Is there a way to get a non-TiVo TV Guide subscription into a TiVo box? Or is there a way to "man-in-the-middle" a TiVo subscription so it won't auto-download the damaging patch?
Anyway, I'm just thinking that TiVo's in for the biggest class-action lawsuit ever with this stupid move. People didn't buy TiVos to have the movie companies move into their house, and back-dooring them in like this is sure to backfire.
Well, thanks for the insight. I didn't feel "shafted" by the salesperson, but she signed us up for the wrong version of the plan. It was the same cost to me either way, so I think it was an honest mistake on her part after dealing with those stupid screens for an hour.
And I didn't have a problem with the customer service rep on the phone -- once I got to him. The trick was getting to him. I had the phone on hold on the speakerphone for three hours (probably the prime-time hours of 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM CDT) without hearing from anyone other than a recording. It's probably just as well that you didn't answer that night, although I think I had already moved through the stages of anger and denial and had already transcended into acceptance. But I still will take my business to T-Mobile as soon as the opportunity presents itself. I don't want to be in the position of giving money to companies that go out of their way to be stupid about important things like customer service.
Again, I hope the merger treats you well and that you get a system where you're actually able to assist the customers who call in, rather than have to live with the current fecal-smeared-screens for the rest of your days there. If Cingular has any brains at all, they'll bring their customer service application back in-house instead of outsourcing it to someone useless like Siebel who obviously doesn't give a shit. (Any Siebel employees out there want to defend this crap application? Thought not, just checking.) Nothing lights the fires of change like having your ass over the coals, and by being remote Siebel obviously isn't feeling that fire.
Well, I'm sincerely hoping that since analog service is slated to end on 1 Jan 2007 that AT&T is using this time to refit their analog towers with GSM equipment. As I said, I've noticed coverage improvements even over the four months I've owned the GSM phone, so I'm pretty sure they're on track to deliver coverage similar to their old analog service in the next two years.
At least that's my hope. If not, that's about the time my contracts end and I will be shoveling my money to T-Mobile instead.
Dude, I really pity you. (Unless you had anything to do with designing, developing or maintaining their customer service application, at which point I utterly loathe you...)
Having to work for a company that incredibly short-sighted, stupid and ignorant of their customers must truly make you hate your job. I hope Cingular treats you better, or at least insults your intelligence less. Good luck with the merger.
Because it is just the coolest use of Bluetooth ever.
You get in the car, and now your Bluetooth-enabled phone is using your car's stereo speakers for audio out, and a dashboard mic for audio in. It mutes the stereo when an incoming call comes in, then sounds the ringer. You can configure it to autoanswer or answer when you press the dashboard "phone" button.
If you press the phone button the stereo mutes itself and the phone goes into voice command dialing mode.
The phone never leaves your pocket, and everything just "works" the way you would want it to. No fooling around with a headset that needs to be charged every night, and clipped to your ear like some cheapo Locutus-of-Borg wannabee.
My advice to Cingular on this buyout (if they'd have it?) Completely stomp all AT&T customer-facing EVERYTHING into irretrievable dust, and replace it with Cingular everything. Every drop of software, to the point of formatting any hard drive infested with any AT&T software or marketing. Drop every stupid, confusing plan, and replace it with an equivalent Cingular plan. Burn every marketing brochure, and hang on to the resumes of any former AT&T marketing executive just to ensure they're prominently featured front and center on your blacklist. "Unwanted" posters might not be going too far.
I have had the CRAPPIEST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER from AT&T Wireless. Bar none. I have gotten more useful, helpful, timely and factual information from a WalMart greeter. I can't blame the poor salescreature who I bought my phones from. It's their process that is the most horrendous piece of crap application ever devised by a bunch of marketing VPs. I tell you if any coworker of mine were to emit an application as unfriendly as that they'd be gone in a heartbeat, maybe less. This poor lady had to spend 25 minutes PER PHONE to enter a half page of customer information. Tough stuff, like name, address AND ZIP code. To do that, she had to click through literally dozens of pages of options she couldn't explain to me; she misunderstood (and misguided me) about their confusing plethora of plans, and to top it all off, she was one of two people in the store.
As it was, I waited over an hour just to get to her, then other people had to wait over 90 minutes before my transaction was completed. The reason I don't blame her is when she called the 1-800-DUH number to answer my questions, they couldn't help her either! And she's worked in the store for well over a year. How hard can it be to sell a goddamn phone??? "Push these buttons, pay this amount." God, I'm still burning over that waste of my life.
As far as customer service on their help lines? I don't think so -- I waited over three hours on hold one night to try to get them to fix the plan the saleslady eventually misclicked. If I wasn't locked in an old contract, I'd have dropped them for T-Mobile in a heartbeat. As it was, after all the headaches were added up it seriously would have been worth my time to pay the $174 they would have charged me for an early switch.
Technically, I've had very good luck with AT&T. I'd had steadily improving coverage with my PCS phone for the last three years, so I've no complaints with their network. That is, until I got sucked into their GSM plan ("mMode"). My coverage is now a tiny, tiny area immediately surrounding Minneapolis/St. Paul, although even that's been improving over the last four months. Now, if Cingular just has a decent GPRS plan... well, a fellow can dream, can't he?
Anyway, when this AT&T contract is up it's "Hello T-Mobile!" and "good riddance to bad rubbish, AT&T Wireless." That is, if Cingular doesn't improve the situation considerably.
No, the ruling was specific -- the fees were paid by the broadcaster at the time of broadcast, and therefore did not need to be paid by the business.
As a matter of fact, this is what the ASCAP site's FAQ has to say about general licenses:
Frequently Asked Questions About General Licensing
ASCAP LICENSING OF BUSINESSES
(Nightclubs, Concerts, Hotels, Businesses, etc.)
1. I'm interested in playing music in my restaurant or other business. I know that I need permission for live performances. Do I need permission if I am using only CD's, records, tapes, radio or TV?
Yes, you will need permission to play records or tapes in your establishment. Permission for radio and television transmissions in your business is not needed if the performance is by means of public communication of TV or radio transmissions by eating, drinking, retail or certain other establishments of a certain size which use a limited number of speakers or TVs, and if the reception is not further transmitted (for example, from one room to another) from the place in which it is received, and there is no admission charge. Your local ASCAP licensing manager can discuss your needs and advise how ASCAP can help you.
Groups like ASCAP send representatives around to stores and restaurants today and check out the music they have playing. If they determine that it's coming from a non-broadcast-radio source, they demand vigorish from the store owner. The case I remember (vaguely) found that a restaurant could play live broadcast radio or TV for the enjoyment of its patrons. But they could not tape a radio or TV show and then play the tape at a later time without paying the licensors.
Anyway, the whole reason I bring up the licensing thing is that these groups have already shown their opposition to "useful" recordings of their programming. If MyFi can indeed become "ReplayRadio", you can bet that the audio won't be digitally handed out to you the subscriber. The best you'll be able to hope for is to grab the analog signal somewhere and redigitize it yourself (along with all the crappy artifacts that reencoding brings.) They'll make it as easy as possible to use from their user interface, but as difficult as possible to intercept on the way to the speakers.
That's a good idea to at least prevent slow leaks or condensation from dripping onto electronics. However, a pressurized leak could still spray onto parts that aren't known for water tolerance. Oh well, you can't fix every problem all at once, but you can tackle them one at a time.
I'm sure people don't do that now because virtually all cases I've seen are designed for maximum convection cooling, which means "heat sinks up please"
I'd never considered a GFCI for a watercooled system before, but now that you mention it it sounds like a good idea.
The only drawback is that every GFCI I've ever played with has tripped for annoyance reasons (pounding a nail for a picture frame, for example) and I'm not sure I want my PC to instantly power down because I dropped a pile of O'Reilly books.
And galvanic corrosion is quite easy to have happen in a watercooling system. Someone inexperienced could screw a copper hose barb into an aluminum GPU block, and it wouldn't take many impurities in the water to have that lead to a leak within a year or two.
You're omitting the weakest point in the system: the human factor.
The human could screw up on many levels. They could design a bad system. They could purchase mismatched components and believe that a brass fitting from Home Depot is their answer, when all they've done is ensured the early onset of galvanic corrosion. They could purchase aquarium tubing that is not rated for the heat. They could forget to turn the pump on, or hook up a hose when they move it. They could forget to apply thermal paste, or apply too much by making the human error of assumption: "if some is good, more is better." They could forget the anti-corrosive additive to the coolant, thinking the l33t UV dye is all they need.
They could forget to unwrap shipping tape from their radiator or they could forget to apply pipe tape to a joint. They could cross-thread a fitting once (causing hidden damage) and reassemble it correctly, setting themseleves up for a future failure. They could overtighten or undertighten pipe threaded fittings.
And all these failings fall under the generic umbrella of, "OMG, water-cooling? No way! Didn't you hear about Joe, he trashed his dual Athlon-64 because of water cooling!!!" Never mind that Joe is an idiot who thought he could splice a tube with an unclamped hose barb.
By far, the least reliable component is an inexperienced hobbyist assembling a system from scratch. And it's very hard to stick a probability value on Joe Sixpack and still have meaning for someone with half a clue.
There's a trick I learned a few years back that I've wholeheartedly adopted to avoid this "sister" problem to yours:
if (x = NULL) { printf("why won't this stupid line print, even when x is NULL?"); }
Instead, I now always place the constant on the left hand side of the "comparison" operator:
if (0 = x) { printf("why won't this stupid if statement compile?"); }
Now, if I screw this up the compiler catches me first and emits "Error: idiot coder tried to assign a value to a literal"
Even though I've only caught myself once making this error since I adopted the trick, (and yes I know lint and/or warning level 4 will catch this particular mistake already) just practicing it makes me more aware, which is always a good thing.
Everyone who uses STL in Visual Studio 6.0 suffers from those long messages that you can't disable. (It's a compiler bug.) Anyway, we found a way around it. Create a file called "pragmaDisableInvalidWarnings.h" and stick this line in it:
#pragma warning(disable:4786)
rather than include the #pragma in-line in your.CPP. Then,
#include "pragmaDisableInvalidWarnings.h"
in your.CPP above any STL includes, and the magic should take over from there. (I think -- my code that does this is at work and I don't have access to it at this time.)
Isn't that just the most ironic outcome possible? That Karl Rove, Puppeteer Extraordinaire, Viceroy to George the Younger, Prince of the Mayberry Machiavellis, is actually making our democracy stronger and more fair!
What a concept, and who ever would have seen that coming! Wow! "What a country!"
Disney has had odor emitters strategically placed along Main Street in DisneyWorld for over a decade now. They keep a faint scent of chocolate in the air to attract you down Main Street, and even if you don't stop at the chocolate shop, you at least aren't repulsed by the overwhelming scent of two-year-old children in need of diapers.
Obviously I put some politics in that post, but the comment about "false security" is non-partisan. It's about normal politicians (both parties) throwing a "security blanket" over holes. "Real" security hasn't been improved because of the tightened airport security. What has been improved is the public's feelings. After September 11th, the public cried "Do Something!" Congress acted in great haste to pass draconian laws restricting personal liberties (USA PATRIOT) and to throw billions of dollars at everything from airport lobby whiteshirts to closing "critical" streets in small towns to placing armed guards in front of 12 foot thick concrete walls at nuclear power stations.
These measures are window dressing. They inconvenience travellers just enough to make the general population think "thank God somebody is Doing Something!" (In other words, they're trying to do enough to get reelected.)
Anyway, whether or not these measures are effective is subjective. (Since you can't prove a negative, there's no telling just how effective they really have been.) How much they cost, however, is a matter of public record. And Congress has been spending money on security like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse, with no regards as to where those funds come from. So now I get back to politics. Deficit spending is as irresponsible as we can get -- and I blame the politicians who are currently spending our future. The whole "gotta have tax cuts" is the politics here: if you're going to spend a boatload of money, you better have that boatload of money to spend. So either raise my taxes to fill that boat, or don't spend it in the first place. Since the current Congress and Administration has done neither, I blame them for the irresponsible action.
The title was misleading. Since Bush refuses to raise taxes on those of us who can afford it, he's raising the deficit instead. So we get to pay tomorrow for a false sense of security today.
Microsoft is already positioning themselves to take full advantage of "leased software" when it's ready.
They used to call the computer they want you to own 'Palladium,' but now it's the "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA)." It's all based on.NET. The first.NET based OS, Longhorn, will run signed.NET applications without a problem. It will bug the average user to make sure they trust anything unsigned, which seems designed primarily to frighten people away from running unsigned open source applications. The Microsoft applications are then very likely to phone home to make sure their subscription is current. Eventually, TCPA equipped machines won't run native x86 code at all -- it'll have to be.NET assemblies, and they'll all use the on-board crypto chips to validate their licenses. No MP3 players for you, it's DRM right down to the executables as well as the video monitors and speakers.
So get used to Microsoft Office costing you $10.00 a month. To the business world, it initially looks like roughly the same price they're paying for Office upgrades today (about $250 every two years) except the upgrades will just automagically be managed and installed for them. In reality, though, they're out of cool things to add to Office to make the upgrades worth it. A subscription model will keep the revenue flowing even while the software stagnates.
Oh, and one other thing -- you can count on Windows never being a "free" download. What, are you nucking futs? Pay to download, pay to play, pay to run.
"Illegal"? I'd love a reference to a legal citation that says "Microsoft, Inc., is hereby restrained from including anti-virus software in Windows."
Perhaps you mean there may be a contractual obligation between Microsoft and Symantec not to do so, but I doubt it's "illegal."
I suppose it's entirely possible Billy the Gates could be claiming it would be illegal in order to gain pity on poor Microsoft, and "why can't you justice department people just let us write our software to keep our nice users safe?"
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Anyway, I'm just thinking that TiVo's in for the biggest class-action lawsuit ever with this stupid move. People didn't buy TiVos to have the movie companies move into their house, and back-dooring them in like this is sure to backfire.
And I didn't have a problem with the customer service rep on the phone -- once I got to him. The trick was getting to him. I had the phone on hold on the speakerphone for three hours (probably the prime-time hours of 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM CDT) without hearing from anyone other than a recording. It's probably just as well that you didn't answer that night, although I think I had already moved through the stages of anger and denial and had already transcended into acceptance. But I still will take my business to T-Mobile as soon as the opportunity presents itself. I don't want to be in the position of giving money to companies that go out of their way to be stupid about important things like customer service.
Again, I hope the merger treats you well and that you get a system where you're actually able to assist the customers who call in, rather than have to live with the current fecal-smeared-screens for the rest of your days there. If Cingular has any brains at all, they'll bring their customer service application back in-house instead of outsourcing it to someone useless like Siebel who obviously doesn't give a shit. (Any Siebel employees out there want to defend this crap application? Thought not, just checking.) Nothing lights the fires of change like having your ass over the coals, and by being remote Siebel obviously isn't feeling that fire.
At least that's my hope. If not, that's about the time my contracts end and I will be shoveling my money to T-Mobile instead.
Having to work for a company that incredibly short-sighted, stupid and ignorant of their customers must truly make you hate your job. I hope Cingular treats you better, or at least insults your intelligence less. Good luck with the merger.
You get in the car, and now your Bluetooth-enabled phone is using your car's stereo speakers for audio out, and a dashboard mic for audio in. It mutes the stereo when an incoming call comes in, then sounds the ringer. You can configure it to autoanswer or answer when you press the dashboard "phone" button.
If you press the phone button the stereo mutes itself and the phone goes into voice command dialing mode.
The phone never leaves your pocket, and everything just "works" the way you would want it to. No fooling around with a headset that needs to be charged every night, and clipped to your ear like some cheapo Locutus-of-Borg wannabee.
My advice to Cingular on this buyout (if they'd have it?) Completely stomp all AT&T customer-facing EVERYTHING into irretrievable dust, and replace it with Cingular everything. Every drop of software, to the point of formatting any hard drive infested with any AT&T software or marketing. Drop every stupid, confusing plan, and replace it with an equivalent Cingular plan. Burn every marketing brochure, and hang on to the resumes of any former AT&T marketing executive just to ensure they're prominently featured front and center on your blacklist. "Unwanted" posters might not be going too far.
I have had the CRAPPIEST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER from AT&T Wireless. Bar none. I have gotten more useful, helpful, timely and factual information from a WalMart greeter. I can't blame the poor salescreature who I bought my phones from. It's their process that is the most horrendous piece of crap application ever devised by a bunch of marketing VPs. I tell you if any coworker of mine were to emit an application as unfriendly as that they'd be gone in a heartbeat, maybe less. This poor lady had to spend 25 minutes PER PHONE to enter a half page of customer information. Tough stuff, like name, address AND ZIP code. To do that, she had to click through literally dozens of pages of options she couldn't explain to me; she misunderstood (and misguided me) about their confusing plethora of plans, and to top it all off, she was one of two people in the store.
As it was, I waited over an hour just to get to her, then other people had to wait over 90 minutes before my transaction was completed. The reason I don't blame her is when she called the 1-800-DUH number to answer my questions, they couldn't help her either! And she's worked in the store for well over a year. How hard can it be to sell a goddamn phone??? "Push these buttons, pay this amount." God, I'm still burning over that waste of my life.
As far as customer service on their help lines? I don't think so -- I waited over three hours on hold one night to try to get them to fix the plan the saleslady eventually misclicked. If I wasn't locked in an old contract, I'd have dropped them for T-Mobile in a heartbeat. As it was, after all the headaches were added up it seriously would have been worth my time to pay the $174 they would have charged me for an early switch.
Technically, I've had very good luck with AT&T. I'd had steadily improving coverage with my PCS phone for the last three years, so I've no complaints with their network. That is, until I got sucked into their GSM plan ("mMode"). My coverage is now a tiny, tiny area immediately surrounding Minneapolis/St. Paul, although even that's been improving over the last four months. Now, if Cingular just has a decent GPRS plan ... well, a fellow can dream, can't he?
Anyway, when this AT&T contract is up it's "Hello T-Mobile!" and "good riddance to bad rubbish, AT&T Wireless." That is, if Cingular doesn't improve the situation considerably.
As a matter of fact, this is what the ASCAP site's FAQ has to say about general licenses:
Frequently Asked Questions About General Licensing
ASCAP LICENSING OF BUSINESSES
(Nightclubs, Concerts, Hotels, Businesses, etc.)
1. I'm interested in playing music in my restaurant or other business. I know that I need permission for live performances. Do I need permission if I am using only CD's, records, tapes, radio or TV?
Yes, you will need permission to play records or tapes in your establishment. Permission for radio and television transmissions in your business is not needed if the performance is by means of public communication of TV or radio transmissions by eating, drinking, retail or certain other establishments of a certain size which use a limited number of speakers or TVs, and if the reception is not further transmitted (for example, from one room to another) from the place in which it is received, and there is no admission charge. Your local ASCAP licensing manager can discuss your needs and advise how ASCAP can help you.
Groups like ASCAP send representatives around to stores and restaurants today and check out the music they have playing. If they determine that it's coming from a non-broadcast-radio source, they demand vigorish from the store owner. The case I remember (vaguely) found that a restaurant could play live broadcast radio or TV for the enjoyment of its patrons. But they could not tape a radio or TV show and then play the tape at a later time without paying the licensors.
Anyway, the whole reason I bring up the licensing thing is that these groups have already shown their opposition to "useful" recordings of their programming. If MyFi can indeed become "ReplayRadio", you can bet that the audio won't be digitally handed out to you the subscriber. The best you'll be able to hope for is to grab the analog signal somewhere and redigitize it yourself (along with all the crappy artifacts that reencoding brings.) They'll make it as easy as possible to use from their user interface, but as difficult as possible to intercept on the way to the speakers.
I'm sure people don't do that now because virtually all cases I've seen are designed for maximum convection cooling, which means "heat sinks up please"
The only drawback is that every GFCI I've ever played with has tripped for annoyance reasons (pounding a nail for a picture frame, for example) and I'm not sure I want my PC to instantly power down because I dropped a pile of O'Reilly books.
And galvanic corrosion is quite easy to have happen in a watercooling system. Someone inexperienced could screw a copper hose barb into an aluminum GPU block, and it wouldn't take many impurities in the water to have that lead to a leak within a year or two.
The human could screw up on many levels. They could design a bad system. They could purchase mismatched components and believe that a brass fitting from Home Depot is their answer, when all they've done is ensured the early onset of galvanic corrosion. They could purchase aquarium tubing that is not rated for the heat. They could forget to turn the pump on, or hook up a hose when they move it. They could forget to apply thermal paste, or apply too much by making the human error of assumption: "if some is good, more is better." They could forget the anti-corrosive additive to the coolant, thinking the l33t UV dye is all they need.
They could forget to unwrap shipping tape from their radiator or they could forget to apply pipe tape to a joint. They could cross-thread a fitting once (causing hidden damage) and reassemble it correctly, setting themseleves up for a future failure. They could overtighten or undertighten pipe threaded fittings.
And all these failings fall under the generic umbrella of, "OMG, water-cooling? No way! Didn't you hear about Joe, he trashed his dual Athlon-64 because of water cooling!!!" Never mind that Joe is an idiot who thought he could splice a tube with an unclamped hose barb.
By far, the least reliable component is an inexperienced hobbyist assembling a system from scratch. And it's very hard to stick a probability value on Joe Sixpack and still have meaning for someone with half a clue.
I guess I wasn't that far off.
Instead, I now always place the constant on the left hand side of the "comparison" operator:
Now, if I screw this up the compiler catches me first and emits "Error: idiot coder tried to assign a value to a literal"
Even though I've only caught myself once making this error since I adopted the trick, (and yes I know lint and/or warning level 4 will catch this particular mistake already) just practicing it makes me more aware, which is always a good thing.
Check this link for a workaround that I know we use. For whatever reason, declaring a static with an exceedingly long name made it happy.
#pragma warning(disable:4786)
rather than include the #pragma in-line in your .CPP. Then,
#include "pragmaDisableInvalidWarnings.h"
in your .CPP above any STL includes, and the magic should take over from there. (I think -- my code that does this is at work and I don't have access to it at this time.)
What a concept, and who ever would have seen that coming! Wow! "What a country!"
Disney has had odor emitters strategically placed along Main Street in DisneyWorld for over a decade now. They keep a faint scent of chocolate in the air to attract you down Main Street, and even if you don't stop at the chocolate shop, you at least aren't repulsed by the overwhelming scent of two-year-old children in need of diapers.
I'm a beta, so I'm happy leaving these smart thoughts to you.
These measures are window dressing. They inconvenience travellers just enough to make the general population think "thank God somebody is Doing Something!" (In other words, they're trying to do enough to get reelected.)
Anyway, whether or not these measures are effective is subjective. (Since you can't prove a negative, there's no telling just how effective they really have been.) How much they cost, however, is a matter of public record. And Congress has been spending money on security like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse, with no regards as to where those funds come from. So now I get back to politics. Deficit spending is as irresponsible as we can get -- and I blame the politicians who are currently spending our future. The whole "gotta have tax cuts" is the politics here: if you're going to spend a boatload of money, you better have that boatload of money to spend. So either raise my taxes to fill that boat, or don't spend it in the first place. Since the current Congress and Administration has done neither, I blame them for the irresponsible action.
Thanks, George!
Well, you can, anyway. "Batman, off the island!"
They used to call the computer they want you to own 'Palladium,' but now it's the "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA)." It's all based on .NET. The first .NET based OS, Longhorn, will run signed .NET applications without a problem. It will bug the average user to make sure they trust anything unsigned, which seems designed primarily to frighten people away from running unsigned open source applications. The Microsoft applications are then very likely to phone home to make sure their subscription is current. Eventually, TCPA equipped machines won't run native x86 code at all -- it'll have to be .NET assemblies, and they'll all use the on-board crypto chips to validate their licenses. No MP3 players for you, it's DRM right down to the executables as well as the video monitors and speakers.
So get used to Microsoft Office costing you $10.00 a month. To the business world, it initially looks like roughly the same price they're paying for Office upgrades today (about $250 every two years) except the upgrades will just automagically be managed and installed for them. In reality, though, they're out of cool things to add to Office to make the upgrades worth it. A subscription model will keep the revenue flowing even while the software stagnates.
Oh, and one other thing -- you can count on Windows never being a "free" download. What, are you nucking futs? Pay to download, pay to play, pay to run.
Perhaps you mean there may be a contractual obligation between Microsoft and Symantec not to do so, but I doubt it's "illegal."
I suppose it's entirely possible Billy the Gates could be claiming it would be illegal in order to gain pity on poor Microsoft, and "why can't you justice department people just let us write our software to keep our nice users safe?"
Azi: "Yes, I suppose it is."
V: "Be a right shame if somefing were to happen to it, eh?"
Azi: "What?"
V: "Y'know, fings break. Your hard drive could start on fire, coodn' it?"
Azi: "Are you threatening me?"
V: "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just saying, it could get a virus, know what I mean?"