Threats of legal action are not a lawsuit. He didn't get sued. He got bluffed. I don't blame him for caving in, but he shouldn't mislead people by referring to the receipt of threats from lawyers as being sued (this is the sort of error I expect from the Slashdot editors, of course).
> personally I fail to see how anyone who has the strength to stand up can > fail to have the strength to slam on the brakes in a modern car.
When the engine is wide open their is no vacuum to operate the vacuum assist power brakes. You get one chance (maybe two) to stop the car using the energy stored in the reservoir. After that it's all your muscle against the engine. At twenty you can probably manage.
1) Older people have slower reflexes. A thirty-year-old is more likely to regain control of a runaway without incident than a seventy-year-old regardless of the cause. 2) Older people are not as strong. A twenty-year-old may be able to stop a runaway by hitting the brakes where a seventy-year-old can't. 3) Regardless of whether or not Toyota has a computer problem, some of the Toyota runaways are probably due to "wrong pedal syndrome". What is the age distribution for "runaway" accidents for all makes? 4) As others have pointed out, the elderly are more likely to die in accidents. 5) As others have pointed out, the sample is too small to justify any conclusions about age.
It is costing Amazon money by consuming their resources and distracting customers who may give up and go away rather than buying something. However, if Amazon is willing to tolerate it, that's their business.
> You used to be able to acquire a book and know that since it was a book the > author(s) had done their homework.
Not in the nearly sixty years that I have been reading books.
Prosecuting corporations for crimes is asinine.
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And is a cop-out by prosecutors. Crimes are committed by individual people and that is who should be prosecuted for them. And no, there is no shield, exemption, or veil protecting employees of a corporation against prosecution for crimes they commit on the job.
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> ...if he is just accessing Facebook without an account do they have a case?
No.
> *redistributing their data*
No one owns data. Data is not protected by copyright in the US.
Threats of legal action are not a lawsuit. He didn't get sued. He got bluffed. I don't blame him for caving in, but he shouldn't mislead people by referring to the receipt of threats from lawyers as being sued (this is the sort of error I expect from the Slashdot editors, of course).
It will.
How could anyone possibly have any use for servers that don't run Windows?
> personally I fail to see how anyone who has the strength to stand up can
> fail to have the strength to slam on the brakes in a modern car.
When the engine is wide open their is no vacuum to operate the vacuum assist power brakes. You get one chance (maybe two) to stop the car using the energy stored in the reservoir. After that it's all your muscle against the engine. At twenty you can probably manage.
1) Older people have slower reflexes. A thirty-year-old is more likely to regain control of a runaway without incident than a seventy-year-old regardless of the cause.
2) Older people are not as strong. A twenty-year-old may be able to stop a runaway by hitting the brakes where a seventy-year-old can't.
3) Regardless of whether or not Toyota has a computer problem, some of the Toyota runaways are probably due to "wrong pedal syndrome". What is the age distribution for "runaway" accidents for all makes?
4) As others have pointed out, the elderly are more likely to die in accidents.
5) As others have pointed out, the sample is too small to justify any conclusions about age.
It is costing Amazon money by consuming their resources and distracting customers who may give up and go away rather than buying something. However, if Amazon is willing to tolerate it, that's their business.
> what exactly is Amazon supposed to do here?
They could charge $1 up front for each title listed.
But it's their problem, not ours.
> You used to be able to acquire a book and know that since it was a book the
> author(s) had done their homework.
Not in the nearly sixty years that I have been reading books.
And is a cop-out by prosecutors. Crimes are committed by individual people and that is who should be prosecuted for them. And no, there is no shield, exemption, or veil protecting employees of a corporation against prosecution for crimes they commit on the job.
> ...Slashdot goes overboard.
Looks like everyday Slashdot to me. Isn't this a joke site?
> Why is this modded offtopic?
Because it is.
> It's cool and popular to poke fun at Microsoft but heaven forbid you point
> out Linux, WINE, and Ubuntu have regressions?
Why is the fact that other software also has regressions relevant? Do you think that is news to anyone here?
> What do people expect?
Cleverness.
You don't know what the hell you are talking about.
> And we had to type both sides of the exchange, uphill both ways, and in the
> snow.
Lazy sods. We had to mail in decks of punch cards.
> I tried "rm -rf /" but permission was denied. :-)
Be glad it wasn't granted. Locally.
> But requires Javascript to run.
And googleapis.com. Pitiful, really.
Now I see that it requires googleapis.com. ROFL.
I assumed initially that that was the joke. I guess a blank, unreponsive screen is funnier, though (but the prompt should be a single ".").
> All news is crap jokes that are fooling no one.
You're just noticing now? That's been true for decades.
Yes, it is. When are those idiots going to realize that the whole "quark" thing was an April fool's joke?
A TRUTH quark. Which means that this story is indubitably true.
> I'm on the Internet so I DON'T have to interact directly with other
> humans...
Don't worry. Nothing but Slashdotters here.
Doesn't work on Debian/Sid with Iceweasel (Firefox) 3.5.6 and xpdf 3.02.