So Dell wants you to agree to license terms sight unseen. I can imagine that this should be illegal, or at least unenforceable. And the trap is that clicking yes on the screen somehow is an agreement that you have read the license that is so far impossible for you to have read. Would make for an interesting legal argument.
"You agree to be bound by the terms of the license sealed within this cellophane as soon as you break the cellophane." Bullshit, fuck you, hope you enjoy your class action lawsuit.
That handful of satisfactory purchases, however, never made up for the deluge of garbage calls
It just occurred to me that the deluge is similar to the/. effect, from the telemarketers perspective.
They cold-call somebody, get a big fuck-you from most people, and 1/100 actually says OK.
They then share this number with all the other telemaketers ("Hey, we have a live one!") and they all call this poor person, rushing him like pigs at slop time.
And if this person puts cause and effect together, he gets on the do-not-call list ASAP. No more "live one."
The rallying cry of everybody who sees something which offends them on the Internet. "Hey! I was out taking a stroll with my kid-- up the face of this sheer cliff, through barbed wire, a minefield, and across a hundred feet of tight rope, and do you know what my child was exposed to? So stop that!"
I believe the point was that any corruption which is software based, will corrupt both sides of the mirror pair, or your raid-5, or whatever kind of volume you may have.
So... just because you have mirrored hard disks does not relieve you from doing backups. But if a hard disk bites it, you may not need those backups... this time.
Reminds me of the one where a guy freezes himself after a robbery (diamonds? gold?) only to wake up in a future where gold and diamonds are cheap as sand...
Let me tell you how it will be, here's one for you nineteen for
me, 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman.
Should 95% appear to small, be thankful I don't take
it all, 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman.
If you drive your car, I'll tax the street, if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet, if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat, if you take the bus, I'll tax your seat, TAXMAN!!!
Maybe I'm missing the point, and don't think I'm taking the MPAA's side, but what do we care about the quality of the cryptography being used in DVD's?
The cryptography (if any) is for their (imagined) benefit, not ours. They could use ROT-13 as their cryptography, and as long as it plays, I don't care.
Imagine the applications...
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...for spray-on deodorant. Or how about car paint that changes color according to your whim?
By the same token, some movies could become smash hits because of text messaging, if you accept the premise that text messaging has an effect either way.
They never give credit where credit is due, but blame is freely distributed to any but the motion picture companies.
article that said over a 4-week period, 6000 people bought on average two bottles of $50 penis-enhancement 'medicine' that was probably gelatin.... Over a year, that can be pretty lucrative.
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money..."
I can't quite remember who said that... think I heard it on Imus.
if you are aware of a security hole, you should do the following: Nothing.
I myself knew of a vulnerability of using Powerbroker within an environment using NIS and NFS, but I never revealed it to management, since there was nothing they could do anyhow, other than move everything away from NIS, or get rid of PB. Since neither was an option, telling them this would only have annoyed them. Also, I did not want them to shoot the messenger.
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But how many songs is it worth on a 56x burner?
"You agree to be bound by the terms of the license sealed within this cellophane as soon as you break the cellophane." Bullshit, fuck you, hope you enjoy your class action lawsuit.
It just occurred to me that the deluge is similar to the /. effect, from the telemarketers perspective.
They cold-call somebody, get a big fuck-you from most people, and 1/100 actually says OK.
They then share this number with all the other telemaketers ("Hey, we have a live one!") and they all call this poor person, rushing him like pigs at slop time.
And if this person puts cause and effect together, he gets on the do-not-call list ASAP. No more "live one."
Oh, yes, please think of the children.
The rallying cry of everybody who sees something which offends them on the Internet. "Hey! I was out taking a stroll with my kid-- up the face of this sheer cliff, through barbed wire, a minefield, and across a hundred feet of tight rope, and do you know what my child was exposed to? So stop that!"
And soon after, heard like some weird air raid siren, from the all the unemployed geeks, "Noooooooooooo!"
I believe the point was that any corruption which is software based, will corrupt both sides of the mirror pair, or your raid-5, or whatever kind of volume you may have.
So... just because you have mirrored hard disks does not relieve you from doing backups. But if a hard disk bites it, you may not need those backups... this time.
I'm sitting in one of those fold up camp chairs which fit in a long tubular bag, and which my company gave me before laying me off...
Does that count as an armchair? Cuz I *so* like giving completely incompetent legal advice to fellow /. readers... oh, and IANAL...
Little more psychedelic tendencies...
Reminds me of the one where a guy freezes himself after a robbery (diamonds? gold?) only to wake up in a future where gold and diamonds are cheap as sand...
So that's what the slogan "Grey Goo (tm) is good for you, and makes your teeth shine, too!) means.
...will still take 5 minutes to start.
Should 95% appear to small, be thankful I don't take it all, 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman.
If you drive your car, I'll tax the street, if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet, if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat, if you take the bus, I'll tax your seat, TAXMAN!!!
Maybe I'm missing the point, and don't think I'm taking the MPAA's side, but what do we care about the quality of the cryptography being used in DVD's?
The cryptography (if any) is for their (imagined) benefit, not ours. They could use ROT-13 as their cryptography, and as long as it plays, I don't care.
...for spray-on deodorant. Or how about car paint that changes color according to your whim?
And who among us did not even briefly think of George Carlin's seven "bad" words?
...it has all the functions which everybody ignored in Excel.
Everybody should vote for the other guy on election day. Send 100 senators and several hundred congressmen, HOME!
That should shake 'em up, put the fear of the voter back in 'em.
...AssWIPO, I will defeat you with my flaming bag of poop!
Oh no, not rouge nations! Now mascara and eyeliner nations, they're OK...
They never give credit where credit is due, but blame is freely distributed to any but the motion picture companies.
That way, even if everybody ran off and fixed those lines, you still have well over 900,000 lines of evidence (according to you) in your back pocket.
And you would gain (maybe) some credibility. Not to mention what it'd do to your stock price.
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money..."
I can't quite remember who said that... think I heard it on Imus.
(*ducks* for cover, get it, oh i murder myself...)
...Darl McBride. Shaken, what a turd.
I myself knew of a vulnerability of using Powerbroker within an environment using NIS and NFS, but I never revealed it to management, since there was nothing they could do anyhow, other than move everything away from NIS, or get rid of PB. Since neither was an option, telling them this would only have annoyed them. Also, I did not want them to shoot the messenger.