Does that mean if you link into youtube to watch a particularly funny add, they will show you an add prior to allowing you to watch the add, or will they just force you to watch the add twice if the right advertiser pays for the add to be placed over their own add;).
Google addmail (blackmail), don't pay for the add and competing products will be shown prior to your content much the same as 'ads supplied by google' on particular web sites are often the opposition to the web sites they are on.
Now google searches will be spitting up endless sites that do nothing but link back to paid google video adverts.
Actually that is quite wrong. In the early development stages of any project a single definitive leader does accelerate the development process whether it be to success or failure. In the latter stages once a product has been highly developed and now is only in a continual refinement process, a selected panel or committee tends to provide stability and yes it can often take many minds to replace one particularly gifted mind.
Now of course with an source open source product like Linux, consensus will always gravitate to the most mutually advantageous solution. So while it is inevitable that greed will eventually spit out one particular company (no guesses who) that for monopolistic reason will inevitable try to force Linux down a disadvantageous path for everybody else, everybody else can just take the bits they like, if they (no guesses who) can actually produce any and toss out the rest:).
Yes, but one relies on voluntary contributions, provides for a considerable number of charities and specifically seeks to assist the poor and the other has a 'Price List' which adjusts for inflation as well as for supply and demand and only targets those with assets (oh my, and you used 1993 for the Con of Scientology, and only what they declared for taxation purposes, it is 2007 you know, even straight inflation would have added a zero to that let alone all the money gulled since then).
Of course all religions should divest themselves of all luxury assets and seek to live as frugally as possible to ensure that as much of it's efforts as possible are directed at assisting those most disadvantaged in society. So it is well worth while to point out any religions failings and ensure that it's members do in fact practice what they preach. At least your posing bit about Scientology is accurate:-D.
More specifically predictive simulation can be very effective but it is completely subject to the quality of information that is used for the prediction of behaviour. Any errors in the information input, and the predication fails, which in turn can lead to a very bad strategy choice ie. instead of making a sound tactical choice, an opportunistic choice is made based upon the optimal solution to the prediction not matter how unsound tactically that choice might be.
Just another magic box solution, for when political appointees are placed in positions of authority when they have absolutely no idea what they are doing, they can now point to the magic box in the corner and blame it and the prior administration for all the problems that they themselves have caused. It always used to annoy me when staff would try to get me to produce magic box solutions out of the computers, I always used to politely remind if they could get the computers to do their job for them then why would they continue to pay their salary.
Not really fair, as Scientology is really the corporate pinnacle of religions, where profit at the top is the sole motivation. So yeah, the leaders sharing the belief rather than just a flagrant exploitation of naive and vulnerable element of society does make a difference.
Not the Scientology is unique (it's just the market leader and the most profitable) in it cynical exploitation of the vulnerable but most of the main stream religions are actually trying to improve the lot of humanity no matter how misdirected it my be at times or how damaging the results are when corrupt individuals gain positions of authority.
So even though there may be some terrible failures with the best of intentions, the intention still counts for a lot in the final wash, where as in the case of Scientology people do suffer serious harm as a result of the worst of intentions.
What a gross fabrication, monopolies have always been seen as destructive, and unlike your flagrant lie, lead to inefficiencies as a result of a lack of competition and there being no drivers for improvement, and there always is an inevitable drop in service as there is no alternate choice to force improvements in service. Sheer B$ what possible motivation would there be for increased costs that result from increased service, goodwill coming from a greedy monopolist who specifically engineering the market to establish a monopoly.
Corruption is also the inevitable results as the monopolists seeks to maintain the monopoly and it's bloated profit margins, whilst the market attempts to achieve competitive pricing and improvements in service. As for the silly stuff about manufacturers throwing in stuff for free, oh patent holders giving away their patents or that crazy bit about DVD players just require a firmware update to read HD-DVD, on my, what marketdroid fabrication you are seeking to create.
Face it that pay off is a clear cut attempt to manipulate the market and eliminate choice in an attempt to establish a monopoly and then inflate prices once that monopoly has been established. Of course from Paramount point of view there is greater fiscal benefit in taking the payoff rather than bothering about the minor loss resulting from the lack of High definition sales because they still pale into insignificance compared to DVD sales, but corrupt practices are corrupt monopolistic practices.
Whilst there have been many government monoplies that have served the public well in the past as well as in the present, I can not think of a single corporate private monopoly that has not resulted in consumer suffering bloated prices, poor quality and questionable services, hmm, just look at M$ Windows (P)OS as a case in point, more than ten years of insecurity, unreliability and B$.
As it turns out temporary brain fugue, Secondlife was on my mind, as for Eve Online, never played it, perhaps one day. When it comes to keeping the game alive, specials tend to have limits, variations in game play, variations in required strategy, real variations in environment as well as 'reasonable' unexpected occurrences.
Accumulation of assets should not take over a game it should just remain a facet in completing other game goals. Carry out a sensible tax policy, as your game assets increase so do your expenses increase, depredations upon the game players assets might also be added lose bits not all of course and even in game taxation (for bribery and corruption just like real life;) ).
The other point is of course whether people watching you tube are actually even going to youtube, for my own use by far the majority of youtube watching is just as a video link at another site, often a MMO gaming site, as a humour break from the game. I would think I actually go to youtube to watch a video no more than once a month, and DIVX, VEOH etc. about once a week.
Technically of course this put sites like youtube in a even worse spot, as the add sales people will notice, even though I am watching a youtube video I am still seeing the MMO adds. The only other time video really turns up is as a stumbleupon click and metcafe seems to crop up more often than youtube and MMO games from a wide variety of sites tend not to appear all that often.
Stumble video doesn't seem to have all that much appeal. When it does come to what is sucking up most of my online time stumble upon is leading but that in turn is actually distributed over a wide range of other web activities.
I expect companies to always make the right decision every time, I am a customer, what else would a customer expect, a company to make wrong decisions.
Google was just trying it on, to see how much negative reaction it generated and based upon their existing marketing created image whether they could get away with the more profitable solution of basically ripping the customer off.
Fortunately for Google video customers google's all so shiny image is developing a considerable tarnish and they had to buckle under customer pressure and were 'forced' to do the right thing or face a severe customer backlash.
So companies get credit for doing it right the first time and not seeing if they could get away with, all that really demonstrated is management who have no real idea of what is right or wrong, all the consider is how profitable it is and whether they can get away with trying it on.
It is not capitalism because the so called 'promotional deal' is limiting competition, and competition is the fundamental principle of capitalism as well as the elimination of monopolies because any attempt at limiting the market means the market is no longer free. Instead of Paramount paying a licence for the using the technology, the promoter of the technology is using dumping tactics in an attempt to establish a supply monopoly and selling so far below market cost that they are in fact paying the customer to use it.
Generally speaking, with regards to consumer abusive corporations, immediately after a successful class action law suit;). So come on you blood sucking sharks, here is an excellent opportunity to stick to a whole bunch of corporations for vandalising a community based system;).
Let's keep it simple, what with lawyers, politicians, corporations, marketing and now economists, eve online is about to become as boring as it is slow and clunky, just like the real world people are trying to escape from.
So the next big question is will eve online provide in game access to a different MMORPG that is actually an entertaining escape from reality;).
Well of course that would be a pre-existing condition, so any follow up control measures cannot infringe upon pre-existing security conditions upon which the software is installed ie. you can edit the registry prior to installation of the software, hence no control measure of the software can override your pre-existing security control measure of being able to edit your registry, in fact it would be a DRM infraction to attempt to control the security measure of being able to directly edit your registry, which of course is identical to being able to erase any file upon you system at any time you so choose.
You seem to have forgotten the biggest part of marketing hype, it is no about selling products it is about selling marketing. The biggest job of any advertising firm, is selling it's own advertising and definitely not the products it advertises. Adds served by Google appears in every Google add, that is the product that google is selling.
Lets look at another major bit of marketing B$, targeted advertising, do you want to know the ultra big trick about targeted advertising, align your advertising with the Internet article the user is reading, none of the big B$ about knowing the customer, or prying into the customers private data, the end user has demonstrated their interest in that area by wanting to read that specific article.
Now when it comes to pumping up the stock price to way too many times actual income you need to create hype about the pseudo value of assets, in this case the value of private customer information in terms of targeted marketing, of course it is all just hype, but if done well it is worth billions, and basically allows a company to buy in assets with what in reality are nothing but junk bonds.
The biggest problem for google now is of course open source alternatives to it's products, not because of the products themselves but because the existence and growth of those products demonstrates a growing distrust and dislike of google in the market place amongst the most troublesome sector of the user market, the market leaders, the experimenters, the recommenders, the troubles hooters, the tech customers that actually choose their tech products .
How about if you install the cracking software prior to installing the coupon software. Surely under the DMCA you are implementing a security system to ensure the security and full usability of your computer so that the company that supplies the coupon software is committing a criminal act under the DMCA by trying to break your security system;).
Actually in terms of protecting the children the argument could be that in creating a new FTTH network and children's only network could be created that links all the various school levels together,kindergarten, primary, secondary into a supervised children only network, applicable and restricted to the maturity level of that child.
In terms of terrorist resistance, a fibre network is more secure, because with a copper telecommunication infrastructure you can mix the high voltage network with the telecommunications network for some interesting results or simply run around cutting on the earthing leads on the copper telecommunication infrastructure and let lighting do it's work at it's own pace, fibre is naturally more resistant to both these types of attacks.
The reason they did this is because they had the existing infrastructure to maintain copper, which they simply use for new installations, adding a new type network also means creating a separate maintenance and installation infrastructure for that type of network and they fully intended to delay the new network for as long as possible ie. until such time as the government forces a change so there was absolutely no point in investing in the new network type better investing the money in lobbyists and B$ marketing.
Baring in mind for quite some number of years corporate executives have been getting their jobs because they are good a the politics of being promoted up the ranks and not because they are good at their jobs ie. they are very good a taking credit for other peoples work, they are very good at blaming other people for their mistakes, they are very very good at brown nosing and they will support more senior executives in what ever corrupt self serving practices they want to incorporate into the business.
So yeah, crazy, crapped out decisions occur all the time, for the executives to survive the just need to make sure the SEC doesn't catch them, for investors investments to survive, they need to hope that the SEC does catch those corrupt executives.
Wrong, not condition of contract can ever, ever, overrule a statutory law. You can not surrender your rights given by law to a contract, those kinds of clauses are just a bluff to argue over in civil to court, so the little people hopefully run out of money before they can obtain justice.
Serious effort needs to be made to ensure that those companies that attempt to implement clauses in contracts that infringe the law and the rights people should face criminal penalties, especially when the clauses are in the contract specifically to attempt to deny a persons their rights.
Their needs to be some serious reform of the civil court system, where a judge could not simply look at the contract on the first day, see that it infringes a persons legal rights, and penalise the writer of the contract.
The answer why you can't get better broadband is quite simple, existing telecom infrastructure holders will do everything they can to block it in order to inflate the value of their network. They will lie to the public continually, they will cheat in every one they can, they will corrupt every politician they can get hold of.
It is all just endless streams of bull shit. Consider how much it cost to do the original copper telephone network, which contrary to the bull was far, far more expensive they any new fibre network and guess what the population has risen since then quite a lot in fact, so not only is copper tech more expensive but it had to be done with a far far lower population density, it had to be done with far more primitive technology, it had to be done using backward switching technology, telephone exchanges as major buildings and even the local was not a box but a whole building. Think each and every copper connection had to have it own line, it's own independent bit of wire, nothing like fibre at all with thousands of connections down the same line.
Face it, it is just bullshit, more bull shit and yet more bull shit. Under the current corrupt political system you will not be getting FTH until such time as the copper network degrades to the point were it significantly impacts the US economy, let me see, hmm, lets say 2025 at a minimum, possibly as late as 2050, good luck.
Well then way take any chances at all. Have every one strip searched and probed, men women and children. Why let anybody fly free of molestation, why should you or your family be allowed you personal privacy or human dignity.
Why stop at planes, just think how safe the banks would be if every person that entered them was forced to strip down, bend over and have their body cavities search.
Part of the thing about have freedom and a democracy is the preservation of the rights and the dignities of a human individual, the right to be free of molestation unless substantive evidence has been obtained and demonstrated to an independent judge to ensure that law enforcement does in fact adhere to the law, and that fear does not rule justice.
Should some one not looking the look of your face be sufficient reason for them to strip you of your human dignity and then to sexually assault you (there is no escaping from a body cavity search being a sexual assault). If it is so accurate how about a five or even fifty thousand dollar payment for each false positive, if they are going to sexually molest you they might as pay you for their perverted jollies, so rather than being a victim of sexual assault you and your family can be a high class hookers instead.
What you think all that B$ marketing is done for free. Of course if you are reusing XP code, then you can claim all the bug fixes in the current OS as 'code development' for the next OS, makes your defunct executives look better in the eyes of the investors. Then of course you have the code that was in the dropped elements of that (P)OS Vista.
Undoubtedly the biggest waste of money was most likely in the (FU)DRM, who knows hoe many trial versions were scrapped due to failure before the settled on the one that only mostly fails rather than always fails. PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback has to be congratulated for his efforts, I got pissed of with Vista after fours hours, reformatted drive and settled on stale piss for the game boot.
Ballmer is desperate to get across the board licence fees into the windows OS just like the xbox, this failure is just another indication of his technical incompetence.
The other case is people who are sick of the privacy invasive of search engine cookies block them, in terms of M$ Live, that means all M$ sites are then blocked, who will break first the user or M$ or in this case anybody silly enough to sign up with M$ Live.
Not to pick on any company in particular, but the whole corporate privacy invasion, targeted marketing, we know who you are, we know what you eat, we know how many times a day your scratch your arse, thing has just gotten out of control.
Respecting the customers wishes, will be the big focus, not delusions about the B$ effectiveness of targeted marketing, all that targeted marketing is doing is pissing customers off and targeting their anger at those who would target their marketing at them.
Perhaps the safest way out of the dilemma might be the simple adjustment of P2P file 'sharing' clients to allow only one person at a time to 'play' any particular file stored on the shared file folder. As only one person is using the file and that person using the file is honour bound not to record that file for later use unless they have permission to do so, that file is no longer being made available for copying. Obviously bits in transit or in cache are not a copy otherwise electrical pulses in transit from the amplifier to the speakers could be said to be an electrical pulse copy of the original acoustic recordings. The real questions is are you copyrighting the music or the pit patterns on the cd disc.
That is rather a short sighted policy. Think of Albert Einstein, those gifted students tend to be able to look after themselves and still make exceptional contributions to society. Now think of say George Bush, now if those 'er' 'special needs' kids got that bit of extra attention perhaps they might prove to be such a destructive element in later life.
So while you might get slightly better performance out of the smart kids by providing them with the best teachers, those same teachers can achieve a quantum improvement in the 'er' 'special needs' future George Bushs of the world.
No matter what any one says it takes a whole of lot Albert Einsteins to repair the damage of one 'special needs' George Bush.
Google is becoming nothing more than a search engine for finding sites with Google spam/ad words plastered all over them. SEO, easy just add google spam/ad words and your site will accelerate up the google search listings.
Admittedly this would not be all that bad if those sites did at least have the full featured content you were looking for rather a just bare summary 'copied' from the site you would have preferred top find.
Hitting the stumbleupon button is becoming just about as effective as hitting the google search button, I know that's a gross exaggeration but endless google half done spam/ad words site are getting annoying, especially when they a cropping up all over the place on other search engines as well (you would think they would at least start to actively filter some of them out or at a minimum push them off their first pages).
Perhaps the wikipedia style informed and reviewed search is part of the answer to the future of web searching, either than or we might as well be using the stumbleupon button.
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Google addmail (blackmail), don't pay for the add and competing products will be shown prior to your content much the same as 'ads supplied by google' on particular web sites are often the opposition to the web sites they are on.
Now google searches will be spitting up endless sites that do nothing but link back to paid google video adverts.
Now of course with an source open source product like Linux, consensus will always gravitate to the most mutually advantageous solution. So while it is inevitable that greed will eventually spit out one particular company (no guesses who) that for monopolistic reason will inevitable try to force Linux down a disadvantageous path for everybody else, everybody else can just take the bits they like, if they (no guesses who) can actually produce any and toss out the rest :).
And Papa Tux handled the interview really well ;).
Of course all religions should divest themselves of all luxury assets and seek to live as frugally as possible to ensure that as much of it's efforts as possible are directed at assisting those most disadvantaged in society. So it is well worth while to point out any religions failings and ensure that it's members do in fact practice what they preach. At least your posing bit about Scientology is accurate :-D.
Just another magic box solution, for when political appointees are placed in positions of authority when they have absolutely no idea what they are doing, they can now point to the magic box in the corner and blame it and the prior administration for all the problems that they themselves have caused. It always used to annoy me when staff would try to get me to produce magic box solutions out of the computers, I always used to politely remind if they could get the computers to do their job for them then why would they continue to pay their salary.
Not the Scientology is unique (it's just the market leader and the most profitable) in it cynical exploitation of the vulnerable but most of the main stream religions are actually trying to improve the lot of humanity no matter how misdirected it my be at times or how damaging the results are when corrupt individuals gain positions of authority.
So even though there may be some terrible failures with the best of intentions, the intention still counts for a lot in the final wash, where as in the case of Scientology people do suffer serious harm as a result of the worst of intentions.
Corruption is also the inevitable results as the monopolists seeks to maintain the monopoly and it's bloated profit margins, whilst the market attempts to achieve competitive pricing and improvements in service. As for the silly stuff about manufacturers throwing in stuff for free, oh patent holders giving away their patents or that crazy bit about DVD players just require a firmware update to read HD-DVD, on my, what marketdroid fabrication you are seeking to create.
Face it that pay off is a clear cut attempt to manipulate the market and eliminate choice in an attempt to establish a monopoly and then inflate prices once that monopoly has been established. Of course from Paramount point of view there is greater fiscal benefit in taking the payoff rather than bothering about the minor loss resulting from the lack of High definition sales because they still pale into insignificance compared to DVD sales, but corrupt practices are corrupt monopolistic practices.
Whilst there have been many government monoplies that have served the public well in the past as well as in the present, I can not think of a single corporate private monopoly that has not resulted in consumer suffering bloated prices, poor quality and questionable services, hmm, just look at M$ Windows (P)OS as a case in point, more than ten years of insecurity, unreliability and B$.
Accumulation of assets should not take over a game it should just remain a facet in completing other game goals. Carry out a sensible tax policy, as your game assets increase so do your expenses increase, depredations upon the game players assets might also be added lose bits not all of course and even in game taxation (for bribery and corruption just like real life ;) ).
Technically of course this put sites like youtube in a even worse spot, as the add sales people will notice, even though I am watching a youtube video I am still seeing the MMO adds. The only other time video really turns up is as a stumbleupon click and metcafe seems to crop up more often than youtube and MMO games from a wide variety of sites tend not to appear all that often.
Stumble video doesn't seem to have all that much appeal. When it does come to what is sucking up most of my online time stumble upon is leading but that in turn is actually distributed over a wide range of other web activities.
Google was just trying it on, to see how much negative reaction it generated and based upon their existing marketing created image whether they could get away with the more profitable solution of basically ripping the customer off.
Fortunately for Google video customers google's all so shiny image is developing a considerable tarnish and they had to buckle under customer pressure and were 'forced' to do the right thing or face a severe customer backlash.
So companies get credit for doing it right the first time and not seeing if they could get away with, all that really demonstrated is management who have no real idea of what is right or wrong, all the consider is how profitable it is and whether they can get away with trying it on.
It is not capitalism because the so called 'promotional deal' is limiting competition, and competition is the fundamental principle of capitalism as well as the elimination of monopolies because any attempt at limiting the market means the market is no longer free. Instead of Paramount paying a licence for the using the technology, the promoter of the technology is using dumping tactics in an attempt to establish a supply monopoly and selling so far below market cost that they are in fact paying the customer to use it.
Generally speaking, with regards to consumer abusive corporations, immediately after a successful class action law suit ;). So come on you blood sucking sharks, here is an excellent opportunity to stick to a whole bunch of corporations for vandalising a community based system ;).
So the next big question is will eve online provide in game access to a different MMORPG that is actually an entertaining escape from reality ;).
Well of course that would be a pre-existing condition, so any follow up control measures cannot infringe upon pre-existing security conditions upon which the software is installed ie. you can edit the registry prior to installation of the software, hence no control measure of the software can override your pre-existing security control measure of being able to edit your registry, in fact it would be a DRM infraction to attempt to control the security measure of being able to directly edit your registry, which of course is identical to being able to erase any file upon you system at any time you so choose.
Lets look at another major bit of marketing B$, targeted advertising, do you want to know the ultra big trick about targeted advertising, align your advertising with the Internet article the user is reading, none of the big B$ about knowing the customer, or prying into the customers private data, the end user has demonstrated their interest in that area by wanting to read that specific article.
Now when it comes to pumping up the stock price to way too many times actual income you need to create hype about the pseudo value of assets, in this case the value of private customer information in terms of targeted marketing, of course it is all just hype, but if done well it is worth billions, and basically allows a company to buy in assets with what in reality are nothing but junk bonds.
The biggest problem for google now is of course open source alternatives to it's products, not because of the products themselves but because the existence and growth of those products demonstrates a growing distrust and dislike of google in the market place amongst the most troublesome sector of the user market, the market leaders, the experimenters, the recommenders, the troubles hooters, the tech customers that actually choose their tech products .
How about if you install the cracking software prior to installing the coupon software. Surely under the DMCA you are implementing a security system to ensure the security and full usability of your computer so that the company that supplies the coupon software is committing a criminal act under the DMCA by trying to break your security system ;).
In terms of terrorist resistance, a fibre network is more secure, because with a copper telecommunication infrastructure you can mix the high voltage network with the telecommunications network for some interesting results or simply run around cutting on the earthing leads on the copper telecommunication infrastructure and let lighting do it's work at it's own pace, fibre is naturally more resistant to both these types of attacks.
Baring in mind for quite some number of years corporate executives have been getting their jobs because they are good a the politics of being promoted up the ranks and not because they are good at their jobs ie. they are very good a taking credit for other peoples work, they are very good at blaming other people for their mistakes, they are very very good at brown nosing and they will support more senior executives in what ever corrupt self serving practices they want to incorporate into the business.
So yeah, crazy, crapped out decisions occur all the time, for the executives to survive the just need to make sure the SEC doesn't catch them, for investors investments to survive, they need to hope that the SEC does catch those corrupt executives.
Serious effort needs to be made to ensure that those companies that attempt to implement clauses in contracts that infringe the law and the rights people should face criminal penalties, especially when the clauses are in the contract specifically to attempt to deny a persons their rights.
Their needs to be some serious reform of the civil court system, where a judge could not simply look at the contract on the first day, see that it infringes a persons legal rights, and penalise the writer of the contract.
It is all just endless streams of bull shit. Consider how much it cost to do the original copper telephone network, which contrary to the bull was far, far more expensive they any new fibre network and guess what the population has risen since then quite a lot in fact, so not only is copper tech more expensive but it had to be done with a far far lower population density, it had to be done with far more primitive technology, it had to be done using backward switching technology, telephone exchanges as major buildings and even the local was not a box but a whole building. Think each and every copper connection had to have it own line, it's own independent bit of wire, nothing like fibre at all with thousands of connections down the same line.
Face it, it is just bullshit, more bull shit and yet more bull shit. Under the current corrupt political system you will not be getting FTH until such time as the copper network degrades to the point were it significantly impacts the US economy, let me see, hmm, lets say 2025 at a minimum, possibly as late as 2050, good luck.
Why stop at planes, just think how safe the banks would be if every person that entered them was forced to strip down, bend over and have their body cavities search.
Part of the thing about have freedom and a democracy is the preservation of the rights and the dignities of a human individual, the right to be free of molestation unless substantive evidence has been obtained and demonstrated to an independent judge to ensure that law enforcement does in fact adhere to the law, and that fear does not rule justice.
Should some one not looking the look of your face be sufficient reason for them to strip you of your human dignity and then to sexually assault you (there is no escaping from a body cavity search being a sexual assault). If it is so accurate how about a five or even fifty thousand dollar payment for each false positive, if they are going to sexually molest you they might as pay you for their perverted jollies, so rather than being a victim of sexual assault you and your family can be a high class hookers instead.
Undoubtedly the biggest waste of money was most likely in the (FU)DRM, who knows hoe many trial versions were scrapped due to failure before the settled on the one that only mostly fails rather than always fails. PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback has to be congratulated for his efforts, I got pissed of with Vista after fours hours, reformatted drive and settled on stale piss for the game boot.
Ballmer is desperate to get across the board licence fees into the windows OS just like the xbox, this failure is just another indication of his technical incompetence.
Not to pick on any company in particular, but the whole corporate privacy invasion, targeted marketing, we know who you are, we know what you eat, we know how many times a day your scratch your arse, thing has just gotten out of control.
Respecting the customers wishes, will be the big focus, not delusions about the B$ effectiveness of targeted marketing, all that targeted marketing is doing is pissing customers off and targeting their anger at those who would target their marketing at them.
Perhaps the safest way out of the dilemma might be the simple adjustment of P2P file 'sharing' clients to allow only one person at a time to 'play' any particular file stored on the shared file folder. As only one person is using the file and that person using the file is honour bound not to record that file for later use unless they have permission to do so, that file is no longer being made available for copying. Obviously bits in transit or in cache are not a copy otherwise electrical pulses in transit from the amplifier to the speakers could be said to be an electrical pulse copy of the original acoustic recordings. The real questions is are you copyrighting the music or the pit patterns on the cd disc.
So while you might get slightly better performance out of the smart kids by providing them with the best teachers, those same teachers can achieve a quantum improvement in the 'er' 'special needs' future George Bushs of the world.
No matter what any one says it takes a whole of lot Albert Einsteins to repair the damage of one 'special needs' George Bush.
Admittedly this would not be all that bad if those sites did at least have the full featured content you were looking for rather a just bare summary 'copied' from the site you would have preferred top find.
Hitting the stumbleupon button is becoming just about as effective as hitting the google search button, I know that's a gross exaggeration but endless google half done spam/ad words site are getting annoying, especially when they a cropping up all over the place on other search engines as well (you would think they would at least start to actively filter some of them out or at a minimum push them off their first pages).
Perhaps the wikipedia style informed and reviewed search is part of the answer to the future of web searching, either than or we might as well be using the stumbleupon button.