They aren't pretending to be objective, balanced, or factual.
A couple problems. The first is that no one is truly objective except someone studying an isolated system. The second is that we have this misbegotten notion that "balance" is that we must give both sides of a story equal billing. When one side is flagrantly wrong, it deserves to be dismissed and ignored. The third is on you to show how they omit facts. I know the extreme right wing of this country loves to manufacture "facts" or omit actual facts when it suits them, there's a whole TV network that excels in such shitflinging.
Way to not read the article. "Mobile payments" has nothing to do with the carriers - their billing systems are not involved. Proper systems like Apple Pay and Google Wallet (and anything similar to them) are effectively just virtual credit cards.
Entirely true. When you steep yourself in the echo chamber, your perspective on reality twists and contorts. Gamergate was built on a lie and on hating a specific person.
The customer revolt exploded the day practically the entire online gaming press coordinated to declare their core audience "dead,"
There was no "customer revolt." There was a bunch of assholes who got pissed that the gaming press called them out on their abusive and unwarranted behavior.
in a clumsy and transparent attempt to cover-up their corruption.
Keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better, I suppose. Righteous self-indignance is the same whether it's built on reality or bullshit I suppose.
So Mozilla goes for funding sources other than Google and your CEO gets pissed off? Sounds to me like your CEO is irrational and you had a bone to pick with Mozilla (over some perceived, but nonexistent, slight against you.)
or take Google's money by showing ads from a Google-owned ad network.
And it's not this either, given that they're basically sponsored slots that pretty much only new installs see.
if Mozilla would stop fucking with the interface of Firefox and making it a Chrome clone
It'll only be a Chrome clone when they remove the ability to customize the UI via add-ons.
We have muscle memory and we expect things to work certain ways. Changing it just annoys the user base.
That sounds like the worst reason to slam the brakes on UI improvements. On the other hand, maintaining the flexibility of the add-on system is golden and lets people like me keep the UI pretty much identical to how it was in the 3.x days, rather than whining like a 4year old.
An organization like Mozilla should be especially careful not to take sides on politics.
Even when one of the sides is obviously wrong? Good 'ol dose of false equivalence?
They now have a record of using someone's personal information against them.
Ah, so now Mozilla is responsible for the actions of others? Or do you have evidence that Mozilla (the corporation) took action against Eich? As it stands, Eich chose to step down of his own volition and there's no evidence against it.
Who knows what person will be their next target
Given Eich wasn't opposed by Mozilla, I don't expect anyone will.
or whether or not they'll use their software products to snoop on whom they perceive to be the enemy
And now we delve into paranoid bullshit territory.
The whole Brendan Eich situation and your cowering to the social justice warriors makes me not only avoid your products, but actively remind people that you are a sleazy political organization first, with a browser tool far second
Yeah, how dare an organization that is, essentially, politically minded in the first place take a principled stand for acceptance, respect, and equality instead of falling on Eich's sword for him.
Also:
social justice warriors
Yeah, fuck them for even thinking about changing the status quo. People should just accept their lot in life, even if that means they get shit on for no good reason. Just so long as you don't have to care!
Google's heart isn't much better but at least they have tact in their public relations.
Yeah, a better organization would defend bigotry and turn a blind-eye towards abusive behavior./s
It hasn't taken off because the carriers directly interfered with the roll out in an effort to push their own system - which they never bothered to actually promote.
Whereas with Google Wallet, I can unlock it ahead of time and re-lock it at my convenience. The biggest obstruction as of late is finding places that I can use it at, and apparently that list has just shrunk.
You must be too young to remember the uproar over the Kane & Lynch/Gamespot incident from a few years back.
I don't, probably because it wasn't as rage-filled and rooted in misogyny as this roundabout is.
There have been plenty of other similar explosions over the years, and none of them involved sexism that I recall.
They weren't nearly as hateful or accompanied by vitriolic attack campaigns against small handfuls of individuals who had the temerity to point out the piss poor behavior of those on the "gamergate" side.
But you keep believing all the embarrassed game journalists who keep saying "The ethics of game journalism are just fine, no need to...HEY LOOK OVER THERE, IT'S SEXISM!!!!"
Gamergate was horribly sexist and misogynistic the moment it appeared, and harped on an indie developer in was they never ripped into an AAA developer.
But please, keep defending a (loosely knit) group who so far has rape and death threats under their belt, who whine about "censorship" then engage in abusive campaigns to silence those who point out that "hey, you're being horrible to other people for no real good reason."
Take two people, put them in a room, one guy has a net worth of $100 and the second has a net worth of $5000. What harm is the second person doing? We're talking about a factor of 50x here.
Idle examples are pointless.
Take away the room, let them live their lives, what harm is that second guy perpetuating? Make the difference a factor of 1000 or a 1,000,000, and where do we see him doing harm?
At a factor of a million here he's probably able to exploit loopholes that reduce his effective tax burden well below what the guy with way less money has to deal with. He's probably also wining and dining politicians to get his way. Likely he's also contributing to the continual depression of wages to ensure that his own wealth goes up at the expense of others.
When I hear folks talking about this, what I really hear is, "since one person doesn't need that much money to live, the government should take the difference and use it to make MY life better,"
Money is, currently, pooling at the top of the income ladder. The problem isn't so much that they have high wealth so much as it doesn't move. This is bad for the economy as a whole.
because from where I'm standing in a first world country, it seems to be just so much complaining over sour grapes.
That just means you're myopic. 90% of a nation's wealth being held by less than 10% isn't healthy, particularly when they're complaining about how consumers aren't buying.
But only when a game designer's jilted ex-boyfriend posts hearsay about it. AAA publishers were doing worse shit all the times but there was no uproar of this intensity. Now Gamergate is about fueling a false persecution complex and attacking anyone who points out how horrible they're being.
Those same journalists have been trying for weeks now to deflect this focus away from them and pretend it's about sexism, changing gamer culture, etc.
No, "gamergaters" instantly made it that when they began their hate campaign and harassment.
they themselves don't have to answer for a decades-long games journalism tradition of "journalists" being in bed with the very companies they're supposed to be covering (through advertising, bribes, press releases disguised as "previews," etc.)
And where was the unbridled hatred and rage towards EA over the whole Shadow of Mordor controversy? Oh, right, it was virtually nonexistent because that's not the point anymore. The point now is solidarity against whatever enemy-du-jour that is seen as "attacking gamers" or other such delusional bullshit.
The correct response is to find and confront these people. No one should have to get used to an environment with a constant onslaught of horrible shit spewed by the emotionally stunted.
Net neutrality is a restriction on the free market.
Good, the "free market" doesn't actually exist.
And which of the Koch's businesses would benefit from this?
That's ignoring the larger power game they're playing. Inhibiting net neutrality takes power out of the hands of the people and puts it into corporate hands.
How is opposing net neutrality "rent seeking"?
By letting them toss up artificial barriers between points on the internet and causing an increase in rates across the board for no improvement in service.
Oh, there are rent seekers involved in this: the super wealthy like Soros and Buffett
THOSE EVIL LIBRUL BASTARDS! THEY CONSPIRE AGAINST GOOD, CONSERVATIVE MURICANS!
A write-protect switch won't help you here, Timothy. They're going and reflashing the microcontroller, which means vendors will probably just burn a public key into the microcontroller and refuse to boot if the image signature doesn't match. They'll still have the firmware update capability they'll never use, but won't have to worry about attacks like this - short of someone stealing their private key.
I hate this shitty mentality, but apparently it's worldwide. No, I'm not going to go searching to dig up evidence for whatever wild claims you choose to make, you need to present it then and there.
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So what you're saying is... false flag! /s
A couple problems. The first is that no one is truly objective except someone studying an isolated system. The second is that we have this misbegotten notion that "balance" is that we must give both sides of a story equal billing. When one side is flagrantly wrong, it deserves to be dismissed and ignored. The third is on you to show how they omit facts. I know the extreme right wing of this country loves to manufacture "facts" or omit actual facts when it suits them, there's a whole TV network that excels in such shitflinging.
Way to not read the article. "Mobile payments" has nothing to do with the carriers - their billing systems are not involved. Proper systems like Apple Pay and Google Wallet (and anything similar to them) are effectively just virtual credit cards.
Entirely true. When you steep yourself in the echo chamber, your perspective on reality twists and contorts. Gamergate was built on a lie and on hating a specific person.
There was no "customer revolt." There was a bunch of assholes who got pissed that the gaming press called them out on their abusive and unwarranted behavior.
Keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better, I suppose. Righteous self-indignance is the same whether it's built on reality or bullshit I suppose.
Yeah cause IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
No, there's a difference between investigation and the concerted harassment by gamergate idiots.
It might seem like that, but only to people who have completely lost their grasp on reality, such as you.
Better to just never, ever change, right?
Whereby "real users" are... who exactly? What obscure bug have you hit, and how does my not hitting it make me not a "real user."
You get Firefox and a decent amount of research. From my perspective it's money well spent.
Yeah, those in browser ads you'll probably never see.
And it'll succeed, just like Linux has succeeded on the desktop.
There is a lot of money behind the Linux kernel. Many changes that go in are explicitly because of business needs.
Libre browsers like... Firefox! Which is why icecat/iceweasel exist in the first place.
So Mozilla goes for funding sources other than Google and your CEO gets pissed off? Sounds to me like your CEO is irrational and you had a bone to pick with Mozilla (over some perceived, but nonexistent, slight against you.)
And it's not this either, given that they're basically sponsored slots that pretty much only new installs see.
It'll only be a Chrome clone when they remove the ability to customize the UI via add-ons.
That sounds like the worst reason to slam the brakes on UI improvements. On the other hand, maintaining the flexibility of the add-on system is golden and lets people like me keep the UI pretty much identical to how it was in the 3.x days, rather than whining like a 4year old.
Ludicrous is the word you want. What you used was this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
An organization like Mozilla should be especially careful not to take sides on politics.
Even when one of the sides is obviously wrong? Good 'ol dose of false equivalence?
Ah, so now Mozilla is responsible for the actions of others? Or do you have evidence that Mozilla (the corporation) took action against Eich? As it stands, Eich chose to step down of his own volition and there's no evidence against it.
Given Eich wasn't opposed by Mozilla, I don't expect anyone will.
And now we delve into paranoid bullshit territory.
Yeah, how dare an organization that is, essentially, politically minded in the first place take a principled stand for acceptance, respect, and equality instead of falling on Eich's sword for him.
Also:
Yeah, fuck them for even thinking about changing the status quo. People should just accept their lot in life, even if that means they get shit on for no good reason. Just so long as you don't have to care!
Yeah, a better organization would defend bigotry and turn a blind-eye towards abusive behavior. /s
Of course not. But, of course, you have to find something to hate on. Mozilla can do no right.
Which is a decent first step.
Yep, and only an idiot would rely on the results of emulation and not engage in on-target testing.
It hasn't taken off because the carriers directly interfered with the roll out in an effort to push their own system - which they never bothered to actually promote.
Whereas with Google Wallet, I can unlock it ahead of time and re-lock it at my convenience. The biggest obstruction as of late is finding places that I can use it at, and apparently that list has just shrunk.
They did disable it. For a large number of people, it'd be indistinguishable from broken.
Why are people defending malicious behavior?
I don't, probably because it wasn't as rage-filled and rooted in misogyny as this roundabout is.
They weren't nearly as hateful or accompanied by vitriolic attack campaigns against small handfuls of individuals who had the temerity to point out the piss poor behavior of those on the "gamergate" side.
Gamergate was horribly sexist and misogynistic the moment it appeared, and harped on an indie developer in was they never ripped into an AAA developer.
But please, keep defending a (loosely knit) group who so far has rape and death threats under their belt, who whine about "censorship" then engage in abusive campaigns to silence those who point out that "hey, you're being horrible to other people for no real good reason."
Idle examples are pointless.
At a factor of a million here he's probably able to exploit loopholes that reduce his effective tax burden well below what the guy with way less money has to deal with. He's probably also wining and dining politicians to get his way. Likely he's also contributing to the continual depression of wages to ensure that his own wealth goes up at the expense of others.
Money is, currently, pooling at the top of the income ladder. The problem isn't so much that they have high wealth so much as it doesn't move. This is bad for the economy as a whole.
That just means you're myopic. 90% of a nation's wealth being held by less than 10% isn't healthy, particularly when they're complaining about how consumers aren't buying.
But only when a game designer's jilted ex-boyfriend posts hearsay about it. AAA publishers were doing worse shit all the times but there was no uproar of this intensity. Now Gamergate is about fueling a false persecution complex and attacking anyone who points out how horrible they're being.
No, "gamergaters" instantly made it that when they began their hate campaign and harassment.
And where was the unbridled hatred and rage towards EA over the whole Shadow of Mordor controversy? Oh, right, it was virtually nonexistent because that's not the point anymore. The point now is solidarity against whatever enemy-du-jour that is seen as "attacking gamers" or other such delusional bullshit.
The only way to do this is to comply with the troll's demands - that you stop doing what you are doing and disappear.
The correct response is to find and confront these people. No one should have to get used to an environment with a constant onslaught of horrible shit spewed by the emotionally stunted.
Good, the "free market" doesn't actually exist.
That's ignoring the larger power game they're playing. Inhibiting net neutrality takes power out of the hands of the people and puts it into corporate hands.
How is opposing net neutrality "rent seeking"?
By letting them toss up artificial barriers between points on the internet and causing an increase in rates across the board for no improvement in service.
THOSE EVIL LIBRUL BASTARDS! THEY CONSPIRE AGAINST GOOD, CONSERVATIVE MURICANS!
A write-protect switch won't help you here, Timothy. They're going and reflashing the microcontroller, which means vendors will probably just burn a public key into the microcontroller and refuse to boot if the image signature doesn't match. They'll still have the firmware update capability they'll never use, but won't have to worry about attacks like this - short of someone stealing their private key.
I hate this shitty mentality, but apparently it's worldwide. No, I'm not going to go searching to dig up evidence for whatever wild claims you choose to make, you need to present it then and there.