The government seizes the property too, so in the event they're found innocent the suspected drug dealer can simply carry on as they were.
Soooo... how is that any different to what's happening with MegaUpload?
Any way you cut it, house brands for stores are bad news for consumers. Anti-competitive one might say.
How is it bad news for customers? As your post demonstrates, it results in better quality products for lower prices.
Perhaps you mean it's bad news for the suppliers? (Although I don't really see what the news has to do with it.)
Yes, but they don't tend to deliberately freeze the finances to ensure the corporation can't pay its bills so that the company's key business assets get repossessed. In this instance, they did (copied the drives so that the servers are no longer considered evidence, then froze the finances so MegaUpload can't pay its hosting bill, then send a letter to the hosting companies informing them that the government has no further need of the servers so they may be disposed of according to the company's non-payment policy).
How is that any different to when the government seizes a drug dealer's property and freezes their bank accounts?
Uh Amazon doesn't push impulse buys? Are those emails I get every other day figments of my imagination, or does the fact that they scientifically determine what I'm most likely to impulse buy somehow make them "better"?
I don't believe anybody claimed that Amazon doesn't push impulse buys, rather that you can just buy what you want without a lot of hassle.
Right, that's exactly how you should cover Windows Phone news on Slashdot. Link one posting, by a blogger well known for poorly substantiated rants against Elop's Nokia. Link it twice as if referring to two sources.
Isn't that how everything is covered on Slashdot?
Neither Apple or Google offer business class email/calendaring services.
Oh, so that explains why so many businesses are switching to Google Apps for email and calendar services!
It might not be too late for their N9 "Qt phone" series yet.
More like "Windows Mobile 6.5 Classic," given the incompetence that's currently on display.
Bah. I tried the MultiBen phone. It was full of crap - buggy as all get out. Also it kept changing my name to "Ben".
Honestly, it's a superior name. You should have just gone with it.
But do other corporations get treated in the same way? When they are sued, do they get shut down before the verdict?
Yes. Injunctions are frequently issued to prohibit the accused company from engaging in the accused act until the case is resolved.
while they may have an argument about the use creating a false impression that NBC the company endorses Romney that is NOT a copyright issue.
Actually it is. "Moral Rights" are a part of copyright law via international convention. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_(copyright_law)#Moral_rights_in_the_United_States
There's definitely a good chance that Romney's use of Brokaw's mage could be a violation of Brokaw's Moral Rights.
Using http://userstyles.org/ it is easy to get rid of.
That only hides the symptoms. The problem is Slashdot doing it in the first place - it demonstrates subservience to those who wish to monopolise and profit from our lives.
You should see the magazines from Japan (especially the car magazines).
I agree. You just can't get decent vehicular tentacle rape magazines outside of Japan.
Your logic makes no sense. How do you become "inoculated" to what you don't experience?
The point is that I do experience it, so I know how shitty these sites are. If you don't experience it, you are inoculated, because you are getting a false impression of them.
Slashdot has gone to shit, although the Facebook stuff is only one factor. I used to visit Slashdot nearly every day. Now I visit slashdot less than once per month. The social media rubbish isn't the only factor, but it is a significant one.
If you're blocking all of that, then you continue to support Slashdot more than you should. If you dislike the advertising and social media stuff that Slashdot does so much that you need to block it, then why do you even visit the site?
To me, slashdot has become a last resort to visit when I am extremely bored. I find the social media stuff annoying, but not nearly as annoying as the sites that want to promote weight-loss programs or bogus dating sites. If you're blocking ads and visiting those sites, you're not seeing the true horror that's out there, and you are unconsciously supporting some horrifically selfish assholes.
Are you freaking kidding me? Kim Kardashian had a sex tape get "leaked" and went from being a nobody to being worth over $50 million. Do you honestly think that scandalous pictures have the power to destroy someone's career now?
Well, I guess if you want to have a career as a sex-object celebrity, and have millionaire celebrity parents supporting you, then that wouldn't hurt. But most people aren't in that position.
And if the majority of your acquaintances are running around shunning people because they wear the wrong color or sing off key, then it's your world that I question. Not mine. Does that sort of thing happen? Sure, I guess. But only among the infinitely small minded, and only on issues that don't really matter to anything, such as who is going to win the next episode of whatever flavor of the month reality show is on at the time.
In other words, it matters to a huge amount of people. More Americans care about reality TV shows and celebrity gossip than they do about government policy.
The younger generation grew up with more exposure to it, so it wasn't as big of a deal. The new youth is going to grow up with differing views of privacy than we had.
Exactly the same thing happened with "the youth" who grew up with the scandalous Television and Rock'n'Roll. Those people are in power now, yet not much has changed.
The "social media" is exactly like high-school cliques. You are kidding yourself if you think people who furthered their reputation via Facebook "friends" are going to be more egalitarian than those who grew up before the internet. Dirty politics will not suddenly disappear.
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
