Unreal111
join:2004-01-21
Minneapolis, MN | NEWS
Keep it up China.
I think the sales never went down because of illegal downloading. |
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November70
join:2003-07-29
Philippines | China is innocent...
The pirates are from further south-southeast. Check the region's history, from the 16th century onwards, they have always been pirates  |
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tdkyo
join:2002-12-07
Rochester, NY
| GMail
Cal State Senator Moves to Block Google's GMail:
California state Senator Liz Figueroa says she is drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. This comes in addition to European groups recently lodging a complaint with UK authorities, charging that Gmail may violate Europe's privacy laws because it stores messages where users cannot permanently delete them.
Someone have nothing else to do but to kill a service that comes with legit advertisements. What do they want? Free everything??? |
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fahrenheit412
| --Someone have nothing else to do but to kill a service that comes with legit advertisements. What do they want? Free everything??--
The real scare is that there is such a large population ready to accept becoming mindless automatons with no sense of privacy. Orwellian indoctrination is about complete and irrevocable.
Next phase is to churn out genetically engineered zombies that will automatically obey the corporate-state thru satellite signals. The person quoted above is probably there, while not having a clue as to what's being said here. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| reply to Unreal111
Re: NEWS
said by Unreal111  :
Keep it up China.
I think the sales never went down because of illegal downloading.
Don't worry the RIAA will say it's because of their work, and they won't stop till every one buys their music. Hey RIAA see what happened.
I-tunes and the like sales are actually up, Imagine that we got a choice and we used it wow. Now let's keep lowering cd prices a bit and then there will be even better sales.
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halfband
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Huntsville, AL | reply to tdkyo
Re: GMail
You don't have to ban GMail, if you don't like the privacy policy, then don't use it. Who are they trying to protect us from, ourselves?
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| reply to tdkyo
said by tdkyo :
Someone have nothing else to do but to kill a service that comes with legit advertisements. What do they want? Free everything???
I know! Ever since the New Deal more and more Americans are more than happy to look towards the government to solve their perceived "problems." This state senator's actions are just an extension of that.
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Keep America Strong! Bush/Cheney 2004 |
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woody7
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA
 ·EarthLink
·DSL EXTREME
|  reply to fahrenheit412
Pander to everyones fear, then offer a way to fix it....gotta love politicians...My idea is just don't sign up if it is going to bother you....same for music and tv...if the content bothers you don't watch/listen or turn off...this is all deflection...they don't have a clue how to fix the pressing problems, so they "fix" the ones they think they can...IMO
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threeten
join:2002-12-19
Denver, CO | reply to fahrenheit412
Your comments are ironic. You are suggesting that users are not intelligent enough to make their own decisions about Gmail, so they should turn regulation of it over to the government?
Who is the "mindless automaton?" |
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gruggni
Oxygen Gets You High
join:2003-07-28
Corpus Christi, TX
| WIFI hacks?
"Digital intruders are piercing defenseless air space at corporations, public Wi-Fi hot spots and homes to gain illegal entry to computers. About 90% of mobile devices lack protection, says market researcher Gartner."
There is no piercing if the wifi is open. I love the use of words. Defenseless means anyone can go in. Hacking know-how? Please, it you know how DHCP works, it doesn't require hacking know how. DHCP is wifi's worse enemy. If wifi is open, you should be using a firewall to began with. Trusted network computing is not your friend. What open wifi is to criminals, is the same as fishermen fishing in a large clear water glass aquariam.
It's easy pickings for criminals, they can see their prey sitting a few feet away. Instead of sitting at home. Open wifi coffee shops are hunting grounds for sharks. A pack of sheep with no guards.
You need a shepard with dogs to keep the wolves away.
Some people are always the sheep.
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"I'm sick of following my dreams man; I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with them later."- Mitch Hedberg |
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Queasy
join:2004-01-20
Lawrenceville, GA
| reply to tdkyo
Re: GMail
Why am I not the least bit surprised that this came from California, the biggest anti-business state in the U.S.?
On a side note, I hope Gmail is not like Google's search engine with the targeted advertising. I did a search for 'swings' to find a swing for my son's swingset and the targeted advertising I was given was of the "Meet Adult Swingers In Your Area!" and "Swingers XXX" kind. Yech. |
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furlonium
Computer Over? Virus equals Very Yes?
join:2002-05-08
Bethlehem, PA
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Nothin Dirty Here |
said by Queasy :
Why am I not the least bit surprised that this came from California, the biggest anti-business state in the U.S.?
On a side note, I hope Gmail is not like Google's search engine with the targeted advertising. I did a search for 'swings' to find a swing for my son's swingset and the targeted advertising I was given was of the "Meet Adult Swingers In Your Area!" and "Swingers XXX" kind. Yech.
Not sure what you exactly did a search for, but I typed in "swings" into Google and this is what returned for their targeted ads. |
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Queasy
join:2004-01-20
Lawrenceville, GA
| said by furlonium :
Not sure what you exactly did a search for, but I typed in "swings" into Google and this is what returned for their targeted ads.
Hmmm. Maybe it was just 'swing'. I'm at work right now so I'm not about to try it again until I get home. |
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Estragon
join:2003-06-20
Greenville, NH
·Fairpoint Communic..
·MV Communications,..
|  Hey, Verizon! What about the rest of us?
It's really nice that Verizon will give us "the Internet at broadband speeds from almost any location in every major U.S. metropolitan area".
But if I lived in a major U.S. metropolitan area, I'd just get DSL or cable or WISP for my broadband. And for less than $80 a month, too.
How about deploying this in the rest of America where we have no alternatives? |
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TheGreatWill
join:2004-03-17
Toronto, ON
| reply to tdkyo
Re: GMail
A little too obvious to anyone with half a brain, which is at minimal, everyone who uses this site, GMail's security problem are the problem of any email service. Now of course, any politician would also look out for the needs of the people, and by banning Gmail, no one has to fear privacy concerns of a service that isn't even available.
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The dictionary says... Idiot: Anyone with differing opinions than your own |
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