So, who foots the bill for this? The retailer, the credit card comany / debit card issuer, or the customer?
The credit card company raises my rates to cover their expenses, the government uses my taxes to pay for the investigation and prosecution, looks like I'm paying for it!
FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials' e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings are stored.
is that San Francisco seems to have figured out how to store data now, that is news!
So.... I have been a "Ford Man" for a long time. I used to hang out on a site, forddiesel.com. It was a great place to get info on service, modifications, etc. Good time had by all. Then they started selling t-shirts and bumper stickers with the site's name on it. Ford came down on them with a cease and desist letter. Seems using the Ford name and selling stuff is a bad thing.
They are thedieselstop.com now. Same content, same great folks - just no Ford name in anything they sell. I have to wonder if Ford's problem was the use of the images, or the use of the images in something being sold? Kinda of like taking a copy of the Ford logo and selling it on a t-shirt or a belt buckle without paying royalties.
I can kinda see their point, but it does seem a bit extreme. More like the letter-of-the-law "just because we can" rather than taking this in any kind of context. In any event it sucks and bet the Black Mustang Club can't afford to challenge it in court.
Yea, but Microsoft throws money about. There's a big difference between "here's a really cool sport water bottle with our logo on it" and "heres a big bag of money/drugs/power/cars/boats"
I know a little about the workings inside Red Hat - they won't spend anything on anything, employees, hardware, advertising, nothing. I doubt they would extend anything substantive to influence public policy.
I'm an amateur radio operator (Ham). A few years back, here in North Carolina we had a pretty unusual ice storm. It took out power for several hundred thousand people. The county office of emergency services called us in to handle message traffic between the Red Cross shelters, the county offices, and the Red Cross main office. We were busy for almost 4 days.
The cell towers around here died middle of the first day. Probably averaged 4-6 hours or so before we (the hams) were the only game in town.
Kinda scary really - people rely on their cell phones and don't realize how fragile the system really is.
Oh, one more thing - get an answering machine on your land-line. That way, when you're off somewhere huddled in a shelter, when the cell towers or phone lines DO come back up, you can call your answering machine to check the status of power at your house before you go slogging through the ice and snow (ask me how I konw this)
Let's fill this guys house with a whole shitload of unpopped popcorn see... and then we can take this beam see... and like point the beam at it and like... er... no, wait a minute
Instead of posting the video on YouTube, he should have sold the data! I wonder what you could get for all that stolen info on eBa.... er, no, wait a minute...
True, they'll try to BS you and make you go away. Depends on if you really want the thing fixed, do the right thing, and raise public awareness of your rights, or go away crying and pointing at the bully who took your lunch money.
In the US, the responsibility falls onto the manufacturer to prove that the non-stock modification caused the failure before denying warranty work. For example, if you buy a motorcycle and make exhaust system modifications and the transmission fails, the manufacturer would have to prove that the exhaust modification caused the transmission failure in order to deny warranty service.
The difference being, people have a choice to install Linux. They will not have a choice to run Office 2007 (eventually). People will always choose to avoid pain over obtaining benefit, and they will always choose delayed pain over immediate pain.
Now, I'll probably get modded a troll or something for taking this slightly OT, but I got to say it. You hear a lot of people complaining about Apple and the single-vendor thing. I never remember hearing people say "Oh, if we run Solaris, we're locked into a single vendor, Oh, if we run HP/UX, we're locked into a single vendor, Oh, if we run AIX we're locked into a single vendor..."
I know the argument no longer applies to Sun, but still, you get my point, yes?
The Durham, NC store is terrible. I have spent hours waiting for my "appointment" with the "genius" and watched them treat people really rude. When I took my MBP in for the overhead/whine problem that so many of the 1st gen boxes had, the guy asked me how hot it was getting. I told him "well, too hot to hold on my lap" His response was "Well, for your information these computers are not meant to be used on your lap"
Maybe it is my old age and lack of "hip-ness" but I'm getting tired of these kids 1/2 my age treating me like I'm some kind of dumb-ass. I've been in the electronics, software, and IT industry longer than some of these kids have been alive.
When this MBP expires, it'll be my last Apple product
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So, who foots the bill for this? The retailer, the credit card comany / debit card issuer, or the customer?
The credit card company raises my rates to cover their expenses, the government uses my taxes to pay for the investigation and prosecution, looks like I'm paying for it!
Drinks for everyone! Here, use my card!
etc, etc, etc.....
I KMean, KWhat's Kup with KThat?
is that San Francisco seems to have figured out how to store data now, that is news!
True - understand completely. But, I'd rather see them go after the Chinese belt-buckle and t-shirt crowd than the Ford fans, ya know?
They are thedieselstop.com now. Same content, same great folks - just no Ford name in anything they sell. I have to wonder if Ford's problem was the use of the images, or the use of the images in something being sold? Kinda of like taking a copy of the Ford logo and selling it on a t-shirt or a belt buckle without paying royalties.
I can kinda see their point, but it does seem a bit extreme. More like the letter-of-the-law "just because we can" rather than taking this in any kind of context. In any event it sucks and bet the Black Mustang Club can't afford to challenge it in court.
I know a little about the workings inside Red Hat - they won't spend anything on anything, employees, hardware, advertising, nothing. I doubt they would extend anything substantive to influence public policy.
I'm an amateur radio operator (Ham). A few years back, here in North Carolina we had a pretty unusual ice storm. It took out power for several hundred thousand people. The county office of emergency services called us in to handle message traffic between the Red Cross shelters, the county offices, and the Red Cross main office. We were busy for almost 4 days.
The cell towers around here died middle of the first day. Probably averaged 4-6 hours or so before we (the hams) were the only game in town.
Kinda scary really - people rely on their cell phones and don't realize how fragile the system really is.
Oh, one more thing - get an answering machine on your land-line. That way, when you're off somewhere huddled in a shelter, when the cell towers or phone lines DO come back up, you can call your answering machine to check the status of power at your house before you go slogging through the ice and snow (ask me how I konw this)
Let's fill this guys house with a whole shitload of unpopped popcorn see... and then we can take this beam see... and like point the beam at it and like... er... no, wait a minute
What is Apple doing distributing Safari "bundled" with their OS then?! Didn't they get the memo?
the Internet watches YOU... er, no... wait a minute
That sucks
Can standards be patented?
Instead of posting the video on YouTube, he should have sold the data! I wonder what you could get for all that stolen info on eBa.... er, no, wait a minute...
If the issue is copyright (read copy right) and no copy was made, how can someone claim that their right to copy has been violated?
Or, more like the "new Windows ME"
True, they'll try to BS you and make you go away. Depends on if you really want the thing fixed, do the right thing, and raise public awareness of your rights, or go away crying and pointing at the bully who took your lunch money.
In the US, the responsibility falls onto the manufacturer to prove that the non-stock modification caused the failure before denying warranty work. For example, if you buy a motorcycle and make exhaust system modifications and the transmission fails, the manufacturer would have to prove that the exhaust modification caused the transmission failure in order to deny warranty service.
Seems to me, the same would apply here
The difference being, people have a choice to install Linux. They will not have a choice to run Office 2007 (eventually). People will always choose to avoid pain over obtaining benefit, and they will always choose delayed pain over immediate pain.
Sorry, the US FBI already tried that http://www.sandman.com/taliban.html
Yes
Cool!
Write an article, anonymously post it to /. in the form of a review, get a billion hits. "Look boss, my article is so popular, it got a billion hits!"
Demand raise for being a popular columnist
I gotta remember that one.....
"No, I'm Sparticus!"
"Yes, Mac hardware is single-vendor"
Now, I'll probably get modded a troll or something for taking this slightly OT, but I got to say it. You hear a lot of people complaining about Apple and the single-vendor thing. I never remember hearing people say "Oh, if we run Solaris, we're locked into a single vendor, Oh, if we run HP/UX, we're locked into a single vendor, Oh, if we run AIX we're locked into a single vendor..."
I know the argument no longer applies to Sun, but still, you get my point, yes?
The Durham, NC store is terrible. I have spent hours waiting for my "appointment" with the "genius" and watched them treat people really rude. When I took my MBP in for the overhead/whine problem that so many of the 1st gen boxes had, the guy asked me how hot it was getting. I told him "well, too hot to hold on my lap" His response was "Well, for your information these computers are not meant to be used on your lap"
Maybe it is my old age and lack of "hip-ness" but I'm getting tired of these kids 1/2 my age treating me like I'm some kind of dumb-ass. I've been in the electronics, software, and IT industry longer than some of these kids have been alive.
When this MBP expires, it'll be my last Apple product