Fucking slashdot. I wrote a long reply to this and it wouldn't preview and just vanished.
Nope. Lifetime of the BOX. See their terms below.
Anyway I have 2 Tivos, a series 1 (running practically non stop for 9+ years) and a series 2. Both dial up (the series 2 has unsecured network connectivity but I don't have a network connection nearby) . I bought these because of the lifetime subscription. In the US, if they try to pull this, I would be pissed off. And I suspect many others too.
From their contract (current version on the US site): Product Lifetime Subscription includes a subscription to the TiVo service for the useable life of the TiVo DVR you buy – not the life of the subscriber – and may not be transferred to another TiVo DVR. A Product Lifetime Subscription accompanies the TiVo DVR it is associated with in case of ownership transfer of that TiVo DVR. For more information on Product Lifetime Subscriptions, please refer to the TiVo Service Agreement. Of course, hardware products don't last forever and their lifespan will vary. TiVo makes no warranties or representations as to the expected lifetime of the TiVo DVR (aside from the manufacturer's Limited Warranty).
Now, Tivo uses the words 'useable life' , and I guess they could use that phrase to wiggle out and say 'we mean 'useable' to mean until we decide we don't want to support it anymore', but all their advertising says/implies that it will be supported for the lifetime of the unit.
If my boxes become as useful as bricks to me (actually less useful, they'd make poor building materials) then I will be very angry at Tivo. Of course, they might not give a shit about people like me who bought lifetime licenses for less than $200 and expect them to be valid for 10 years, but then they shouldn't have offered the deal in the first place in that case. And in practice I won't have a legal recourse because I am just a man in the street and no legal department.
I am amazed if this technology can deliver what it is being portrayed as being capable of, that no one else is doing this. Wired had an article on this over a year ago which I found fascinating. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes
The other most common approaches that have worked in the past are to show that the defendant will not receive a fair trial or that the 'crime' is not considered as such in the UK....
"+" is shorthand for the international access code, wherever you happen to be. In the UK (IIRC) it's short for "00". If you were in the US it would translate to "011". Etc. Etc. Etc.
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Fucking slashdot. I wrote a long reply to this and it wouldn't preview and just vanished.
Nope. Lifetime of the BOX. See their terms below.
Anyway I have 2 Tivos, a series 1 (running practically non stop for 9+ years) and a series 2. Both dial up (the series 2 has unsecured network connectivity but I don't have a network connection nearby) . I bought these because of the lifetime subscription. In the US, if they try to pull this, I would be pissed off. And I suspect many others too.
From their contract (current version on the US site):
Product Lifetime Subscription includes a subscription to the TiVo service for the useable life of the TiVo DVR you buy – not the life of the subscriber – and may not be transferred to another TiVo DVR. A Product Lifetime Subscription accompanies the TiVo DVR it is associated with in case of ownership transfer of that TiVo DVR. For more information on Product Lifetime Subscriptions, please refer to the TiVo Service Agreement. Of course, hardware products don't last forever and their lifespan will vary. TiVo makes no warranties or representations as to the expected lifetime of the TiVo DVR (aside from the manufacturer's Limited Warranty).
Now, Tivo uses the words 'useable life' , and I guess they could use that phrase to wiggle out and say 'we mean 'useable' to mean until we decide we don't want to support it anymore', but all their advertising says/implies that it will be supported for the lifetime of the unit.
If my boxes become as useful as bricks to me (actually less useful, they'd make poor building materials) then I will be very angry at Tivo. Of course, they might not give a shit about people like me who bought lifetime licenses for less than $200 and expect them to be valid for 10 years, but then they shouldn't have offered the deal in the first place in that case. And in practice I won't have a legal recourse because I am just a man in the street and no legal department.
IANAAFanboi, but my ATV2 runs XBMC and plays all the stuff I own. I never connect to the Apple store.
Overpriced? Best value XBMC hardware device on the planet.
More like dog shit calling horse shit smelly.
Maybe actually packet trace the phone and see if there is data transfer, and how much?
It means space is big. Really big.
And I thought it was a long way down the road to the chemists, but apparently that's just peanuts.
I am amazed if this technology can deliver what it is being portrayed as being capable of, that no one else is doing this. Wired had an article on this over a year ago which I found fascinating. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes
He needs to buck up and get a move on. He was born in 1938, at this rate he'll be long dead before he finishes...
Absolutely. I would think the figure much closer to 99%.
Well that didn't take long.
http://www.ifixit.com/iPhone-Parts/iPhone-4-Liberation-Kit/IF182-019
The Chinese will probably get their Dreamliner copy on sale before Boeing!
Yes, so they can charge extra for the barf bags!
Wow, first time I've heard Google be the 'little guy'!
The other most common approaches that have worked in the past are to show that the defendant will not receive a fair trial or that the 'crime' is not considered as such in the UK ....
Tell that to Gary McKinnon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
If this is private and confidential information, shouldn't it be already be published on Wikileaks?
As long as it was all channeled thorugh the front deflector, of course.
The moon was "locked away" but we went there, didn't we?
That's different. That was America that went to the moon. So that was OK. This is Russia, so it's Bad.
You sir should be modded to +6.
Yeah. What a silly bunt.
Bollocks.
Tell that to the TSA guy next time you travel. See if you get through without taking off your shoes.
"+" is shorthand for the international access code, wherever you happen to be. In the UK (IIRC) it's short for "00". If you were in the US it would translate to "011". Etc. Etc. Etc.
There is a plural of Pus. Pusii. Not often known or experienced here though.
Right. We used to melt rocks into Aluminium (or Aluminum) using 4.5V. The 400,000A of current certainly helped.
If you think your BB information is private in the US and probably Canada, you're living in cloud cuckoo land (wherever that is).
There's no way the US would allow a public communications system they could not get into.