Your name is Jesus_666. So that makes your post all the more ironic.
In any case, you are throwing up a strawman. It isn't google's opinion that you shouldn't have privacy. But if you want to keep things private...I think you probably shouldn't be sticking your private info on the Internet. That's just common sense.
They are a business. But they are business that makes quality products that are priced right. That's why people are fans.
Quite frankly, I am surprised people are outraged by this statement. If you are doing something private, don't put it on the Internet. That's just common sense. The people who are overly concerned about their privacy are generally people who are doing something wrong or people who are overly paranoid. I think a lot of people on Slashdot are the latter.
But right now, people purposely publish their private information every day for others to see. There is only a small segment of the population that is really concerned about privacy...and these are the types that get their news from biased sources that like to keep them paranoid.
You are kidding, right? Books decay and become unreadable unless taken care of. So one company bans a book...you don't think it exists elsewhere? Maybe because our lives are so short you think that, but books are hardly permanent. I imagine digital versions of things will last much longer than anything physical.
Common criminal. No one ever said our wars were legal. The Iraq war had nothing to do with terrorism. Afghanistan made some sort of sense...sort of. But in any case, we brought them in using our intelligence agencies, not our military so I don't know what you are freaking out about. Due process doesn't only just apply to citizens. Look it up!
Wars are conducted against countries. These guys are not associated with a country (or we would be in Saudi Arabia). These guys were not captured on the battlefield, they were brought down by the C.I.A.
If we can't show other countries that we are a land of laws and fairness, and give in to paranoid fear like you have, than we have lost something as a country.
Why don't they just make the items look really cool but give no real advantage? You say people won't buy them, but there are plenty of business models that do exactly that and are quite successful. I think it just is against American culture to do something like this. We like to believe that hard work, time, and effort should be rewarded. Letting only the wealthy compete makes the game undesirable to us (even if that is how it really works in the real world anyways, we like to delude ourselves in to believing the happy version).
Why do they steal the credentials? So they can access the virtual content and either strip the account dry of its resources or to sell the account (which is all the virtual characters and resources) to another person. So really, you are just nitpicking.
Why would it mater if they have an economist working for them? That would have nothing to do with the CEO stealing ISK. They hired him to look at the in-game economy, not audit the companies books.
And after what happened with the global economy, I think it is best we keep these economists working on games.
What does capitalism have to do with some guy not wanting to pay for dated/biased encyclopedias? Are you in love with capitalism? Do you e-stalk it on facebook?
Have you never ordered stuff from Amazon? They are by far the fastest online retailer I have ever dealt with. I get my free 2-day shipping with prime and generally it ends up at my door the next day. The reviews are better. The products are better. I really don't see this ending badly for either retailer. If anything, it will just be better for the consumers.
Actually, I got an e-mail a month or so ago that Prime members now can get free Saturday delivery. I freaking love that place. I buy everything except my groceries there...and if they ever add that, sign me up!
If you read previous posts, how could you have missed all the ones that were stating the facts about the article? I'll repeat, it was to stop more people from showing up at the event, not to disperse the crowd.
Ahh, why do you have to spoil things with facts. Slashdotters love to bash cops. No matter what good they do, the one bad experience they had with one once means the whole force is corrupt and working as government spies.
But Scientology is just pure evil. I can't help but sympathize even if I can't condone. I have mixed feelings though...no one should have their lives threatened...but another part of me thinks Scientologists kind of deserve it because of the suffering they cause. Very confusing. It would all be easier if people didn't like and exploit each other. Too bad that will never happen in my life time.
Or they are more aggressive about forcing Bing on you. I installed Chrome the other day for my father and was showing him how he could type a search in the URL bar. The search it used was Bing. I would imagine Chrome wouldn't set that by default. So maybe Bing is better than its predecessors...or maybe MS is better at forcing it upon the users.
Uh, proof? From the stuff I have seen, MS represses certain searches that make MS products look worse than its competition. Also, it shows things by popularity rather than relevance to the search.
*cough* Privacy? You do realize you are posting on the Internet right? I am so tired of people throwing around the word privacy and freedom. Is this a Palin rally or something? You are on the Internet, you send you e-mail through the Internet, you have a Slashdot account...you don't have privacy. The only way to win is not to play. Coming up with some conspiracy on how China will do something or how we will do something like it makes you look like a nut job. Other than advertisers or identity thieves, governments don't give a rats ass about your data. Do you have any idea how much data is out there? And you think you are so special that anyone cares what you do in your insignificant little life? You need to read more Bruce Schneir books. Just cause you read the Government somewhere at sometime did something doesn't mean they are constantly trying to get info on you. Turn off Glenn Beck or whatever it is that is making you crazy.
Chrome OS is basically just a web browser. It is an OS that only runs web apps. It doesn't really have any storage so it has to get it from Google. So it basically allows Google have an OS run on really cheap hardware. It is a bit like a thin client. This way more people have access to the Internet and google has better access to advertise to these people.
I find it odd that people call bold face lying and spinning facts to come in line with their world view, an alternative side. There may be two sides of a debate, but Fox News isn't giving you either side. If you are too stupid to understand this, I pity you.
I installed Chrome the other day for my father. I was horrified when I was showing him how he could do searches from the URL box that it was set by default to be Bing. I don't know if MS does that or if for some reason Google is (I can't imagine they would), but my experience doesn't really jive with what you are saying.
In fact, your whole post smells a bit. Are you getting paid to write these things?
All the news sites won't drop google. If Murdoch does, there will be plenty of others where people will get their news. And quite frankly, good riddance to Murdoch if he does. He is responsible for so many awful things happening in his country all so that he can "win" in the game of how much money can you make. He is really a blight on the world.
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Your name is Jesus_666. So that makes your post all the more ironic.
In any case, you are throwing up a strawman. It isn't google's opinion that you shouldn't have privacy. But if you want to keep things private...I think you probably shouldn't be sticking your private info on the Internet. That's just common sense.
They are a business. But they are business that makes quality products that are priced right. That's why people are fans.
Quite frankly, I am surprised people are outraged by this statement. If you are doing something private, don't put it on the Internet. That's just common sense. The people who are overly concerned about their privacy are generally people who are doing something wrong or people who are overly paranoid. I think a lot of people on Slashdot are the latter.
But right now, people purposely publish their private information every day for others to see. There is only a small segment of the population that is really concerned about privacy...and these are the types that get their news from biased sources that like to keep them paranoid.
You are kidding, right? Books decay and become unreadable unless taken care of. So one company bans a book...you don't think it exists elsewhere? Maybe because our lives are so short you think that, but books are hardly permanent. I imagine digital versions of things will last much longer than anything physical.
Common criminal. No one ever said our wars were legal. The Iraq war had nothing to do with terrorism. Afghanistan made some sort of sense...sort of. But in any case, we brought them in using our intelligence agencies, not our military so I don't know what you are freaking out about. Due process doesn't only just apply to citizens. Look it up!
Wars are conducted against countries. These guys are not associated with a country (or we would be in Saudi Arabia). These guys were not captured on the battlefield, they were brought down by the C.I.A.
If we can't show other countries that we are a land of laws and fairness, and give in to paranoid fear like you have, than we have lost something as a country.
Are you a tea-bagger? :)
I don't know. Tiger Woods doesn't seem too happy these days.
Why don't they just make the items look really cool but give no real advantage? You say people won't buy them, but there are plenty of business models that do exactly that and are quite successful. I think it just is against American culture to do something like this. We like to believe that hard work, time, and effort should be rewarded. Letting only the wealthy compete makes the game undesirable to us (even if that is how it really works in the real world anyways, we like to delude ourselves in to believing the happy version).
The idea that you could make a game hack-proof is extremely naive at best.
Wow, when did they do that? I hated the whole twink concept for a long long time. Glad they finally addressed it!
*whoosh*
Why do they steal the credentials? So they can access the virtual content and either strip the account dry of its resources or to sell the account (which is all the virtual characters and resources) to another person. So really, you are just nitpicking.
Why would it mater if they have an economist working for them? That would have nothing to do with the CEO stealing ISK. They hired him to look at the in-game economy, not audit the companies books.
And after what happened with the global economy, I think it is best we keep these economists working on games.
What does capitalism have to do with some guy not wanting to pay for dated/biased encyclopedias? Are you in love with capitalism? Do you e-stalk it on facebook?
Have you never ordered stuff from Amazon? They are by far the fastest online retailer I have ever dealt with. I get my free 2-day shipping with prime and generally it ends up at my door the next day. The reviews are better. The products are better. I really don't see this ending badly for either retailer. If anything, it will just be better for the consumers.
Actually, I got an e-mail a month or so ago that Prime members now can get free Saturday delivery. I freaking love that place. I buy everything except my groceries there...and if they ever add that, sign me up!
If you read previous posts, how could you have missed all the ones that were stating the facts about the article? I'll repeat, it was to stop more people from showing up at the event, not to disperse the crowd.
Ahh, why do you have to spoil things with facts. Slashdotters love to bash cops. No matter what good they do, the one bad experience they had with one once means the whole force is corrupt and working as government spies.
But Scientology is just pure evil. I can't help but sympathize even if I can't condone. I have mixed feelings though...no one should have their lives threatened...but another part of me thinks Scientologists kind of deserve it because of the suffering they cause. Very confusing. It would all be easier if people didn't like and exploit each other. Too bad that will never happen in my life time.
Or they are more aggressive about forcing Bing on you. I installed Chrome the other day for my father and was showing him how he could type a search in the URL bar. The search it used was Bing. I would imagine Chrome wouldn't set that by default. So maybe Bing is better than its predecessors...or maybe MS is better at forcing it upon the users.
Uh, proof? From the stuff I have seen, MS represses certain searches that make MS products look worse than its competition. Also, it shows things by popularity rather than relevance to the search.
*cough* Privacy? You do realize you are posting on the Internet right? I am so tired of people throwing around the word privacy and freedom. Is this a Palin rally or something? You are on the Internet, you send you e-mail through the Internet, you have a Slashdot account...you don't have privacy. The only way to win is not to play. Coming up with some conspiracy on how China will do something or how we will do something like it makes you look like a nut job. Other than advertisers or identity thieves, governments don't give a rats ass about your data. Do you have any idea how much data is out there? And you think you are so special that anyone cares what you do in your insignificant little life? You need to read more Bruce Schneir books. Just cause you read the Government somewhere at sometime did something doesn't mean they are constantly trying to get info on you. Turn off Glenn Beck or whatever it is that is making you crazy.
Chrome OS is basically just a web browser. It is an OS that only runs web apps. It doesn't really have any storage so it has to get it from Google. So it basically allows Google have an OS run on really cheap hardware. It is a bit like a thin client. This way more people have access to the Internet and google has better access to advertise to these people.
I find it odd that people call bold face lying and spinning facts to come in line with their world view, an alternative side. There may be two sides of a debate, but Fox News isn't giving you either side. If you are too stupid to understand this, I pity you.
I installed Chrome the other day for my father. I was horrified when I was showing him how he could do searches from the URL box that it was set by default to be Bing. I don't know if MS does that or if for some reason Google is (I can't imagine they would), but my experience doesn't really jive with what you are saying.
In fact, your whole post smells a bit. Are you getting paid to write these things?
All the news sites won't drop google. If Murdoch does, there will be plenty of others where people will get their news. And quite frankly, good riddance to Murdoch if he does. He is responsible for so many awful things happening in his country all so that he can "win" in the game of how much money can you make. He is really a blight on the world.