My bank (BofA) does this, sorta, through a process that lets me define new credit card numbers attached to my normal card that have a limited lifespan and smaller credit line. It's the only way I buy stuff online (except for my Amazon card that I only use at Amazon)
The problem is that it's cumbersome. Somebody needs a one-click patent for this process.
It would be perfectly right to look at the car where it's parked. You can't get inside, just like you can't login to the WAP and change the config. You can't drive it away, just like you can't steal the WAP.
The fact that looking at a car is utterly useless just goes to show that the analogy is stupid.
And as for ethics, I asked for an IP, I got one. My ethics are completly satisfied.
Although such things would be state specific, I don't believe it is/was illegal to bar smoking from your establishment in states that themselves don't bar it.
Case in point, my uncles "Coffee bar" in Oregon, which doesn't bar smoking. His wife is deathly allergic, so their business -did- ban smoking. Nothing about this was illegal.
The market, however, decided to take their business elsewhere.
Corporations don't speak. They lack the head, the vocal cords, much less the consciousness to engage in human language. They can't even bark like a dog.
People do. People who work for corporations still have their right of free speech.
A warranty is *NOT* the limits of your rights. You have rights beyond the warranty. If you own something, you have the RIGHT to not have it intentionally broken by someone else.
Who said anything of rights? The claim is that Apple did something illegal. If you want to talk rights, then it's simple. Apple has a right to release software.
You also have a right to brick any piece of technology you own, and the manufacturer has a right to not help you fix it. It doesn't matter if the item bricks right as you do something unapproved, or later down the road when you do something approved that reacts badly to the previously engaged in unapproved changes.
You're nuts. The iPhone as purchased continues to work. If you do something to unlock it and it bricks, well you shouldn't have violated the warranty by unlocking it.
You should feel happy that Apple is warning people that if they unlocked the phone they shouldn't install the update. They didn't have to do that.
You can be sure that any iPhone returned for warranty will be checked for unlocking and returned unfixed if found. As has been said many times, you can sue anybody for anything in the US. In this case, you won't win.
Good idea! That way it won't be Nike, the Beaverton OR company that builds plants in third world countries, it will be Nike, the Isle of Mann company instead.
It sounds to me like there is a security problem in allowing any program to write to the iTunes database and have that code executed by the iPod or iPhone. If Microsoft Windows were to let just any program write into the system folder... oh, wait, they do that --- but we laugh at their utter lack of security as a result.
The difference being that I choose when and where to allow my ipod to have intercourse with a computer allowing that database to be written. Just because I want my ipod to breed with a bohemian like Linux is my own business, even if it means the results of such unions are not accepted and are refused registration papers.
I want to illegally download television rather than purchasing it. Particularly at the price points offered. I'd pay a grand total of absolutely nothing to watch Daily Show/Colbert report, for example.
On the other hand, I wouldn't bother stripping out starting/ending commercials either. Of course, I don't promise to pay attention to them, and commercials in the middle of the show would definitely get me moving the slider past them.
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My bank (BofA) does this, sorta, through a process that lets me define new credit card numbers attached to my normal card that have a limited lifespan and smaller credit line. It's the only way I buy stuff online (except for my Amazon card that I only use at Amazon)
The problem is that it's cumbersome. Somebody needs a one-click patent for this process.
It would be perfectly right to look at the car where it's parked. You can't get inside, just like you can't login to the WAP and change the config. You can't drive it away, just like you can't steal the WAP.
The fact that looking at a car is utterly useless just goes to show that the analogy is stupid.
And as for ethics, I asked for an IP, I got one. My ethics are completly satisfied.
When their WAP provides you an IP address, you have express permission.
This whole analogy to a car has to stop. It's not even close.
You do not take possession of a wifi AP. It stays exactly where it is, still available for use by the owner - or anybody else.
Although such things would be state specific, I don't believe it is/was illegal to bar smoking from your establishment in states that themselves don't bar it.
Case in point, my uncles "Coffee bar" in Oregon, which doesn't bar smoking. His wife is deathly allergic, so their business -did- ban smoking. Nothing about this was illegal.
The market, however, decided to take their business elsewhere.
Do you really want all your data in "shared resources"?
Yes. Flat out lies should be allowed. It's nobodies fault but your own if you believe them.
Now slander, on the other hand, that's a crime.
The gov't should not be able to penalize speech. You can boycott the speaker, but you can't sue them for speech.
There is nothing wrong with a human speaking for their company. It's still a human speaking, one with protections of the first amendment.
Until you work to alleviate those protections.
And no free speech for their employees either!
I mean, that's what you meant right?
This is for a simple reason: You cannot charge a corporation with a criminal felony.
You charge people with these crimes.
Oh but wouldn't it be grand if it was!
Corporations don't speak. They lack the head, the vocal cords, much less the consciousness to engage in human language. They can't even bark like a dog.
People do. People who work for corporations still have their right of free speech.
That's just because our culture, society, and gov't are better than yours.
YEAH, DO IT! I'VE GOT KARMA TO SPARE.
A warranty is *NOT* the limits of your rights. You have rights beyond the warranty. If you own something, you have the RIGHT to not have it intentionally broken by someone else.
Who said anything of rights? The claim is that Apple did something illegal. If you want to talk rights, then it's simple. Apple has a right to release software.
You also have a right to brick any piece of technology you own, and the manufacturer has a right to not help you fix it. It doesn't matter if the item bricks right as you do something unapproved, or later down the road when you do something approved that reacts badly to the previously engaged in unapproved changes.
That rock is missing wifi, so can not be described as "feature full"
Statutory rights to use, abuse, tear, twist, or mutilate any object they own.
Doing so simply breaks the warranty.
You're nuts. The iPhone as purchased continues to work. If you do something to unlock it and it bricks, well you shouldn't have violated the warranty by unlocking it.
You should feel happy that Apple is warning people that if they unlocked the phone they shouldn't install the update. They didn't have to do that.
You can be sure that any iPhone returned for warranty will be checked for unlocking and returned unfixed if found. As has been said many times, you can sue anybody for anything in the US. In this case, you won't win.
First thing that happens is the laptop gets wiped.
Good idea! That way it won't be Nike, the Beaverton OR company that builds plants in third world countries, it will be Nike, the Isle of Mann company instead.
Good show!
I never understood why the iPod became so immensely popular compared to other personal players in the first place.
I can't explain about why in the past, but for the future, there is just one word: iTouch. Give me -every-single-option- from somebody else.
Of course, not having a phone headset and Skype or other VOIP options for when wifi is available is simply criminal.
It sounds to me like there is a security problem in allowing any program to write to the iTunes database and have that code executed by the iPod or iPhone. If Microsoft Windows were to let just any program write into the system folder... oh, wait, they do that --- but we laugh at their utter lack of security as a result.
The difference being that I choose when and where to allow my ipod to have intercourse with a computer allowing that database to be written. Just because I want my ipod to breed with a bohemian like Linux is my own business, even if it means the results of such unions are not accepted and are refused registration papers.
I want to illegally download television rather than purchasing it. Particularly at the price points offered. I'd pay a grand total of absolutely nothing to watch Daily Show/Colbert report, for example.
On the other hand, I wouldn't bother stripping out starting/ending commercials either. Of course, I don't promise to pay attention to them, and commercials in the middle of the show would definitely get me moving the slider past them.
Need a "-1 Angry Young Man Syndrome" moderation option.
You would be correct sir, if we were talking about an environment with gravity.
However, since we are not, your plan would be as likely to empty at least one tank while filling the rest as to equalize the fuel between them.