The customers can hardly be regarded as "an army of unpaid testers." I have called technical support for a variety of different companies wishing to report a bug in their product. Do you really think the flunkies answering the phone know or care? Their purpose, obviously, is to get you off the phone as quickly as possible while still keeping you "satisfied." I've talked to a supervisor's supervisor's supervisor, and all he would tell me is "our product has been fully tested...", blah, blah, blah.
I guess I am an unpaid tester. But no one gives a shit what I have to say or what bugs I've found.
Supposedly the IPs were listed right next to the Kazaa screennames on the system. I would *MUCH* rather see a list of IPs than the list of garbage they showed us.
In Michigan, any accident involving an ambulance or a fire truck is AUTOMATICALLY the ambulance/fire truck's fault. I don't believe this is true of police vehicles though.
This automatic ticketing scam has went a little too far. Last time I checked when the light turns yellow you go if you're past the point of no return. If I'm pulling a trailer with a few tons in it, I might roll through that light a full second after it turns red before I lock em up, burn some rubber, and slide all over the road.
OnStar doesn't store this information for that very reason. The court will have trouble executing a search warrant for data that doesn't exist. I believe OnStar subscription will greatly decrease if they begin storing such information as GPS coordinates.
If the storage is requested by the owner of the vehicle (e.g. it's been stolen), totally different ballgame...
18% Porn
12% Spam
6% RIAA "Cease and Desist" Emails
4% KaZaa Client Software
RIAA "Cease and Desist" might as well go under Spam, and half of the Porn overlaps KaZaa...not to mention KaZaa is P2P.
Bandwidth and mp3s weren't a problem until someone developed GUIs (Napster) so every dumbass on the planet could download/upload them.
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The customers can hardly be regarded as "an army of unpaid testers." I have called technical support for a variety of different companies wishing to report a bug in their product. Do you really think the flunkies answering the phone know or care? Their purpose, obviously, is to get you off the phone as quickly as possible while still keeping you "satisfied." I've talked to a supervisor's supervisor's supervisor, and all he would tell me is "our product has been fully tested...", blah, blah, blah. I guess I am an unpaid tester. But no one gives a shit what I have to say or what bugs I've found.
Supposedly the IPs were listed right next to the Kazaa screennames on the system. I would *MUCH* rather see a list of IPs than the list of garbage they showed us.
In Michigan, any accident involving an ambulance or a fire truck is AUTOMATICALLY the ambulance/fire truck's fault. I don't believe this is true of police vehicles though.
This automatic ticketing scam has went a little too far. Last time I checked when the light turns yellow you go if you're past the point of no return. If I'm pulling a trailer with a few tons in it, I might roll through that light a full second after it turns red before I lock em up, burn some rubber, and slide all over the road.
OnStar doesn't store this information for that very reason. The court will have trouble executing a search warrant for data that doesn't exist. I believe OnStar subscription will greatly decrease if they begin storing such information as GPS coordinates. If the storage is requested by the owner of the vehicle (e.g. it's been stolen), totally different ballgame...
18% Porn 12% Spam 6% RIAA "Cease and Desist" Emails 4% KaZaa Client Software RIAA "Cease and Desist" might as well go under Spam, and half of the Porn overlaps KaZaa...not to mention KaZaa is P2P. Bandwidth and mp3s weren't a problem until someone developed GUIs (Napster) so every dumbass on the planet could download/upload them.