IIRC the Siemens cellphones had at one time an even better scheme than IMEI blacklisting. One could lock the phone to one particular SIM card.
You lost/got stolen the phone? You ask the phone company to lock the SIM (which you ought to do anyway) and poof the phone is locked.

Modern phones might allow a couple more SIM and have the problem of locking the thief out of your life which we conveniently put in the phone in form of messages, mail, contacts, website cookies...

Only scribes could LEARN Egyptian stuff, so that is the closed source stuff.

Suggesting Linux as an option to fix Windows is like proposing the roman alphabet to a scribe-dominated, hieroglyphs-dependent Egypt. Insane at first, insane not to accept the proposal later. I only wish people stick to free software principles when transitioning, because e.g. with Android pay apps, many people are soon going to have the same problems people had with proprietary applications back in the 90s.

In fact I guess most virtual currency schemes are inherently less pyramidal and electricity wasting than bitcoin.
OTOH those things I perceive as shortcomings make bitcoin more popular (at present) for "opportunity driven" people.

> No, it's either sad or pathetic (depending on ones point of view) that one person should be so tethered to technology rather than reality.

Sure but it's quite myopic that you look at that one person and forget the masses so tethered to far more fascist things like mainstream TV, cinema, magazines and books, music... Media and arts have always been versatile vehicles of propaganda and I have no evidence of the huge paradigm shift in society that made that documented trend disappear.

I don't defend the buying choices of the multiplatform guy, I have issues with your dualism technology/reality.

> This of course will be designed in such a way that you will have to 're-stock' your nanobots at certain determined intervals, because Big Pharma isn't going to design any permanent solution...

What a conspiracy nut nonsense!
I mean, it's like we always needed to buy an up to date antivirus to avoid our PCs being attacked... oh wait...

The property is the domain databases and name servers the ICANN or whoever it is uses, and charges you annually for. They can either have a legitimate client (MS legitimate for once, LOL) or make a subcontractor have money off squatting, which would make sense commercially but it's not in the mission, I HOPE.

For contribution or inspiration, there is already Sahana - IIRC there was a php version and a rewrite using the very well thought out python framework web2py.

Your data is their ASSET.
Business exploit assets in whatever possible way.
Your assumption that they will be only be used for targeted ads is naive.
Your naivety has been noted.
As my paranoid convoluted thinking has.
Have a nice day.

As much as I hate trivial patents in any field, I must admit that when I wipe windows off a pc and put debian on it, it sure feels like a new machine...

or wagn.

Well if they win, then everybody should be able to do anything with the content they access from the net using whatsoever api (http protocol included) no matter what the TOS of the sites are. Or I am missing something...

I don't have the link for MS tech but if you surf long enough you'll find some others already offering to make your avatar photo cartoonish with a pretty animated demo.

What if this is the expected behavior? IMHO the climate change debate is basically a diversion.

They ARE making this planet inhabitable (I say They, not We because nobody's ever been asked to make informed choices since the start of the industrial revolution), by pollution, and the reasons are very rational. Once you need treatments just to stay alive in a fscked up world, who owns treatments owns you.

Insisting on a single aspect, CO emissions, and linking it to climate change, and most of all, approaching it with taxes (srsly?), means that the debate is chained to specific aspects, and forgets about the rest.
After all the same system that taxes you for CO2 has no problems in introducing untested substances and organisms, and does not raise hell when unsafe toys or food are imported in your country. Strange, no?

especially this: Rootless GoboLinux