And from some of the comments in here, it also says (from the viewpoint of the victim), "As long as I get MY money back, I don't care what happens to the next guy that the criminal does this to."
Until the next person who 'bought' that identity does the same thing.
Having your space violated, either physical or online, is not always easy to get over. If your house is broken into and someone steals your TV, fine...you get a replacement TV. But you still feel 'violated'.
In the beta, yes. That's because they don't want people bitching about a feature that was fixed or changed 6 weeks ago. Nothing in that article suggests that patches are 'forced' on users, only that they are available when they are done, rather than once a month.
No, it gathered a clickbait post here, so it is fair bait for ridicule. I'd never heard of him, nor the company.
If the CEO of my former employer, that operates in sort of the same space, but is probably quite a bit larger, were to pass away...I would not expect to read of his demise in here. But this particular guy is Facebook related, so Dice must genuflect properly.
I fully commiserate with the family and company. But really?
Also, do I get the $7,500 Fed tax credit? Or does that only apply to the original buyer? I don't know either way, but something to investigate before taking the plunge on a used one.
Drivetrain wear. And seat cushions, and pedal surfaces, and all that other stuff that shows wear damage after use. Yes, they are great cars. But why would I pay $60-70K for a used one, when a new one isn't that much more?
A BMW, $50k new. A few years old, $25k. That works. If that used BMW were $45k...that would NOT work.
Oh jebus. It's not that cut and dried. 15 years ago, a boyfriend of one of my daughters got busted for pot. He was 15 or 16. Black kid, from a far below living wage single mother family. In Redneckistan Virginia.
You know what happened to him? The cop brought him to my house (mom was out of town, I think). "Sir...would you take responsibility for this dude?" 'Yeah, I guess'. The cop then drove off. No lawyer, no PD, no court, no actual charges.
But no. The collective/. mind believes that anyone not fully monied and lawyered up automatically gets gets the full sentence in PMITA prison.
Actual life doesn't work like that.
The boyfriend got the 'dad speech' from me ("you dumbass"), but I don't think it stuck. He remained a dumbass.
For this kid....lighting fire to the computer lab is a pretty serious deal. There is only so much a lawyer can do for you. But I suspect if this a first offense....probation.
Nobody was hurt, the next day it was business as usual. So give this kid a reasonable sentence for the damage done, and let him have a chance to see his error and learn from it. The lesson should be that he was lucky that this didn't turn into something really big. Next time his luck may change, and this experience may hold him back then. Send him to prison for seven years and he will come out as a wreck or as a professional criminal. Who wants that?
And we out here have zero idea of what his actual sentence will be. Yes, the max penalties for his felonies add up to 'years'. Will he actually get consecutive, max duration, penalty for each of them? Highly doubtful. This, of course, depends on any past interaction with the legal system. If he is a repeat offender, then yes, he may well get the max. Otherwise, probably not.
Time is money. Engines can be free all they want, but that doesn't automatically mean they'll save you money. A careful cost-analysis should be done for any product, especially one that's going to completely dictate your production process. An engine has got to solve more problems than it causes--all the way down to the mouse clicks used in the production of assets--to warrant the cash.
Similarly, this should be loudly repeated for anyone proposing a switch from Windows ($$$) to Linux (free!)
I'd point out that in order to run a marathon, you have to train for a marathon. Walking is not a very suitable means of doing this.
When training for a marathon, walking is a very good training step when you are a 1 year old human. WRT to space flight, we are at the 1 year old human stage. We've taken a couple of hundred 'steps'. Not quite mastered the concept yet.
If the sperm donor can be positively identified, yes they can go after him. Kansas, last year. Lesbian couple want a child. They enlist a male friend to provide the sperm. A couple years later, the female couple breaks up. The custodial mom applies to the state for financial aid. The state goes after the sperm donor for recompense. And gets it in court. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/...
I believe there was a similar case in Sweden a couple of years ago.
4 months ago, I upgraded the Verizon FiOS router from the initial crappy one, to a zippy n router. WiFi performance increased significantly. No change from 50/50 needed. And no need to speak to a Verizon rep. Just order it online, it arrives in the mail, done.
And the $100 payment was spread across 3 months of Verizon bills.
It would actually be worse. If I had to pay the legal fees of X Corp if I lost, I'd probably be far less inclined to take them to court. Currently, all I'd have to pay is my legal fee, and whatever fine may be imposed.
If I had to pay their legal fee as well...I'd probably think twice.
5 corporate law talking guys x 2 weeks x $200/hour each....a single individual would be screwed if he lost. Now..if we stipulate that the 'winner' gets no more 'legal fees' than the loser paid to his legal team....that might be different. But that brings its own issues.
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Track my location? Pretty sure my house doesn't actually move around much.
Downsides? Sure, Amazon...I'll let you track my every move, all day every day.
Not.
I don't understand why people continue to buy those overpriced pieces of plastic
For the same reason you see these same people with 2 x crates of over priced bottled water in their cart.
I don't understand it either.
And from some of the comments in here, it also says (from the viewpoint of the victim), "As long as I get MY money back, I don't care what happens to the next guy that the criminal does this to."
Until the next person who 'bought' that identity does the same thing.
Having your space violated, either physical or online, is not always easy to get over. If your house is broken into and someone steals your TV, fine...you get a replacement TV. But you still feel 'violated'.
We, the USA, were the ones who threw the first punch with our occupation of Muslim countries.
Hardly. The USA is a latecomer by many decades.
Conversely, my Win 10 test box has bluescreened exactly zero times. Had the preview installed since day one.
In the beta, yes. That's because they don't want people bitching about a feature that was fixed or changed 6 weeks ago.
Nothing in that article suggests that patches are 'forced' on users, only that they are available when they are done, rather than once a month.
No, it gathered a clickbait post here, so it is fair bait for ridicule.
I'd never heard of him, nor the company.
If the CEO of my former employer, that operates in sort of the same space, but is probably quite a bit larger, were to pass away...I would not expect to read of his demise in here.
But this particular guy is Facebook related, so Dice must genuflect properly.
I fully commiserate with the family and company. But really?
If it were Gates/Jobs/Ellison/Woz/McNealy/Bezos/Dell....OK. That warrants a thread here.
But the CEO of some random online survey company?
Oh wait....Facebook related....gotcha.
Also, do I get the $7,500 Fed tax credit? Or does that only apply to the original buyer? I don't know either way, but something to investigate before taking the plunge on a used one.
Drivetrain wear. And seat cushions, and pedal surfaces, and all that other stuff that shows wear damage after use.
Yes, they are great cars. But why would I pay $60-70K for a used one, when a new one isn't that much more?
A BMW, $50k new. A few years old, $25k. That works. If that used BMW were $45k...that would NOT work.
If I could afford $70k for a used one, I could afford a new one.
Washington, used P85, 19,000 miles, $79,000.
New P85D, $87,500.
Why would I bother with the used one?
Oh jebus. It's not that cut and dried. 15 years ago, a boyfriend of one of my daughters got busted for pot. He was 15 or 16. Black kid, from a far below living wage single mother family. In Redneckistan Virginia.
/. mind believes that anyone not fully monied and lawyered up automatically gets gets the full sentence in PMITA prison.
You know what happened to him? The cop brought him to my house (mom was out of town, I think). "Sir...would you take responsibility for this dude?" 'Yeah, I guess'. The cop then drove off. No lawyer, no PD, no court, no actual charges.
But no. The collective
Actual life doesn't work like that.
The boyfriend got the 'dad speech' from me ("you dumbass"), but I don't think it stuck. He remained a dumbass.
For this kid....lighting fire to the computer lab is a pretty serious deal. There is only so much a lawyer can do for you. But I suspect if this a first offense....probation.
Nobody was hurt, the next day it was business as usual. So give this kid a reasonable sentence for the damage done, and let him have a chance to see his error and learn from it. The lesson should be that he was lucky that this didn't turn into something really big. Next time his luck may change, and this experience may hold him back then. Send him to prison for seven years and he will come out as a wreck or as a professional criminal. Who wants that?
And we out here have zero idea of what his actual sentence will be. Yes, the max penalties for his felonies add up to 'years'. Will he actually get consecutive, max duration, penalty for each of them? Highly doubtful.
This, of course, depends on any past interaction with the legal system. If he is a repeat offender, then yes, he may well get the max. Otherwise, probably not.
This started looong before 9/11. The riots of 1967-68, for instance. It's just now, they/we have the tech to take it up a notch.
Time is money. Engines can be free all they want, but that doesn't automatically mean they'll save you money. A careful cost-analysis should be done for any product, especially one that's going to completely dictate your production process. An engine has got to solve more problems than it causes--all the way down to the mouse clicks used in the production of assets--to warrant the cash.
Similarly, this should be loudly repeated for anyone proposing a switch from Windows ($$$) to Linux (free!)
I'm pretty sure Deep Blue lost the first few thousand chess matches, real or simulated.
I'd point out that in order to run a marathon, you have to train for a marathon. Walking is not a very suitable means of doing this.
When training for a marathon, walking is a very good training step when you are a 1 year old human.
WRT to space flight, we are at the 1 year old human stage. We've taken a couple of hundred 'steps'. Not quite mastered the concept yet.
If the sperm donor can be positively identified, yes they can go after him.
Kansas, last year. Lesbian couple want a child. They enlist a male friend to provide the sperm.
A couple years later, the female couple breaks up. The custodial mom applies to the state for financial aid. The state goes after the sperm donor for recompense. And gets it in court.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/...
I believe there was a similar case in Sweden a couple of years ago.
4 months ago, I upgraded the Verizon FiOS router from the initial crappy one, to a zippy n router. WiFi performance increased significantly. No change from 50/50 needed. And no need to speak to a Verizon rep. Just order it online, it arrives in the mail, done.
And the $100 payment was spread across 3 months of Verizon bills.
Of course the sales guy is going to say that. He earns a gold star for every upsell.
What if the kid can't read? Is disabled ot live in some backwater like Appalachia were ignorance is a virtue.
Or NYC, or LA, or Chicago. Willful ignorance is not limited to the backwaters of 'Appalachia '.
Very, very few people have 'hundreds' of actual friends. Facebook 'friends', maybe. IOW, people you've never met.
It would actually be worse. If I had to pay the legal fees of X Corp if I lost, I'd probably be far less inclined to take them to court.
Currently, all I'd have to pay is my legal fee, and whatever fine may be imposed.
If I had to pay their legal fee as well...I'd probably think twice.
5 corporate law talking guys x 2 weeks x $200/hour each....a single individual would be screwed if he lost.
Now..if we stipulate that the 'winner' gets no more 'legal fees' than the loser paid to his legal team....that might be different. But that brings its own issues.
A large company would be able to financially destroy an individual, depending on the outcome.
You may think you have a valid case. But could you pay for the legal fees of Sony/Visio/Target/AMD if you lose?