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tim_hutton
on Nov 20, 2013
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Can anyone tell me what these services do?
There's a great talk about the coming "War on General Purpose Computing":
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
toyg
on Nov 20, 2013
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Coming? It's already here. And your iPads are part of the problem.
rbanffy
on Nov 20, 2013
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Proprietary software is the technology that enables it.
toyg
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Media-consumption devices are the problem. If the primary aim of your device is to
consume
media (and that's what tablets are for), then DRM playback is socially unavoidable at this point. DRM begets DRM, and lo...
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