I was planning to check the EULA for photoshop to see if this sort of thing was covered. However, in order to read the EULA for photoshop, I have to install Acrobat Reader. If I want to read the EULA for Acrobat Reader, I need to install Acrobat Reader in order to do so, since it's available only in PDF format... Fun, eh? You can't read the other EULAs without either installing some other company's PDF reader, or else agreeing to at least one of the Adobe EULAs. This is one indication of how Adobe thinks about customers.
From the Adobe product EULAs page: You can access the product license in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) by clicking the version number for the appropriate product(s) below. For your convenience, when available, we have provided you with a selection of languages in which to review the product license. You will need to download Adobe Reader® software, if it is not already installed on your computer, to view and print the license agreements.
I attempted to read the Photoshop EULA, and picked out some interesting third-party bits, but when I tried to paste them in here, I found that it was secured against copying. Yes, the EULA is considered proprietary enough to DRM. Oh, and things like Eulalyzer don't seem to work on it either.
First rule of EULA seems to be: You don't talk about EULA.
Actually, signing a treaty with someone, and then breaking part of or withdrawing from one when it's to your own benefit, is fairly common among nation-states. There are many examples in history of similar things. There are drawbacks to creative reading of treaties, some of which have involved fatal anger management therapy. I'm not saying that it's a good thing, just that it happens.
Recently, the Lakota Indians did just that. Whether this will be successful in creating a nation recognized by the US is still an open question.
OK, er... stupidity doesn't necessarily correlate with being a microsoft shill. Anyhow, the school claims it was a hoax, and I think that there's a good possibility that the school is correct. Bad grammar in the incident description, not including "Incident type", odd formatting for "Consequence: Detention Consequence". It just seems a bit off.
At one point, the default recording setting for Windows Media Player, and possibly a few others, was to record to WMA, with Rights/Restriction Management turned on. Worst default setting ever.
The last time I checked, the NRE (non recoverable expense) for one very custom ASIC for a laser printer was around $50-100k, not the billion you mention. It was fairly straightforward to include a reasonably good RISC processor, along with significant amounts of real-time critical logic, in the custom chip. The university of Texas, at least, has significant access to chip level design.
This was 12 years ago, for I think 30000 gate equivalents. I'm sure consumer product prototype costs haven't gone up that much since then.
JTAG, when you absolutely must find those undocumented chip-level debugging routines. Well, OK, I did write some documentation for the firmware programmers.
No, he's an actual lawyer, not some kid blogging. Anonymous cowards these days... (posting to remove accidental "underrated" moderation of above comment)
You type your screen names and passwords in to Google in order to check them? That's not security that I'd recommend to anyone. You may have also told a whole bunch of people that your password isn't in English, but is probably a word in some other language.
Are you sure that active "defense" is the correct word to use?
I specifically asked (before I bought the car) if installing a new radio would void the warranty. Note: Car salesmen are very good at misdirection, and hardly ever give the full answer.
There's one privacy policy I've seen that's even odder than that. "If you ever get spam becuase of entering your email address here, you may call my personal cell phone..." A tale in the desert
With stocks that low though, if you buy 10000 shares at 0.35, it may double in price while you're buying, because you're buying it. Then when you go to sell it at 0.7, during the sale the price falls because you just sold 10000 shares. Investing in penny stocks is a great way to lose money.
One possible reason could be to reduce your legitimacy as a witness. He didn't get that crack from me, he was already taking it when I got there... He's been smoking crack.
Ah, the wonders of "Intellitxt". I've seen it on a few forums that I read. Puts 2 green underlines underneath random keywords on the forum, and the ads that bubble up are almost (but not quite) related to what you're reading. The content provider doesn't have total control over which words are underlined, and it changes on the next visit.
Blocked them at the router, because of too many accidental rollovers popping up junk balloons with more words than the short forum posts that I was reading. If you have an ad-blocker, put ".intellitxt.com" into it, and many of the keyword ads won't show any more.
Incredibly hard, yes. Unbreakable, no. I suspect if you actually shot that tile with a bullet, the tile would fracture. According to what I've read about the tiles, they're very good at protecting from heat, very hard, and very light. Materials with those characteristics (in the 1970-80s) are also very brittle.
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I was planning to check the EULA for photoshop to see if this sort of thing was covered. However, in order to read the EULA for photoshop, I have to install Acrobat Reader. If I want to read the EULA for Acrobat Reader, I need to install Acrobat Reader in order to do so, since it's available only in PDF format... Fun, eh? You can't read the other EULAs without either installing some other company's PDF reader, or else agreeing to at least one of the Adobe EULAs. This is one indication of how Adobe thinks about customers.
From the Adobe product EULAs page:
You can access the product license in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) by clicking the version number for the appropriate product(s) below. For your convenience, when available, we have provided you with a selection of languages in which to review the product license. You will need to download Adobe Reader® software, if it is not already installed on your computer, to view and print the license agreements.
I attempted to read the Photoshop EULA, and picked out some interesting third-party bits, but when I tried to paste them in here, I found that it was secured against copying. Yes, the EULA is considered proprietary enough to DRM. Oh, and things like Eulalyzer don't seem to work on it either.
First rule of EULA seems to be: You don't talk about EULA.
You obviously have an in with John Knoll, so please send another sample .sgi file to him for testing. Should be in CS3 soon enough.
Actually, signing a treaty with someone, and then breaking part of or withdrawing from one when it's to your own benefit, is fairly common among nation-states. There are many examples in history of similar things. There are drawbacks to creative reading of treaties, some of which have involved fatal anger management therapy. I'm not saying that it's a good thing, just that it happens.
Recently, the Lakota Indians did just that. Whether this will be successful in creating a nation recognized by the US is still an open question.
Wait, the OP saying it's a hoax, and asking that people not call? Am I still on Slashdot?
OK, er... stupidity doesn't necessarily correlate with being a microsoft shill. Anyhow, the school claims it was a hoax, and I think that there's a good possibility that the school is correct. Bad grammar in the incident description, not including "Incident type", odd formatting for "Consequence: Detention Consequence". It just seems a bit off.
At one point, the default recording setting for Windows Media Player, and possibly a few others, was to record to WMA, with Rights/Restriction Management turned on. Worst default setting ever.
The last time I checked, the NRE (non recoverable expense) for one very custom ASIC for a laser printer was around $50-100k, not the billion you mention. It was fairly straightforward to include a reasonably good RISC processor, along with significant amounts of real-time critical logic, in the custom chip. The university of Texas, at least, has significant access to chip level design.
This was 12 years ago, for I think 30000 gate equivalents. I'm sure consumer product prototype costs haven't gone up that much since then.
Waves hands.
"These are not the algorithms you are looking for".
JTAG, when you absolutely must find those undocumented chip-level debugging routines. Well, OK, I did write some documentation for the firmware programmers.
Definitely not bricked.
We're talking windows XP, it won't be that long.
They could just find some license posted in some other forum, copy it, and use that license instead of spending $10,000 on lawyers.
Oh, wait... Oops.
No, he's an actual lawyer, not some kid blogging. Anonymous cowards these days...
(posting to remove accidental "underrated" moderation of above comment)
You type your screen names and passwords in to Google in order to check them? That's not security that I'd recommend to anyone. You may have also told a whole bunch of people that your password isn't in English, but is probably a word in some other language.
Are you sure that active "defense" is the correct word to use?
Shoot the officer who suggested it.
In other words, the MMORPG (Mini-Mag Orion Rocket Propulsion Generator) was released today. Wow!
You mean legislators passed it, and the governor signed it into law. Most of the registered voters were not directly involved.
I specifically asked (before I bought the car) if installing a new radio would void the warranty.
Note: Car salesmen are very good at misdirection, and hardly ever give the full answer.
Shorter version: Car salesmen lie! Film at 11!
There's one privacy policy I've seen that's even odder than that. "If you ever get spam becuase of entering your email address here, you may call my personal cell phone ..." A tale in the desert
With stocks that low though, if you buy 10000 shares at 0.35, it may double in price while you're buying, because you're buying it. Then when you go to sell it at 0.7, during the sale the price falls because you just sold 10000 shares. Investing in penny stocks is a great way to lose money.
One possible reason could be to reduce your legitimacy as a witness. He didn't get that crack from me, he was already taking it when I got there... He's been smoking crack.
I didn't say it was a logical reason.
Failure to listen to Reason may result in hazards to your health. In particular, possible cuts. Or were you not talking about the sword?
I'd tell you about it, but then I'd have to ... sorry, this is off the record now ... kill you.
Ah, the wonders of "Intellitxt". I've seen it on a few forums that I read. Puts 2 green underlines underneath random keywords on the forum, and the ads that bubble up are almost (but not quite) related to what you're reading. The content provider doesn't have total control over which words are underlined, and it changes on the next visit.
Blocked them at the router, because of too many accidental rollovers popping up junk balloons with more words than the short forum posts that I was reading. If you have an ad-blocker, put ".intellitxt.com" into it, and many of the keyword ads won't show any more.
Actually, it's worse than that. So far, as a "winner" in the Netflix class action, I have received: Nothing.
The judgment is still being appealed, or something.
Incredibly hard, yes. Unbreakable, no. I suspect if you actually shot that tile with a bullet, the tile would fracture. According to what I've read about the tiles, they're very good at protecting from heat, very hard, and very light. Materials with those characteristics (in the 1970-80s) are also very brittle.
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For more information, including how to figure out which tile you have:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/nasafact/tps.h