It is a problem for everyone that sells small valuable things. So who pays for "shrinkage"? You do. The cost of theft is built into the price of everything you buy.
Inapplicable in this case. They claim it is to stop the phone from being stolen AFTER you buy it. This is them locking down YOUR phone so you can't move onto another phone company without the added expense of buying another phone as they won't let the one you already OWN be used with another carrier.
In a business environment, you do not want to throw out working equipment, such as printers, networking equipment, etc because there are no drivers. It's disruptive and it gets expensive real fast. If it ain't broke, don't fix it is the mantra, and Windows will never let you do that.
You don't want to throw out Lab equipment worth $10's of thousands because the newest MS Windows doesn't support the old drivers and the the manufacturer won't upgrade the drivers. Same for production lines in the $100's of thousands and up for the same reason.
Corporations don't care about your hurt feelings and you'll never get anywhere if you're going to sit around and "wait for an apology". The fact that you suffer hurt feelings and feel you are in need of an apology on the back of criticism of Linux at all is quite lame. Grow up snowflake.
Tell it to the snowflakes who tell us "Microsoft doesn't do that stuff now so stop being mean to them/us". They tell us to forgive Microsoft and the execs and to trust them when they haven't shown they DESERVE trust. Tell those snowflakes that Microsoft has to earn what they forfeited by their loooong history of horrible corporate behavior.
MS has been one of the largest contributors of open source projects and applications over the past few years. MS has been positioning themselves to transforming their flagship OS and related applications to a true cross platform solution. Think about all those people and companies that cannot move to a Linux platform due to the lack of Linux application support. No think of signing into your computer and being able to start a Windows session or Linux session without any intervening VM. Think about a version of.NET that is open source and cross platform. The number one rule in capturing a large market share is to make it easy for developers to create applications. It's a lesson the Linux fateful have never really understood. MS has always catered to the developers. MS VB was probably the one product that pushed MS to the top. VB allowed almost anyone to become a developer. VB was certainly not a perfect development tool but it was easy compared to C\C++ or any other native languages that the average person could not use. VB allowed the rapid creation of applications that ran on the MS application stack. (VB had a lot of faults. People created a bunch a sup-par applications. These two characteristics didn't stop the adoption of VB and all the subsequent adoption of a pure MS application stack.)
I'm waiting for the public apology from the executives who have used their position in Microsoft, its wealth and its power to publicly attack Linux in particular and open source in general. Not to mention spending as much money on promoting Linux and open source as they did to fighting it. Where are the apologies for calling open source/Linux Communist, unAmerican and viral? How about all the public claims of patent violation but total unwillingness to say what patents so the violation (if it even existed) could be removed?
Also I'm waiting for Microsoft and many other big corporations to comprehend that the novel 1984 was not a HOW-TO manual and STOP the big brother aspects of their software and hardware.
It will take at LEAST as many years of being a GOOD CORPORATE CITIZEN as they have spent being vile to earn trust, respect and forgiveness. Still waiting for them to start.
The claim that something is being "imported" from Ireland to the U.S. is rubbish. The claim that this somehow violates Ireland/EU law is absurd, unless you are arguing that a person sitting at a computer in the U.S. is somehow bound by the laws of a foreign country.
Strange you should say that. The U.S. claims exactly that in the case of Gary McKinnon who hacked U.S. computers with off the shelf software. They were trying to extradite him with threats of 70 years hard time in a maximum security prison for his actions in the U.K..
Then there is the case of Dmitry Sklyarov who wrote software in Russia for his employer that was strictly legal but was arrested in the U.S. and charged for his employers sales of it to Americans. Skylarov was not in the U.S. when he wrote the program and had nothing to do with the distribution. Yet he was arrested.
How about Kim Dotcom? Again his breaking of American laws was entirely outside the U.S. but that hasn't stopped the U.S. legal system from persecuting him.
So yes the U.S. has repeatedly claimed computer "crimes" perpetuated by people outside the U.S. are punishable by the U.S.. So why shouldn't other countries do the same to Americans?
It looks like a weak attempt at satire: "Scotlirland". Obviously no one in the US is stupid enough to believe the UK is communist.
Given the way some Americans define communist (apparently not Republican = Communist for a lot of people) I'd say there are an indecently large number of Americans who DO believe the UK is communist.
Well it's better than death panels which I know for a fact exist in communist countries like the UK and Scotlirland.
Did I mention that I'm self employed so I can deduct my medical insurance premiums (and everything else, actually)?
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What about the American death panels that have existed for decades? You know the ones at the insurance companies who decide whether or not to pay for the medical coverage to save your life or to keep the money for bonuses?
Don't forget the Christmas Hotmail went down because Microsoft forgot to renew the domain registration. They were lucky a Linux Hacker did if for them and got their service back up and didn't hold the domain for ransom.
I think somebody needs to make an "Aliens" movie where the extra-terrestrials have infiltrated Earth and averted multiple nuclear wars by various shenanigans, including making launched ICBMs malfunction.
Star Trek original series Season 2 Episode 26 Assignment Earth.
t. butthurt atheist faggot who hates being wished merry christmas and puts bibles in the fiction section at bookstores
So why are you so "butthurt" that he puts religious works in the section he believes they belong? He is still stocking them and apparently you still find them, so what is the problem? Don't like it do your business elsewhere.
You may disagree with them (as do I), but what about their behavior is hypocritical?
I'm not the original poster so he may disagree with my interpretation. These are the same people largely who are against abortion because of the commandment not to kill but who advocate the death penalty and endless wars. They won't even allow the use of embryonic stem cells from miscarriages or from those killed by accidents. They don't want abortion but block practical sex ed to help teens avoid pregnancy and scream about birth control. So yes there is a lot of hypocrisy among them.
The current Roy Moore scandals combined with supporting him and Trump who has his own sex scandals while calling for the downfall of Hollywood powerful men and Democrats with their own scandals is also hypocrisy. It is Fake News when it is bad about their guy and Gospel Truth when it is about the other side. Judge your side the same way you judge the other side.
Unfortunately the only recourse is to terror bomb "innocent" American citizens. While you're not directly responsible for the actions of your corrupt corpotocratic government, there's no other way to achieve justice.
Why is that the only recourse? I would have thought a much better one would be to go after the oligarchs behind it.
For the Russian State? Probably not as they then don't have to worry about a loose cannon U.S. President using the system to harm Russia. For security and reliable internet access ANY country with less than stellar relations with the U.S. (and the President of the U.S.) would be well advised to do their own DNS.
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It is a problem for everyone that sells small valuable things. So who pays for "shrinkage"? You do. The cost of theft is built into the price of everything you buy.
Inapplicable in this case. They claim it is to stop the phone from being stolen AFTER you buy it. This is them locking down YOUR phone so you can't move onto another phone company without the added expense of buying another phone as they won't let the one you already OWN be used with another carrier.
You can not even pause with a touch!
No "click to pause" is the only reason I stopped using this otherwise great media program.
Works on my tablet. Pause whenever I feel like.
and isn't at all touch screen friendly.
I use it on my tablet without issues so for my use it is touch screen friendly.
Now you'll stream your porn to your TV easier than ever! (Oh wait, is VLC used for more than that? Pirated movies? Vacation movies?)
Plays retail DVDs quite well. Even lets you bypass all the "unskippable" nonsense.
In a business environment, you do not want to throw out working equipment, such as printers, networking equipment, etc because there are no drivers. It's disruptive and it gets expensive real fast. If it ain't broke, don't fix it is the mantra, and Windows will never let you do that.
You don't want to throw out Lab equipment worth $10's of thousands because the newest MS Windows doesn't support the old drivers and the the manufacturer won't upgrade the drivers. Same for production lines in the $100's of thousands and up for the same reason.
Corporations don't care about your hurt feelings and you'll never get anywhere if you're going to sit around and "wait for an apology". The fact that you suffer hurt feelings and feel you are in need of an apology on the back of criticism of Linux at all is quite lame. Grow up snowflake.
Tell it to the snowflakes who tell us "Microsoft doesn't do that stuff now so stop being mean to them/us". They tell us to forgive Microsoft and the execs and to trust them when they haven't shown they DESERVE trust. Tell those snowflakes that Microsoft has to earn what they forfeited by their loooong history of horrible corporate behavior.
MS has been one of the largest contributors of open source projects and applications over the past few years. MS has been positioning themselves to transforming their flagship OS and related applications to a true cross platform solution. Think about all those people and companies that cannot move to a Linux platform due to the lack of Linux application support. No think of signing into your computer and being able to start a Windows session or Linux session without any intervening VM. Think about a version of .NET that is open source and cross platform. The number one rule in capturing a large market share is to make it easy for developers to create applications. It's a lesson the Linux fateful have never really understood. MS has always catered to the developers. MS VB was probably the one product that pushed MS to the top. VB allowed almost anyone to become a developer. VB was certainly not a perfect development tool but it was easy compared to C\C++ or any other native languages that the average person could not use. VB allowed the rapid creation of applications that ran on the MS application stack. (VB had a lot of faults. People created a bunch a sup-par applications. These two characteristics didn't stop the adoption of VB and all the subsequent adoption of a pure MS application stack.)
I'm waiting for the public apology from the executives who have used their position in Microsoft, its wealth and its power to publicly attack Linux in particular and open source in general. Not to mention spending as much money on promoting Linux and open source as they did to fighting it. Where are the apologies for calling open source/Linux Communist, unAmerican and viral? How about all the public claims of patent violation but total unwillingness to say what patents so the violation (if it even existed) could be removed?
Also I'm waiting for Microsoft and many other big corporations to comprehend that the novel 1984 was not a HOW-TO manual and STOP the big brother aspects of their software and hardware.
It will take at LEAST as many years of being a GOOD CORPORATE CITIZEN as they have spent being vile to earn trust, respect and forgiveness. Still waiting for them to start.
How DARE you mod down this post for merely disagreeing with ideals. Slashdot is an OPEN FORUM where every man is allowed to express his opinion.
Amen.
So you claim the right to express your opinion but wish to deny those who moderate the right to express theirs? Hypocrite.
But if people can t even be bothered to read "purchase contracts", I don't know what to say.
There shouldn't BE a purchase contract, just a bill of sale.
The claim that something is being "imported" from Ireland to the U.S. is rubbish. The claim that this somehow violates Ireland/EU law is absurd, unless you are arguing that a person sitting at a computer in the U.S. is somehow bound by the laws of a foreign country.
Strange you should say that. The U.S. claims exactly that in the case of Gary McKinnon who hacked U.S. computers with off the shelf software. They were trying to extradite him with threats of 70 years hard time in a maximum security prison for his actions in the U.K..
Then there is the case of Dmitry Sklyarov who wrote software in Russia for his employer that was strictly legal but was arrested in the U.S. and charged for his employers sales of it to Americans. Skylarov was not in the U.S. when he wrote the program and had nothing to do with the distribution. Yet he was arrested.
How about Kim Dotcom? Again his breaking of American laws was entirely outside the U.S. but that hasn't stopped the U.S. legal system from persecuting him.
So yes the U.S. has repeatedly claimed computer "crimes" perpetuated by people outside the U.S. are punishable by the U.S.. So why shouldn't other countries do the same to Americans?
That kind of defence is as lame as changing your name and then claiming the suspect no longer exists.
Well it has worked for Popes so why shouldn't it work for a common person?
It looks like a weak attempt at satire: "Scotlirland". Obviously no one in the US is stupid enough to believe the UK is communist.
Given the way some Americans define communist (apparently not Republican = Communist for a lot of people) I'd say there are an indecently large number of Americans who DO believe the UK is communist.
Well it's better than death panels which I know for a fact exist in communist countries like the UK and Scotlirland.
Did I mention that I'm self employed so I can deduct my medical insurance premiums (and everything else, actually)?
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What about the American death panels that have existed for decades? You know the ones at the insurance companies who decide whether or not to pay for the medical coverage to save your life or to keep the money for bonuses?
Don't forget the Christmas Hotmail went down because Microsoft forgot to renew the domain registration. They were lucky a Linux Hacker did if for them and got their service back up and didn't hold the domain for ransom.
I think somebody needs to make an "Aliens" movie where the extra-terrestrials have infiltrated Earth and averted multiple nuclear wars by various shenanigans, including making launched ICBMs malfunction.
Star Trek original series Season 2 Episode 26 Assignment Earth.
No, only his hair, skin tone and small hands. Hating on genetics is the liberal way!
I'll grant his hands are natural but his hair and skin colours? No way.
Does your shithole cuntry not have STATUTORY HOLIDAYS???
Jesus Christ.. you're stupid.
Does your shit hole country not have jobs that MUST run 24 hours every day of the year? Most countries do.
t. butthurt atheist faggot who hates being wished merry christmas and puts bibles in the fiction section at bookstores
So why are you so "butthurt" that he puts religious works in the section he believes they belong? He is still stocking them and apparently you still find them, so what is the problem? Don't like it do your business elsewhere.
Jews killed Jesus so they probably don't really celebrate Christmas.
And Jesus if he existed was himself Jewish and one of Gods Chosen people. You aren't of the chosen people.
That is $699 per core. Too bad for you if you have a high end CPU as they probably also want it for hyperthreading "cores".
Fucking hypocrites.
You may disagree with them (as do I), but what about their behavior is hypocritical?
I'm not the original poster so he may disagree with my interpretation. These are the same people largely who are against abortion because of the commandment not to kill but who advocate the death penalty and endless wars. They won't even allow the use of embryonic stem cells from miscarriages or from those killed by accidents. They don't want abortion but block practical sex ed to help teens avoid pregnancy and scream about birth control. So yes there is a lot of hypocrisy among them.
The current Roy Moore scandals combined with supporting him and Trump who has his own sex scandals while calling for the downfall of Hollywood powerful men and Democrats with their own scandals is also hypocrisy. It is Fake News when it is bad about their guy and Gospel Truth when it is about the other side. Judge your side the same way you judge the other side.
Unfortunately the only recourse is to terror bomb "innocent" American citizens. While you're not directly responsible for the actions of your corrupt corpotocratic government, there's no other way to achieve justice.
Why is that the only recourse? I would have thought a much better one would be to go after the oligarchs behind it.
Would it be worse than Icann ?
For the Russian State? Probably not as they then don't have to worry about a loose cannon U.S. President using the system to harm Russia. For security and reliable internet access ANY country with less than stellar relations with the U.S. (and the President of the U.S.) would be well advised to do their own DNS.
Patents are in the Constitution along with copyrights so they are legal.
Both Mad Mike and the Coyote have been shopping at ACME.
The Roadrunner owns ACME.