Well, the parent makes all of its points in the form of a question, and from watching fox news and msnbc I've learned that any time someone asks a leading question to make a point, the question can almost always be answered "no." Let's try it out:
- Isn't this a breach of privacy? No, it's aggregated data, there's nothing personally identifiable about it - Also, Isn't it illegal with the methods that the networks are using to get personal information, in order to fine tune the battering ram of advertisements the besiege us with every day? No, but it's not even relevant because personal information isn't involved.
Arstechnica makes the same speculation, and I trust them a bit more than hot hardware. Where did you see that they're going to be specifically making 3 core chips?
Thanks for responding to this, but claiming that your monetized URL typo page is better than Google's hardly justifies your claims of spyware or lock-in. Every discussion of this article has been filled with stories of people who have removed the browser redirection. Let's face it, the sort of people that aren't afraid to use custom DNS servers usually also aren't afraid to remove programs from their computer. In fact, it seems like you used a lot of inflammatory language to mask what boils down to a simple advertisement.
And lost in all this is the fact that you seem to be redirecting google.com to your own servers. I really liked OpenDNS when it was just a DNS server, please trust your users to be able to follow instructions and stop intercepting their google queries.
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Well, the parent makes all of its points in the form of a question, and from watching fox news and msnbc I've learned that any time someone asks a leading question to make a point, the question can almost always be answered "no." Let's try it out:
- Isn't this a breach of privacy? No, it's aggregated data, there's nothing personally identifiable about it
- Also, Isn't it illegal with the methods that the networks are using to get personal information, in order to fine tune the battering ram of advertisements the besiege us with every day? No, but it's not even relevant because personal information isn't involved.
See: http://www.pcworld.com/article/183054/the_googletivo_deal_what_it_means_for_you.html.
It's actually even more misleading than that. The law as you mentioned it was proposed by the NYPD and shot down by the city council.
Uh... Google's policy is to allow all trademarked terms unless the trademark holder specifically asks that they be removed.
Arstechnica makes the same speculation, and I trust them a bit more than hot hardware. Where did you see that they're going to be specifically making 3 core chips?
This is mostly likely because your time is not worth any money :P
You mean like the open source reference version that they've promised to continue to maintain?
At least last night the video on the website wasn't hosted on YouTube. It's up on YouTube, but that's a lower res version.
Sorry, should have posted a link. The OpenDNS forum thread about this is here.
Thanks for responding to this, but claiming that your monetized URL typo page is better than Google's hardly justifies your claims of spyware or lock-in. Every discussion of this article has been filled with stories of people who have removed the browser redirection. Let's face it, the sort of people that aren't afraid to use custom DNS servers usually also aren't afraid to remove programs from their computer. In fact, it seems like you used a lot of inflammatory language to mask what boils down to a simple advertisement.
And lost in all this is the fact that you seem to be redirecting google.com to your own servers. I really liked OpenDNS when it was just a DNS server, please trust your users to be able to follow instructions and stop intercepting their google queries.
Shh... This is slashdot. Rumors are true as long as they defame companies the mob no longer deems "cool."
Did you try reading the last paragraph of the story, where they answer your questions specifically?