Sure, right. After 9/11, we apparently believed the lie that they "hate us for our freedoms" and in response decided to give up those freedoms so they'll stop hating us.
"The ISPs get their maps wrong the other way to, insisting they can't sell you services that ARE available in your area."
I had this happen to me once. I wanted DSL, but the phone company said that I was too far from the post. I then learned that my neighbor had DSL despite being one lot further from the post as me.
"We were well drilled on what truths to tell, though, and how best to tell them."
So in other words, you lied. Lying is communicating with the intention to deceive. It is possible (and common in sales & marketing) to lie like a rug without uttering a single factually incorrect statement.
"I can envision a day when ISPs provide a service for "consumers" that effectively blocks "all" ad content"
Various ISPs have offered this sort of service for decades. It's harder to find now that most ISPs have vanished, but you can still find some that do this.
There's no problem with an ISP offering a value-add service like this, as long as customers have to opt in to it. The problem is when ISPs do it without the customer's knowledge or approval.
Yes, I know that there are a lot of people (most people, even) who are almost completely ignorant of how these things work.
My point is that someone who is a bit above that -- not an expert, but can do basic things like use an email program -- are being called "tech-savvy" now. It wasn't that long ago that someone who was "tech-savvy" was a power user at a minimum. Someone is not a power user simply because they know how to use an email client.
Even if Prime video didn't work on any of those devices at all, it's still completely bogus reasoning to say that means Amazon should not sell those devices. If Amazon is really that concerned about "consumer confusion", that can be addressed by adding a big warning message to the listings for those items.
Re: Re: Re: Re: (actually not - or not necessarily - in the US
"Under the current US copyright law, the transfer of copyright can only occur if there is "a writing" that effects it"
But in this case, I'm betting there was no copyright transfer necessary. If Netflix produced the video, Netflix is the original copyright holder.
I'll also bet that somewhere in the contracts signed there was a declaration that everyone involved was doing work-for-hire, just to make it expressly clear that the copyright belongs to Netflix.
When did using an email program become something that only "tech-savvy" people can figure out? The bar for what counts as tech-savvy has become frighteningly low.
The problem is that the images are being put into a database, which when combined with the other databases increases the ease and comprehensiveness of corporate and governmental surveillance.
Yes. In exactly the same way, and for exactly the same reason, that targeted ads are creepy.
I had an experience on a website lately where I did a bunch of searches using the site's search box. The site eventually popped up a notice saying that it has determined my special interest from my searches and will tailor the site to the tastes that it now assumes I have.
That's not only ultracreepy, but the opposite of useful. Because I searched for different kinds of hats a bunch of times in one setting doesn't mean that hats are a special interest of mine overall.
That's because most people worked around it. I remember those days, and those were the days when universal OEM activation were a thing -- so people just used those instead of having to keep track of a different code for each installation.
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Land of the free?
Sure, right. After 9/11, we apparently believed the lie that they "hate us for our freedoms" and in response decided to give up those freedoms so they'll stop hating us.
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Re: The value of websites
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Re: ISPs get it wrong the other way to
I had this happen to me once. I wanted DSL, but the phone company said that I was too far from the post. I then learned that my neighbor had DSL despite being one lot further from the post as me.
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Re: Re: Re:
So in other words, you lied. Lying is communicating with the intention to deceive. It is possible (and common in sales & marketing) to lie like a rug without uttering a single factually incorrect statement.
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Re: Unlisted Service...
Various ISPs have offered this sort of service for decades. It's harder to find now that most ISPs have vanished, but you can still find some that do this.
There's no problem with an ISP offering a value-add service like this, as long as customers have to opt in to it. The problem is when ISPs do it without the customer's knowledge or approval.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
My point is that someone who is a bit above that -- not an expert, but can do basic things like use an email program -- are being called "tech-savvy" now. It wasn't that long ago that someone who was "tech-savvy" was a power user at a minimum. Someone is not a power user simply because they know how to use an email client.
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Re: Was it always so slimy?
Not a new thing at all. 60 Minutes has always been sleazy.
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Re: Not as bogus as you think
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Re: And so I, the end user, am to assume...
Excellent point. I interpreted the absurd Bing lock-in that Windows 10 engages in as a frank admission that Bing is failing.
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Re: Cash is king
That database already exists, since ATMs take your picture regardless of the card tech (or if you're even using the ATM).
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Re: Re: Re: Re: (actually not - or not necessarily - in the US
But in this case, I'm betting there was no copyright transfer necessary. If Netflix produced the video, Netflix is the original copyright holder.
I'll also bet that somewhere in the contracts signed there was a declaration that everyone involved was doing work-for-hire, just to make it expressly clear that the copyright belongs to Netflix.
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Re: Well there's your problem...
You cannot believe a single word uttered by cable companies on any topic.
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It's far more likely that the deal was that Netflix owns the copyright to the video, which makes it a copyright issue, not a contract issue.
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Re: Re: Re:
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Re: ... and what exactly is a problem?
The problem is that the images are being put into a database, which when combined with the other databases increases the ease and comprehensiveness of corporate and governmental surveillance.
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I had an experience on a website lately where I did a bunch of searches using the site's search box. The site eventually popped up a notice saying that it has determined my special interest from my searches and will tailor the site to the tastes that it now assumes I have.
That's not only ultracreepy, but the opposite of useful. Because I searched for different kinds of hats a bunch of times in one setting doesn't mean that hats are a special interest of mine overall.
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Re: Re: Re: Delightful OS experience?
I dropped a word. Should be "universal OEM activation codes were a thing"
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Re: Re: Delightful OS experience?
That's because most people worked around it. I remember those days, and those were the days when universal OEM activation were a thing -- so people just used those instead of having to keep track of a different code for each installation.
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Re: Re: The real problem is you want to blame someone else
No you don't. You lose some of it because you're now being monitored by law. In exchange, you get nothing.
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