Did they clearly define what exactly comprises "hate speech", or is it just generally anything someone complains about (unless you're a white christian male of course)?
The U.S. tech sector pushed the government to keep ties with Russia's spy agency, despite reports that Moscow meddled in the U.S. presidential election, Reuters reported Friday.
So basically the press is complaining that their fake narrative hasn't managed to impact behavior?
The manufacturer or installer, and Microsoft, exclude all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
you may not under this limited warranty, under any other part of this agreement, or under any theory recover any damages or other remedy, including lost profits or direct, consequential, special, indirect, or incidental damages. The damage exclusions and remedy limitations in this agreement apply even if repair, replacement or a refund does not fully compensate you for any losses, if the manufacturer or installer, or Microsoft, knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages, or if the remedy fails of its essential purpose.
If your local law allows you to recover damages from the manufacturer or installer, or Microsoft, even though this agreement does not, you cannot recover more than you paid for the software (or up to $50 USD if you acquired the software for no charge).
Learn to read. It says they're not responsible for anything at all and the most you can do is get your purchase price back. This is not "boilerplate", this is "we're selling you a license and it doesn't matter if it's a steaming turd that never actually works at all, you can't sue us." Go ahead and run your "mission critical" software on that.
Seems you conveniently forgot what ultimately caused all of this shit.
Microsoft leaving an unpatched security hole in their OS for well over a decade caused all of this. It remains to be seen whether they did this INTENTIONALLY in collusion with the CIA/NSA, trusting in "security by obscurity", or through plain old negligence/incompetence. It's pretty obvious that when the chips are down they will plead the latter, but many suspect it's the former.
Furthermore, plenty of mission critical, and hell, even day to day, software, ONLY runs under Windows.
I guess all these people missed the part in the EULA where Microsoft specifically states you should not run mission critical software on their operating system and you will not sue them if anything goes wrong.
On the contrary I agree with OP. People who act carelessly earn the consequences of their recklessness. If you are not prepared to invest time and money in either securing your system OR ensuring a smooth recovery in the event of a system failure, then you can enjoy the consequences of your laziness and lack of foresight. You obtained a temporary economic advantage over competitors that DO take their data systems seriously, and now you pay the hidden cost of this short cut you took. That's all it is.
The more contact you have with your victim the more chances you have of being caught by law enforcement, silly. If I was a criminal I'd take a quick couple thousand bucks worth of bitcoin and disappear without a trace over trying to "score big" and having them catch me via my email correspondence sending out "keys". Hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars are no consolation when your ass is thrown in jail forever and all your assets seized before you can ever enjoy them.
In your little fantasy world perhaps. In reality, ZERO files were unlocked by WannaCry authors, and ZERO files have been unlocked by Petya authors so far.
Prayer. And it will be just as effective as any other prayer. Why the hell should I give you anything back? You think I'm worried about my "business image" and brand? Honor among thieves? This generation is so naive.
This is all self inflicted. Next time hire people who actually know about IT and cybersecurity instead of listening to the MBA argue about how much money you can save by outsourcing it "to the cloud".
"I Am A Lawyer" doesn't mean shit. It will take all of 10 minutes to find another lawyer who will say exactly the opposite. It's how you parasites make money.
I do hope he manages to win one of these days though
Then you haven't kicked anything at all. Hoping for a win is exactly how this addiction works. I mean after all if you keep losing often enough you're BOUND to win eventually, right? Flawed logic.
Doom was one of the most successful games ever. It was shareware available for free to download. Yet it put John Carmack on the map, and made his company id software a lot of money. In the dawn of the computer age everyone had unpaid copies of "adventure", "flight simulator" and other games. Yet the games industry managed to make millionaires and megacorporations.
"Piracy" is merely a way to outsource your distribution and marketing at zero actual cost - the cost being "potential" revenue. However you can still make money. There are plenty of people willing to pay for something they downloaded for free if it's a quality product. Most people are honest. Dishonest people will always be dishonest no matter what hoops you pretend you are making them jump through.
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The government is free to write its own anti-virus software.
Did they clearly define what exactly comprises "hate speech", or is it just generally anything someone complains about (unless you're a white christian male of course)?
The U.S. tech sector pushed the government to keep ties with Russia's spy agency, despite reports that Moscow meddled in the U.S. presidential election, Reuters reported Friday.
So basically the press is complaining that their fake narrative hasn't managed to impact behavior?
If this cooling trend continues we should be seeing absolute zero temperatures within 50 years! Quick, tax all ice cubes!
All you need to do is send $300 worth of bitcoin to Redmond every few years if you want to keep using your computer.
It's all those large sized carbonated beverages owners are giving them...
The manufacturer or installer, and Microsoft, exclude all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
you may not under this limited warranty, under any other part of this agreement, or under any theory recover any damages or other remedy, including lost profits or direct, consequential, special, indirect, or incidental damages. The damage exclusions and remedy limitations in this agreement apply even if repair, replacement or a refund does not fully compensate you for any losses, if the manufacturer or installer, or Microsoft, knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages, or if the remedy fails of its essential purpose.
If your local law allows you to recover damages from the manufacturer or installer, or Microsoft, even though this agreement does not, you cannot recover more than you paid for the software (or up to $50 USD if you acquired the software for no charge).
Learn to read. It says they're not responsible for anything at all and the most you can do is get your purchase price back. This is not "boilerplate", this is "we're selling you a license and it doesn't matter if it's a steaming turd that never actually works at all, you can't sue us." Go ahead and run your "mission critical" software on that.
Seems you conveniently forgot what ultimately caused all of this shit.
Microsoft leaving an unpatched security hole in their OS for well over a decade caused all of this. It remains to be seen whether they did this INTENTIONALLY in collusion with the CIA/NSA, trusting in "security by obscurity", or through plain old negligence/incompetence. It's pretty obvious that when the chips are down they will plead the latter, but many suspect it's the former.
Furthermore, plenty of mission critical, and hell, even day to day, software, ONLY runs under Windows.
I guess all these people missed the part in the EULA where Microsoft specifically states you should not run mission critical software on their operating system and you will not sue them if anything goes wrong.
On the contrary I agree with OP. People who act carelessly earn the consequences of their recklessness. If you are not prepared to invest time and money in either securing your system OR ensuring a smooth recovery in the event of a system failure, then you can enjoy the consequences of your laziness and lack of foresight. You obtained a temporary economic advantage over competitors that DO take their data systems seriously, and now you pay the hidden cost of this short cut you took. That's all it is.
The more contact you have with your victim the more chances you have of being caught by law enforcement, silly. If I was a criminal I'd take a quick couple thousand bucks worth of bitcoin and disappear without a trace over trying to "score big" and having them catch me via my email correspondence sending out "keys". Hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars are no consolation when your ass is thrown in jail forever and all your assets seized before you can ever enjoy them.
In your little fantasy world perhaps. In reality, ZERO files were unlocked by WannaCry authors, and ZERO files have been unlocked by Petya authors so far.
by cutting off their ability to receive those payments.
I guess you have no idea how a bitcoin wallet works.
Prayer. And it will be just as effective as any other prayer. Why the hell should I give you anything back? You think I'm worried about my "business image" and brand? Honor among thieves? This generation is so naive.
Only during a gold rush. They don't last forever. Eventually you do run out of fools. For a while.
or what led to this infection?
Microsoft Windows (tm).
This is all self inflicted. Next time hire people who actually know about IT and cybersecurity instead of listening to the MBA argue about how much money you can save by outsourcing it "to the cloud".
"I Am A Lawyer" doesn't mean shit. It will take all of 10 minutes to find another lawyer who will say exactly the opposite. It's how you parasites make money.
I do hope he manages to win one of these days though
Then you haven't kicked anything at all. Hoping for a win is exactly how this addiction works. I mean after all if you keep losing often enough you're BOUND to win eventually, right? Flawed logic.
Or maybe we just hang around a different type of people.
Try it, bring in pizza for the office 3 Fridays in a row, hell, just 2 and you'll see your cow orkers will be expecting free pizza on the next Friday.
Or you might be shocked when next week your co-worker brings in a couple dozen doughnuts.
Doom was one of the most successful games ever. It was shareware available for free to download. Yet it put John Carmack on the map, and made his company id software a lot of money. In the dawn of the computer age everyone had unpaid copies of "adventure", "flight simulator" and other games. Yet the games industry managed to make millionaires and megacorporations.
"Piracy" is merely a way to outsource your distribution and marketing at zero actual cost - the cost being "potential" revenue. However you can still make money. There are plenty of people willing to pay for something they downloaded for free if it's a quality product. Most people are honest. Dishonest people will always be dishonest no matter what hoops you pretend you are making them jump through.
Not the same since George died :(
It will be a cold day in hell before I buy another Intel CPU, let alone let them install microcode on my current CPU.
"Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or on the internet."
So we'll kick in your door if you make an internet post we don't like.