Comment Re:Bad idea (Score 1) 671
He may now be famous enough that he couldn't be simply "disappeared" or sent to Guantanamo.
"Simply" maybe not, but "accidents" happen to people all the time...
He may now be famous enough that he couldn't be simply "disappeared" or sent to Guantanamo.
"Simply" maybe not, but "accidents" happen to people all the time...
Does the iTunes Terms of Service, to which users presumably agreed, specify that Apple may add (or remove) things to (from) your device that you did not request and/or w/o your specific consent? If so, then your analogy holds (at least technically) else it doesn't.
I suspect that people got bent out of shape because either Apple wasn't really allowed to do this sort of thing, or people didn't realize Apple actually was allowed to.
Not asking permission is theft.
I'm a fan of U2 and I can see how some people might consider what they did rude or presumptuous, but theft? - No,
Not theft, but how about "breaking and entering"? Apple entered (violated) people's personal space w/o permission.
Honestly, I'm still baffled so many people were upset about getting a few album from a popular, well respected, rock band, simply because it found its way directly onto people's devices. It's not as if it woke you up at 3am and started playing it!
Image, instead, that Apple broke into people's houses and left a physical copy of the U2 album on dining room table. How do you think you / everyone would feel about that? While you might argue that digitally pushing the album out isn't really the same thing, it kind of is. Apple entered (violated) people's personal space w/o permission.
I've auditioned some pretty amazing earbuds.
As opposed to "tried"?
... karma is a real witch.
Pretty sure that's not the right word - unless you're Lanie Jordan. Get some balls Washington Post.
DHT will replace DNS
Dihydrotestosterone will replace DNS? Just great, now we'll all go bald.
... opposed by cable and telephone companies that fear it will curb Internet growth and stifle payback on network investment.
Snooping for ad revenues and obscene profit margins
Anything you can do on mars, robots can do better. already.
Anything? Says you, your wife, or the battery-powered robot in her bed-side table?
Interesting, I didn't know that if someone had a beautiful body they had a non-functional brain.
That's one of the advantages of having a beautiful body.
Unfortunately, one disadvantage is usually the math: Beauty x Brains = Constant
No, it's not beta. Beta's a lot worse (think full of AJAX).
"Oh my God; it's full of AJAX !" was the original line in 2010, but they eventually changed it to "stars !"
You mean photocopied or something having to do with a registered trademark? Why not simply "Copied".
From what I can tell, machines have enough trouble getting the Three Laws correct; I'm not sure I want to throw the Ten Commandments in there too... Let me re-watch Futurama to see how robots and religion work out.
So Amazon just patented 3-D printing... ON A TRUCK? What other existing technologies can we add "on a truck" to to create a novel invention?
Why is this surprising? How many "new" ideas have been patented by adding "on the Internet" to an existing idea?
She also accused Lenovo and Superfish of invading her privacy and making money by studying her Internet browsing habits.
Is she going to sue her ISP for doing the same thing?
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
