When you point a finger at someone else, three are pointing back at you.
US Federal Guvmint - ACTA, DMCA, NSA wiretaps, full laundry list available online. Cisco - Great Firewall of China, 'nuff said. Visa/Mastercard/Amex - Insecuredata practices while raping their customers with fees. Facebook - In bed with Zynga, whose CEO has admitted he's a scammer and that his games are rife with malware. Google - Censorship in China (until they got pwned). Microsoft - No comment needed (with a CEO that looks like Satan, it's not really necessary).
The only reason the *AAs aren't jumping on the bandwagon at this point is that they'd bring to stench of their bad PR all over this legislation and alert the public to what's it's really all about.
Copyright theft is when the companies who own...errr...*represent* artists and content creators craft legislation and buy jurists to the extent that the hand you feel in your knickers is irrevocably bonded to your ass for life. : )
"Bronfman contended that this revenue comes nowhere near what they need in compensation for each individual's enjoyment of each work"
What if I stream something to see if I like it, only to decide it sucks more massively than Jar-Jar Binks? Will Warner pay me? This is one inherent fallacy of attempting to monetize intangibles.
Another is that someone in the equation will likely overvalue their piece / portion / place, and thereby decrease the enjoyment of all.
It's obvious the suits running media companies are not paying attention to what works,.
The MafiAAs receive carte blanche from the courts to abuse their customers, Net Neutrality simmers on the legislative back burner, allowing vertically integrating ISP's to throttle traffic in cavalier and arbitrary ways, as well as allowing them to merge with content providing companies to "better serve" their customers.
But we don't have censorship, nope. But we don't give American internet users that tube of KY which'd help it all go down so much easier.
I smelled this coming when he sided with the Telcos on the wiretapping. I knew we were in for it when he kept Gitmo going. ACTA secrecy pretty much cemented my opinion. This is just icing on the cake.
And yes ladies and gentlemens, I voted for him...hoping he wouldn't be what he's showing himself to be...just another crooked pol, interested in being elected and nailing a sweet deal speaking deal once he's thrown out on his ear.
Seems like deja vu, since this has issue cropped up before, what with everything from Adobe wanting to install (at least on Mac and Windows) with system level privileges and enable javascript by default. [Tell me again, how is javascript a desirable feature for this file type?]
Which makes it a good idea to use alternatives like Preview, and Skim (for OS X), as well as Foxit Reader for Windows.
It's not like there's a paucity of options to get away from Adobe's bloatware, no matter what OS you're running.
Large hospital invests in an extremely expensive computerized charting system.
Staff were not paid to chart after their shift concluded. Instead, despite being overworked, they were expected to chart as they went through the day.
Said charting system had a key combination called "Magic Lookup", whereby pressing two keys for a given patient data field inserted the value put there from a previous charting input (i.e. temperature, blood pressure, ambulated, etc., etc., etc.). When used, this combo would give an audible chirp, of a quite different sound than that of regular input.
At the end of shift one could stand in the hallway and listen, while a five minute or so chorus of crickets erupted as staff made heavy use of "Magic Lookup" in order to get the hell out the door.
This was an excellent opportunity for such charting f*ck ups such as "Ambulated = YES" a bilateral stroke patient to occur.
It was also an excellent reason for my choosing a career in IT, rather than the nursing degree I was going for at the time.
I would love to see Yale do a study measuring the negative patient outcomes affected by IT systems put in place by hospital administrators who've been served vendor Kool-Aid® over the last 15 years.
Correction: OP: Lets see you write an operating system and an Office suite with programs like Excel.;)
OP said nothing about Windows 7, and Office was created for the Apple Mac, as was Excel, long before there was a version for Windows.
My comment was meant to meant to show several things:
The mendacity of MS marketing, and as such doesn't demonstrate a lack of "more up to date knowledge", any more than your "I see Apple as merely Saruman to MS's Mordor. They don't want to overthrow MS, they want to be MS" shows a lack of insight into how MS would really like to be Apple.
That the track record of crappy business practices and revisionist tendencies is deeply ingrained in MS corporate culture.
That those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to be run over by them again. '^)
"I've gone off on a tangent, haven't I?"
Just a wee bit, but it was entertaining nonetheless. : )
Now, am I offtopic on the Bing thing? Ya, probably some. On MS as a company? Na, probably not. On the original comment I replied to? Not at all.
MS didn't write anything to begin with, and even though they do so today, it's not the product, but the marketing, that's ensured the survival of the company into the 21st century.
"Their Right Online" to sell over valued crap just like common blokes eBay theirs, in order to keep creditors from attaching and disposing of more necessary assets.
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When you point a finger at someone else, three are pointing back at you.
US Federal Guvmint - ACTA, DMCA, NSA wiretaps, full laundry list available online.
Cisco - Great Firewall of China, 'nuff said.
Visa/Mastercard/Amex - Insecure data practices while raping their customers with fees.
Facebook - In bed with Zynga, whose CEO has admitted he's a scammer and that his games are rife with malware.
Google - Censorship in China (until they got pwned).
Microsoft - No comment needed (with a CEO that looks like Satan, it's not really necessary).
The only reason the *AAs aren't jumping on the bandwagon at this point is that they'd bring to stench of their bad PR all over this legislation and alert the public to what's it's really all about.
Heh. Mod parent up.
Stopping giving them for every sniffle and virus.
It worked for the Norwegians.
"I say that the government's role need not be one of a heavy-handed regulator."
"I say that the government's role need not be one of a heavy-handed regulator, but we will be."
Copyright theft is when the companies who own...errr...*represent* artists and content creators craft legislation and buy jurists to the extent that the hand you feel in your knickers is irrevocably bonded to your ass for life. : )
Simple, eh?
"Bronfman contended that this revenue comes nowhere near what they need in compensation for each individual's enjoyment of each work"
What if I stream something to see if I like it, only to decide it sucks more massively than Jar-Jar Binks? Will Warner pay me?
This is one inherent fallacy of attempting to monetize intangibles.
Another is that someone in the equation will likely overvalue their piece / portion / place, and thereby decrease the enjoyment of all.
It's obvious the suits running media companies are not paying attention to what works,.
Mod parent UP. You've hit the nail on the head.
...la-la-la-la-la-la-la! I can't *hear* you with my iPad plugged in!
[PS "postersubj" compression filter violates free expression]
The MafiAAs receive carte blanche from the courts to abuse their customers, Net Neutrality simmers on the legislative back burner, allowing vertically integrating ISP's to throttle traffic in cavalier and arbitrary ways, as well as allowing them to merge with content providing companies to "better serve" their customers.
But we don't have censorship, nope. But we don't give American internet users that tube of KY which'd help it all go down so much easier.
Sometimes newer isn't better.
I smelled this coming when he sided with the Telcos on the wiretapping.
I knew we were in for it when he kept Gitmo going.
ACTA secrecy pretty much cemented my opinion.
This is just icing on the cake.
And yes ladies and gentlemens, I voted for him...hoping he wouldn't be what he's showing himself to be...just another crooked pol, interested in being elected and nailing a sweet deal speaking deal once he's thrown out on his ear.
meh.
Who will be the Sauron of this tale? Google? MS? USDoJ?
With Saruman played by Apple? Napster? TSA?
heh.
That's not the only thing being "penetrated" here.
"are interested in are large-scale DVD bootleggers, not individual downloaders [for now]. "
Replying to my own last line as an informational thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software
Seems like deja vu, since this has issue cropped up before, what with everything from Adobe wanting to install (at least on Mac and Windows) with system level privileges and enable javascript by default. [Tell me again, how is javascript a desirable feature for this file type?]
Which makes it a good idea to use alternatives like Preview, and Skim (for OS X), as well as Foxit Reader for Windows.
It's not like there's a paucity of options to get away from Adobe's bloatware, no matter what OS you're running.
"How is this a bad thing exactly?"
Two key phrases:
Uninvited opt-out "feature"
Persistent tracking
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
"Why should superstition get the slightest bit of respect beyond that accorded to secular political ideology?"
I dunno, but it's worked really well in the good old US of A for the last 12 more years hasn't it?
Mod parent up +Insightful.
Giving users control is a Good Thing®.
However, since Google seems to have strayed from "Don't Be Evil", I wouldn't look for that feature anytime soon.
Background/true story:
Mid 1990s.
Large hospital invests in an extremely expensive computerized charting system.
Staff were not paid to chart after their shift concluded. Instead, despite being overworked, they were expected to chart as they went through the day.
Said charting system had a key combination called "Magic Lookup", whereby pressing two keys for a given patient data field inserted the value put there from a previous charting input (i.e. temperature, blood pressure, ambulated, etc., etc., etc.). When used, this combo would give an audible chirp, of a quite different sound than that of regular input.
At the end of shift one could stand in the hallway and listen, while a five minute or so chorus of crickets erupted as staff made heavy use of "Magic Lookup" in order to get the hell out the door.
This was an excellent opportunity for such charting f*ck ups such as "Ambulated = YES" a bilateral stroke patient to occur.
It was also an excellent reason for my choosing a career in IT, rather than the nursing degree I was going for at the time.
I would love to see Yale do a study measuring the negative patient outcomes affected by IT systems put in place by hospital administrators who've been served vendor Kool-Aid® over the last 15 years.
Correction: ;)
OP: Lets see you write an operating system and an Office suite with programs like Excel.
OP said nothing about Windows 7, and Office was created for the Apple Mac, as was Excel, long before there was a version for Windows.
My comment was meant to meant to show several things:
"I've gone off on a tangent, haven't I?"
Just a wee bit, but it was entertaining nonetheless. : )
Now, am I offtopic on the Bing thing? Ya, probably some.
On MS as a company? Na, probably not.
On the original comment I replied to? Not at all.
MS didn't write anything to begin with, and even though they do so today, it's not the product, but the marketing, that's ensured the survival of the company into the 21st century.
Why? Couldn't he just buy one, like Bill did in the first place?
The last SF movie claiming to be made with totally analog eFX was Bladerunner. Now *that* was film making.
Band-Aid®?
"Their Right Online" to sell over valued crap just like common blokes eBay theirs, in order to keep creditors from attaching and disposing of more necessary assets.