Yes, to any reasonable person. However judges and riaa are not always that. I guess their argument would be that you thought you were downloading the latest movie/music and the fact that you were downloading some broken file, makes no difference.
Please note that I have no idea if you can even argue that in an court or if any judge would see it this way. My only knowledge of american law comes from slashdot and "law and order":-)
Let's sue them for providing you with mislabeled material with the sole intend to defraud. Also entrapment and racketeering (pay us, or bad stuff will happen to you).
Yeah, Yeah, bogus lawsuite clearly, but still better than the average riaa lawsuit.
What was it then? Car crash? Natural gas explosion? Hmm..."no immediate indication." Bah!
Well, you see...there was this swamp gas...and this weather balloon....and...well some light bounced off Venus....and....*wave hand* you don't need to know about this. It's not the explosion you're looking for.
It worked for me (and by IBM 30 G drive). One day the disk began with the klonk sounds that many IBM drive owner know about. It was no longer accessible. It was under warrenty, but there was no way I was sending it back before having the data wiped.
I decided to try the freeze method (froze it for about 2 hours) and it worked, though I had to turn the drive up-side down aswell.
After the "treatment" the drive actually ran another few months, before it finally died completly.
Right you are - no two kids are alike. It seems to me that all the laws, censorship, "good ideas" and age restriction won't tell anyone anything about how their kids will react.
It'll just make it easier to blame someone (or something) else when the kid doesn't turn out right.
Of course my opinion is cheap, since I don't have any kids;-)
once i had to change the entire comm protocol of a chat client i wrote (and other guy in the company had to change the server) to a slow xml-like mess, because the boss wanted it to say xml on the box.
Slashdot Mirror
If I had a hammer I would be arrested.
I would be interro-gated...all over this land.
Remember kids, hammers are weapons of mass destruction...if you have enough of them
Makes me want to puke....no wait...makes me want to engage in an involuntary personal protein spill.
Coincidentally this is also what happens when you vote.
Yes, to any reasonable person. However judges and riaa are not always that. I guess their argument would be that you thought you were downloading the latest movie/music and the fact that you were downloading some broken file, makes no difference.
:-)
Please note that I have no idea if you can even argue that in an court or if any judge would see it this way. My only knowledge of american law comes from slashdot and "law and order"
Yes I did, as was I. I guess it is just very slashdot, to get voted interesting, when trying to be funny.
Let's sue them for providing you with mislabeled material with the sole intend to defraud. Also entrapment and racketeering (pay us, or bad stuff will happen to you).
Yeah, Yeah, bogus lawsuite clearly, but still better than the average riaa lawsuit.
Very much so (both parent and grandparent). I cannot believe this is actually for real. Are we sure it isn't an out of season AFJ?
Besides it being totally stupid, how is such a rule enforced?
"Are you playing tag?"
"No sir, just running in the same direction"
"Alright then, but if you play tag, there'll be hell to pay"
Dammit - you ruined the illusion. The lawsuit from MS to you is in the mail.
But really - DRM can always be bypassed, since it can be played. There is always the analog hole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole/)
It shows the pages or else it gets the hose again...oh wait - wrong genre.
I guess the only reason why Hackers didn't make it to number one, is that fact that it is so bad, it's funny.
Well, you see...there was this swamp gas...and this weather balloon....and...well some light bounced off Venus....and....*wave hand* you don't need to know about this. It's not the explosion you're looking for.
ehem.....there is a very fine line between being a medic and just poking people with a needle.....
that's what the judge said, anyway.
It will happen two weeks after the release of Doom. :-)
just send them to me and I will tell you :-)
It worked for me (and by IBM 30 G drive). One day the disk began with the klonk sounds that many IBM drive owner know about. It was no longer accessible. It was under warrenty, but there was no way I was sending it back before having the data wiped.
I decided to try the freeze method (froze it for about 2 hours) and it worked, though I had to turn the drive up-side down aswell.
After the "treatment" the drive actually ran another few months, before it finally died completly.
I get to keep my job, but only if I'm really, really, really lucky.
chocolate - is there anything it can't do....
don't you mean:
"That's what happens when you forget to tip the pizza delivery people".
Don't underestimate the "disgruntledness" of pizza deliverly people. They will Take Over The World!
With cats in the house I suspect the same rule applies to your dinner plate...
All virus/worm/trojan writers use MovieOS where stuff like "Assembling Virus" and "Testing Virus" are written to the screen in blinking fonts.
;-)
Didn't you ever see Swordfish?
Right you are - no two kids are alike. It seems to me that all the laws, censorship, "good ideas" and age restriction won't tell anyone anything about how their kids will react.
;-)
It'll just make it easier to blame someone (or something) else when the kid doesn't turn out right.
Of course my opinion is cheap, since I don't have any kids
Perhaps if we're lucky, we'll receive the first episode of their SCI-FI series - "Pale Men From Earth!"
yeah, or their version of the "I love Lucy" show....
Hey, maybe if we're really, really lucky we'll be able to tune in on "Earth"
Right you are and thank Eris for that. No, in order to win you will need to use the chewbacca defence....or bribe a judge
once i had to change the entire comm protocol of a chat client i wrote (and other guy in the company had to change the server) to a slow xml-like mess, because the boss wanted it to say xml on the box.
careful, combining these two objects may cause a rip in the space-time continuum. a tear in the very fabric of existence....or not!
don't let word of Gary Owens come back to hunt you (unless you really want to, that is)