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| Thread ID: 62275 | 2005-10-02 11:01:00 | Microsoft patent to cover penalising users who skip TV Ads | bob_doe_nz (92) | PC World Chat |
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| 392883 | 2005-10-02 11:01:00 | www.cdfreaks.com Just when one thought it was bad enough to try and introduce a bill to criminalise the skipping of commercials, apparently Microsoft has filed a patent where a user's subscription or rental fee on viewing content can be based on the user's viewing habits. Geez, thats why people make personalised DVD's :illogical :mad: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 392884 | 2005-10-02 11:19:00 | Blimmin heck. Sneaky sods :annoyed: That's it, I've had enough of this BS, I'm starting up a fund to to pay a rambunctious mob to tar & feather Bill and run a rail up his bott..... hold on, have I got that last bit wrong? Oh who cares, that'll do me :thumbs: |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 392885 | 2005-10-02 11:30:00 | I think every single person working at the USPO should be shot for their stupidity, and while we're at it the whole of the US Congress. Did you read the 'US Congress bill to criminalise commercial fast-forwarding' article? It's so ridiculous you'd have to think it was a April Fools joke, but the thing is we're not in April so what the hell is going on? I suppose us NZ'ers are just as bad if the majority of us voted in a Labour-Green-Maori Government, the worst possible combination conceivable. We'll have gay transgender weed smoking maoris running around collecting tolls for using their beaches. |
vapo (5203) | ||
| 392886 | 2005-10-02 12:32:00 | I think every single person working at the USPO should be shot for their stupidity, and while we're at it the whole of the US Congress. Did you read the 'US Congress bill to criminalise commercial fast-forwarding' article? It's so ridiculous you'd have to think it was a April Fools joke, but the thing is we're not in April so what the hell is going on?. You know, we could probably patent that idea at the USPO. It pees me off that companies apply for these rediculous patents, but the USPO and their masters are the ones that have allowed it to come to this. On the other hand, it's lobbying from the likes of IBM and MS that has allowed it or resisted calls for change to the patent laws (which were never conceived to cover ideas, just things) |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 392887 | 2005-10-03 05:44:00 | At last, MS shows some sense, moral fortitude and concern for the health of the general population, by trying to turn people off from spending countless hours watching the idiot box and getting fat and lazy. I hope MS finds a way to kill off the enthusiasm for annoying ringtones, doof-doof music and retro-mullet haircuts. They already have turned many people off from computers by making insecure, expensive and excessive OSs. Blah blah blah. |
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