Not to mention that those brib--er, I mean contracts, usually include an agreement to close the on-site visitor center, therefore making phone calls--expensive phone calls--the only way to visit with an inmate. Oh, and at least one jail/prison has been found recording attorney-client calls illegally.
Actually, I agree with what you're saying... I think.
What I mean is that I I think we should take the law concerning purchases made without contracts and--depending on far you want to take it--apply it to software purchases and/or purchases made without signatures and/or purchases made without actual negotiation.
If Redbox purchases a Disney DVD with terms attached, the sale should be treated as if it was purchased without a contract. All other purchases made with contracts (contract being defined as--again depending on h far you want to take it-- requiring a signature or actual negotiation) would still be under contract law.
For what it's worth: Kaspersky didn't necessarily have to do anything for the Russians to take advantage of their apparatus. The NSA in the US has tapped into many different systems and apparatuses without the system maker's cooperation. See: the TAO catalog.
Who cares if it's Russians?!? Yes, it says Russians in the tile, but I didn't consider their nationality when I read the story, I just saw them as hackers.
And while I positively condemn their their thievery and fraud in the strongest possible terms, I kind of admire their creative, nee, hacker spirit.
My hope is that people read Russia in the title and don't think it connotatively means "evil enemy". Rather, my hope is that people read Russia and simply think of it as a place.
Oh, and perhaps because this is Slashdot, I would sort of hope that perhaps the reader would think of and respect the long history and tradition of the hacker spirit in Russia.
Aha! That's the part I have a problem with. The software distributor gets to state their terms, but the potential buyer at the store effectively does not. And, there is no negotiation for consideration and/or terms. Therefore, I would like law and/or jurisprudence to come down and state "There was no negotiation, and therefore, no agreement could have been entered into".
Not that I don't whole heartedly agree that all the non-IP rights of first sale should apply and Redbox should be free to do this (because i do agree and they should be able to do this), but the legal commentary you linked to points out that because the decision hinged on the fact that the software company printed the statement "Required terms are inside the box" instead of the actual terms, that they could have prevented the problem by printing the actual terms on the outside of the box. Which frankly, sucks. Because companies then get to force thier terms on people for simply purchasing a copy of a work. It's my damn copy of the work, I should be able to do with it what I please subject to the same copyright law that books get.
Software vendors can take away from this decision some useful tips. Vendors may want to consider giving users the opportunity to review their license terms and conditions by printing them on the outside of their software packaging or otherwise making them available at retail outlets where their products are sold. For phone orders, vendors may consider providing purchasers copies of the license agreement in advance of consummating a transaction, or at least informing purchasers at the time of purchase that the transaction is subject to the terms of the license agreement.
"An enterprising company" advertises taxi services for less than the prevailing rate. I'll call the service "Hot Taxi" because it depends on stolen payment accounts/credit cards.
A potential rider contacts Hot Taxi.
Hot Taxi and the rider work out the details of the rider's payment (a rate less than Uber or Lyft, presumably), the pickup and the drop off.
Hot Taxi books an Uber ride with a stolen CC.
At the end of the ride, Uber charges the stolen credit card, and while the rider has to pay Hot Taxi via something like the Russian equivalent of PayPal or Venmo.
Boom. The rider gets a taxi ride from Hot Taxi that costs less than the going Uber rate and Hot Taxi pockets the money, because they don't have to pay the driver, Uber does.
Are you saying that all millennials make buggy software, or are you saying that software like that is usually made by the subset of millennials that don't know how to do things right?
In a chair for the high top table I have. My entertainment center is thicker that my TV is deep, so that's six inches or so right there. Add 4.5 feet for legroom and the space the chair takes up. You're right. It's about five feet away.
This is obvious to many people. Nonetheless, thank you for pointing it out.
And contrary to the replies you're getting, I actually do sit 3-6 feet away from my TV when I play video games, so me and everyone else who does will see the difference.
I'm glad to see that others are wondering the same thing, because I think "Why are they doing it again?" is the real question.
They probably bought Motorola for Moto's patents and expertise in the phone hardware business and to get a toehold in the phone hardware market. Later, some egghead in manglement thought that they they should sell it off, but that was a mistake. Now, Google's probably at it again because they still want--perhaps even need--to get the patents, the expertise, and the toehold in order to survive in the mobile device market on their terms.
You said that "computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard [and complicated] jobs."
And you went on to say: "We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income)."
Then you talked about training.
Are you therefore saying that instead of "America First", and instead of "basic income", we need to train people to be able to do the harder, more complicated jobs that are left as computers and robots take away the easy jobs?
If so, as a Csci grad working a help desk, it seems clear to me that many people simply cannot do the more complicated jobs that will be left.
It's not propaganda. Objectively, when a nation splinters, it's never pretty. See North v. South in the USA, North Korea v. South Korea, etc. Some people have something to gain, some have something to lose. But in this case, the net result was killing, fighting, and lies upon lies, making it an overall loss. The pro-Russian Crimeans could be said to have gained what they wanted, but all throughout Ukraine there was fighting and the people who died certainly lost everything. Furthermore, thanks to pro-Russian Yanukovych https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych, the West lost what would have been an EU member while Russia got a a pro-Russian territory. But overall, it's a net loss for mankind because of all the lies, the killing, and the fighting it took for Russia to take over/take back Crimea.
Something I have first hand experience with - a family member got a cheap Android tablet and it came pre-rooted. This is very common. What will happen to all the people who have cheap tablets that come pre-rooted?
Yup. Windows 10 home users aren't Microsoft's customers. OEMs and organizations with volume licensing agreements are. And unless that changes, MS will continue to treat home users badly by taking away features while also shoveling in advertisements on the Start menu, the taskbar, the notification panel, the lock/login screen, file/program associations, and home page and search page settings. With all that, MS should pay the manufacturer to install Windows instead of the other way around.
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Not to mention that those brib--er, I mean contracts, usually include an agreement to close the on-site visitor center, therefore making phone calls--expensive phone calls--the only way to visit with an inmate. Oh, and at least one jail/prison has been found recording attorney-client calls illegally.
Good point. Or points, rather :-)
Actually, I agree with what you're saying... I think.
What I mean is that I I think we should take the law concerning purchases made without contracts and--depending on far you want to take it--apply it to software purchases and/or purchases made without signatures and/or purchases made without actual negotiation.
If Redbox purchases a Disney DVD with terms attached, the sale should be treated as if it was purchased without a contract. All other purchases made with contracts (contract being defined as--again depending on h far you want to take it-- requiring a signature or actual negotiation) would still be under contract law.
For what it's worth: Kaspersky didn't necessarily have to do anything for the Russians to take advantage of their apparatus. The NSA in the US has tapped into many different systems and apparatuses without the system maker's cooperation. See: the TAO catalog.
Who cares if it's Russians?!? Yes, it says Russians in the tile, but I didn't consider their nationality when I read the story, I just saw them as hackers.
And while I positively condemn their their thievery and fraud in the strongest possible terms, I kind of admire their creative, nee, hacker spirit.
My hope is that people read Russia in the title and don't think it connotatively means "evil enemy". Rather, my hope is that people read Russia and simply think of it as a place.
Oh, and perhaps because this is Slashdot, I would sort of hope that perhaps the reader would think of and respect the long history and tradition of the hacker spirit in Russia.
Both parties state their terms
Aha! That's the part I have a problem with. The software distributor gets to state their terms, but the potential buyer at the store effectively does not. And, there is no negotiation for consideration and/or terms. Therefore, I would like law and/or jurisprudence to come down and state "There was no negotiation, and therefore, no agreement could have been entered into".
The rider pays the hackers with actual funds while Uber charges a stolen credit card that the hackers used to book the ride.
https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
Software vendors can take away from this decision some useful tips. Vendors may want to consider giving users the opportunity to review their license terms and conditions by printing them on the outside of their software packaging or otherwise making them available at retail outlets where their products are sold. For phone orders, vendors may consider providing purchasers copies of the license agreement in advance of consummating a transaction, or at least informing purchasers at the time of purchase that the transaction is subject to the terms of the license agreement.
Are you saying that all millennials make buggy software, or are you saying that software like that is usually made by the subset of millennials that don't know how to do things right?
In a chair for the high top table I have. My entertainment center is thicker that my TV is deep, so that's six inches or so right there. Add 4.5 feet for legroom and the space the chair takes up. You're right. It's about five feet away.
This is obvious to many people. Nonetheless, thank you for pointing it out. And contrary to the replies you're getting, I actually do sit 3-6 feet away from my TV when I play video games, so me and everyone else who does will see the difference.
I'm glad to see that others are wondering the same thing, because I think "Why are they doing it again?" is the real question.
They probably bought Motorola for Moto's patents and expertise in the phone hardware business and to get a toehold in the phone hardware market. Later, some egghead in manglement thought that they they should sell it off, but that was a mistake. Now, Google's probably at it again because they still want--perhaps even need--to get the patents, the expertise, and the toehold in order to survive in the mobile device market on their terms.
They have innovated the following:
Can slashdot please not use bit.ly? URL redirectors are a security threat because when you use one, the destination is unknown and could be malicious.
Have we forgotten Amazon basic USB cables that under performed during the USB cable scandal a couple of years ago?
I don't recall that. I searched Google but found nothing about underperforming AmazonBasics USB cables. Do you have a source?
Serious question:
You said that "computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard [and complicated] jobs."
And you went on to say: "We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income)."
Then you talked about training.
Are you therefore saying that instead of "America First", and instead of "basic income", we need to train people to be able to do the harder, more complicated jobs that are left as computers and robots take away the easy jobs?
If so, as a Csci grad working a help desk, it seems clear to me that many people simply cannot do the more complicated jobs that will be left.
This falls under the "stuff that matters" part of the slogan.
It's not propaganda. Objectively, when a nation splinters, it's never pretty. See North v. South in the USA, North Korea v. South Korea, etc. Some people have something to gain, some have something to lose. But in this case, the net result was killing, fighting, and lies upon lies, making it an overall loss. The pro-Russian Crimeans could be said to have gained what they wanted, but all throughout Ukraine there was fighting and the people who died certainly lost everything. Furthermore, thanks to pro-Russian Yanukovych https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych, the West lost what would have been an EU member while Russia got a a pro-Russian territory. But overall, it's a net loss for mankind because of all the lies, the killing, and the fighting it took for Russia to take over/take back Crimea.
Something I have first hand experience with - a family member got a cheap Android tablet and it came pre-rooted. This is very common. What will happen to all the people who have cheap tablets that come pre-rooted?
Yup. Windows 10 home users aren't Microsoft's customers. OEMs and organizations with volume licensing agreements are. And unless that changes, MS will continue to treat home users badly by taking away features while also shoveling in advertisements on the Start menu, the taskbar, the notification panel, the lock/login screen, file/program associations, and home page and search page settings. With all that, MS should pay the manufacturer to install Windows instead of the other way around.
Use UltraFlix (ultraflix.com) instead for 4K on Windows PCs.
They stream in 4k without requiring Kaby Lake:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
You have to use a browser instance with no add-ons or extensions for some reason.
A few I'd like to see:
Win Dir Stat or Tree Size
VLC
PeaZip or 7Zip
Audacity
Chrome
FireFox
Pale Moon
Opera or whatever that one browser from that Opera guy is called
A file hash calculator with right-click menu extension built in
SnagIt, GreenShot
A FOSS Bit Torrent client
Various NirSoft Utilities