You should sue the city of Seattle and the Seattle PD for violating your civil rights. The cops aren't allowed to arrest people for no reason. There has to be probable cause that a crime has taken place for a public arrest.
Yes, and compels them into making up something to charge you with. Brilliant idea.
We are aware of the incident at our Seattle store in which an individual was removed by Seattle Police. [blah blah blah] but feel our team acted appropriately under the circumstances [blah blah blah].
We deny all responsibilities; it's not our fault, and we're prepared to defend ourselves against any legal actions.
At $4/month that would be a nice way to make a killing in profits.
Recently we evaluated a static code analysis package from a vendor (that shall remain nameless) that wants to charge us by the line. The code in question is just over half a million lines of C code. At the (presumed) rate of ten cents a line, that's easily 50k USD. I can't think of a better business model (other than the route MP/RIAA have taken.)
It becomes really easy to decide to settle such a lawsuit to keep management focused on "job 1", rather than focusing on saving a few pennies per unit by fighting a lawsuit for several years with a very well funded adversary.
Because it invites other to sue you too. IBM could have easily bought SCOX to make their little... 'problem' go away, but it did not. Instead it spent millions to BURY SCOX to let all other know that it will not be intimidated into buying out a plaintiff.
Yeah; I've got a problem with that, too. The warranty had better start when I buy the machine, not when the store buys the machine.
Check out hard disk warranty terms some times. Warranty on drives started ticking on the day they're "manufactured" (according to the label on the drives) NOT the day you bought your drive.
What's more likely is that internally there's a bug logged for the poor uninstall behavior somewhere inside the organization that started out its life as "critical" but over time gets downgraded by PHB as being "unimportant" and eventually ended up in the "low" bin where nobody ever looks at.
For the most part, computers goes "out of date" every 18 months, what insanity is it to give software indefinite length of protection? A lot of old 8 bit software we grew up with won't even run on most modern platform, but they're still "protected."
Circuit City cut their own throat in a series of dreadful missteps(culminating in their brilliant "Hey, let's sack all the halfway competent salespeople and attempt to hire them back at downright insulting newb wages" scheme), their demise is well deserved.
What happened to their boneheaded execs that cut their own throat? Took their golden parachutes and went screwing other companies?
OuR banking system makes heavy use of Diebold. One of two things is happening.
1. Diebold is inept and we have mass issues in our banking systems.
2. Diebold has PURPOSELY done this.
I have not seen a single issue in my accounts due to ATMs.
If memory serves, Diebold supposedly landed in the voting machine business by acquiring another company (name escapes me, but I imagine somebody knows what the name was.) As such it's possible that the group of people working on the "flawless" ATM machines are not the same group that worked on the voting machines.
But its growth can be stunned. The lawsuits are not designed to stop Linux; a defendant with sufficiently deep pocket can fend off the attack, EVENTUALLY. The real intend of these suits are to stun the growth of Linux through FUD.
Lurene Grenier to Adobe: Pay up! We solved your issue.
Adobe to Lurene Grenier: You decompiled Acrobat in some way to create this fix, in violation of click-through license and DMCA (not to mention making us look incompetent.) We're suing you and we're going to make sure your government put you away in a pound-you-in-the-ass prison for a long long time.
"It took Linda('s e-mail box.) Then it came after (my e-mail box,) it got into my (windows box) and it (turned zombie,) so (we got McColo shutted down.) But that didn't stop it, it came back big time."
Just give me an elephant, a hot glue gun, and shitload of brown wigs and I'll recreate the wholly mammoth for a lot cheaper than these scientists.
You advocated an idea that fails to account for the fact the animal in question won't enjoy being hot glued to brown wigs very much, and is likely to smack and stump all over you for trying. Sorry dude, it's not going to work.
Accountability is when the douche bags that runs the joint get send to pound-me-in-the-a__ prison for all their misdeeds. Otherwise all they will do is shutdown operation and start up another one under a different name (SCO comes to mind with their current scheme (see groklaw for details))
How about just raising the penalty for guilty spammers. You know, forcing them to read spam for 8 hours / 7 days a week for several years. Maybe that would help?
That however does nothing to rehabilitate the spammer nor does it prevent relapse (See Spamford Wallace). I propose that we go directly to the death penalty and kill two birds with one stone.
When everyone are in a tight race to the bottom (of price bracket) it's hard to have extra money to pay for decent support staff. I've always anticipated that at some point this mad drive to lower cost will have to halt, as surely the cost of material has only been going UP over the years (petro that is the basis of nearly everything hasn't exactly went down over the past eight years despite of its recent (short-term) fall); it's logically absurd to expect price of tech products to continue falling.
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Right. You expect the prosecutor to smite itself and its minions? Dream on.
Make sure their lawyers are disbarred too.
The important thing is Adobe has more lawyers than you, and can bankrupt you from legal bills alone.
Yes, and compels them into making up something to charge you with. Brilliant idea.
We deny all responsibilities; it's not our fault, and we're prepared to defend ourselves against any legal actions.
Microsoft Bondage.
Why pay for it when you can sue and take possession of the entire derived work FOR FREE?
Recently we evaluated a static code analysis package from a vendor (that shall remain nameless) that wants to charge us by the line. The code in question is just over half a million lines of C code. At the (presumed) rate of ten cents a line, that's easily 50k USD. I can't think of a better business model (other than the route MP/RIAA have taken.)
Because it invites other to sue you too. IBM could have easily bought SCOX to make their little... 'problem' go away, but it did not. Instead it spent millions to BURY SCOX to let all other know that it will not be intimidated into buying out a plaintiff.
Check out hard disk warranty terms some times. Warranty on drives started ticking on the day they're "manufactured" (according to the label on the drives) NOT the day you bought your drive.
Time Shared comes to mind. So where do I submit my stack of punch cards?
"You are under attack and in imminent danger, surrounded by enemies and saboteurs. Give us power and we'll keep you safe."
The law protects the ones that has the financial means to afford its protection. Those others that lack the financial means are just... road kills.
What's more likely is that internally there's a bug logged for the poor uninstall behavior somewhere inside the organization that started out its life as "critical" but over time gets downgraded by PHB as being "unimportant" and eventually ended up in the "low" bin where nobody ever looks at.
Computer Software: 5 years
Books: 10 years
For the most part, computers goes "out of date" every 18 months, what insanity is it to give software indefinite length of protection? A lot of old 8 bit software we grew up with won't even run on most modern platform, but they're still "protected."
What happened to their boneheaded execs that cut their own throat? Took their golden parachutes and went screwing other companies?
If memory serves, Diebold supposedly landed in the voting machine business by acquiring another company (name escapes me, but I imagine somebody knows what the name was.) As such it's possible that the group of people working on the "flawless" ATM machines are not the same group that worked on the voting machines.
But its growth can be stunned. The lawsuits are not designed to stop Linux; a defendant with sufficiently deep pocket can fend off the attack, EVENTUALLY. The real intend of these suits are to stun the growth of Linux through FUD.
Adobe to Lurene Grenier: You decompiled Acrobat in some way to create this fix, in violation of click-through license and DMCA (not to mention making us look incompetent.) We're suing you and we're going to make sure your government put you away in a pound-you-in-the-ass prison for a long long time.
The question is if this... feature has a government backdoor to 'assist' in 'terrorism investigation.'
"It took Linda('s e-mail box.) Then it came after (my e-mail box,) it got into my (windows box) and it (turned zombie,) so (we got McColo shutted down.) But that didn't stop it, it came back big time."
You advocated an idea that fails to account for the fact the animal in question won't enjoy being hot glued to brown wigs very much, and is likely to smack and stump all over you for trying. Sorry dude, it's not going to work.
Accountability is when the douche bags that runs the joint get send to pound-me-in-the-a__ prison for all their misdeeds. Otherwise all they will do is shutdown operation and start up another one under a different name (SCO comes to mind with their current scheme (see groklaw for details))
That however does nothing to rehabilitate the spammer nor does it prevent relapse (See Spamford Wallace). I propose that we go directly to the death penalty and kill two birds with one stone.
When everyone are in a tight race to the bottom (of price bracket) it's hard to have extra money to pay for decent support staff. I've always anticipated that at some point this mad drive to lower cost will have to halt, as surely the cost of material has only been going UP over the years (petro that is the basis of nearly everything hasn't exactly went down over the past eight years despite of its recent (short-term) fall); it's logically absurd to expect price of tech products to continue falling.