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  1. Just to think, we get hate speech eliminating AI and cold fusion in the same year!

  2. I can print any TOS on one A4 page.

    Provided I have a good enough printer with enough resolution, that is...

  3. Re:No warranties for you on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No problem. Unless you want to sell anything over here in Europe because simply saying "selling this as-is, no warranty, if you break it, you get to keep both parts and that's that" works for software, but nothing else.

  4. Re:What about Security Features? on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh please, their own hardware is so easily fooled that anything you could replace it with can only be an improvement in security.

  5. Re:I can't agree with this. on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why our law over here recognizes two distinct cases with these stickers: Parts and assembly (more to the point: warranty and guarantees).

    The warranty of parts cannot be voided by removing the stickers (unless you start removing stickers from the parts themselves), but the warranty on the assembly can be voided. Or at least it would be on your to prove now what the CPU cooler was mounted the wrong way after you cooked off your i7. With intact stickers, there is no way the shop can weasel out of paying for it because obviously THEY made an assembly error. With the stickers gone, you have a hard time proving that it wasn't you trying to "improve" something in the way they put it together, botching it and toasting your CPU.

  6. Yeah, yeah, grenades are a lot like a marriage.

    Ring gone - house gone

  7. Re:Damn Trump and his minions! on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everything. He ain't been in office long enough for that.

    But it's curious, a lot of things that he did backfired badly.

  8. Re:what about hard drives on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because the law recognizes that if you do not have the proper skill or equipment to repair a device and break it in the process of an attempted repair due to faulty equipment (like, say, using a non-clean room), you're allowed to keep both pieces but that's it.

  9. Re: I hope they fine Tesla. on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And living in a sensible country I can as well, knowing that pretty much all in the EULA is null and void due to being a contract only presented after the deal has been sealed, which is illegal.

  10. Re:I hope they fine Tesla. on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So they only tell you in the second semester that laws trump contracts?

  11. Re:Let's track Hyundai :) on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, then it's case closed. I mean, when have you ever felt that you actually own a console (or hell, a game) you bought? DRM is at the point where you should be lucky that it at least plays... at least for the time the maker allows it to, that is.

  12. Re:They made him wear a suit on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're giving fake answers you can as well look like a fake.

  13. Re:We don't spy on you on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You left out "or have friends that use facebook".

  14. Re:This, but not that on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The difference is maybe that the data breech in those other cases was a damage to the ones losing the data, too, while Facebook's very business model is based on doing just what happened.

  15. Re:Anyone that trusts facebook is asking for it on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It is.

    Out of curiosity, do you pronounce your first name h'cs or hc's?

  16. Re:"We do, while you are taking a video" on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you sure?

    Zuck is beyond getting the benefit of doubt. If it looks like he's weaseling out of a question, he's weaseling out of a question.

  17. Re:00000000 on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ...if your provider lets you control it. More and more you're forced to use your provider's modem and they, not you, decide whether your WiFi is on.

  18. Re:Could you run this by a security department? on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as we let idiots run our companies and even the world, how could you resist?

  19. Re:If I'm being honest... on YouTube Hack: Several High-Profile Videos Mysteriously Disappear From Platform, Some Defaced · · Score: 1

    And 5, it's not loud enough.

  20. Re:Biometrics as login or as password ? on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, you should be good for 9 changes. The tenth could be a bit hard unless you're from Alabama.

  21. Re:00000000 on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Say, how exactly do you connect to the internet? Could it be that your modem connects using a username and password? You might not have seen it, ever, but that doesn't mean it ain't there. And can be abused for nefarious activities that will finally be pegged to you, the rightful user of that account.

  22. Could you run this by a security department? on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Or are you afraid of going deaf because of the volume of the "OH HELL NO!" that will be yelled at you?

    Are you nuts? Seriously, I'm asking. Are you nuts? Who is idiot enough to, after the past YEARS of identity theft and privacy abuse, even suggest something like this? And how much faith in the idiocy of humanity does it take to expect people to actually WANT this?

    I'm not even going for the obvious "identification != authentication". It's been shown time and again that it's trivially easy to bypass biometric scans, at least user-grade devices that do it. And you want me to trust my banking to something like this?

    I have to ask again: Are you stupid?

    Or do you just think I am?

  23. Re:Fair Weather Federalists on Oregon Becomes Second State To Pass a Net Neutrality Law (katu.com) · · Score: 1

    So because roads may be used by everyone I have to let everyone use my parking lot, too, and can't limit its use to my customers?

  24. Re:Build the base first, then expand on Your Future Home Might Be Powered By Car Batteries (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Dammit, I neglected something that could be nitpicked about.

  25. Re:Power versus weight versus space on Your Future Home Might Be Powered By Car Batteries (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really care how much the "power plant" of your home weighs? I mean, beyond the capabilities of the foundation you put it on, of course.