First, eBay is broadening its right to disclose customers' "personal information" to others. The operative language is that eBay now says it can release your personal information "as we in our sole discretion determine necessary or appropriate to maintain a level of trust and safety in our community and to enforce our user agreement, privacy policy and any posted policies or rules applicable to services you use through our site." That is simply an unlimited right to do anything they want with your personal information (which I assume includes your email, address, phone, etc., and could easily include sharing your address and credit card number with any eBay merchants whose auctions you've won).
I think the motivation here is to hold accuntable those people who would blatantly con people out of a lot of money for false auctions. Very recently, there have been cases of 'good' eBay sellers suddenly defrauding people out of thousands of dollars. If eBay can share the person al information of those people with not just the authorities, but with the people that they have screwed over, then all power to them.
Also, I don't know how they will share auction history with people, considering that I can't even tell what I bought from auctions more than 60 days ago! All I see is an auction number and the seller, no way to tell exactly what it was at all. How that is useful to a marketdroid is beyond me.
Has anyone even thought for a second that the memory cards may not be defective? The only game the screws with the cards is Ridge Racer V - Therefore, the problem is that Ridge Racer was badly programmed, and overwrites or corrupts the DVD playback software, case closed. If the memory cards don't screw up at any other time, then the cause of the problem is not the memory cards, but with Ridge Racer V!
Not allowing MP3's on the network? You should come down here to Thornhill, we have a few servers running on the subnet. I doubt any one on the higher ups at Clemson comes to Slashdot, remember, we run on a damn Microsoft Backoffice server over the network. When I asked DCIT why isn't the network running on a stable system, such as Digital Unix (my undergraduate institution, WPI, ran this way) the only answer I got was "We just don't". That's technical incompetence in my book. I'm surprised that DCIT even know was a website is. Don't get me started on that damn authorization thing, either. Invasion of privacy in my book. I guess next year we'll be looking at a campus-wide ban on sites that the DCIT consider offensive. Luckily I'll be living in Douthit Hills then;) Clemson DCIT == Big Brother
First it was patenting gene sequences, now this? When will the madness end? Patenting mathematical techniques is not only moronic, but it is definitely bad form. What will happen now? Every yahoo mathematician who develops a new numerical method patents his/her discovery, and gets royalties every time someone uses it on a scratchpad? With this logic, Newton and/or Leibnitz could have patented Calculus, and they'd have died quite rich.
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>>>Helmuts must be worn at all times.
I don't know about you, but I don't really think that wearing German chancellors on my head would add to my safety.
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>And the troubleshooting guides will never offer
>"reinstalling windows" as a possible
>solution to lack of sound.
Well, maybe for the X-Box
>And the troubleshooting guides will never offer >"reinstalling windows" as a possible solution to >lack of sound. Maybe for the X-Box...
Has anyone even thought for a second that the memory cards may not be defective? The only game the screws with the cards is Ridge Racer V - Therefore, the problem is that Ridge Racer was badly programmed, and overwrites or corrupts the DVD playback software, case closed. If the memory cards don't screw up at any other time, then the cause of the problem is not the memory cards, but with Ridge Racer V!
Not allowing MP3's on the network? You should come down here to Thornhill, we have a few servers running on the subnet. I doubt any one on the higher ups at Clemson comes to Slashdot, remember, we run on a damn Microsoft Backoffice server over the network. When I asked DCIT why isn't the network running on a stable system, such as Digital Unix (my undergraduate institution, WPI, ran this way) the only answer I got was "We just don't". That's technical incompetence in my book. I'm surprised that DCIT even know was a website is. Don't get me started on that damn authorization thing, either. Invasion of privacy in my book. I guess next year we'll be looking at a campus-wide ban on sites that the DCIT consider offensive. Luckily I'll be living in Douthit Hills then ;) Clemson DCIT == Big Brother
First it was patenting gene sequences, now this? When will the madness end?
Patenting mathematical techniques is not only moronic, but it is definitely bad form. What will happen now? Every yahoo mathematician who develops a new numerical method patents his/her discovery, and gets royalties every time someone uses it on a scratchpad?
With this logic, Newton and/or Leibnitz could have patented Calculus, and they'd have died quite rich.