IANAL, so I'd like a tort guru to enlighten us on exactly how creation and distribution of a product (AdBlock) that that gives consumers an informed choice over another product (advertising bullshit) is an actionable case. It sounds like a water utility company suing faucet makers for making a device that restricts flow of billable water, or the electric company suing light switch manufacturers.
I haven't a shred out doubt that these people are being hushed up, by whatever means necessary.
What I do doubt is the significance of the effect on mass media coverage. Other factors are in play.
Corporate media disdains adverse coverage of the H1B scandal because it is portrayed as "racist" against third-world emigres, and also because hey, business is business, right? (wink, wink).
I'm no lover of Sony (even though I do play EQ2), but if this B-grade flick is so annoying to the Dear Butterball, the widest possible distribution of the film certainly seems worthwhile. Like Spengler said about the Nazis, "When one has the opportunity to annoy these people, one should do so."
Damn, where's my mod points? +5 Hilariously insightful.
Wow, an article hyping a fork of the internet that is all...hype!
Let's say 2-10% of the total population use devices to actually control or monitor web-connected appliances. That's not where the market is.
It's all about the 100% of the population are subjected to an unending bombardment of ads on their refrigerator and microwave screens, based on personal data profiles garnered from same-said appliances associated with other known user info. Universal real-time context-based marketing. SCORE!
This isn't about technology. It's about marketing, pure and simple.
This. People with no industrial background love to blame the engineers for the security failings of SCADA and Distributed Controls, but we, like all good company drones, are at the mercy of the MBA shitheels and their bankster overlords. It's never been a technical problem. It's a money problem.
Precisely. As we used to say in the Navy, "Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see."
There will be an intermediate period where we have a lot of "jobs for the sake of jobs", but eventually I hope we just let the machines we've built do the work and find some better (hopefully more direct) way of managing actual finite resources.
Said intermediate period is well under way. We call it "government".
Well played, AC. Well played.
Yes siree Bob! That ol' invisible hand is really working for us.
We need government to get out of the way and let in all the low-cost immigrant labor we can get, without all those pesky regulations. Business needs to be free to innovate!
And yet the Nazis were decisively defeated by sheer numbers of lower-tech weapons.
A thousand Huns could easily defeat a century of Roman triarii. A thousand Sioux braves could defeat a regiment of dragoons. History abounds with examples of "more" defeating "better". Quality is by no means a guarantor od success over quantity.
"Forlorn" defined.
You think he doesn't?
When Bristlebane hears what the gnomes have been up to he's gonna be pissed. Clockwork magicians indeed!
2) If people continued to stay away, the banks would eventually fail. Why would the government continue to support them if nobody was using them?
Because corruption.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
