As far as I know it is extraordinarily rare to get a judge to issue a warrant to intercept privileged phone calls between an attorney and his clients. There is no warrant here because they wouldn't have got one and decided that it's covered under the "but we really want to" exception that they gave themselves.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
When you buy something from a store, a contract exists between you and he store to supply goods in exchange for payment. Microsoft is not a party to this contract.
The EULA imposes a whole bunch of additional restrictions in return for access to the software which the store contracted to supply to you. Seeing as by agreeing to the EULA you gain nothing to which you werent already entitled to (under the contract with the store) the EULA isn't worth the paper its printed on.
If you bought the software directly from Microsoft their might be some basis in contract law to enfore the EULA - but it's hard to say because contract law requires that the terms be made available to both parties prior to the transaction taking place. If they won't show you the contract until after you've already comitted to it then its not valid.
The honeypot cars make me laugh - I see the police on the TV telling you not to leave your keys in your car (even in your driveway) because you'll be held liable for damage/crimes comitted with your car if its stolen. Then they're on the TV parking cars on the street with the keys in them so people can steel them.
Well if you visit places other than the apple store to compare prices you will find some variation out there. Costco & Walmart for example seem to have a healthy supply of ipods at prices lower than list.
The biggest thing keeping ipod prices high is near constant demand - there's no incentive to discount something thats selling anyway.
Bologna sausage is an American version of the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage with lard pieces, which originated in the Italian city of Bologna). The American version can alternatively be made out of chicken, turkey, beef, pork, or soybeans. It is commonly called bologna and often pronounced (by hypercorrection) and/or spelled baloney. The "baloney" pronunciation can be used to mean "lies" and/or to express disbelief (see below).
Using thrust to propel something upwards doesn't really compare to the flight you need to achieve orbit. The reason rockets are launched vertically on earth is to get through the atmosphere (or at least the thicker parts of it) before accelerating in the desired direction of orbit.
It's actually a fairly useless provision. Once a judge decides he's going to fix your contract because it's unfair/unenforceable/whatever it's up to him where he stops.
Check out the Audio Home Recording act as far as copies go.
Commentary from Wikipedia :
Private, noncommercial copies by consumers using "digital audio recording devices" are explicitly protected by 1008. The Senate report defines noncommercial as "not for direct or indirect commercial advantage," offering examples such as making copies for a family member, or copies for use in a car or portable tape player.
The whole thing goes back to the victorian era - when words like fuck etc where deemed to be too crude because of their simplicity in expressing the point and instead were "replaced" with more flowery sophisticated sounding terminology. Just another way for the upper class twits to differentiate themselves from the common man.
The other one I've seen is the shelves being restocked with a "sold out" product only minutes after the day-after-thanksgiving sale ended - when I asked I was told the truck had just delivered them. Note this wasn't a product that was advertised as limited to a particular number.
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oh yeah - and what temperature does helium freeze at ?
huh ?
Did you get that from some kind of quote generator ?
I thought the claim was that scooter kept changing his testimony in order to obstruct the investigation.
This is slashdot, there are no women !
Most devices are based on already certified standard GSM modules. You can buy the bare GSM stuff to build into your own project.
As far as I know it is extraordinarily rare to get a judge to issue a warrant to intercept privileged phone calls between an attorney and his clients. There is no warrant here because they wouldn't have got one and decided that it's covered under the "but we really want to" exception that they gave themselves.
A wise man once said :
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Never has, at least as far as I can tell.
When you buy something from a store, a contract exists between you and he store to supply goods in exchange for payment. Microsoft is not a party to this contract.
The EULA imposes a whole bunch of additional restrictions in return for access to the software which the store contracted to supply to you. Seeing as by agreeing to the EULA you gain nothing to which you werent already entitled to (under the contract with the store) the EULA isn't worth the paper its printed on.
If you bought the software directly from Microsoft their might be some basis in contract law to enfore the EULA - but it's hard to say because contract law requires that the terms be made available to both parties prior to the transaction taking place. If they won't show you the contract until after you've already comitted to it then its not valid.
I can't help thinking that this is T-Mobile's reaction to Truphone for Nokia smartphones.
(It's not a moo phone)
The honeypot cars make me laugh - I see the police on the TV telling you not to leave your keys in your car (even in your driveway) because you'll be held liable for damage/crimes comitted with your car if its stolen. Then they're on the TV parking cars on the street with the keys in them so people can steel them.
I think all the mobile phone providers are known for shitty service.
Yup ... the car I bought about 12 years ago in England had one. It wasn't an optional feature.
Well if you visit places other than the apple store to compare prices you will find some variation out there. Costco & Walmart for example seem to have a healthy supply of ipods at prices lower than list.
The biggest thing keeping ipod prices high is near constant demand - there's no incentive to discount something thats selling anyway.
Wikipedia:
Bologna sausage is an American version of the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage with lard pieces, which originated in the Italian city of Bologna). The American version can alternatively be made out of chicken, turkey, beef, pork, or soybeans. It is commonly called bologna and often pronounced (by hypercorrection) and/or spelled baloney. The "baloney" pronunciation can be used to mean "lies" and/or to express disbelief (see below).
And I replied to the wrong message.
Using thrust to propel something upwards doesn't really compare to the flight you need to achieve orbit. The reason rockets are launched vertically on earth is to get through the atmosphere (or at least the thicker parts of it) before accelerating in the desired direction of orbit.
But it was us that wrote the German constitution and many of its laws after the the war was over.
It's actually a fairly useless provision. Once a judge decides he's going to fix your contract because it's unfair/unenforceable/whatever it's up to him where he stops.
"...takes three hours to install, five minutes to boot and crashes routinely once you do get it running..."
That sounds like my experience with the final vista release candidate - I never bothered installing the release for that reason.
Check out the Audio Home Recording act as far as copies go.
Commentary from Wikipedia :
Private, noncommercial copies by consumers using "digital audio recording devices" are explicitly protected by 1008. The Senate report defines noncommercial as "not for direct or indirect commercial advantage," offering examples such as making copies for a family member, or copies for use in a car or portable tape player.
You forget that Thatcher invented "soft frozen ice-cream"
I kid you not.
Modulate doesn't have to apply to audio only ... go read about radio, the term modulate is used all over the place even where audio is not involved.
The whole thing goes back to the victorian era - when words like fuck etc where deemed to be too crude because of their simplicity in expressing the point and instead were "replaced" with more flowery sophisticated sounding terminology. Just another way for the upper class twits to differentiate themselves from the common man.
Compusa went belly-up ? My local store doesn't seem to know that.
Did you mean Future Shop ?
The other one I've seen is the shelves being restocked with a "sold out" product only minutes after the day-after-thanksgiving sale ended - when I asked I was told the truck had just delivered them. Note this wasn't a product that was advertised as limited to a particular number.