The IRBMs also weren't at all smuggled - they were shipped there on the decks of freighters and installed in plain sight, there was no attempt to pretend that there weren't IRBMs being installed.
Argentina, where the President just had someone assassinated?
Pakistan, where there is still a major Taliban presence?
Israel, which used calorie counts to calculate precisely how much food aid to allow through to Gaza to keep Palestinians in a borderline starvation situation? Food too calorific? Not allowed in.
Troll? Oh yay, the pro-copyright infringement brigade is out in force today. Why *would* you take The Pirate Bays own stats, which conveniently exonerate themselves, at face value?
You can source it from anywhere you want, but don't expect not to be laughed at if you take the stats given by the website trying desperately to avoid prosecution...
Whether or not TPB hosts "infringing files" is a matter of opinion - the Swedish Government certainly takes a differing stance from yours, in that they have successfully prosecuted the founders for assisting in copyright infringement, and have taken the website down on many occasions.
You have to be fucking insane not to think that the bulk of the traffic on TPB is for illicit content (and bulk of traffic is different to "top downloads" - you can have ten million downloads of a hundred thousand infringing torrents, and two hundred thousand downloads of a Linux distro. The bulk of the downloads is still illicit). They have based their entire public persona around being edgy and "fuck the man"-esk.
A drugs pharmacy is still going to be shut down if they sell 99% legal drugs and 1% crack cocaine without a prescription. Especially if the intent is to sell that 1%.
Which is why Google doesn't get chased - their intention is not to push the illegal stuff, while TPB's is. Intention matters a lot.
And which verifiable, independent source did you get that from? Not TPB themselves I assume? Not the entity that would love to say "hey, heres some data which proves we aren't peddling copyright infringement like they say we are!"...
Don't worry, it seems to be Googles turn for this rubbish - Microsoft has been continually dying for the past decade, despite ever growing profits and healthy revenues.
The only companies that seemed to have actually died have been Slashdot poster children - Novell and Sun for instance.
What does this have to do with a newfangled marketing term? We've seen routers, access points and all manner of devices do this sort of thing since the 1990s - data leakage, deliberate or otherwise, its not a new thing.
I have a FitBit, I also have a smart phone with the FitBit app on. The smart phone has motion sensors and data collection ability.
The FitBit is a lot more accurate when counting steps, for many different reasons - I leave my phone on my desk when at work, so it doesnt capture my movements around the office. I leave my phone on my bedside cabinet at night, so it doesn't capture my early morning routine. I leave my phone on the coffee table when I'm at home, so it doesn't capture my pottering around the home and garden.
The FitBit is also more accurate when it comes to my walk to and from the office - the phone can be out as much as 25%.
Then make your own project and include everyone. This is Facebook using Facebooks money to do something that benefits Facebook. You aren't entitled to benefit from that.
Microsoft has long had several programs that gave away Azure credits:
Website Spark - you got about £35 a month in credits. BizSpark - you got about £105 a month in credits. BizSpark Plus - you got anything from £200,000 in credits in the first two years, to all of your Azure paid for for that period, depending on how hard you pressed your MS rep.
Been there, done all of the above three options. BizSpark Plus has been around for more than 5 years.
Let's not forget the windfall tax on private pension pots Gordon Brown helped himself to when he became Chancellor back in the late 1990s. That made a lot of funds underfunded, but Labour didn't care.
So he's basically afraid of competition from a better product, and instead of upping his game he's playing unfair with regard to access to "his" products?
Slashdot Mirror
That description would actually cover helicopters.
No it doesn't, it offers basic "previous versions" with no check in/out or conflict resolution.
A scene from a shit film should not be brought up as an example of *anything* happening in reality.
The IRBMs also weren't at all smuggled - they were shipped there on the decks of freighters and installed in plain sight, there was no attempt to pretend that there weren't IRBMs being installed.
Argentina, where the President just had someone assassinated?
Pakistan, where there is still a major Taliban presence?
Israel, which used calorie counts to calculate precisely how much food aid to allow through to Gaza to keep Palestinians in a borderline starvation situation? Food too calorific? Not allowed in.
The not having the delivery truck crashing through the roof of my house because of a strong wind is a-okay in my book.
And yet that doesnt apply to aircraft or satellites...?
That sniffs like a made up assertion ;)
Troll? Oh yay, the pro-copyright infringement brigade is out in force today. Why *would* you take The Pirate Bays own stats, which conveniently exonerate themselves, at face value?
He can always stay on the version of the software that he "paid for" - as in, the one that existed when the hardware was released.
Its not as if he's entitled to further updates.
You can source it from anywhere you want, but don't expect not to be laughed at if you take the stats given by the website trying desperately to avoid prosecution...
Whether or not TPB hosts "infringing files" is a matter of opinion - the Swedish Government certainly takes a differing stance from yours, in that they have successfully prosecuted the founders for assisting in copyright infringement, and have taken the website down on many occasions.
You have to be fucking insane not to think that the bulk of the traffic on TPB is for illicit content (and bulk of traffic is different to "top downloads" - you can have ten million downloads of a hundred thousand infringing torrents, and two hundred thousand downloads of a Linux distro. The bulk of the downloads is still illicit). They have based their entire public persona around being edgy and "fuck the man"-esk.
A drugs pharmacy is still going to be shut down if they sell 99% legal drugs and 1% crack cocaine without a prescription. Especially if the intent is to sell that 1%.
Which is why Google doesn't get chased - their intention is not to push the illegal stuff, while TPB's is. Intention matters a lot.
So, basically exactly what I said then?
The stupidity abounds - that's like taking a meth addict at face value when you ask them if they aren't doing any illegal drugs...
And which verifiable, independent source did you get that from? Not TPB themselves I assume? Not the entity that would love to say "hey, heres some data which proves we aren't peddling copyright infringement like they say we are!"...
Don't worry, it seems to be Googles turn for this rubbish - Microsoft has been continually dying for the past decade, despite ever growing profits and healthy revenues.
The only companies that seemed to have actually died have been Slashdot poster children - Novell and Sun for instance.
What does this have to do with a newfangled marketing term? We've seen routers, access points and all manner of devices do this sort of thing since the 1990s - data leakage, deliberate or otherwise, its not a new thing.
Because its cheaper to do the lock than take legal action.
And what does any of that have to do with this? Nothing.
I have a FitBit, I also have a smart phone with the FitBit app on. The smart phone has motion sensors and data collection ability.
The FitBit is a lot more accurate when counting steps, for many different reasons - I leave my phone on my desk when at work, so it doesnt capture my movements around the office. I leave my phone on my bedside cabinet at night, so it doesn't capture my early morning routine. I leave my phone on the coffee table when I'm at home, so it doesn't capture my pottering around the home and garden.
The FitBit is also more accurate when it comes to my walk to and from the office - the phone can be out as much as 25%.
Then make your own project and include everyone. This is Facebook using Facebooks money to do something that benefits Facebook. You aren't entitled to benefit from that.
Microsoft has long had several programs that gave away Azure credits:
Website Spark - you got about £35 a month in credits.
BizSpark - you got about £105 a month in credits.
BizSpark Plus - you got anything from £200,000 in credits in the first two years, to all of your Azure paid for for that period, depending on how hard you pressed your MS rep.
Been there, done all of the above three options. BizSpark Plus has been around for more than 5 years.
As per July 2014, MS was hauling in $2.5Billion in revenue for Office 365, an increase of 2.5x over the previous year.
http://news.microsoft.com/2014...
You can buy "poke the bear with a stick" kits on Ebay, medical and political fallout insurance not included...
Let's not forget the windfall tax on private pension pots Gordon Brown helped himself to when he became Chancellor back in the late 1990s. That made a lot of funds underfunded, but Labour didn't care.
The head of the church never cares about its members so long as he's ok.
So he's basically afraid of competition from a better product, and instead of upping his game he's playing unfair with regard to access to "his" products?
Some of us prefer others to voluntarily give back rather than be forced to.