Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it
He's not saying they need to get your permission to use your personal info, but that they need it to sell it!
Why, pray tell, do providers of "essential and nearly-essential services" need to sell your personal info? Why would they need an exemption from "Get permission *before* you sell personal info"?
Let me put it another way: If OO.o eliminated every bug currently in its database, but in doing so had to replace them with the single bug, "Crashes on startup, taking the OS with it," then it would be far less fit for your organization than it is right now. But wouldn't a bugcount of 1 be sweet?
Reminds me of a joke we used to tell internally about some competing software (AFATDS, for any Army artillery guys out there). At one point in its development, I believe AFATDS claimed only 28 open problem reports. Our joke was "one for each of the 27 functional areas saying, 'it doesn't work', and one for the whole system saying the same thing".
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There used to be Redmond Linux. Now it's Lycoris.
I happily ran NT4 Workstation on a P-II 233.
Heck, we ran NT4 Server on a P5-133.
At least the guy has a sense of humor.
See his comment on the Flameproof suit/Tinfoil hat question.
Nope, not all oldies. Only Hank Williams.
Celine Dion becomes the next US President.
<SCREAM type="Anakin Skywalker" subtype="Darth Vader">
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
</SCREAM>
My favorite feature on a thumb drive was on my PNY Attache 256MB.
It had a manual write-protect switch.
Took me a minute to figure you out. Mod this guy +1 funny, not -1 Troll/flamebait.
Putz is yiddish slang.
Cingular and T-Mobile use SIMs. They're on GSM.
Verizon and Sprint are CDMA, so they don't use SIMs.
However, I think that the GSM providers lock the SIMs.
Wait... aren't we boycotting Sony?
Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.
Yes. Unfortunately it's called "Business as Usual".
However, w2kSp3 came with that eula asking me to give MS the right to exchange software on my system w/o asking me, so I stopped with SP2
SP4 removed the offensive language from the EULA, as far as I could tell. I also did not install SP3 because of the EULA. I did install SP4.
My home machine also runs Win2K. I don't like XP.
Nope. Class Action Suits are civil actions. Story Poster is asking "Where are the *CRIMINAL* penalties for this"?
Neither. Larry said something, and Janet misunderstood, and criminal charges wound up being filed...
Not to mention their second opinion law firm:
Takeda, Monet, and Runne.
Any boolean value that is not false must, by definition, be true.
Ah, but is it provably true?
It's not really a spoiler. It's telegraphed almost from the beginning.
Sorry, though. I didn't even realize I was spoiling.
You misinterpret the GP.
He's not saying they need to get your permission to use your personal info, but that they need it to sell it!
Why, pray tell, do providers of "essential and nearly-essential services" need to sell your personal info? Why would they need an exemption from "Get permission *before* you sell personal info"?
IIRC, Apple ran an ad pushing this (didn't it involve a tank or something)?
The only problem is when there really *is* no code. How can you give someone something that doesn't exist?
Example: You're falsely ID'ed by a bad guy, or you're mistaken as a terrorist due to bad luck (see: Paul in 24 Season 4).
So you lose all your toes, and have your genitals fried off, because you *CAN'T* give them what they want. This is why torture is useless.
If anyone can digitize video, then the terrorists have won!
And its EULA would be a license to kill?
Let me put it another way: If OO.o eliminated every bug currently in its database, but in doing so had to replace them with the single bug, "Crashes on startup, taking the OS with it," then it would be far less fit for your organization than it is right now. But wouldn't a bugcount of 1 be sweet?
Reminds me of a joke we used to tell internally about some competing software (AFATDS, for any Army artillery guys out there). At one point in its development, I believe AFATDS claimed only 28 open problem reports. Our joke was "one for each of the 27 functional areas saying, 'it doesn't work', and one for the whole system saying the same thing".
I would kill for the VC2003 compiler in the VS6 IDE.