Sure, you can hack your device as you please and give apple the middle finger, but with Itunes they are providing a service, so they set the entrance rules.
I have noticed a trend for companies to post 'tutorials' on sites like youtube to save their own bandwidth. if we did suddenly lose the free video hosting, it would be a short term pain and cost some companies a bit of extra cash.
In 6 months 99% of Google's customers wont remember this. It was too expensive for them to pull out, i'm honestly surprised they said they were going to in the first place..
Who knows who will find these disks. They could be friend, or foe ( or both...). And don't give me the 'they are too far away to be a threat', if our disk got there, they can get here and we gave them a freaking map and way to much information about us and our weaknesses. If we were hard up for real estate WE would use the information that way.. so why couldn't they do the same? As far as distance, if you are running out of room or resources, what is a few 100 or 1000 of years to find a new home?
Sure, it sounds like a scifi plot, but its a legit concern of the unknown and they shouldn't have been so cavalier about selling the rest of humanity out.
Also the huge enterprise customers will have their own local authentication server, ( which then talks to Microsoft ) so the chances that the real bread and butter customers will be burnt is slim. The home user, who cares, they can just buy a new computer as far as Microsoft is concerned.
Just another reason to 'just say no' to the company and their products.
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Some of us accidentally upgraded ours and would like to get our hands on it.
Sure, you can hack your device as you please and give apple the middle finger, but with Itunes they are providing a service, so they set the entrance rules.
Who says they have to justify? Not a lot of alternatives out there.
And they do VoIP on the back end ...
I have noticed a trend for companies to post 'tutorials' on sites like youtube to save their own bandwidth. if we did suddenly lose the free video hosting, it would be a short term pain and cost some companies a bit of extra cash.
When you chose what your customers will have or not have, calling them evil isn't a long stretch.
Is still crap. And people are stupid, it WILL be effective, for a while.
And your point? Warrants are easy to get and i never said they were coming in without one, just that they would come get it.
So the FBI can come and collect your backups and used them in court later.
Or rather YOU prove your innocence.
In 6 months 99% of Google's customers wont remember this. It was too expensive for them to pull out, i'm honestly surprised they said they were going to in the first place..
Yup.
No, the US federal government did that decades before Microsoft even thought of copying it.
Nice try tho.
They give credit where credit is due. So no, its not the same thing.
So is stupidity and blind devotion to an entity that wants to suck the very freedom out of soceity.
But it was a bad idea.
Who knows who will find these disks. They could be friend, or foe ( or both...). And don't give me the 'they are too far away to be a threat', if our disk got there, they can get here and we gave them a freaking map and way to much information about us and our weaknesses. If we were hard up for real estate WE would use the information that way.. so why couldn't they do the same? As far as distance, if you are running out of room or resources, what is a few 100 or 1000 of years to find a new home?
Sure, it sounds like a scifi plot, but its a legit concern of the unknown and they shouldn't have been so cavalier about selling the rest of humanity out.
Nothing wrong with giving the kids some 'cool factor' as an incentive to exercise and learn some useful martial arts as collateral learning.
Will not be given to some Microsoft demo of them putting together other peoples tech and claiming it as their own.
Id rather watch paint dry.
Man really is causing global warming.
All those x64 boxes would make the planet Mercury look like a winter wonderland. Now, if they just switched to ARM chips.....
Key word there is HOME, not business, not municipality. I also offer to be a trial at my home. FreeNet would just scream.
wrong channel.
I have heard that elsewhere too, like on the history channel for one. The pie pans said Frisbee on them, according to that version of the story.
And lack of sunlight....
The Governments of the world are doing that pretty nicely now..
Also the huge enterprise customers will have their own local authentication server, ( which then talks to Microsoft ) so the chances that the real bread and butter customers will be burnt is slim. The home user, who cares, they can just buy a new computer as far as Microsoft is concerned.
Just another reason to 'just say no' to the company and their products.
You block all access to everything. Problem solved.
Seriously tho, 90% of the people wont have a clue how to get around it . the other 10% will regardless of what is done. In most schools 90% is an A.