AnonCoward: "I hate One2One! They screwed me over!" T-Mobile: *Pulls out keys and starts to jingle them over Anon's head* AnonCoward: "... OOOH EEEEH AHHHH WOOOO SHINY SHINY!" *Lies on back pawing at keys*
That's you. Well done for sticking to your principles; You sure showed them!
So don't buy any ebooks. Every sale is confirmation to the publisher that the price point is what the market will accept. When ebooks fail to sell, the price will drop. When ebook readers fail to sell because ebooks are too expensive, the price will drop further. It just takes a lot of people with the same opinion to do it, and make it work.
Invoke the 30 day cancellation. They terminated your contract, and you do not accept the new one which takes its place. Your obligations under the old one are fulfilled, and you suffer no penalty for not accepting a new contract. If they try and charge you, reply with "Sue me." I guarantee their lawyers cost more than the phone in your pocket.
This is the internet. Nothing is legal advice, even when it may seem like it is.
If he returned the car with a full tank of petrol and £10 to cover maintenance (as long as he didn't thrash it from cold), I wouldn't mind at all. Yes, I know this is an internet joke, but it's still true.
Copying the app takes considerably more effort than downloading it from the app store. The game had adverts already, they were just less intrusive into gameplay. I don't mind app adverts, unless they break the app itself, which this advertisement scheme does.
FWIW, my girlfriend bought Angry Birds and the Seasonal edition on the iPhone, and I play on there when I want to. As it's very much a casual game, however, I don't miss it at all. I'm happy with Spaghetti and Marshmallows, Untangle Me, and X Construct, the first two being ad-supported.
This patent presents a locking system for automotive vehicles that can not be snooped by a nearby wireless hacker. This approach eliminates the need for problem prone wireless receivers and transmitters, whose signal can easily be captured by a third party in the vicinity. This devices presents an opening in the door of about 2mm x 5mm and requires the use of a specifically shaped piece of metal This piece of metal would be unique to each owner. Activation and deactivation is accomplished by a rotational action in either clock-wise or anti-clockwise directions using a computer.
In the UK, we had to create the crime "Taking Without Owner's Consent" (TWOC) as a common defence in car theft was "I was only borrowing the car, I would have returned it!" Apparently, it worked at least once. Hence, now the act of taking the car is a crime, as opposed to depriving the owner of it permanently (as was previously the case). TWOC may well be the correct term for these cases.
If I press keys on my keyboard at random, and magically I happen to enter your online banking URL, account number, and password, then empty your bank account, that's fraud. I only interacted with the system in the way it was designed, and did not alter the system in any way.
This guy had an unpopular feature activated which exposed a flaw. How about I get your bank to allow printing of statements to PDF, but the output screen for that has a link to a money transfer mechanism which isn't included in your statement? BAM money gone, no trace. This is an analogy of what they did.
They didn't dupe staff into triggering the bug. The bug was always there; The staff merely activated an unpopular (yet completely legal by law and gaming commission rules) feature which allowed you to "double-up" for the chance at a double jackpot, or bust. The exploit is independent of this feature; Exploiting it once the double-up feature was active just allowed a higher return.
I hadn't heard of her before. I looked her up on Wikipedia, discovered she was Tanya in C&C (win) and also a huge MMR jab opponent (fail). I also spotted that text, which looked out of place, and thought I'd share it before it was inevitably reported and removed. I don't edit Wikipedia.
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That's the combination on my luggage!
Yes, the baggage surcharges I pay are astronomical.
Yeah sure. And they can all spend their $5 PSN voucher once they buy a newly crippled PS3, with the original key voided and replaced.
Class Action Lawsuits achieve nothing except to line lawyers pockets.
Translation: "BZZZZZZZZZZZ People have differing opinions BZZZZZZZZZZ No one tool is the best at everything BZZZZZZZZZZZ."
If you're a typical full time mother or pensioner, you call everything computer related Windows.
"My Windows won't turn on!"
"I can't open my Windows letters!"
"Windows has deleted Google from the internet!"
I can tell you it affects
Well, I just tried to paste the version of Chromium in there. Suck.
Remember, folks; Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo.
Dude... Don't eat your phone. It voids the warranty.
AnonCoward: "I hate One2One! They screwed me over!"
T-Mobile: *Pulls out keys and starts to jingle them over Anon's head*
AnonCoward: "... OOOH EEEEH AHHHH WOOOO SHINY SHINY!" *Lies on back pawing at keys*
That's you. Well done for sticking to your principles; You sure showed them!
Yeah, sweet bro.
Anyway, Donkey Kong...
So don't buy any ebooks. Every sale is confirmation to the publisher that the price point is what the market will accept. When ebooks fail to sell, the price will drop. When ebook readers fail to sell because ebooks are too expensive, the price will drop further. It just takes a lot of people with the same opinion to do it, and make it work.
Ahem... This Is Slashdot. Bring out the Car Analogy!
"Do you expect your Mercedes Benz to only use Mercedes Benz tyres?"
To distil this analogy down further, let's go right back to basics.
Fire is hot. How do we learn that through personal experience? Do we touch the fire again to be sure?
As soon as lawyers cost £25 pcm.
Invoke the 30 day cancellation. They terminated your contract, and you do not accept the new one which takes its place. Your obligations under the old one are fulfilled, and you suffer no penalty for not accepting a new contract. If they try and charge you, reply with "Sue me." I guarantee their lawyers cost more than the phone in your pocket.
This is the internet. Nothing is legal advice, even when it may seem like it is.
Give that man a prize!
If he returned the car with a full tank of petrol and £10 to cover maintenance (as long as he didn't thrash it from cold), I wouldn't mind at all. Yes, I know this is an internet joke, but it's still true.
Copying the app takes considerably more effort than downloading it from the app store. The game had adverts already, they were just less intrusive into gameplay. I don't mind app adverts, unless they break the app itself, which this advertisement scheme does.
FWIW, my girlfriend bought Angry Birds and the Seasonal edition on the iPhone, and I play on there when I want to. As it's very much a casual game, however, I don't miss it at all. I'm happy with Spaghetti and Marshmallows, Untangle Me, and X Construct, the first two being ad-supported.
Best defence against both theft and rogue car clamping: Clamp the car yourself when you park.
This patent presents a locking system for automotive vehicles that can not be snooped by a nearby wireless hacker. This approach eliminates the need for problem prone wireless receivers and transmitters, whose signal can easily be captured by a third party in the vicinity. This devices presents an opening in the door of about 2mm x 5mm and requires the use of a specifically shaped piece of metal This piece of metal would be unique to each owner. Activation and deactivation is accomplished by a rotational action in either clock-wise or anti-clockwise directions using a computer.
I'm going to be rich!
That's how it works, right? Right?
In the UK, we had to create the crime "Taking Without Owner's Consent" (TWOC) as a common defence in car theft was "I was only borrowing the car, I would have returned it!" Apparently, it worked at least once. Hence, now the act of taking the car is a crime, as opposed to depriving the owner of it permanently (as was previously the case). TWOC may well be the correct term for these cases.
If I press keys on my keyboard at random, and magically I happen to enter your online banking URL, account number, and password, then empty your bank account, that's fraud. I only interacted with the system in the way it was designed, and did not alter the system in any way.
This guy had an unpopular feature activated which exposed a flaw. How about I get your bank to allow printing of statements to PDF, but the output screen for that has a link to a money transfer mechanism which isn't included in your statement? BAM money gone, no trace. This is an analogy of what they did.
He's being sarcastic. The quote is "The only winning move is not to play."
How about a nice game of chess?
They didn't dupe staff into triggering the bug. The bug was always there; The staff merely activated an unpopular (yet completely legal by law and gaming commission rules) feature which allowed you to "double-up" for the chance at a double jackpot, or bust. The exploit is independent of this feature; Exploiting it once the double-up feature was active just allowed a higher return.
Regarding your sig; Yes. You're capitalising the start of sentences consistently.
I didn't post the text on Wikipedia. I looked her up, as I recognised the name but didn't know who she was.
Turns out she was Agent Tanya in a recent Command and Conquer game.
I hadn't heard of her before. I looked her up on Wikipedia, discovered she was Tanya in C&C (win) and also a huge MMR jab opponent (fail). I also spotted that text, which looked out of place, and thought I'd share it before it was inevitably reported and removed. I don't edit Wikipedia.