he continues to experience "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money,"
the jury won't insult him by offering him money to soothe his feelings.
His injury is nothing compared with mine. I didn't invent anything like an iphone so just think how I feel. I don't even have a chance of suing Apple. I'm gutted.
There's every reason to want the results to seem as severe as possible because that drives [Blancco] sales. While not necessarily invalidating the results, it's like trusting Coca-Cola to impartially study the effects of sugary drinks on health.. [etc],
It does not matter what the exact percentage is. The point is that many people sell used HDDs with data still present and that people should be more careful; would you argue with that? I can vouch that people do sell used HDDs with data on, having bought a few myself, and even if I happened to buy the only used HDDs ever to be sold in the World with data on them, unlikely as that is, the message to be careful is still valid.
Your claimed parallel with Coca-Cola etc is not a true one. The data on HDDs is a binary issue (will the HDD you are selling have data or not). With sugary drinks it is a matter of degree (we and doctors can argue all night and day as to how much sugar becomes significantly harmfull).
"[the] Justice Department has vastly expanded the scope of the law, turning it from a weapon against the nation's enemies to one that's pointed against its own citizens"
That is inevitable if you have given citizenship to people such as militant muslims who hate your (and now their own) country, and only became citizens of it in the first place to further their activities against it. It follows from having "cultural diversity", "a vibrant mix", or whatever BS phrase the one-worlders currently favour.
According to the Linux evangelists here, Linux is better at everything and can do no wrong./p>
Nope. There is plenty that's wrong with Linux. Trouble is, there is even more wrong with the alternatives. Then perhaps I am just a Linux user, not an evangelist.
Anyway, its no surprise that Windows is still better at games.
I have seen people park in driveways with the car in gear without the parking brake engaged, and come out later to find their car in the middle of the street. It didn't happen instantly when they got out of the car - it took a while for the cylinder compression to give way
Indeed. What happens when you first park the car on an incline is that the engine will hold it by compression of air in one or two cylinders. But cylinders are not 100% airtight and the air will leak away, allowing engine to turn if the incline is steep enough. Only the friction of the engine and drive train will resist movement in the longer term.
Putting a MT car in a gear when parked is only a back-up to the handbrake (as we call them in the UK). It means that if the handbrake fails (cable snaps say) the car will at worse roll slower than it would have done in neutral.
A row of 5 buttons would make more sense but not appeal to Jeep's macho image.
Not sure how one button looks more macho than 5 buttons.....
Anyway, a macho image would be better served by a purely mechanical lever looking like one from an old-style railway signal box. In fact like the transfer case lever in my old Jeep Cherokee - you could feel and hear the gears bite.
This was an advisory referendum only, with no force of law. The United Kingdom is not obligated to leave the EU.
I expect what will happen is that the UK government will say:-
"We have heard what people have said and will take on board their views by fiddling at the edges of our membership terms and conditions. But we cannot possible leave because our economic model is now based on continuously stuffing low-paid immigrant workers into the bottom level of our economy, for example to wipe the arses of us senior politicians when we are in old-folks homes. We must take ever more and more immigrants because our economy is like a man teetering on a tightrope who has to run faster and faster to try to stop falling off. And all those immigrant Polish builders would have nothing to do if we did not have more immigrants requiring houses, would they?"
unless we fix our own xenophobic problems by ourselves, the world will be looking at the UK and USA for examples of what happens when you let xenophobia take over the country.
As opposed to examples of what happens when you let aliens take over the country? Or could we just ask the American Indians that question? Or see what happened to the Romans in the fifth century?
[The older generation] won't enjoy much of the economic progress that can come in the future. It is typical for the much older generation to vote in their favor which is usually not the best in the long run, whereas someone younger will vote in their best interest which includes the long term.
You are kidding yourself. Very few people, old or young, vote for anything but their own short term interest. And why you should think that young people would see the EU as advantageous to themselves either short or lng term I cannot imagine. Several I know are just angry at seeing jobs they apply for being given preferably to immigrants (because the bosses assume immigrants will be more pliable?).
Younger people tend to be more pro-EU because they see it vaguely as more one-worldish, whereas older people have learned to see through the bullshit of one-worldism. One of their worries of a younger Bremain supporter (expressed on another website) was that the UK may no longer be allowed to enter the Eurovision song contest. FFS!
Why did they switch from the former to the latter then? (And if it wasn't their own choice, what forced them to do it? Honest question, not rhetorical).
False promises, misunderstanding, failure to consider all factors involved, broken promises, news from relatives already switched who do not want to lose face and admit they were wrong, and so on and so on.
if you complete a Direct Debit form in the UK, then a company can take money from your account, but if you complain to the bank then the Direct Debit Guarantee means that they will immediately, and without question, reverse the transaction.
Have you actually tried it? Because that is not what I read in that guarantee. It says that you get repaid if there is an error. Here is the wording:-
"If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by the organisation or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund"
In other words you must show there is an error, which is not the same thing as simply complaining. If the bank or merchant do not agree there is an error then you could have a long struggle ahead.
It should not even be necessary for the guarantee to say you will be repaid if there is an error. That is a legal requirement in any transaction, even at a market stall. The very fact the DD guarantee even says this makes me suspicious of it. What it is really saying is that you have a right to complain, but don't we all?
How can he be a "Consumerist" if he does boneheaded like give a company the ability to make withdraws from his checking account at will?
I don't know about the USA, but in the UK it is no longer reasonably possible to be the customer of an ISP or telecoms company without a Direct Debit arrangement. Well, it is possible but gnerally with a stinging "admin" charge. I can understand an admin charge for cheques, as they require human handling, but not for electronic transfers.
Well, you don't need to worry about delivery while someone is out. If your delivery is within 30 minutes you can deliver direct to the person rather than to an empty house.
That should work well. So I am in a meeting at work and the drone flies in the window or up the corridor to dump my mail on the table before me. Or I walking along a street and it is dropped on me like confetee.
Clearly, it is the responsibility of manufacturers to ensure that every design they ever produce is conducive to users performing any conceivable repair or replacement operation, regardless of hazard, liability, functionality, or reason.
It is up to the owner to decide what is conceivable or reasonable. Regarding hazardous, not everywhere in the world has the same silly legal system as the USA does, where apparently if Person A sticks a knife in Person B, then B can sue the knife manufacturer.
Never mind that the manufacturer's system is only functional with the manufacturer's parts
Not generally true, and would be even less so if things were easier to repair. In the world of cars there is a big industry independent of the original car makers making spare car parts.
or that there are other contracts (including service agreements) on other parts of the system
We are discussing repairing stuff out of warranty here as an alternative to tossing into the skip. We don't care about invalidating other service agreements..
We could repair our electronics in 1985, and nothing should change since then!
The change we are objecting to is the deliberate obstruction of repair work. We accept that you cannot repair one of the million transistors inside a CPU chip like you could have repaired a 1950's radio by replacing a blown valve, but there is no technical reason and no ethical reason why you should be deliberately obstructed from replacing the CPU as a sub-assembly
The hivemind [Slashdot] couldn't be wrong, could it?
You are a member of a bigger hive mind - the general public one. Joe Sixpack is terrified by the idea of repairing anything, and even thinks that it might be illegal. That is why he is rolling over or is oblivious of this issue. Plus his obsession with the "slimness" of his i-stuff which does not help repairability. He wants his i-Thing to be a magic box of which only an Arch-Mage living on the other side of the rainbow knows the secret, and things like visible screws undermine his cosy fantasy. That would not matter if the last-year's smart phone or laptop he tosses into the recycling skip could be salvaged and repaired by someone who is not afraid of Joe's Arch-Mage. If it cannot be repaired however it is just a waste of world resources.
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Both are more logical than you might think. They just start with different premises.
Twenty years of Internet advertising an eBay still haven't figured out that if I've just bought a widget, I don't want another of the same widget.
But you do! eBay knows that you bought crap and it needs replacing already.
he continues to experience "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money,"
the jury won't insult him by offering him money to soothe his feelings.
His injury is nothing compared with mine. I didn't invent anything like an iphone so just think how I feel. I don't even have a chance of suing Apple. I'm gutted.
I don't know why anyone would retire a drive with private data on it without destroying it.
Because it will fetch something on ebay? Because it is wasteful to destroy something that is perfectly good?
There's every reason to want the results to seem as severe as possible because that drives [Blancco] sales. While not necessarily invalidating the results, it's like trusting Coca-Cola to impartially study the effects of sugary drinks on health .. [etc],
It does not matter what the exact percentage is. The point is that many people sell used HDDs with data still present and that people should be more careful; would you argue with that? I can vouch that people do sell used HDDs with data on, having bought a few myself, and even if I happened to buy the only used HDDs ever to be sold in the World with data on them, unlikely as that is, the message to be careful is still valid.
Your claimed parallel with Coca-Cola etc is not a true one. The data on HDDs is a binary issue (will the HDD you are selling have data or not). With sugary drinks it is a matter of degree (we and doctors can argue all night and day as to how much sugar becomes significantly harmfull).
FTFA :-
Microsoft officials said they are making the change "in response to customer feedback.
New keyboard when I read that part. Microsoft's term for being sued is "Customer feedback"
. . . I don't use Facebook
Yes, but please allow us to have a laugh at those who do.
Satan is holding a contest between Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle.... At present, unusually, Microsoft is trailing
No, Microsoft are so far ahead that the commentators have lost interest in it; the newcomers to the race are just more interesting.
I thought that, to be pardoned, you have to have been found guilty of, or pleaded guilty to, something in a court of law.
I believe that is correct. The most that could be done for Snowden is to drop charges against him. The whole story here is BS.
"[the] Justice Department has vastly expanded the scope of the law, turning it from a weapon against the nation's enemies to one that's pointed against its own citizens"
That is inevitable if you have given citizenship to people such as militant muslims who hate your (and now their own) country, and only became citizens of it in the first place to further their activities against it. It follows from having "cultural diversity", "a vibrant mix", or whatever BS phrase the one-worlders currently favour.
According to the Linux evangelists here, Linux is better at everything and can do no wrong./p>
Nope. There is plenty that's wrong with Linux. Trouble is, there is even more wrong with the alternatives. Then perhaps I am just a Linux user, not an evangelist.
Anyway, its no surprise that Windows is still better at games.
I have seen people park in driveways with the car in gear without the parking brake engaged, and come out later to find their car in the middle of the street. It didn't happen instantly when they got out of the car - it took a while for the cylinder compression to give way
Indeed. What happens when you first park the car on an incline is that the engine will hold it by compression of air in one or two cylinders. But cylinders are not 100% airtight and the air will leak away, allowing engine to turn if the incline is steep enough. Only the friction of the engine and drive train will resist movement in the longer term.
Putting a MT car in a gear when parked is only a back-up to the handbrake (as we call them in the UK). It means that if the handbrake fails (cable snaps say) the car will at worse roll slower than it would have done in neutral.
A row of 5 buttons would make more sense but not appeal to Jeep's macho image.
Not sure how one button looks more macho than 5 buttons .....
Anyway, a macho image would be better served by a purely mechanical lever looking like one from an old-style railway signal box. In fact like the transfer case lever in my old Jeep Cherokee - you could feel and hear the gears bite.
This was an advisory referendum only, with no force of law. The United Kingdom is not obligated to leave the EU.
I expect what will happen is that the UK government will say :-
"We have heard what people have said and will take on board their views by fiddling at the edges of our membership terms and conditions. But we cannot possible leave because our economic model is now based on continuously stuffing low-paid immigrant workers into the bottom level of our economy, for example to wipe the arses of us senior politicians when we are in old-folks homes. We must take ever more and more immigrants because our economy is like a man teetering on a tightrope who has to run faster and faster to try to stop falling off. And all those immigrant Polish builders would have nothing to do if we did not have more immigrants requiring houses, would they?"
unless we fix our own xenophobic problems by ourselves, the world will be looking at the UK and USA for examples of what happens when you let xenophobia take over the country.
As opposed to examples of what happens when you let aliens take over the country? Or could we just ask the American Indians that question? Or see what happened to the Romans in the fifth century?
[The older generation] won't enjoy much of the economic progress that can come in the future. It is typical for the much older generation to vote in their favor which is usually not the best in the long run, whereas someone younger will vote in their best interest which includes the long term.
You are kidding yourself. Very few people, old or young, vote for anything but their own short term interest. And why you should think that young people would see the EU as advantageous to themselves either short or lng term I cannot imagine. Several I know are just angry at seeing jobs they apply for being given preferably to immigrants (because the bosses assume immigrants will be more pliable?).
Younger people tend to be more pro-EU because they see it vaguely as more one-worldish, whereas older people have learned to see through the bullshit of one-worldism. One of their worries of a younger Bremain supporter (expressed on another website) was that the UK may no longer be allowed to enter the Eurovision song contest. FFS!
Why did they switch from the former to the latter then? (And if it wasn't their own choice, what forced them to do it? Honest question, not rhetorical).
False promises, misunderstanding, failure to consider all factors involved, broken promises, news from relatives already switched who do not want to lose face and admit they were wrong, and so on and so on.
if you complete a Direct Debit form in the UK, then a company can take money from your account, but if you complain to the bank then the Direct Debit Guarantee means that they will immediately, and without question, reverse the transaction.
Have you actually tried it? Because that is not what I read in that guarantee. It says that you get repaid if there is an error. Here is the wording :-
"If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by the organisation or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund"
In other words you must show there is an error, which is not the same thing as simply complaining. If the bank or merchant do not agree there is an error then you could have a long struggle ahead.
It should not even be necessary for the guarantee to say you will be repaid if there is an error. That is a legal requirement in any transaction, even at a market stall. The very fact the DD guarantee even says this makes me suspicious of it. What it is really saying is that you have a right to complain, but don't we all?
How can he be a "Consumerist" if he does boneheaded like give a company the ability to make withdraws from his checking account at will?
I don't know about the USA, but in the UK it is no longer reasonably possible to be the customer of an ISP or telecoms company without a Direct Debit arrangement. Well, it is possible but gnerally with a stinging "admin" charge. I can understand an admin charge for cheques, as they require human handling, but not for electronic transfers.
Well, you don't need to worry about delivery while someone is out. If your delivery is within 30 minutes you can deliver direct to the person rather than to an empty house.
That should work well. So I am in a meeting at work and the drone flies in the window or up the corridor to dump my mail on the table before me. Or I walking along a street and it is dropped on me like confetee.
Clearly, it is the responsibility of manufacturers to ensure that every design they ever produce is conducive to users performing any conceivable repair or replacement operation, regardless of hazard, liability, functionality, or reason.
It is up to the owner to decide what is conceivable or reasonable. Regarding hazardous, not everywhere in the world has the same silly legal system as the USA does, where apparently if Person A sticks a knife in Person B, then B can sue the knife manufacturer.
Never mind that the manufacturer's system is only functional with the manufacturer's parts
Not generally true, and would be even less so if things were easier to repair. In the world of cars there is a big industry independent of the original car makers making spare car parts.
or that there are other contracts (including service agreements) on other parts of the system
We are discussing repairing stuff out of warranty here as an alternative to tossing into the skip. We don't care about invalidating other service agreements. .
We could repair our electronics in 1985, and nothing should change since then!
The change we are objecting to is the deliberate obstruction of repair work. We accept that you cannot repair one of the million transistors inside a CPU chip like you could have repaired a 1950's radio by replacing a blown valve, but there is no technical reason and no ethical reason why you should be deliberately obstructed from replacing the CPU as a sub-assembly
The hivemind [Slashdot] couldn't be wrong, could it?
You are a member of a bigger hive mind - the general public one. Joe Sixpack is terrified by the idea of repairing anything, and even thinks that it might be illegal. That is why he is rolling over or is oblivious of this issue. Plus his obsession with the "slimness" of his i-stuff which does not help repairability. He wants his i-Thing to be a magic box of which only an Arch-Mage living on the other side of the rainbow knows the secret, and things like visible screws undermine his cosy fantasy. That would not matter if the last-year's smart phone or laptop he tosses into the recycling skip could be salvaged and repaired by someone who is not afraid of Joe's Arch-Mage. If it cannot be repaired however it is just a waste of world resources.
Sure, I don't mind a public system as long as it can have a car in my driveway the instant I open the front door.
....... and it is not full of the previous night's user's drunken vomit and condom.
Thanks for pointing that out.
When I saw that car I immediately thought of pimps and African country tyrants
And the guy in the video backs that up.
24 years ago? That's 1992. No public Internet. No smartphones. No Windows 95 .....
Ruined my keyboard when I got to "No Windows 95". A good reminder of how tech can go downhill as well as up..