Civil law deals with fraud, malice and bad faith. I'm not so sure that it's there to give any reasonable, educated person of average intellect (which is what the law calls the "uninformed masses") with an Undo button for their voluntary actions. That's certainly not how it works in criminal statues.
Oh, I thought I could just sell this iPhone I "found". Undo. Wait, getting into a consensual bar fight means we're both guilty of affray? Undo. The speed limit here is 30, officer? Undo.
If ignorance of the law is not an excuse, general purpose ignorance probably isn't either.
how are people dumb enough (or just ignorant enough) to click on spam in 20-freakin-10?
Not spam, phishing.
I used to receive barely literate mail shots, with my bank's domain in the "From:" field. Tracking back the IP revealed that the sender was a 3rd party with a domain registered to a caravan (trailer) park.
When I reported this to my bank as either a phishing attempt, or breathtakingly bad practice on their part, I got a snotty reply saying that this was a genuine mailshot via a 3rd party, and that this (by which they implicitly meant "faking headers") was standard practice. They genuinely could not understand why I had a problem with them sending out exactly the sort of faked email that they were regularly warning me about.
Needless to say, I changed banks shorty afterwards, but the lesson is that the line between legit and fraudulent is thin and wiggly.
I've just found a way of easily opening and starting your Ford using common household tools.
I'd love to tell you how it's done so that you can take measures to protect yourself, but you know, it would be irresponsible of me to give you that information.
No, the responsible thing to do is to let Ford know, secretly, and give them as much time as they need to investigate it and issue a recall to fix the problem. If they feel like admitting to it. And if they don't, I'll keep quiet indefinitely, just in case I'm the only person in the world who can figure it out, ever.
If your Ford gets being stolen in the meantime because someone else figured it out, or already knew, then that's just an acceptable consequence of my responsibility, which is apparently to Ford, the company that created the problem in the first place and profited by selling a defective product, not to you, Ford's customer, the victim.
the HD isn't a part that Apple manufactures so they don't have control over the quality of it.
Wow, really? So if the suspension collapses on my Ford, they can say "Yahbut, the springs were made by Ching Chong Springs, Kibbles and Toilet Paper Conglomerate, so what's that got to do with us?" I didn't think things worked that way, but you're clearly an expect on consumer tort law, so I'll bow to your superior knowledge.
The National Risk Register, established in 2008 to identify different dangers to Britain, also has "comprehensive" plans on how to handle a complete outage of electricity supplies.
Yes, secret plans. Don't worry, when we need to know, they'll be disseminated, presumably by a network of tin cans and bits of string, with a smoke signal backup system.
In the context of the Amazon 1984 debacle, the GP is clearly talking about access to the "physical media (sic)" , not the rights to duplicate the content, you patronising jackass.
Please, name one country USA invaded since World War II, where American intervention brought democracy and freedom? In fact please, just name a country they invaded where the situation actually improved?
Panama. Bosnia. Also, you could ask any citizen of South Korea whether they'd rather be part of North Korea.
Or 10 years ago on an iPaq. Or 23 years ago on an NCD. And I'll bet someone will be out in a moment to tell me to get off their lawn and come up with an earlier example.
Ah, Latin, as they have a lot of revolutions in Latin America. Your logic is impeccable. After the uprising, you shall be God Emperor. Start choosing your concubines now.
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Yes, I certainly agree that's how the law should work. Also, Felicia Day should be bringing me my pony any second now.
Civil law deals with fraud, malice and bad faith. I'm not so sure that it's there to give any reasonable, educated person of average intellect (which is what the law calls the "uninformed masses") with an Undo button for their voluntary actions. That's certainly not how it works in criminal statues.
Oh, I thought I could just sell this iPhone I "found". Undo. Wait, getting into a consensual bar fight means we're both guilty of affray? Undo. The speed limit here is 30, officer? Undo.
If ignorance of the law is not an excuse, general purpose ignorance probably isn't either.
Ridiculous. The mind has the consistency of blancmange. You'd need something at least as solid as tuna chunks or a crispy donut to stop spam.
Not spam, phishing.
I used to receive barely literate mail shots, with my bank's domain in the "From:" field. Tracking back the IP revealed that the sender was a 3rd party with a domain registered to a caravan (trailer) park.
When I reported this to my bank as either a phishing attempt, or breathtakingly bad practice on their part, I got a snotty reply saying that this was a genuine mailshot via a 3rd party, and that this (by which they implicitly meant "faking headers") was standard practice. They genuinely could not understand why I had a problem with them sending out exactly the sort of faked email that they were regularly warning me about.
Needless to say, I changed banks shorty afterwards, but the lesson is that the line between legit and fraudulent is thin and wiggly.
I've just found a way of easily opening and starting your Ford using common household tools.
I'd love to tell you how it's done so that you can take measures to protect yourself, but you know, it would be irresponsible of me to give you that information.
No, the responsible thing to do is to let Ford know, secretly, and give them as much time as they need to investigate it and issue a recall to fix the problem. If they feel like admitting to it. And if they don't, I'll keep quiet indefinitely, just in case I'm the only person in the world who can figure it out, ever.
If your Ford gets being stolen in the meantime because someone else figured it out, or already knew, then that's just an acceptable consequence of my responsibility, which is apparently to Ford, the company that created the problem in the first place and profited by selling a defective product, not to you, Ford's customer, the victim.
Fair enough?
Good point: I should believe you rather than the evidence of my own eyes. Thanks for clearing that up!
Wow, really? So if the suspension collapses on my Ford, they can say "Yahbut, the springs were made by Ching Chong Springs, Kibbles and Toilet Paper Conglomerate, so what's that got to do with us?" I didn't think things worked that way, but you're clearly an expect on consumer tort law, so I'll bow to your superior knowledge.
Actually, that's a lie. I was working with Japanese 3D phones in 2008, never mind 2009.
Yes, secret plans. Don't worry, when we need to know, they'll be disseminated, presumably by a network of tin cans and bits of string, with a smoke signal backup system.
Theory: "productize" is one of the keywords that the kdawson editard script uses to find likely Slashvertisements.
What part of "kdawson" is confusing you?
Hubris can exist between the lines.
Let's not beat about the Bush. Gates comparing himself to Einstein? How dare he? How dare he?
In 50 years time, who will remember Gates, or his legacy? He'll be an "In Popular Culture" footnote in a few obscure Wikipedia articles.
I do not think (at least) one of those words means what you think it means.
You can "show" it? Then show me. Until then, it's just a pretty theory.
Jocks get their pussy free, lawyers can buy professional pussy, and doctors are up to their elbows in pussy. Nerds? They get the leavings.
You can't fix the problem until you identify it exactly.
Inconceivable!
For once, that word does mean what I think it means.
In the context of the Amazon 1984 debacle, the GP is clearly talking about access to the "physical media (sic)" , not the rights to duplicate the content, you patronising jackass.
...except for a minimal peacekeeping force of a few hundred thousand military advisors.
Panama. Bosnia. Also, you could ask any citizen of South Korea whether they'd rather be part of North Korea.
Yup, the fact that it doesn't appear to even be in the Ubuntu Software Centre (at least on 9.04) probably isn't a good sign.
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Sorry, you were saying something smug?
And if you asked an NSA goon "Are all the above true?" then a polygraph would show that they truly believe it.
Or 10 years ago on an iPaq. Or 23 years ago on an NCD. And I'll bet someone will be out in a moment to tell me to get off their lawn and come up with an earlier example.
Yeah... I'm thinking security theatre, unless the state of the art suddenly regressed after 2000.
I've since read that using a picture of yourself is more reliable than your actual face, as it's less prone to shadow effects from variable lighting.
Ah, Latin, as they have a lot of revolutions in Latin America. Your logic is impeccable. After the uprising, you shall be God Emperor. Start choosing your concubines now.