Don't know if you guys remember this, but awhile back Amazon remotely wiped copies of the book 1984 off of Kindles because they didn't end up having rights to sell it. There was a public backlash... where do you draw the line between what a customer owns and what a seller can legally do? These people bought the book, they owned the book, in many cases they were reading it or taking notes, and Amazon just unilaterally wiped the books (and notes) out. It's horribly ironic that the book they were remote-wiping was 1984.
Now they're apparently wiping out books that include incest. I didn't know Steve Jobs owned a chunk of Amazon.
At this point, I'm never buying a Kindle... remote-wiping a device (or anything off of a device) that's owned by a consumer is unacceptable for any reason. doing it because it goes against your corporate morality? Seriously? Do corporations have morality? Or are they just projecting the morality of their cock-gobbling, mother-humping CEOs onto their clients?At any rate, I guess I'll be heading in the direction of a Nook when I finally decide to go for an e-reader.
There were a lot of hideously overpaid 'risk managers' and 'financial analysts' that didn't see the crash coming and even made it a lot worse, so yeah... As an example: researchers have let people randomly throw darts at a Wall Street stock chart vs. millions-a-year salary high powered stockbrokers handpicking them, and it turns out that they barely are more accurate (and taking into account other factors, even probably weren't). Always question the advice of any expert on anything that is not hard science, for most of them have no clue what they're saying.