I also remember some company having a line in their EULA pointing to a url that gave the first person to view it, a cash prize (or something). Lasted for months until somebody finally noticed it:)
In all honesty, i'd have to admit that i never read it either. By the same assumptions as you i've made my conclusion too. And yes, i normally see either GPL, BSD, or similar and feel 'safe'.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some line in it saying "Congratulations for reading up to this point. We never thought somebody actually bothered, but you have our deepest respect and gratitude from this moment on." , and nobody would notice it until Firefox 2.0 was released:P
I'm using my qtek9100's internet capabilities to check on the public transportation schedule. And yes, it's quite handy if you have this information as soon as possible, because while i wait for the page to load i might miss a connection. I'm sure there are other (better?) examples, but this is why i would love to have the information available fast.
Lovely that you can convince yourself that this is OK to do. I'm happy for you. The rest of humanity will still consider it wrong though. But whatever works for you...
And this comment was modded insightful? Insightful? Because you said it's a stupid and incorrect comment? INSIGHTFUL?
*sigh*
I disagree even. The comment made perfect sense. If you're not 100% sure of killing yourself, and somebody steps up and 'convinces' you that you should kill yourself... yeah, it's basicly the same as killing the person yourself.
I can't help but compare this to my own recent situation. I work in a hospital and we are in the process of moving all departments around because the airconditioning is being replaced throughout the entire building. Now since it's a hospital, the patients can't suffer because of it. So this means that most of the moving will have to happen after the medical staff stops working at 5pm... or later sometimes. Needless to say that every employee made some overtime or did some thing or another to contribute to the moving. Now i've had some things i needed to take care of at home, so lately i couldn't help during weekends. Then suddenly we got the message that several people were invited to go to a dinner party, organized by the hospital. Great! Uhm, no. I was not invited. People who are working at the reception desk were invited though, even people who were on holiday during the moving. All in all i can say that about 500 people contributed to the movings, and about 100 is selected for the dinner. I said the same thing to my boss "either it's everyone, or nobody. because just selecting people at random is unfair".
Not that i would've gone to the dinner anyway, because i'm a vegetarian and they never count on that. Something else to get pissed off about, but okay... So i've decided that i won't participate after my normal work hours anymore. I don't care if they can't move a department because they don't have enough people. They should've treated everyone the same: either everyone goes to the dinner, or nobody gets invited.
No idea what goes through the minds of our bosses when they come up with such a 'brilliant' idea. I guess they know they can't please everyone, so just let's pick some people that we need a favor from, and screw the rest.
I have the MDA Vario, WinCE 5.0 based pocketpc with wlan/bluetooth and best of all, internet for 10 euro/month. These 'piece of crap' games are actually pretty fun. I can't find a direct link now, so google for it (or Qtec 9100 iirc) if you wish. I recently installed skype for pocketpc on it, so i can call home for free:) The connection is still a little low, but will be increased soon. I can take photo's and make video's, and email them to my friends, if they don't happen to have this cool device themselves.
of those toy cars i used to have when i was a kid. There were ones you held in warm water (or press with warm hands) and they would change color for a short period of time.
Not if giving them the key/word will cost more than simply waiting out the 90 days. And isn't it true that if they can't prove you guilty, but kept you in for 90 days, you can sue them?
I run Windows XP, totally unpatched. I post my IP address to forums. That way, i'll be sure to get hacked. Now if i ever have to leave my home, i'm sure there are hundreds of copies out there of my data. No need to make another backup eh. Better use that space for toilet paper, as somebody already suggested. Oh, and some beers and peanuts in case you can hitch a ride.
You're absolutely right, and i'm sorry for not mentioning this. Actually, on the anti-piracy website (official) is just said "software". Exactly. Ofcourse, i doubt they mean freeware/OSS/etc, but a novice could think this was illegal too.
you say you don't break a rule while downloading. But did you consider that downloading anything with bittorrent immediately means you're uploading as well? You might be breaking laws anyway.
I found out recently that it's legal in my country (Netherlands) to download music and movies . As long as i'm not uploading anything, i'm perfectly safe. This doesn't go for software though. Downloading that is still illegal.
Uhm, downloading a book that goes directly against the policy of the government, from a government controlled internet access, is less than wise methinks:)
But yes, you could have somebody bring you the book. But that means it won't be available to the masses so easily as in other countries.
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I also remember some company having a line in their EULA pointing to a url that gave the first person to view it, a cash prize (or something). Lasted for months until somebody finally noticed it :)
In all honesty, i'd have to admit that i never read it either. By the same assumptions as you i've made my conclusion too. And yes, i normally see either GPL, BSD, or similar and feel 'safe'.
:P
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some line in it saying "Congratulations for reading up to this point. We never thought somebody actually bothered, but you have our deepest respect and gratitude from this moment on." , and nobody would notice it until Firefox 2.0 was released
Poke them with the soft cussions! If they don't work ... bring in THE COMFY CHAIR !!!!
If they bothered to read the license Mozilla has attached to its products, they wouldn't be so surprised.
I heard google was developing the gPod.
beta, ofcourse
According to some people we do
I'm using my qtek9100's internet capabilities to check on the public transportation schedule. And yes, it's quite handy if you have this information as soon as possible, because while i wait for the page to load i might miss a connection. I'm sure there are other (better?) examples, but this is why i would love to have the information available fast.
Except in this case, there won't be any replies :P
Lovely that you can convince yourself that this is OK to do. I'm happy for you. The rest of humanity will still consider it wrong though. But whatever works for you...
And this comment was modded insightful? Insightful? Because you said it's a stupid and incorrect comment? INSIGHTFUL?
... yeah, it's basicly the same as killing the person yourself.
*sigh*
I disagree even. The comment made perfect sense. If you're not 100% sure of killing yourself, and somebody steps up and 'convinces' you that you should kill yourself
I can't help but compare this to my own recent situation. I work in a hospital and we are in the process of moving all departments around because the airconditioning is being replaced throughout the entire building. Now since it's a hospital, the patients can't suffer because of it. So this means that most of the moving will have to happen after the medical staff stops working at 5pm ... or later sometimes. Needless to say that every employee made some overtime or did some thing or another to contribute to the moving. Now i've had some things i needed to take care of at home, so lately i couldn't help during weekends. Then suddenly we got the message that several people were invited to go to a dinner party, organized by the hospital. Great! Uhm, no. I was not invited. People who are working at the reception desk were invited though, even people who were on holiday during the moving. All in all i can say that about 500 people contributed to the movings, and about 100 is selected for the dinner. I said the same thing to my boss "either it's everyone, or nobody. because just selecting people at random is unfair".
... So i've decided that i won't participate after my normal work hours anymore. I don't care if they can't move a department because they don't have enough people. They should've treated everyone the same: either everyone goes to the dinner, or nobody gets invited.
Not that i would've gone to the dinner anyway, because i'm a vegetarian and they never count on that. Something else to get pissed off about, but okay
No idea what goes through the minds of our bosses when they come up with such a 'brilliant' idea. I guess they know they can't please everyone, so just let's pick some people that we need a favor from, and screw the rest.
I have the MDA Vario, WinCE 5.0 based pocketpc with wlan/bluetooth and best of all, internet for 10 euro/month. These 'piece of crap' games are actually pretty fun. I can't find a direct link now, so google for it (or Qtec 9100 iirc) if you wish. I recently installed skype for pocketpc on it, so i can call home for free :) The connection is still a little low, but will be increased soon. I can take photo's and make video's, and email them to my friends, if they don't happen to have this cool device themselves.
Or the MDA Vario (aka Qtec 9100 iirc). Very nice thing, especially with tmobile's pocket internet :)
of those toy cars i used to have when i was a kid. There were ones you held in warm water (or press with warm hands) and they would change color for a short period of time.
some do!
so actually, the cure is to have more sex!
And I thought i could only choose between 'god' 'sex' 'love' and 'secret'. There are more?
Not if giving them the key/word will cost more than simply waiting out the 90 days. And isn't it true that if they can't prove you guilty, but kept you in for 90 days, you can sue them?
I run Windows XP, totally unpatched. I post my IP address to forums. That way, i'll be sure to get hacked. Now if i ever have to leave my home, i'm sure there are hundreds of copies out there of my data. No need to make another backup eh. Better use that space for toilet paper, as somebody already suggested. Oh, and some beers and peanuts in case you can hitch a ride.
You're absolutely right, and i'm sorry for not mentioning this. Actually, on the anti-piracy website (official) is just said "software". Exactly. Ofcourse, i doubt they mean freeware/OSS/etc, but a novice could think this was illegal too.
you say you don't break a rule while downloading. But did you consider that downloading anything with bittorrent immediately means you're uploading as well? You might be breaking laws anyway.
I found out recently that it's legal in my country (Netherlands) to download music and movies . As long as i'm not uploading anything, i'm perfectly safe. This doesn't go for software though. Downloading that is still illegal.
"You can download it as a PDF"
:)
Uhm, downloading a book that goes directly against the policy of the government, from a government controlled internet access, is less than wise methinks
But yes, you could have somebody bring you the book. But that means it won't be available to the masses so easily as in other countries.
their respective government just puts a halt to stores selling the book?
Maybe i don't understand your meaning too well, correct me if i'm wrong then. But isn't it true that you can install most software only as root?
./configure
/bin ?
I mean
$
$ make
$ su -
# make install
how else am i going to place binaries in
"I do know, though, that more viruses and spyware are being made for IE then they are for Firefox."
But that's probably only because spyware authors want to reach as many people as possible. And like it or not, IE still has the most users.