When asked if she had any idea there was something wrong with what she was doing, Megan said, "No, not at all."
Bull, with all the media attention this has gotten, her saying that she didn't know this was wrong is just going to expose the rest of us to more b.s. ad campaigns from the **AA...
Megan's mother Becca doesn't know what to do.
Whip your kid into shape. Repeat after me: Stealing is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Ground her, take away her computer, whatever, get the point across that Stealing is wrong, mmmkay?
"It's unfathomable, I can't believe this is happening to us."
reaaaaallly...
I don't think the fact that she's 15 is a big deal, 12, maybe, but not 15. She knew what she was doing was wrong, and yet she continued. Typical teenage response when you get caugh is "I didn't know..."
I like the sound of this, since I couldn't find any contact information about you, could you point me to where I can read more on your idea and progress?
I could understand if they 'laughed me out' on technical merit, actually understanding what they were laughing about, but this is the same crew that later in the same meeting took suprise to the fact that MS SQL won't run on our huge investment of AIX boxes...:-/
Our company is currently looking for alternative DB's to migrate most of the company onto, trying to bring the company onto just a couple different DB vendors. When they were discussing MS SQL, and IBM's udb, I pitched up the notion of looking at free alternatives, including PostgreSQL... Talk about being laughed out of a meeting...
They honestly are only looking at companies that are going to rape them in yearly fees, though one of the big hopes is to get one that will rape them less violently, they still want to be raped.
Really, the problem was never with the broken router, the problem is that a company that you trusted would potentially compromise your network for a buck...
Fix the router or not, I'll never buy Belkin products again.
Since the kernel hackers aren't going to see royalties off their contributions anyways, maybe they'd be willing to assign their rights to a U.S. company or organization that would be in position to take SCO on with Redhat and the likes...
Now that I think about it, I wish this was around when I was a kid to see my parents faces the first time I put the rfid'd id card on a bus bound for mexico...
Don't you mean 'put out of our misery'... AOL and it's users run around in their own ignorant bliss... Maybe we should support them seceeding from the internet...
that's what I thought, enough complaints about penis enlargment ads or busty-grandma's part 3 will get them to act... afterall, they all but control every piece of advertising that you see on your PC (when your an AOL user), why not "help you out" with this... it's the least they can do.
Doesn't a contract have to be mutually beneficial too?
No, there just has to be consideration, and in this case I think there is (you get to use the tool, you promise not to replicate it)
However, your first point is interesting, how would they know whether you agreed to the license or not? How do they know, or prove, that someone didn't give the jig to you... then they violated the eula, not you... and if you "can't remember" who gave it to you, well then, what agreement is there?
Domainsbyproxy.com (a godaddy.com service, iirc) provides this type of protection. I've been registering my domains with it lately, and they put up all their information on the registration, giving you an email forwarding address (yourdomain.com@domainsbyproxy.com) for someone to contact you...
These issues are common with companies that sell *their* products directly to *their* customers, and yet still don't just give the rebate price right off the actual order. They count on people not claiming the rebate, and they surely make no efforts to ensure you get the rebate.
Mail in rebates make sense when the manufacturer and the retailer are seperate entities, and the manufacturer wants to quickly pass savings to the end consumer, but when it's "buy our product, from us, then mail your reciept back to us, and we'll mail your money back to you" it's a bit hairy...
I understand the issues of leaving tags on or storing pictures of people for longer than needed, which is why I believe this scheme will be excellent as long as photos get deleted upon purchase and that the tags are disabled after leaving the store. Anyone who thinks theres something wrong with that has issues, serious issues (probably self-image and insecurity isses;).
All concepts like this are great if the information that's collected is used as they claim it will be used, but I think that we've seen enough companies with the scruples enough to not do what they claim and use information in a way that we wouldn't approve, all the while claiming "it's deleted in 30 seconds" blah blah...
Like someone else mentioned, it's a trust issue, and in corporate america, you don't trust anyone.
lol... then, when they do respond with a form license, make alterations (retyped, of course) and submit for their approval... send everything certified return reciept requested directly to their legal department...
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Are they (the recipients) trying to create more trouble for themselves? lol..
It's the ESA saying 'if we're wrong, destroy the evidence, don't tell anyone!'
What does it matter that this nuisance industry employs so many people? Who out there sees this as a valuable service besides the companies doing it and the companies that employ them to do it? Does anyone out there welcome these calls?
We ditched our line a year or so ago in favor of cellphones. Now when we get a call we just say it's a cell phone, and no more calls. They come rarely, but still a nuisance.
Such a typical slashdot comment... "the lawyers will come out ahead on this one"
When someone needs a database application written, you don't hear "the dba's and developers will come out ahead on this one", when a house needs moving, you don't hear "the movers will come out ahead on this one"...
They make their money providing the knowledge, effort, research, related services, etc., for this to go through, why shouldn't they get paid?
What do you do for a living? I'm gonna venture that you never undertake anything on a performance basis (i.e. contracting) because it would by hypocritical of you to "come out ahead on this one"...
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When asked if she had any idea there was something wrong with what she was doing, Megan said, "No, not at all."
Bull, with all the media attention this has gotten, her saying that she didn't know this was wrong is just going to expose the rest of us to more b.s. ad campaigns from the **AA...
Megan's mother Becca doesn't know what to do.
Whip your kid into shape. Repeat after me: Stealing is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Ground her, take away her computer, whatever, get the point across that Stealing is wrong, mmmkay?
"It's unfathomable, I can't believe this is happening to us."
reaaaaallly...
I don't think the fact that she's 15 is a big deal, 12, maybe, but not 15. She knew what she was doing was wrong, and yet she continued. Typical teenage response when you get caugh is "I didn't know..."
First off, since they give Kazaa away, where is the money for the ad campaign coming from?
IIRC, it's probably from all that spyware they bundled with Kazaa...
I like the sound of this, since I couldn't find any contact information about you, could you point me to where I can read more on your idea and progress?
I could understand if they 'laughed me out' on technical merit, actually understanding what they were laughing about, but this is the same crew that later in the same meeting took suprise to the fact that MS SQL won't run on our huge investment of AIX boxes... :-/
oh well
Our company is currently looking for alternative DB's to migrate most of the company onto, trying to bring the company onto just a couple different DB vendors. When they were discussing MS SQL, and IBM's udb, I pitched up the notion of looking at free alternatives, including PostgreSQL... Talk about being laughed out of a meeting...
They honestly are only looking at companies that are going to rape them in yearly fees, though one of the big hopes is to get one that will rape them less violently, they still want to be raped.
Oh well..
ISP A hosts kiddie porn site, you find it, report it, they don't remove it because they're not responsible.
Not a good idea. They should be held liable for things on their network that it's proven they know about.
As for things going through their network, I agree with you.
In case you got lost at goatse, of course ...
IP been stolen? Guy looking at you funny? Virtual dog bite you? Come check out the SecondLife law offices of Duey, Cheatem & Howe..
I'll make a killing online..
Really, the problem was never with the broken router, the problem is that a company that you trusted would potentially compromise your network for a buck...
Fix the router or not, I'll never buy Belkin products again.
Since the kernel hackers aren't going to see royalties off their contributions anyways, maybe they'd be willing to assign their rights to a U.S. company or organization that would be in position to take SCO on with Redhat and the likes...
Now that I think about it, I wish this was around when I was a kid to see my parents faces the first time I put the rfid'd id card on a bus bound for mexico...
lol...
Thank god I made it out of school before this came along...
I can just imagine the belt-welts I would have felt had this been around in my time.
Or, I would have stayed in public school... either way it would have hurt.
AOL sucks and should be put out of its misery.
Don't you mean 'put out of our misery'... AOL and it's users run around in their own ignorant bliss... Maybe we should support them seceeding from the internet...
that's what I thought, enough complaints about penis enlargment ads or busty-grandma's part 3 will get them to act... afterall, they all but control every piece of advertising that you see on your PC (when your an AOL user), why not "help you out" with this... it's the least they can do.
Doesn't a contract have to be mutually beneficial too?
No, there just has to be consideration, and in this case I think there is (you get to use the tool, you promise not to replicate it)
However, your first point is interesting, how would they know whether you agreed to the license or not? How do they know, or prove, that someone didn't give the jig to you... then they violated the eula, not you... and if you "can't remember" who gave it to you, well then, what agreement is there?
Domainsbyproxy.com (a godaddy.com service, iirc) provides this type of protection. I've been registering my domains with it lately, and they put up all their information on the registration, giving you an email forwarding address (yourdomain.com@domainsbyproxy.com) for someone to contact you...
These issues are common with companies that sell *their* products directly to *their* customers, and yet still don't just give the rebate price right off the actual order. They count on people not claiming the rebate, and they surely make no efforts to ensure you get the rebate.
Mail in rebates make sense when the manufacturer and the retailer are seperate entities, and the manufacturer wants to quickly pass savings to the end consumer, but when it's "buy our product, from us, then mail your reciept back to us, and we'll mail your money back to you" it's a bit hairy...
they don't change their image every time a new update comes out... you, being the techie of the family, should have done that, though.
just my observation.
I understand the issues of leaving tags on or storing pictures of people for longer than needed, which is why I believe this scheme will be excellent as long as photos get deleted upon purchase and that the tags are disabled after leaving the store. Anyone who thinks theres something wrong with that has issues, serious issues (probably self-image and insecurity isses ;).
All concepts like this are great if the information that's collected is used as they claim it will be used, but I think that we've seen enough companies with the scruples enough to not do what they claim and use information in a way that we wouldn't approve, all the while claiming "it's deleted in 30 seconds" blah blah...
Like someone else mentioned, it's a trust issue, and in corporate america, you don't trust anyone.
lol... then, when they do respond with a form license, make alterations (retyped, of course) and submit for their approval... send everything certified return reciept requested directly to their legal department...
poor clerk...
It would take a million boxen a million years to rewrite pac-man...
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Are they (the recipients) trying to create more trouble for themselves? lol..
It's the ESA saying 'if we're wrong, destroy the evidence, don't tell anyone!'
lol
What does it matter that this nuisance industry employs so many people? Who out there sees this as a valuable service besides the companies doing it and the companies that employ them to do it? Does anyone out there welcome these calls?
We ditched our line a year or so ago in favor of cellphones. Now when we get a call we just say it's a cell phone, and no more calls. They come rarely, but still a nuisance.
Such a typical slashdot comment... "the lawyers will come out ahead on this one"
When someone needs a database application written, you don't hear "the dba's and developers will come out ahead on this one", when a house needs moving, you don't hear "the movers will come out ahead on this one"...
They make their money providing the knowledge, effort, research, related services, etc., for this to go through, why shouldn't they get paid?
What do you do for a living? I'm gonna venture that you never undertake anything on a performance basis (i.e. contracting) because it would by hypocritical of you to "come out ahead on this one"...
Is this MS's answer to secure America, by chance? A bunch of Ashcroft henchies running around blotting D.C.?