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Comment Re:Any PC or Mac with a microphone. (Score 1) 93

Ultimately, people do not -- and should not -- want to be tied to some third party to do what can be done in their own home.

Yes, agree that we should not want this. However, in the current app driven, always connected "Cloud' world, I am not convinced that many of the big tech companies would not be angling or this as much as possible.

Comment Re:Any PC or Mac with a microphone. (Score 3, Insightful) 93

I'll be willing to bet the first androids we get will be centrally controlled. Why make their processing self contained when they can use the excuse that they need the processing power only available in their servers to control them.

I'll be willing to bet that very soon most "personal" computing will be centrally controlled with very little processing happening on a users device and most of it being pumped from the vendors servers.

Comment Pop (Score 4, Insightful) 365

20 years almost, I find it reprehensible they want to pop out of bushes and just give me 30 days to go through 20 years worth of emails and decide what I want to keep

He keeps them all online? Does his provider not have a pop3 option to download everything he has been hoarding on their servers and sort from there at his own leisure?

Comment Re:We'll see if piracy affects sales (Score 1) 121

t I literally would not go to see this movie even if Disney were to pay me $100 to do so,)

I'm not too fussy about who is paying me. I'll take the money.

Sure as a contractor, I may be able to score more than $100 for 2 hours of my time, but that involves actual work as opposed to sitting down and relaxing.

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