The modern food multinationals use his romantic notion of farming to their advantage every day. Look at their advertising.

We still give millions of dollars to fams because of that romantic notion. As usuall the corporate welfare goes to the guy in the CEO's office and not the guy in the overalls.

The above comment to this is on regulation.

Regulation protects the largest corporations more than it ever will protect your safety.

We have have people indoctrinated up to the eyeballs on Slashdot now. Somehow these one trick ponies are going to link whatever the problem is to government regulation.

I was, of course, talking from my own point of view. I am not talking better DRM, I am talking about getting rid of some corporate idiocy. We are all drowning in it.

Disbanding is the only postive change the MPAA could make, IMHO.

How about just cut their constant tax giveaways.

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/04/...

Market share is nearly tied.

In this case Apple did it first (that's generous though given Blackberry's old position) and Android is arguably doing it better. Of course I think open is better and the man on the street will probably site Apple being better because they don't have that bias.

The problems with streamed TV have been more mental and legal rather than technical.

I am NOT trying to be a cheerleader for sling (Even though I've posted about it in this thread 3 times), but its roll out this week is a key event. The fact that cable TV channels have not played well with online TV up to this point and Dish/Sling have now broken that psychological barrier is a big deal. I think traditional cable tv is going to have a hard time keeping the 40 and younger set, and they'll lose the more technical savvy oldsters as well.

No it's not. Apple TV content has always been limited when compared to more open devices like Roku. I've had a Roku since the days it ONLY had a Netflix app. Today it has hundred of channels. Plus it can do everything you mention in this post. Plus with this weeks Sling introduction in can already do some live TV.

Lockdown is a HUGE issue with any Apple product. If you already have been locked in to apple products then this new service might be worth it, but the better alternatives already exist.

legitimate apple TV? Is that anything like legitimate rape?

Just got on Sling this week as an early customer as well. It takes trained eyes to tell the difference between Sling's network stream and the digital TV stream from Comcast. This is good quality of a service that is at the early adopter stage.

I decided after my weekly end-of-year reckoning about expenses that the price of Comcast, which slowly creeps up on a nearly monthly basis, isn't justified when I watch 2 channels. I decided to end my TV service with comcast within the next year. Then Sling comes along and has the two channels I happen to watch.

The downside is Sling is operated by Dish and it has all the inherent customer service problems that entails. Since Comcast is a disreputable company then this is a wash though, and on aggregate Dish service is probably equal or better. The customer service problems have been on display with their roll out, as people who were REALLY excited about the service aren't being able to get the invites for the service. The excitement for Sling has been very great, but due to the usual idiocy from the top brass (giving out bad dates for when the service was going to start) and the usual corporate idiocy of not answering legitimate questions (see @Sling on twitter).

I can't see Apple's offering to be any better. At least Sling is concerned about various platforms. I am sure Apple will force you on to their equipment, there will be no allowance for non-Mac and Android users, etc... Sony is coming out with a similar service with the same problems. I don't want to buy a PS4 when I've a Roku boxes in my house for a decade already.

I don't have a sense of how big this thing was. If it was small does it really warrant this scared of a response? If you are making bombs out of cheap material like coke cans, can are you really going to have a substance THAT concentrated to that it would really cause damage?

After the rally in France, CNN had an idiot congresscritter on (R after the name, of course). He made a backhanded remark about how "people with signs" won't stop groups like ISIS. He wanted more bombers to go bomb the hell out of them. And the subtext here is, of course, is that he wanted more fear. He's also entirely wrong.

I think the reaction in France is 100% correct and it's exactly the opposite, of course, of what we do here. The whole point of ISIS wanting the attacks in France was so the public would be upset and fear. Instead they organized a rally that was a huge middle finger in the faces of the attackers. They held a rally that was a huge target and said we aren't going to change our way of life for your assholes.

Of course in the US we just allow it to be used by the fearmongers that want to control us and the corporate entities that want to make money on the war goods.

welcome to Boston...

The author isn't protected, the corporation is. Just like every other US law right now.

The idea of copyright as put forth in the Constitution isn't really known right now. Copyright, no matter what your corporate buddies tell you, isn't this idea of "intellectual property" where work is held indefinitely so authors can squeeze every dime from it.