Comment: Re:blahblah (Score 1) 614
The shareholders are already paying tax on that profit in the dividends they get, so I don't really see why they should pay twice.
The reason why is because the money changed hands from one legal entity to another.
Comment: Okay Senate Subcommittee (Score 1) 614
If corporations are using the Tax Law in unintended ways, change the law. The rest of us can complain and moan about how the laws are broken. You can actually do something about it. Shaming somebody into not playing by the rules so well, ain't gonna work. If even you get Apple to bring over all of their revenue, and have it taxed without a single loophole/write off, the next corporation will just waltz in and exhibit the bad behavior that you don't like.
Comment: Re:Will they be open-sourcing it? (Score 1) 267
then open-sourcing the code might be a nice goodwill gesture.
That also might make it very easy for malware writers to be able to find security holes in it. On the other hand, would malware writers even bother to target something that has such low marketshare?
Comment: Re:Fuck. (Score 1) 396
It's possible that other services aren't willing to invade your personal communications for the purpose of monetization, like Google is.
Comment: Re:Fuck. (Score 1) 396
The IM world is dropping compatibility like flies. What are these companies trying to do?
They're trying to get you to use a client that they can show advertisements on. If you use a client that doesn't provide an ROI for them, why would they want offer up their electricity, spinning disks and the bandwidth of their service to you?
Comment: Re:Don't use HVAC? (Score 3, Insightful) 198
Amazon just hires local surfs to peddle bicycles that power belt-driven fans. When a surf drops, they simply hustle them out and replace them with another. Communities are so glad to have such a huge employer, they look the other way...
Wouldn't those workers be replaced by labor cost saving robots?
Comment: Re:Um ... (Score 1) 106
Because there are no women on the Internet. Only men pretending to be women.
That may have been true, up until the advent of Pintrist.
Comment: Re:Anything to get more customers (Score 1) 712
DVRs with "skip forward 30 seconds" button are also evil in your book, I take it?
Nope, the user is actively skipping over the parts of the recording; the ads still exist in the stream.
Comment: Re:Cool! All we have to do is create code to math. (Score 1) 215
Who said that art and math are mutually exclusive, and why would you believe a person who said that? What part of playing back a video on Youtube do you think is not mathematics at work? Elaborate on your point.
That's kind of the point of patent\copyright laws; Math: not patentable, Art: is patentable.
Comment: Re:How can you have a software defined network? (Score 1) 75
And then there's my inherent skepticism about the value payoff relative to the level of complexity added, as well as asking isn't that why we have layer 3 protocols? To define networks above and beyond their layer 2 memberships?
What once was old is now new again.
Comment: Metro (Score 4, Insightful) 115
The power of a card as a visual-organization metaphor according to Matias Duarte (lead designer of Android), is that 'it makes very clear the atomic unity of things; it's still flexible while creating a kind of regularity.'
So... they're Live Tiles?
Comment: Re:Slashdot is awesome (Score 1) 712
Why doesn't Microsoft make their own "MicroTube" video website, with a download button, no advertising, in the free VP8 format,(maybe also stop threatening with patent lawsuits about that coded) and serve it for free (including oodles of cache space bought from Akamai)? Customers would flock to this, I'm sure.
You know, I don't think they would. Many users would feel it too uncool to visit a Microsoft property on the web.
Comment: Re:Feels good (Score 1) 712
You should consider leaving your mom's basement more often. Windows Phone is the fastest growing phone OS right now
Going from 1 to 6 users, would make them the fastest growing.
Comment: Re:Sounds familiar... (Score 1) 712
Wow. So Microsoft is mad because someone else won't give them details on a closed API?
I don't know if Microsoft is mad, this isn't a story about Microsoft filing a complaint and making a big huff. This is Microsoft putting forth enough effort to do something about it; mad, angry, happy, elated, sad, disgusted or any other emotion that they might be feeling.
Comment: Re:Anything to get more customers (Score 4, Insightful) 712
Who's being evil now???
The company that's providing a way to view ad supported content, ad free, is being evil.