Sony can clean up their search results in Europe by (ab)using the "Right To Be Forgotten".

You would make a great Walmart employee.

Amazon works in a cut-throat market and it took them over a decade before they made a profit. They don't have exclusivity, if they don't have the lowest price and shipping then they lose the sale. Amazon.com has contributed to general improvements of availability, price, shipping costs and time and ability to find and quality compare on the internet.

Keep on hating products and services you don't have to use. But you probably do use them, and if you are a hypocrite.

But we live in an age of hypocrites and haters and self-entitled child-people, so its all good!

Keep on hating things, dude!

If 2 billion more people drank root beer, the situation would stabilize itself.

That helps me fit in here!

Since they travel back in time, you have to test the result before you do the experiment.

If your test was successful, you see little reason to do the experiment, which causes the test result to not have happened -- which can make your co-workers quite angry with you. The frustrating nature of this type of work requires extreme dedication.

Wrong. My point was The Pirate Bay made money, THEREFORE it was maintained.

A home-job "made it myself" deal is not going to make more, THEREFORE IT WILL NOT be maintained.

Garbage in, garbage out.

They maintained the site. Kept it operational. Improved it occasionally. Made sure it was up. They made some money from advertising, helped cover their expenses and then some. They actually made a profit.

Profit was a motivating factor for The Pirate Bay to provide a relatively reliable service!

What is the purpose of 372 or 5,570,549 unmaintained garbage mirrors of a possibly dead site?

Having a mirror requires almost no skill and there is no motivation to maintain it, improve it and no financial incentive as "Open Bay" is "Open Source".

Is this an achievement? The news article is from VentureBeat.com, and I bet those venture capitalists are just swarming to get a piece of the action? Err. No.

And the mirrors are basically useless.

But this should be celebrated because --- well --- it is sticking it to the megacorps! At least in a your imagination, if that is your dream.

Many of these stillborn mirrors will evaporate as soon as the hoster loses interest, which means by next Monday.

There is no such thing as "tech". And there never has been. And Stanford has never been the center of it either.

Stanford and the "Silicon Valley" area may be the center of "media attention" and startups giving each other $20 billion dollars, but the "real world" uses technology ever day to get things done, is quite automated and standardized and rarely uses much produced in "Silicon Valley".

Entire corporations on the IT side of things get things done every day without using anything Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Apple ever was involved in.

Media attention doesn't equal reality. The Silicon Valley area is guilty of being the "Cult of Self Importance" --- like the Plutarchs in the Hunger Games. But it doesn't make it true.

"Most general users don't do this" How can you even say that. "General users" are the ones who have to format because they get viruses.

They sure as hell know how to backup their stuff, and they've had a lot of practice.

Several more companies should join in, then the US Government should start an anti-trust lawsuit against all of them.

This was the angle Google was using in 2011 against H264 patent aggregation groups. http://redmondmag.com/articles...

What is the difference here?

All of the rich companies joining together to establish the exclusive ability to create products and services is where this ultimately leads.

Your minders will economically try to find the most efficient way to meet your needs.

Later they discover that you can be offered a very similar experience to "real life" just by stimulating your brain.

After all, a non-laboring human on the balance sheet is an expense that produces no output.

And it is cheaper to remove your body from your brain and offer you those experiences.

Brain in a jar future. It is coming!

I fully believe it is a powerful tool and useful tool. But I wouldn't be able to say to someone in my family "hey you should use this". They would never figure it out.

I do appreciate the information you provided and maybe I will end up personally using it to tag my photos, because I do agree that 3 or 4 clicks on every file is certainly a waste of time.

I just loaded up Image Tagger. It asks me for the EXIFTOOL on startup and wants me to browse folders for one and did not see any Windows shell integration.

It might be great once setup, but I'll never be spending that hour to figure it out because I would spend that hour trying to find a more user-friendly tool.

Just tried this. To me this is a hands-down winner.

The meta-data is stored in the .jpg so does not rely on some fragile external meta-data file and the ease of use is there too.