But I meant to add bricking you iphone would be an accident would it not? I mean you wouldn't intentionally brick an expensive piece of hardware would you?
So in this instance claiming for it would be perfectly legal as you (or should I say Apple) accidently bricked the phone with a firmware update.
not really, accidents happen..
Can you prove that my phone wasn't dropped behind the car by accident? or that it didnt fall out the window while i was showing a picture to a friend?
And if for e.g. I was to do such a thing there is no reason that it should be assumed you too are lying due to the coincidence that both accidents happned in similar ways.
If you can PROVE that I am lying fine, but since insurance fraud is a criminal offence you need to prove that beyond a resonable doubt and as its 1 persons word against theirs as long as I dont boast "oh oh I did such and such", I think it'll be hard to prove.
I would also point out that I am not telling anyone to do anything, each of us here are more than capable of thinking independently, you wouldn't stick your head in the fire if i told you to. I was mearly pointing out that accidents do happen, thats why we insure expensive items.
Just make sure the phone is convered for accidental damage under your house insurance and then "accidently" run over it in a car, then "accidently" trip and the phone should "accidently" fly out a top floor window. All that remains is a quick call to your insurance company to place the claim.
I use vmware servers for software that is node locked.. Node locked software is usually done by a machines MAC address, I find that using VMs reduces downtime in the event of either host or client failing. In the case of the host if we can recover the VM we just copy it to another host and run it. In the case of the client dying the great thing is I just create a new VM and change its mac address to match the dead one then reinstall my licence files, saving me from having to reregister all of the licences to the "new" machine..
Hardware consoladation also plays a large part of my use of VMs, but the main reason is recoverability so much so that all my DCs are on VMs so if their host dies (hardware other than HDD) then i can either pull the disks and put them in another machine, or if my replication has succeeded more recently then I just start my backup copy of the DC and let it update from the domain. Total downtime is about 15min tops.
well we all know those russians were using bootlegged copies of windows vista..:P
Those 2 machines probably didn't have the activation crack installed correctly and failed the Genuine windows validation test.
If you ask them nicely they will tell you what you can and can't do with your code, at the end of they day that's (imo) why they exist (to educate people as well as defending OSS).
Surely these "infringments" can be requested under the UK's Freedom of information act 2000, as it is in the public interest to know which patents that are infringed upon, and as MS have an office in england surely that makes them subject to UK law.
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But I meant to add bricking you iphone would be an accident would it not? I mean you wouldn't intentionally brick an expensive piece of hardware would you?
So in this instance claiming for it would be perfectly legal as you (or should I say Apple) accidently bricked the phone with a firmware update.
just my 2 pence.
not really, accidents happen..
Can you prove that my phone wasn't dropped behind the car by accident? or that it didnt fall out the window while i was showing a picture to a friend?
And if for e.g. I was to do such a thing there is no reason that it should be assumed you too are lying due to the coincidence that both accidents happned in similar ways.
If you can PROVE that I am lying fine, but since insurance fraud is a criminal offence you need to prove that beyond a resonable doubt and as its 1 persons word against theirs as long as I dont boast "oh oh I did such and such", I think it'll be hard to prove.
I would also point out that I am not telling anyone to do anything, each of us here are more than capable of thinking independently, you wouldn't stick your head in the fire if i told you to. I was mearly pointing out that accidents do happen, thats why we insure expensive items.
Does it matter??
Just make sure the phone is convered for accidental damage under your house insurance and then "accidently" run over it in a car, then "accidently" trip and the phone should "accidently" fly out a top floor window. All that remains is a quick call to your insurance company to place the claim.
The title "PC users still prefer Windows to Vista" from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/09/24/cnpc124.xml
The title really doesn't make any sense..
I was completly unaware that windows was not vista, and someone needs to let MS know, as their packaging is wrong too (it still says Windows Vista)..
I have to agree, as far as I am aware DDoS is a criminal offence..
My God.. STOP PRESS.. There are companies out there competing for market share..
If SCO couldn't see this is it any wonder that they are filing for bankruptcy???
Really indeed imagine that competors trying to put each other out of business. What is the world coming to??
I use vmware servers for software that is node locked.. Node locked software is usually done by a machines MAC address, I find that using VMs reduces downtime in the event of either host or client failing. In the case of the host if we can recover the VM we just copy it to another host and run it. In the case of the client dying the great thing is I just create a new VM and change its mac address to match the dead one then reinstall my licence files, saving me from having to reregister all of the licences to the "new" machine.. Hardware consoladation also plays a large part of my use of VMs, but the main reason is recoverability so much so that all my DCs are on VMs so if their host dies (hardware other than HDD) then i can either pull the disks and put them in another machine, or if my replication has succeeded more recently then I just start my backup copy of the DC and let it update from the domain. Total downtime is about 15min tops.
well we all know those russians were using bootlegged copies of windows vista.. :P
Those 2 machines probably didn't have the activation crack installed correctly and failed the Genuine windows validation test.
If you ask them nicely they will tell you what you can and can't do with your code, at the end of they day that's (imo) why they exist (to educate people as well as defending OSS).
Surely these "infringments" can be requested under the UK's Freedom of information act 2000, as it is in the public interest to know which patents that are infringed upon, and as MS have an office in england surely that makes them subject to UK law.