- CTIA conference highlights new phone.
- Apple iBookstore to have explicit content.
- Google to wait until end of year to pick experimental fiber cities.
- Credit card hacker gets 20 years.
- Nokia buys browser company.
- Google to share cash from phones in some way.
- Free Wi-Fi in New York City? I tell you how.
- Bing slams Google.
- New Jailbreak idea emerges. Hack for iPad too?
- WSJ will be 17.99.
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Why explicit content?
“Yo, Apple, you turd. You just stepped on my First Amendment rights to publish! You God Damn puritanical whore! Oh, you’re allowing me to publish what I want? Never mind. Sorry about that ‘up yours” sheriff.”
$17.99 a month? Is that what they are asking? $4 a month might be about right.
Are music CD’s still $15? $12? I haven’t been keeping track. $4 for a CD sounds just about right—maybe.
The folks that sell these things ascribe a price inelasticity to them that they simply do not possess. The demand for the “item” has sunk but the asking price for it does not follow suit. Marketing FAIL.
Guess who’s all buddy-buddy again.
Funny you should mention WiFi like that. We are going to Las Vegas the land of gambling, money, and fancy hotels. Fancy hotels that charge you $15 a day for WiFi !! Cripes, I can get it for free at MacDonald’s!! What a rip off.
“Credit card hacker gets 20 years”. I think PC virus and botnet authors ought to get similar. Make the penalty severe enough, and it’ll stop a lot of them. Instead, we hardly ever hear what’s become of those they do catch. Are they now working for the FBI/CIA/NSA?
Seems like the only hacker who ever much time, publicly, was Kevin Mitnick. Who was probably punished more for the embarrassment he caused, than for doing any real damage. What’s going on now, is far worse. And apparently even foreign governments are getting into the act of cyber attacks. So where are the 20 years to life penalities, for the billions of dollars, this crime is costing? I’ve heard more about music copyright infringers being punished, than botnet creators. I think the safety of our medical records, is far more important, than the loss profits of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”.
We may never figure out how to completely protect everyone’s PC and network, from the bad guys. But raising the penalties for it, is something that can be done. Is it going to require another powwow in Stockholm Sweden, to come up with some legal standards of prosecution and punishment? Like they did for music and movies?