Who's been more of a monopoly: Google or Microsoft?

[hanselthecaretaker]

Consider each at the height of their dominance and also this is a good read before answering.


I remember a certain internal lingo Microsoft used to have for their competition: "Embrace, extend, extinguish".

Seems like a bit of pot calling kettle going on here.

 

[miplank]

who cares, microsoft has always sucked.


google is pissing me off lately too. Fuck your +1's and your circles

 

[-SD-]

Fuck yo technology

 

[miplank]

fuck, remember dialup?



ho lee fuk how slow that shit was

 

[mrplunkey]

A third party needs to spring-up that will address privacy -- that's where both companies blew it.

I can deal with a few product problems, because they'll improve over time. I'm dating myself, but I remember the first version of Windows and it was God-aweful. Windows 3.0 was the first real version of Windows and that sucked horribly.

Our government had a wonderful tool for stopping crime -- the Internet and ISPs in particular. But instead of using this new tool in a constitutional way, they decided to confiscate everyone's records and let God sort it out. So now, we'll need capitalism to save us. I use a VPN now for my Internet (this post should show as originating from somewhere else). Ultimately I'd like to find a technology that would change my IP on every single Internet access.

So my vote? Potato.

 

[miplank]

They have that technology and i've used it on some alters...LOL!

 

[mrplunkey]

They have that technology and i've used it on some alters...LOL!

Really? PureVPN lets me change my IP at will, but it won't automatically rotate it for me. I also use TOR on some other computers in the house, but it's slow.

Which ones will automatically change it?

 

[-SD-]

I love dial up. Life was simpler then

 

[miplank]

Really? PureVPN lets me change my IP at will, but it won't automatically rotate it for me. I also use TOR on some other computers in the house, but it's slow.

Which ones will automatically change it?

yeah, I forget which software it is...I think i still have it installed on my iMac. I never use that computer anymore.



I'll see if I can dig it up..

 

[mrplunkey]

yeah, I forget which software it is...I think i still have it installed on my iMac. I never use that computer anymore.



I'll see if I can dig it up..

It would be much appreciated. I can disconnect from my current VPN and pick another world location, but I'd rather it just do it for me every minute or so.

I'm one of those mean-spirited conservative law-and-order types, but when the government over-reaches its bounds I'm all for the private sector responding appropriately. I wish a few million law-abiding people all over the world would randomly send emails with words like "bomb", "drugs", "infiltrate", "explosion", etc. etc. a few hundred time per day -- then we'll let the NSA sort all that shit out.