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Re:The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of inf...
on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:53PM (#11256283)
That's because the library is funded by taxpayers – it doesn't need the money.
How would you feel about a government-sponsored search engine? I think China has one of those.
Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:17PM (#9078523)
> You pay for cable TV but they sell you to advertisers.
That's not quite right. You pay your cable provider for television service. The cable provider pays networks for their content (the networks are the "suppliers" in this case). Some of those networks also collect payment from advertisers, but that advertising revenue probably wouldn't go to the cable company.
Re:EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection
on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:28PM (#9076333)
What about the DNA tied him to the crime as opposed to the just the crime scene? The article doesn't really go into that.
If they're just comparing the DNA that was left behind at the police station to DNA they found at a crime scene, I don't see any issue.
Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:58AM (#9074696)
I dunno, Instagram did pretty well for itself, despite being an (iPhone exclusive!) app at first. For a while, they didn't even have a web interface for viewing images, much less posting them.