yeah? Let me know how that fairsearch campaign is working out for Microsoft. You know, google is evil blah blah.

Also remind me how people respond to hotmail selling your information to anyone and everyone, including signing you up for spam mail. While google does do advertising, they don't sign you up for product spam.

What kind of argument is that?

The point is, this study has zero correlation with REALITY. It's not about literacy, and it's not about GDP. None of these have any direct correlation to malware. Also, in many countries Windows is considered malware - so naturally they're labeled having a higher malware rate.

Does this reflect on anything realistic, and/or should this even be discussed? No, because it's not relevant to anything.

exactly. the compromises for all the network bandwidth costs are enormous. I don't think people realize that if you really wanted a quality onlive-equivalent experience it's probably going to be $50+ a month, which could easily translate to a high end computer every 2 years.

actually they're constrained by relevance - mostly a lack of.

amount of things this has to do with freedom in correlation to IOS or android = zero.

please leave slashdot.

if this goes through, I'd be happy to double or even consider tripling that.

reality says it never will, though. Hell, groklaw offered to store the documents themselves.

facebook has said they endorse apple's "complete control" model. So anyone who trusts facebook after that, is making a big mistake - not one they weren't already warned of.

Just like viruses, it's going to get a lot worse before people start figuring out what to do about it and what not to do. It's still in the "only the technical people who get it are saying stop using it" category.

statutory damages are easily fought off by asking for a trial. This has been the fun/issue of all of the settlement shakedowns to exist currently. Get a letter? get a lawyer and immediately lawyer up, and watch them try to run away. refuse to settle, and go from there.

these private enterprises are basically running under the auspices of our government, which is exactly what I meant.

not true even remotely.

While MAFIAA may be incredibly stupid, don't think their finance people are as stupid. It's not hard for them to figure out if it's not worth the money.

the also unsurprising factor is that this is happening in China, where the same responses for how to prevent this have been sent every week:

download things from official trusted sources only.

150 times?

incredibly easy, actually. Especially if you're the US government's copyright stasi.