So how is this different from the tons of people who sell items and gold and houses and accounts for UO on ebay? It's just that EQ has outright banned it. But plenty of other online games have no prohibitions against it and people pay everything from real money (sometimes hundreds of dollars) to other in-game items. It really is a new economy.
Sure some parts of the country have plenty of landfill space, I'm sure. But I don't particularly want garbage being dumped next to my city park, or along the highway. Hey, yeah let's fill the Grand Canyon with tech waste. For once I like to see our country follow an idea like this and create a solution before it becomes a real problem. Or have we forgotten how medical waste used to wash up on shore every once in a while?
Is Micro$oft sick? They do realize they just argued against monopolies and regulations? Of course the real reason they did that is probably so these potential broadband/DSL congolmerant companies couldn't start steering consumers toward Linux or other open source OSes because they can be cheaper. Don't let anyone kid you, it's all always about money.
Everyone who's hollering about poor Micro$oft being forced by the big bad government to include Sun's JVM in Windows and crying that Java runs sooo slow on Windows now needs to calm down for 2 seconds and think. One of the reasons Java runs like crap on Windows is that Microsoft didn't implement it right. They bastardized their own version and big surprise they did a shoddy job. All this judgement is saying, is that's not right to screw over another company and turn yourself into a monopoly.
So where do I sign up to tell every company that they have no right to share anything about me? How does one put the big red international symbol for "NO WAY IN HELL" on my information? Does this mean that every company that asks for information from you in any way would have to provide a mechanism for you to explicitly tell them they can't share your information? Does this mean a business can share my information as soon as they get it because I, the little consumer, have to go out on my own and specifically contact someone at the company who gives a rat's ass and tell them they can't share it?
This bill certainly implies there should be a clear way to do this, but we all know that anything a law might imply does hold water, it just becomes another loop hole. I don't think a microscopic check box at the bottom of some long form is going to cut it.
The sky is blue,
the earth is round,
and Microsoft is still a monopoly.
I wish computer makers would offer me a choice between actual operating systems, not just which useless crap I want removed from Windows.
It never ceases to amaze me how hypocritical our society and our government are. We extoll the virtues of a democracy and of freedom of this, freedom to do that...unless there is money to be made from it. Then we have to control it, monitor it, get lawyers and congressmen involved, and tell people what they can and can't do with it until it's been suffocated to death and no one can remember what the hell it was in that everyone got so excited about in the first place.
When I originally heard of this plan, it was also supposed to start some fund for those poor starving artists that aren't making any money because "evil computer geeks" are copying their material. First, when has a government program, in the US or elsewhere, ever really given money to the people it was supposed to? And second, don't you have to wait to prosecute someone AFTER they commit a crime, not just because they might be THINKING about it??
Just let the poor thing go, hasn't it done enough already?
Of course, what would they do with it if they got it to take off again? Land it again?
Interesting how design flaws end up being more helpful, otherwise this could have been another Mars orbiter incident -- "Oops, you mean we're supposed to deal with Newtons of force?? What kind of physics is that??"
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So how is this different from the tons of people who sell items and gold and houses and accounts for UO on ebay? It's just that EQ has outright banned it. But plenty of other online games have no prohibitions against it and people pay everything from real money (sometimes hundreds of dollars) to other in-game items. It really is a new economy.
Of course the real reason they did that is probably so these potential broadband/DSL congolmerant companies couldn't start steering consumers toward Linux or other open source OSes because they can be cheaper.
Don't let anyone kid you, it's all always about money.
Everyone who's hollering about poor Micro$oft being forced by the big bad government to include Sun's JVM in Windows and crying that Java runs sooo slow on Windows now needs to calm down for 2 seconds and think. One of the reasons Java runs like crap on Windows is that Microsoft didn't implement it right. They bastardized their own version and big surprise they did a shoddy job. All this judgement is saying, is that's not right to screw over another company and turn yourself into a monopoly.
Why?
Finally someone who has more time on their hands than I do.
So where do I sign up to tell every company that they have no right to share anything about me? How does one put the big red international symbol for "NO WAY IN HELL" on my information?
Does this mean that every company that asks for information from you in any way would have to provide a mechanism for you to explicitly tell them they can't share your information? Does this mean a business can share my information as soon as they get it because I, the little consumer, have to go out on my own and specifically contact someone at the company who gives a rat's ass and tell them they can't share it?
This bill certainly implies there should be a clear way to do this, but we all know that anything a law might imply does hold water, it just becomes another loop hole. I don't think a microscopic check box at the bottom of some long form is going to cut it.
The sky is blue, the earth is round, and Microsoft is still a monopoly. I wish computer makers would offer me a choice between actual operating systems, not just which useless crap I want removed from Windows.
It never ceases to amaze me how hypocritical our society and our government are. We extoll the virtues of a democracy and of freedom of this, freedom to do that...unless there is money to be made from it. Then we have to control it, monitor it, get lawyers and congressmen involved, and tell people what they can and can't do with it until it's been suffocated to death and no one can remember what the hell it was in that everyone got so excited about in the first place.
When I originally heard of this plan, it was also supposed to start some fund for those poor starving artists that aren't making any money because "evil computer geeks" are copying their material. First, when has a government program, in the US or elsewhere, ever really given money to the people it was supposed to? And second, don't you have to wait to prosecute someone AFTER they commit a crime, not just because they might be THINKING about it??
Just let the poor thing go, hasn't it done enough already?
Of course, what would they do with it if they got it to take off again? Land it again?
Interesting how design flaws end up being more helpful, otherwise this could have been another Mars orbiter incident -- "Oops, you mean we're supposed to deal with Newtons of force?? What kind of physics is that??"