Comment Re:It's unsurprising (Score 1) 419
The question has never been "does it work?"
I believe you're underestimating how ridiculously moronic most people are. "Does it work?" has been asked many times.
The question has never been "does it work?"
I believe you're underestimating how ridiculously moronic most people are. "Does it work?" has been asked many times.
You need proof before people will believe something this bad.
But it shouldn't be a surprise at all. Give people unchecked power and they will abuse it. What part of that do these people not understand?
But I thought they said that only bad people hide things? What, are they suddenly disagreeing with their own logic?
If you take them at their word
Why would I do that? And even if I did, freedom and privacy are still being lost.
Just remember the phone company already has these records and if it's legal they're trying to monetize the data already.
That has nothing to do with this.
YOU say that, but the majority of the US, who these officials represent, serve, and are employed by, disagree with you.
We don't have a direct democracy, but a representative republic. Furthermore, the government is supposed to be bound by the constitution, and as such, it does not matter how many people want the government to violate it.
Well, it doesn't work out that way in practice. You're right that the public at large will have to stop being cowardly morons before anything will actually change.
it's easy to be blind to the reality of the situation.
I am not blind; I am well aware that many people are cowards.
Important people are talking now, citizen. Get back in line.
Transparency isn't the only problem. Freedom and privacy are simply more important than security. If freedom or privacy must be sacrificed (and that's a dubious claim), I don't want whatever you offer.
Then why are so many saying "Fuck the XBox One and it's DRM, use Steam!"
"so many"? I don't know if that's true, but not all of us are doing that. I despise any form of DRM.
are also those who have freely admitted to loving and buying from the likes of Steam previously.
Some people feel that DRM is magically okay when the games are cheap. They have no principles.
I do agree with you that these people are hypocrites.
Linux on PS3?, I really don't know anyone who actually used that.
Screwing over your customers is not okay simply because you did not screw over more than a few of them.
hence why the vast majority of gamers don't care.
Things such as this speak volumes about the intelligence of many gamers.
I certainly did not forget. I will not buy any Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo products.
If you don't want the product, you don't buy it.
I'm sure no one figured out that people have the ability to do that. Quite insightful.
Crying 'consumer rights' for a product that is sold with a publicly known 'always on' feature is like wanting to enforce your own policy on the publisher.
Well, there are European countries which protect consumer rights to a greater extent than other countries, but whether they'd do anything about this is another matter. So, complaining 'consumer rights' might not be off-base if people can get someone to take action.
So why is it suddenly an issue now when Microsoft does it with their new console?
I'm pretty sure most of the same people complaining about this also objected to the other nonsense. This is not "suddenly" an issue; it always was an issue.
It's not so much that XBone is bad
No, it is.
it's that the PS4 is much better
Sony isn't much better, and the console is still closed-down.
Incidentally, you're also a DRM-supporting imbecile.
Straw man.
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
