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BTW, I feel exactly the opposite about companies like Google and Amazon. They make mistakes, but their hearts are in the right place.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/02025423448/company-claims-patent-pop-up-ads-sues-porn-travel-companies.shtml#c342 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:27:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/02025423448/company-claims-patent-pop-up-ads-sues-porn-travel-companies.shtml#c342 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c177 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:26:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c177 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/02025423448/company-claims-patent-pop-up-ads-sues-porn-travel-companies.shtml#c317 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:24:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/02025423448/company-claims-patent-pop-up-ads-sues-porn-travel-companies.shtml#c317 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c165 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:18:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c165
You got a real stick up your butt for Google.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c860 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:15:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c860
But will it and the 360 work that way tomorrow?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c151 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:14:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c151 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/18243923466/hollywoods-new-talking-point-gatekeepers-are-awesome.shtml#c664 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:14:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/18243923466/hollywoods-new-talking-point-gatekeepers-are-awesome.shtml#c664 I'll just jam it in...

Please do. Sideways.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110601/01524814501/dailydirt-air-hockey-robots.shtml#c35 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:11:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110601/01524814501/dailydirt-air-hockey-robots.shtml#c35 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c138 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:10:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c138 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c125 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:08:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130619/01031623524/more-details-emerge-as-states-attorneys-general-seek-to-hold-back-innovation-internet.shtml#c125 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c851 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:07:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c851 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c840 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c840 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c829 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c829 All i want is to have a system where i can play my games and not worry about drm or any other problem. Sony and Microsoft have lost my support but at the moment if i was forced to choose i would choose a ps4, but it is very close now , the reason is that Sony has been a bitch, as i said, to customers just like Microsoft.

If Samsung and Apple get there fingers out of their butts i might just end up buying one of their systems.

Actually the steam system is looking rather good right now, but we will see what drm they want to use first.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/17584023513/new-orleans-cops-set-up-private-company-to-fill-pockets-with-red-light-camera-cash.shtml#c248 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/17584023513/new-orleans-cops-set-up-private-company-to-fill-pockets-with-red-light-camera-cash.shtml#c248
Maybe there is also less tampering in the Netherlands because the country goverment receives the ticket income, but local government decides on the location of the camera. A nice division of power, which should be standard in governmental affairs.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c819 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:56:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c819
That's not what they said. They said a one-time "system set-up". Meaning you have to setup the system, not the game.

Microsoft removed the entire disk activation system, this is the only way reselling and lending can possibly work. It's only confirmed by SirThoreth posting the Ars Technica article saying that the good sides of their DRM system (the family sharing and no disk requirement) have been removed. So this will play just like the Xbox 360.

I'm still not buying it until several months after release. I don't trust them. It's going to take more then words to convince me.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c804 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:56:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130619/13581923535/microsoft-capitulates-removes-online-drm-xbox-one.shtml#c804
10 years from now? If everyone DOESN'T have an internet connect I'd be shocked.

Microsoft should have simply left the Xbox One the way it was, but ADDED the ability to play offline, with the disc in the drive.

Maybe do it so if you want to share your library, you have the 24 hour check, if you don't want to share it, you don't have to connect.

The requirement for the "one time setup" thing is to download the patch that allows offline play you morons, use your heads for something other than a hat rack!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130615/23150923498/funniestmost-insightful-comments-week-techdirt.shtml#c1571 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130615/23150923498/funniestmost-insightful-comments-week-techdirt.shtml#c1571
I protest this trickery it is treasonous betrayal of our rights to privacy. The Senate and Congress deliberately lied to us for profit. CISPA isn't what they said it would be...you all profited from this deceit. The Senate and the Congress needs to get busy and repair this huge leak of our right to privacy. This blatant betrayal of our public trust.



http://lastresistance.com/2383/computer-and-defense-industries-bribe-government-to-eliminate-our-privacy-protections/



byJohn DeMayo 6/19/2013



Computer And Defense Industries Bribe Government To Eliminate Our Privacy Protections

The governments financial payoffs afforded to, and the campaign finance contributions offered by private companies like, Google, Verizon, Yahoo,

Facebook, Microsoft and, Apple aiding FISA court authorized surveillance can no longer be easily brushed off. Moreover, the bribing and endemic influencing peddling our elected officials encourage while they bend, twist and urinate on the US Constitution proves we have lost control of our]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c1517 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c1517 Someone comes up with an idiotic talking point, and they all repeat it.

Of course, in Average Joe's case, that "someone" would be a See 'N Say.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/18243923466/hollywoods-new-talking-point-gatekeepers-are-awesome.shtml#c634 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:51:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/18243923466/hollywoods-new-talking-point-gatekeepers-are-awesome.shtml#c634