Like TFS says, the mobile version is free. Just another moron trying to make a quick buck.
My concern with blizzard's authenticator is that they seem to have rolled their own implementation rather than adhering to an open, defined spec (HOTP/TOTP). And like so many of these services, there's no good way to move it to a new device without disabling 2FA temporarily. People do upgrade their phones, after all.
How is suing someone a quick buck? Unless they cave and decide to pay you off, you still have to pay filing charges, lawyer fees (providing you got one), and wait for the court date. Seems quite a hassle to be considered 'quick'.
And it's hard. And it costs a lot of money. And the market is full of very good competitors. Otherwise there's nothing stopping you.
Yeah. Are the people with the components you need even going to talk to you? I doubt Qualcomm is interested in selling you 10 LTE chips. Even if you could find all the parts you need and they already have drivers in Android, do a custom PCB layout and put it your own chassis it'll probably look and work like a cheap Chinese knock-off at a price higher than the "real thing". Forget patents, forget the FCC, is it even feasible to get a prototype up and running at a reasonable cost?
If you piece the parts from another phone, then the you are using chips that have already had it's "fee" paid. Of course, you can't sell it as a new phone, but i'm sure you can get around laws that way. No laws against selling a used phone, no laws saying you can't take your phone apart and use the pieces for whatever.
Obviously if you publish or distribute some work you did not craft yourself, you should ask the owner first. If only for politeness sake. How would you feel if I published an old pdf from you without asking or informing you?
If i wrote a pdf that was a manual on how to do use/repair/whatever hardware i sold, I'd be grateful that someone is taking the time and hosting a copy of the file.
Of course, I'm not a greedy corporate type, I'm a real human that understands that some people want manuals for laptops, mainly older ones that don't get produced anymore.
Not to mention those manuals are only good for the hardware they represent, so Toshiba can lick the scum from my balls.
Growing up I didn't smoke cigarettes (still don't, never got into that), but a lot of my friends did, buy this study, I would of been labeled a cigarette smoker.
Later on, a lot of the people I knew had felonies, I never had, but I guess I would be guilty of that also.
I have gay friends, so I guess I'm gay also (I'm not, but according to this I would be...)
My friends are a lot of things I am not, but now, maybe I am...
Smoke a joint before you play, that's far better than Dramamine at combatting motion sickness. Actually, for alleviating any kind of gastrointestinal queaziness including food poisoning and alcohol hangovers.
Apparently, for each copy of the game we download, we're only allowed to install it on one computer, and optionally one other computer assuming we only run it on one of those two at once. Despite the fact that we're totally free to instead just click download again, and then that second download becomes a primary copy, and we -are- allowed to install them both and run them both at the same time. Is it just me, or is that a really odd bit of licensing for something that's being released completely free?
it's wasteful licensing, imo. We need to be green, recycle files please!
Of course, the other thought is that is how they are keeping a track of how many people/computers are running it. If each download only represents 1 computer, it's easy to keep track. Of course, you are probably the only person who read the licensing agreement, i know i didn't.
omg, I got serious motion sickness from that "game". But I collected all 100 orbs in 4:33 it said. But now i have a headache, and i feel like i'm going to puke.
If that is how it is when you get close to the speed of light, I'm glad I'm a slow ass human, I couldn't take moving around.
The effects are weird, the controls are weird, and if it didn't make me feel like crap, I'd play it again, it was cool.
If you get motion sickness, be prepared to get sick, otherwise, it was pretty neat to check out.
If you can prove how you voted, to anybody, you can demonstrate to some interested third party that you voted the way they wanted you to. Which means you could sell your vote, or be coerced into voting a certain way.
That's also why any voting proposals that involve a receipt showing that your vote for Smith rather than Jones are a bad idea, as are any proposals involving a way to look up your own vote online after the election.
um, if you want to sell your vote, you can easily provide proof without sharing it on the internet.
These sort of laws are stupid, because they can NOT stop anyone from doing it, unless they decide to start searching everyone, confiscating cellphones, camera's, whatever before they step into the poll booth.
In fact, I never considered selling my votes until I saw this article, now I'm like, fuck, i should be selling my votes. Capitalism at it's finest!
but ya, giving weapons to others means they'll probably get ebay'd to someone else later. So if you are worried about it, don't give anyone any weapons.
I wasn't aware of any content you buy that is limited in the number of viewers watching, unless we are talking about showing a movie or something to the public. In fact, this sort of scares me. Is this the next step? You got to pay to watch stuff with more then 1 viewer?
"This movie cost $3.50 per person watching, we noticed you have 3 people watching, your account with be charged $10.50 plus appropriate taxes for this movie."
What I see is an excuse for more price gouging.by the media companies.
I don't know who you are. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my computerr go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Spend the 400$ on a computer-forensics investigator, find out who is doing this then contact law-enforcement.
Dude was in Lebannon, I'm sure the local police would be happy to pick him up.
Honestly, this person is smart. Keep it small and low, and you probably will get away with it lot. Ramp it up, go after a big fish, and our government might start getting pissed, but they won't care about a bunch of small businesses.
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Like TFS says, the mobile version is free. Just another moron trying to make a quick buck.
My concern with blizzard's authenticator is that they seem to have rolled their own implementation rather than adhering to an open, defined spec (HOTP/TOTP). And like so many of these services, there's no good way to move it to a new device without disabling 2FA temporarily. People do upgrade their phones, after all.
How is suing someone a quick buck? Unless they cave and decide to pay you off, you still have to pay filing charges, lawyer fees (providing you got one), and wait for the court date. Seems quite a hassle to be considered 'quick'.
And it's hard. And it costs a lot of money. And the market is full of very good competitors. Otherwise there's nothing stopping you.
Yeah. Are the people with the components you need even going to talk to you? I doubt Qualcomm is interested in selling you 10 LTE chips. Even if you could find all the parts you need and they already have drivers in Android, do a custom PCB layout and put it your own chassis it'll probably look and work like a cheap Chinese knock-off at a price higher than the "real thing". Forget patents, forget the FCC, is it even feasible to get a prototype up and running at a reasonable cost?
If you piece the parts from another phone, then the you are using chips that have already had it's "fee" paid. Of course, you can't sell it as a new phone, but i'm sure you can get around laws that way. No laws against selling a used phone, no laws saying you can't take your phone apart and use the pieces for whatever.
Don't let Starbucks find out about this, or your $5 espressos will become $10.
Obviously if you publish or distribute some work you did not craft yourself, you should ask the owner first.
If only for politeness sake.
How would you feel if I published an old pdf from you without asking or informing you?
If i wrote a pdf that was a manual on how to do use/repair/whatever hardware i sold, I'd be grateful that someone is taking the time and hosting a copy of the file.
Of course, I'm not a greedy corporate type, I'm a real human that understands that some people want manuals for laptops, mainly older ones that don't get produced anymore.
Not to mention those manuals are only good for the hardware they represent, so Toshiba can lick the scum from my balls.
What could possible go wrong? but hey, we got a war against everything else, so a new one isn't a big deal, right?
Growing up I didn't smoke cigarettes (still don't, never got into that), but a lot of my friends did, buy this study, I would of been labeled a cigarette smoker.
Later on, a lot of the people I knew had felonies, I never had, but I guess I would be guilty of that also.
I have gay friends, so I guess I'm gay also (I'm not, but according to this I would be...)
My friends are a lot of things I am not, but now, maybe I am...
Smoke a joint before you play, that's far better than Dramamine at combatting motion sickness. Actually, for alleviating any kind of gastrointestinal queaziness including food poisoning and alcohol hangovers.
I was stoned. =)
Apparently, for each copy of the game we download, we're only allowed to install it on one computer, and optionally one other computer assuming we only run it on one of those two at once. Despite the fact that we're totally free to instead just click download again, and then that second download becomes a primary copy, and we -are- allowed to install them both and run them both at the same time. Is it just me, or is that a really odd bit of licensing for something that's being released completely free?
it's wasteful licensing, imo. We need to be green, recycle files please!
Of course, the other thought is that is how they are keeping a track of how many people/computers are running it. If each download only represents 1 computer, it's easy to keep track. Of course, you are probably the only person who read the licensing agreement, i know i didn't.
omg, I got serious motion sickness from that "game". But I collected all 100 orbs in 4:33 it said. But now i have a headache, and i feel like i'm going to puke.
If that is how it is when you get close to the speed of light, I'm glad I'm a slow ass human, I couldn't take moving around.
The effects are weird, the controls are weird, and if it didn't make me feel like crap, I'd play it again, it was cool.
If you get motion sickness, be prepared to get sick, otherwise, it was pretty neat to check out.
Lasers for my nano sharks.
Sharks get all the cool gear.
Or maybe it's simply the easiest way to avoid lengthy and annoying conflict with the USA.
..which is what the open conspiracy is.
too bad it makes the gabon government seem like a joke. too bad they are a joke.
funny, the Gabon Government says the same thing about you!
they used a real scientist to lie about a fake planet?
I'd vote, but then I heard that a definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome each time.
"I said oh well, not like voting matters anyhow due to electoral college bullshit and went home"
I'm so glad you didn't vote. Uneducated people shouldn't vote.
How is that any different then educated people not voting?
If you can prove how you voted, to anybody, you can demonstrate to some interested third party that you voted the way they wanted you to. Which means you could sell your vote, or be coerced into voting a certain way.
That's also why any voting proposals that involve a receipt showing that your vote for Smith rather than Jones are a bad idea, as are any proposals involving a way to look up your own vote online after the election.
um, if you want to sell your vote, you can easily provide proof without sharing it on the internet.
These sort of laws are stupid, because they can NOT stop anyone from doing it, unless they decide to start searching everyone, confiscating cellphones, camera's, whatever before they step into the poll booth.
In fact, I never considered selling my votes until I saw this article, now I'm like, fuck, i should be selling my votes. Capitalism at it's finest!
MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning. Taking their money now just shows that Linux can now be bought off.
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Remember, on the Internet, noone knows you are a dog.
I just assume everyone is really ugly.
People kill people.
but ya, giving weapons to others means they'll probably get ebay'd to someone else later. So if you are worried about it, don't give anyone any weapons.
that's a great use of tech, get it to push a big load of junk food to us on the couch. =)
Think the paypal is a mistake, it's on the link to the imageshack & symanetc info, but no mention of it there.
I wasn't aware of any content you buy that is limited in the number of viewers watching, unless we are talking about showing a movie or something to the public. In fact, this sort of scares me. Is this the next step? You got to pay to watch stuff with more then 1 viewer?
"This movie cost $3.50 per person watching, we noticed you have 3 people watching, your account with be charged $10.50 plus appropriate taxes for this movie."
What I see is an excuse for more price gouging.by the media companies.
Of course.. Anything to give the cops 'probable cause' to knock your door down can only be a good thing.
Cops don't need "probable cause" to knock on your door. They can, legally, knock on your door any time.
fuck i'm an idiot, i need to learn to read better.
Of course.. Anything to give the cops 'probable cause' to knock your door down can only be a good thing.
Cops don't need "probable cause" to knock on your door. They can, legally, knock on your door any time.
I don't know who you are. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my computerr go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Um, okay Mr. Internet Tough Guy.
Spend the 400$ on a computer-forensics investigator, find out who is doing this then contact law-enforcement.
Dude was in Lebannon, I'm sure the local police would be happy to pick him up.
Honestly, this person is smart. Keep it small and low, and you probably will get away with it lot. Ramp it up, go after a big fish, and our government might start getting pissed, but they won't care about a bunch of small businesses.