Google not allowed to work with company accused of spying. The irony is strong in this one.
Posts by Rocket888
12 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2011
Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away
Google stabs Wikipedia in the front
Monday 13th January 2014 17:14 GMT
Microsoft don't package Office with Windows - you have to buy it separately.
e.On have at least one substantial competitor: EDF. And switching between the two is relatively painless.
Rolls Royce compete with other manufacturers of engines. Can't name them off the top of my head but Boeing generally put American engines in American airline's orders for example.
None of your examples are even close to the dominance of the Sheeple's preferred search engine.
Monday 13th January 2014 12:12 GMT
'Is this some new form of capitalism which is being proposed?'
No. Jus like in any other industry where you have a dominant player, they need to not use their dominant position in one area to unfairly compete in another. Just like the british rail network isn't owned by the operators, Microsoft had to unbundle IE, BT had to split its network etc.
If they want to run Maps or Knowledge Graph or any other service it has to be on arms length terms that doesn't distort the market place.
MEGA ASTEROID could 'BLOW UP EARTH' - Russian space boss
Friday 18th October 2013 12:52 GMT
Re: During the meanwhile ...
"Lotteries are a tax on people who can't do math(s)."
People who think that are people who aren't smart enough to understand that the utility value of cash isn't linear.
Small and huge amounts of cash (relative to income) are useless - the stuff in the middle is the life-changing bit.
For example, someone on a reasonable salary can lose £1 a week without it having any effect on their life but winning multiple millions on the lottery is live-changing (whether for better or worse!)
The only people who shouldn't play the lottery are very poor people who can't afford it and people who's life wouldn't be changed by winning (either because they are already as rich as Croesus or because they aren't motivated by money)
Storage glitch sends Curiosity into safe mode
Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads
Saturday 2nd March 2013 09:05 GMT
No it wasn't. There's a world of difference between prohibition and minimum pricing/advertisement restrictions.
50p a unit is hardly going to lead to an epidemic of stills being set up. All it'll do is reduce the amount of overly cheap booze - £1 a pint, £5 a bottle of wine, £15 a bottle of vodka, 0.75p a bottle of alcopops.
It is a bit of an over-reaction to compare that to prohibition!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
