Q: Can you really expect people to buy music that's locked to a device they upgrade every 12 to 18 months?
A: I didn't realise phones were churning that quickly in the marketplace these days. I'm sure there are some users who change their phone every year.
This answer is coming from the head of the Microsoft mobile division in the UK! How is it possible that he could be unaware that many individuals replace their phone every 12-18 months? This is completely mind baffling to me.
I think you're looking for the Parents Television Council and some would place the number closer to 99% of all complaints.
This is the same organization that had form letter email campaigns that encouraged people who didn't even watch the damn shoes to report them as "indecent".
I guess you could say they figured out how to DDoS the FCC with complaints.
So I guess they value their user's privacy at $1 million dollars.
Does anyone know if this is close to the price the black market actually pays for SSN/medical records/credit card numbers?
The guy is claiming to have information on millions of users (who knows it it's true, he could be bluffing) and the company is willing to spend $1 million as a reward to find him. That means they value each record at less than $1 each.
This seems like a pretty dangerous poker game to be playing when you're talking about people's private data.
I know personally, I value my private data much higher than $1, but then again I have more of an incentive to protect it than some random company.
Standard oil revolutionized the way to do business and cut costs, while increasing output and efficiency which put their competitors out of business.
The net result was a huge POSITIVE for the economy. Sure it may have affected some people who lost their business because they couldn't compete but the constant innovation put forward by Rockefeller improved the quality of life for far more people than it "hurt".
I'm glad you're talking about it here, but this is the kind of thing that people need to be telling everyone. The only way you're going to change the system is if you make it vocal to as many people as possible about just how broken the system truly is.
I'm sure monks in the 15th century complained about the printing press taking their jobs and reducing their relevancy as well.
It's call progress. It's going to happen whether you like it or not. Step on board, re-invent your skill set, or get out of the way because someone else is willing to do what you aren't.
And if you don't want to get out of the way, well that's fine too. You will soon find everyone around you passing you by as you continue to complain about the loss of your job.
I went to a midnight showing of The Dark Knight last night and managed to fall asleep with an hour left in the movie and wake up just in time for the credits to roll.
And what exactly is the problem with this method?
If you don't have the time to perform security maintenance, but someone else does, why shouldn't they be allowed to make a profit for their time?
As a followup, from a public choice/game theory perspective, I doubt that the Obama campaign really misses my vote. As me leaving for Barr is still a vote they would consider "Anti-McCain" which is good news for Obama.
It's a damn shame that the status quo of our political system supports two parties and voters are left to choose between the lesser of two evils.
I'm so disenfranchised by the entire process that it makes me want to vomit. I love this country and I hate to see it head down this path of implosion from within.
Look around, and you begin to see all the signs of a floundering Republic, be it the removal of civil liberties, the anti-scientific bias, the restriction of visas preventing the world's best and brightest from coming to work and study here, or the recent economic news that even WITH a weak dollar, foreign tourism of the United States is falling. The world is standing up to us and it isn't going to end pretty unless something radical happens.
The terrorists didn't kill America. America killed itself from within.
Who supported Dr. Ron Paul and came to the conclusion that I would vote for Obama because I believed he would change the world's opinion of the United States.
However, after his vote on FISA, I have decided to throw my vote to Bob Barr, whereas I was previously planning on voting for Obama.
I hope others who were planning on voting for Obama decide to do the same.
The political culture in this country scares me, and I am very afraid of where we are headed. It is a shame to see the Constitution mocked like this. The only hope I have left is in the judicial system which I hope has the balls to stand up to the power grab and strike it down as unconstitutional.
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Q: Can you really expect people to buy music that's locked to a device they upgrade every 12 to 18 months?
A: I didn't realise phones were churning that quickly in the marketplace these days. I'm sure there are some users who change their phone every year.
This answer is coming from the head of the Microsoft mobile division in the UK! How is it possible that he could be unaware that many individuals replace their phone every 12-18 months? This is completely mind baffling to me.
Oh come on, someone mod the parent flaimbait AND irrelevant.. My own personal beliefs aside, how does this belong here?
Havn't you heard, 2008 is the year of the Linux desktop!
Aren't you supposed to have, you know, evidence that the person you're suing actually did what you're accusing them of?
If you worked at the RIAA's law firm and raised that question, they'd fire you.
Ray, I respect you greatly, but if you are going to make claims such as these, can you please back them up with anecdotal evidence?
This post is probably the most informative and relevant to the situation at hand.
Someone mod parent up please.
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Step 1: "Lose" toolbag in space
Step 2: "Lose" spider in space
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Space domination
I think you're looking for the Parents Television Council and some would place the number closer to 99% of all complaints.
This is the same organization that had form letter email campaigns that encouraged people who didn't even watch the damn shoes to report them as "indecent".
I guess you could say they figured out how to DDoS the FCC with complaints.
So I guess they value their user's privacy at $1 million dollars.
Does anyone know if this is close to the price the black market actually pays for SSN/medical records/credit card numbers?
The guy is claiming to have information on millions of users (who knows it it's true, he could be bluffing) and the company is willing to spend $1 million as a reward to find him. That means they value each record at less than $1 each.
This seems like a pretty dangerous poker game to be playing when you're talking about people's private data.
I know personally, I value my private data much higher than $1, but then again I have more of an incentive to protect it than some random company.
http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek
Look at Tuesday's sharp drop off coinciding with the shut down.
Keep adding additional rules, regulations and laws and people tend to start breaking more laws since more of them exist to break.
I wish I had mod points for you homer.
Standard oil revolutionized the way to do business and cut costs, while increasing output and efficiency which put their competitors out of business.
The net result was a huge POSITIVE for the economy. Sure it may have affected some people who lost their business because they couldn't compete but the constant innovation put forward by Rockefeller improved the quality of life for far more people than it "hurt".
North Carolina and Virginia are generally considered the "tobacco states".
I think Kentucky's chief exports are bad laws and regulation.
Here is a good synopsis and collection of his recent work compiled by an Economics professor at George Mason University.
Marginal Revolution: Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize
Why didn't you report this to a news source?
I'm glad you're talking about it here, but this is the kind of thing that people need to be telling everyone. The only way you're going to change the system is if you make it vocal to as many people as possible about just how broken the system truly is.
I'm sure monks in the 15th century complained about the printing press taking their jobs and reducing their relevancy as well.
It's call progress. It's going to happen whether you like it or not. Step on board, re-invent your skill set, or get out of the way because someone else is willing to do what you aren't.
And if you don't want to get out of the way, well that's fine too. You will soon find everyone around you passing you by as you continue to complain about the loss of your job.
A torrent link to the pdf can be found here!
Well it may not be modern but lambskin seems to have done the trick for hundreds of years...
Did they nominate the slashdot effect as a security concern?
to sleep?
I went to a midnight showing of The Dark Knight last night and managed to fall asleep with an hour left in the movie and wake up just in time for the credits to roll.
Sigh.....
And what exactly is the problem with this method?
If you don't have the time to perform security maintenance, but someone else does, why shouldn't they be allowed to make a profit for their time?
As a followup, from a public choice/game theory perspective, I doubt that the Obama campaign really misses my vote. As me leaving for Barr is still a vote they would consider "Anti-McCain" which is good news for Obama.
It's a damn shame that the status quo of our political system supports two parties and voters are left to choose between the lesser of two evils.
I'm so disenfranchised by the entire process that it makes me want to vomit. I love this country and I hate to see it head down this path of implosion from within.
Look around, and you begin to see all the signs of a floundering Republic, be it the removal of civil liberties, the anti-scientific bias, the restriction of visas preventing the world's best and brightest from coming to work and study here, or the recent economic news that even WITH a weak dollar, foreign tourism of the United States is falling. The world is standing up to us and it isn't going to end pretty unless something radical happens.
The terrorists didn't kill America. America killed itself from within.
Who supported Dr. Ron Paul and came to the conclusion that I would vote for Obama because I believed he would change the world's opinion of the United States.
However, after his vote on FISA, I have decided to throw my vote to Bob Barr, whereas I was previously planning on voting for Obama.
I hope others who were planning on voting for Obama decide to do the same.
The political culture in this country scares me, and I am very afraid of where we are headed. It is a shame to see the Constitution mocked like this. The only hope I have left is in the judicial system which I hope has the balls to stand up to the power grab and strike it down as unconstitutional.
much easier to extract all the oil trapped in the sea floor up there!
Spair today, gone tomorrow.
I wonder where he would rate his Teen Beat photo spread?
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