Yes, it does. A signed contract is merely a record of a "legal meeting of the minds". The signature on the paper (or the click on the button) does not itself create a contract. If there is no meeting of the minds, there is no contract.
What creates the legal contract is the consented agreement to terms between parties. Judges can and do invalidate entire contracts or specific terms in a contract based not only on their legality (not everything in a contract is legally binding) but also on whether or not they believed the parties discussed, negotiated, considered, or understood them. A mere signature or click does NOT establish that.
Steam was recently forced to change their policy of completely black holing accounts that dared to issue a charge back. They now prevent future purchases and lock away certain features like the friends list. Various games will work/not work based on how tightly they are integrated with those features. But games you have already purchased and downloaded are still accessible to you. The consoles have more of a death grip, however.
MS is notorious for nuking accounts that dare to issue a charge back (even at the recommendation of XBOX support staff) when their accounts get hacked and people make unauthorized purchases with them. Sony does this too, but it's not as prevalent. MS also likes to nuke your account if you dare to let your credit card expire when your subscription is set to auto renew. You can't get your account back until you pay the "balance due", even if you haven't used the service, even if you turned off auto renew and it magically got turned back on, and even if you removed your credit card info but it magically was still there.
You can't turn off auto renew easily, and many times it just ignores your preference. Last I checked, it was impossible to truly remove your credit card info, so that when your account got hacked, you were fucked. Some countries and states require that turning off auto renewal be possible / different degrees of easy. MS has it rigged such that you only get the options required in your jurisdiction. A couple of years ago when this shit was erupting, people on video game forums were scrambling to remove their credit card info and turn off auto renewal, and everyone had a different "THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!!!" post with screenshots of pages that exist for some members but not others because MS intentionally made a maze of it.
Since then, the mantra for people who use XBOX Live! has been "use subscription/point cards". You can often get the subscription cards at a discount, and sometimes the points cards, too. People just stock up on those and add them to the account when they want to buy shit, never giving their CC info to MS and always leaving a minimal point balance on the account.
I'm a proponent of one account per purchase at this point. I don't give a finkle fuck about the social bullshit attached to the accounts.
However, account switching can get you banned on consoles (and isn't even possible on the Nintendo consoles) if you reach some arbitrary, unknown threshold that gets you flagged. My solution to this is not to buy digital shit. Physical shit is cheaper anyway. For things that are digital-only, I wait until they're $10 or less. And by that time I'll probably not even care about buying it.
Send them a comically large postcard stating this fact, take pictures as you go to mail it and post them to their corporate Twitter/Facebook/whatever. The text on the comically large postcard should be sarcastic and ironic. Dress it up to be like a giant check those prize patrol vans hand out. Use words and phrases like "Congratulations!" or "You have been selected to never get any of my money!" or "1,000,000,000 Devices Vulnerable!".
The tech tabloids and "news" aggregators will pick it up and the "story" will "go viral". You may even get a glancing mention on some TV news show.
The companies in question will pay you lip service with "We're working to improve our blah blah blah" and nothing will change. You may get a free new phone, either from the companies in question or from a competitor. I could see MS throwing the latest Windows Phone at you, or Google taking the opportunity to shill the newest Nexus. Apple would love any attention the story gets, but I'd be shocked if they'd give you a free phone.
Such terms are never negotiated, never discussed, and rarely even read. They do not represent a legal meeting of the minds. They are invalid as contracts. Apple's NDA is no more than the NDA for a video game beta - it's a click through page. There's a reason Apple isn't suing over this (they'd lose, with major consequences to click wrap bullshit).
It would be like buying a European diesel vehicle and then being surprised when you have to take it in for an "update" that destroys your mileage, performance, or some mixture of both.
You are an idiot and would probably get slapped by a monk. Certainly by any Sifu.
Master Shifu couldn't even defeat Tai Lung. Now Oogway, I believe he would be a vegetarian and an ass kicker. But he died, or turned into flower petals or something.
The number of McD's and KFC's in France shocked me. So did the number of people wandering around Paris with McD bags.
Wasn't about to try that stuff though. It would have kind of defeated the whole point of being in France.
What is the "point" of being in France? It seems to me that all the actual French citizens would know "the point" better than you. But you went to France based on some cliched, sappy ideal you held in your head, and you saw France with your own eyes and chose to struggle against reality in favor of your insipid "Eat, Pray, Love" fantasy.
It may be tempting to call GeForce NOW an official re-branding of its GRID game streaming beta but that is reportedly not the case. The GRID beta is going away with the launch of GeForce NOW (an update will replace the GRID app with GeForce NOW), but according to NVIDIA, GeForce NOW was re-architected from the ground up to provide a better overall experience.
Not a concern when you use a HOSTS file. Accept that!
Can AD BLOCKER PLUGINS do these things that HOSTS files can? Block all trackers and ads. Spam Slashdot with posts like these (but with much more annoying formatting and much worse grammar). HOSTS, YOU AD BLOCKING COWS! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTS! Call out Dave420 and other posters who dared to challenge APK on the effectiveness of HOSTS.
In terms of features, WinRAR is far better (most notable with customizable fault tolerance / recovery options, PAR files, the SFX module, etc.).
In terms of compression performance, they're neck and neck. This has been true since the RAR5 format was released. A recent update to 7-Zip allowed for the opening of RAR5 archives, if you for some reason really hate WinRAR.
In terms of freeness, 7-Zip is better if you care. 7-Zip is open source and costs nothing, while WinRAR is closed source and costs nothing for personal use (it'll popup a registration screen once in a while but it still runs with all features enabled).
In terms of scripting up custom, complex compression tasks 7-Zip is far better.
I use 7-Zip, but I installed WinRAR when people started using RAR5 archives (before 7-Zip supported opening them). I was pleasantly surprised at how fucking good it was. I still use 7-Zip primarily, but that's just because I have it installed everywhere.
SFX refers to the self-extractor piece. It lets you compress a bunch o' shit, then package it as an executable file. The executable contains the compressed shit, the decompression algorithm, and a short script about where to unpack shit to, what to title the SFX window, etc.
Run the executable and your 8 MB download turns into a 25 MB folder with shit in it. People distribute self-extractors because you don't need to rely on them having WinRAR installed, don't need to rely on them knowing where to put the files, etc.
Doesn't iOS have a data usage threshold thingy that you can set anyway to warn you when you get to X, and really warn you when you get to Y? I would imagine that WiFi Asssssisst would simply bow out at X.
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WTF?
I'm here to confirm that I absolutely do use HOSTS files to block shit.
Yes, it does. A signed contract is merely a record of a "legal meeting of the minds". The signature on the paper (or the click on the button) does not itself create a contract. If there is no meeting of the minds, there is no contract.
What creates the legal contract is the consented agreement to terms between parties.
Judges can and do invalidate entire contracts or specific terms in a contract based not only on their legality (not everything in a contract is legally binding) but also on whether or not they believed the parties discussed, negotiated, considered, or understood them. A mere signature or click does NOT establish that.
Legally, no. Actually, yes.
Steam was recently forced to change their policy of completely black holing accounts that dared to issue a charge back.
They now prevent future purchases and lock away certain features like the friends list. Various games will work/not work based on how tightly they are integrated with those features. But games you have already purchased and downloaded are still accessible to you. The consoles have more of a death grip, however.
MS is notorious for nuking accounts that dare to issue a charge back (even at the recommendation of XBOX support staff) when their accounts get hacked and people make unauthorized purchases with them. Sony does this too, but it's not as prevalent. MS also likes to nuke your account if you dare to let your credit card expire when your subscription is set to auto renew. You can't get your account back until you pay the "balance due", even if you haven't used the service, even if you turned off auto renew and it magically got turned back on, and even if you removed your credit card info but it magically was still there.
You can't turn off auto renew easily, and many times it just ignores your preference. Last I checked, it was impossible to truly remove your credit card info, so that when your account got hacked, you were fucked. Some countries and states require that turning off auto renewal be possible / different degrees of easy. MS has it rigged such that you only get the options required in your jurisdiction. A couple of years ago when this shit was erupting, people on video game forums were scrambling to remove their credit card info and turn off auto renewal, and everyone had a different "THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!!!" post with screenshots of pages that exist for some members but not others because MS intentionally made a maze of it.
Since then, the mantra for people who use XBOX Live! has been "use subscription/point cards". You can often get the subscription cards at a discount, and sometimes the points cards, too. People just stock up on those and add them to the account when they want to buy shit, never giving their CC info to MS and always leaving a minimal point balance on the account.
I'm a proponent of one account per purchase at this point. I don't give a finkle fuck about the social bullshit attached to the accounts.
However, account switching can get you banned on consoles (and isn't even possible on the Nintendo consoles) if you reach some arbitrary, unknown threshold that gets you flagged. My solution to this is not to buy digital shit. Physical shit is cheaper anyway. For things that are digital-only, I wait until they're $10 or less. And by that time I'll probably not even care about buying it.
An attacker can just register an account in your name to get them to show up.
That's from a fake account - https://twitter.com/JuliaCordr... .
If we can get people to consistently refer to it as "the cyber-bullying app Peeple", the media shitstorm will kill it.
Send them a comically large postcard stating this fact, take pictures as you go to mail it and post them to their corporate Twitter/Facebook/whatever.
The text on the comically large postcard should be sarcastic and ironic. Dress it up to be like a giant check those prize patrol vans hand out. Use words and phrases like "Congratulations!" or "You have been selected to never get any of my money!" or "1,000,000,000 Devices Vulnerable!".
The tech tabloids and "news" aggregators will pick it up and the "story" will "go viral". You may even get a glancing mention on some TV news show.
The companies in question will pay you lip service with "We're working to improve our blah blah blah" and nothing will change. You may get a free new phone, either from the companies in question or from a competitor. I could see MS throwing the latest Windows Phone at you, or Google taking the opportunity to shill the newest Nexus. Apple would love any attention the story gets, but I'd be shocked if they'd give you a free phone.
Such terms are never negotiated, never discussed, and rarely even read.
They do not represent a legal meeting of the minds. They are invalid as contracts. Apple's NDA is no more than the NDA for a video game beta - it's a click through page. There's a reason Apple isn't suing over this (they'd lose, with major consequences to click wrap bullshit).
It would be like buying a European diesel vehicle and then being surprised when you have to take it in for an "update" that destroys your mileage, performance, or some mixture of both.
> ...vegetables have plenty of protein.
You are an idiot and would probably get slapped by a monk. Certainly by any Sifu.
Master Shifu couldn't even defeat Tai Lung.
Now Oogway, I believe he would be a vegetarian and an ass kicker. But he died, or turned into flower petals or something.
The number of McD's and KFC's in France shocked me. So did the number of people wandering around Paris with McD bags.
Wasn't about to try that stuff though. It would have kind of defeated the whole point of being in France.
What is the "point" of being in France?
It seems to me that all the actual French citizens would know "the point" better than you. But you went to France based on some cliched, sappy ideal you held in your head, and you saw France with your own eyes and chose to struggle against reality in favor of your insipid "Eat, Pray, Love" fantasy.
TL;DR: When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
I call em Graboids.
It may be tempting to call GeForce NOW an official re-branding of its GRID game streaming beta but that is reportedly not the case. The GRID beta is going away with the launch of GeForce NOW (an update will replace the GRID app with GeForce NOW), but according to NVIDIA, GeForce NOW was re-architected from the ground up to provide a better overall experience.
So it's an official re-branding GRID.
No, you got a card with a chip.
There's no PIN.
It's chip + sign in the US for the foreseeable future.
The updates are signed, but the metadata is not.
But shit from the metadata can be executed.
http://www.contextis.com/media...
Configuring SSL for WSUS (NOT the default, and NOT as simple as it should be) mitigates this by protecting the metadata from simple MITM attacks.
Up until August of 2015, 7-Zip could not open RAR5 archives (which were introduced introduced in August of 2013).
So while YOU may have not run into anything that 7-Zip couldn't open, there were 2 years where 7-Zip couldn't open newer RAR archives.
Not a concern when you use a HOSTS file.
Accept that!
Can AD BLOCKER PLUGINS do these things that HOSTS files can?
Block all trackers and ads.
Spam Slashdot with posts like these (but with much more annoying formatting and much worse grammar).
HOSTS, YOU AD BLOCKING COWS! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTS!
Call out Dave420 and other posters who dared to challenge APK on the effectiveness of HOSTS.
-APK (Not Really)
P.S. HOOOOOOOOOOOOSTS!
So can WinRAR - you just extract the archive instead of running the executable.
See http://www.rarlab.com/vuln_sfx...
In terms of features, WinRAR is far better (most notable with customizable fault tolerance / recovery options, PAR files, the SFX module, etc.).
In terms of compression performance, they're neck and neck. This has been true since the RAR5 format was released. A recent update to 7-Zip allowed for the opening of RAR5 archives, if you for some reason really hate WinRAR.
In terms of freeness, 7-Zip is better if you care. 7-Zip is open source and costs nothing, while WinRAR is closed source and costs nothing for personal use (it'll popup a registration screen once in a while but it still runs with all features enabled).
In terms of scripting up custom, complex compression tasks 7-Zip is far better.
I use 7-Zip, but I installed WinRAR when people started using RAR5 archives (before 7-Zip supported opening them). I was pleasantly surprised at how fucking good it was. I still use 7-Zip primarily, but that's just because I have it installed everywhere.
SFX refers to the self-extractor piece.
It lets you compress a bunch o' shit, then package it as an executable file.
The executable contains the compressed shit, the decompression algorithm, and a short script about where to unpack shit to, what to title the SFX window, etc.
Run the executable and your 8 MB download turns into a 25 MB folder with shit in it.
People distribute self-extractors because you don't need to rely on them having WinRAR installed, don't need to rely on them knowing where to put the files, etc.
Unabomber Manifesto
That's actually a pretty good manifesto. Accurate, salient, and insightful.
Would mod +5.
Doesn't iOS have a data usage threshold thingy that you can set anyway to warn you when you get to X, and really warn you when you get to Y?
I would imagine that WiFi Asssssisst would simply bow out at X.
All of those sound like absolute hell if you've got kids with you.
You are asking for a hat.
Alternatively, longer hair and a light beard will cover every one of your problem areas but your nose.