber-terrorism. Jailbreak your phone, get a free oneway ticket to gitmo!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's an acceptable thing, but people really don't have much to complain about when they upload so many personally identifiable details about themselves that are so publicly available. It'd be like complaining about getting a virus from some warez site. No, the virus should not have been there, but you have to accept the risk that comes with what you do. The average facebook clone user I know puts absolutely zero thought into how to protect their privacy, and I'll bet a lot of them are the same way.
Man who continually stands in the middle of the road is hit by a car. Seriously, what are these people expecting when they sign up to a site like Facebook?
Insightful? 'WHOOSH' has never been more appropriate.
Maybe they're not a fan of blimps?
You're right, such speculation is a needless waste of time. Though not quite as silly as reading and complaining about said speculation in response to an article on that very subject.