and made the credit cards pin-accessible only so that you never had to get your card out of your purse/wallet
You'd still have to get your card out of your purse or wallet. Many people have more than one credit card, so how would the device know which one to use? Unless it scanned all your cards and you put in the pin for the one you want to use? But that way lies madness; I wouldn't want *all* my cards to be scanned, just the one I'm using for the purchase.
But that's just my personal preference -- there are serious security implications there as well. Imagine someone getting a hold of a reader and surreptitiously scanning a passerby's purse. In an instant, several different card numbers are stolen. Hell, I know people who carry around 7 or 8 cards! So, no thank you. I'll be swiping my card, and if the clerk wants to see my ID, I have no problem with that.
This story from cnet mentions the results of the lawsuit:
Earlier this month, the studio trade association announced that file-swapping site LokiTorrent, one of the hubs supporting BitTorrent technology, had agreed to pay a $1 million settlement and give its server logs to the MPAA.
As with so many things in life, it's simply a knee-jerk reaction. Google announces this new initiative and is immediately lambasted for limited language availability, just as it was on/. when Google Maps was announced. It's time to grow up, kids. Just because Google is popular doesn't mean that they have phalanxes of staff grinding away so that basic beta functionality can be used in 30 languages right away. Jesus Christ, they're an American corporation with headquarters in the U.S. Of course they're going to do new things in English first! Let them work out the kinks first, and then they'll port it to other languages.
I just kinda think sometimes that it needs to be open season on corporations
I think so too, but the bottom line is that pissant little punks like this kid are a big reason why prices are so unfair to consumers these days. If you don't like a corporation, vote with your feet -- don't buy its products. If you can't do that, then keep bugging the company via letters, petitions, etc. Now in this particular case, there probably wasn't a lot of monetary damage involved. But in a general nutshell, if a store gets vandalized, it has two choices:
Have insurance pay for the cleanup (resulting in higher insurance premiums for the company, which passes that off to consumers through higher prices)
Pay for the cleanup itself (resulting in costs that are passed off to consumers through higher prices)
There was a post on the magazine website that said:
It will also be available in coming months through most of the same online and brick-and-mortar retailers that carry O'Reilly's other publications, plus select newsstand outlets. We'll be posting more about that as it becomes available at those places. But the subscribers will be getting it sooner.
I wonder if ownership of the computer has anything to do with it. Our family computer was purchased with a credit card in my name, hence it technically belongs to me. If I want to install a keylogger or whatever, that should be perfectly acceptable.
Slashdot Mirror
...as long as Claria says it's okay.
They just wanted to let you know, in case you were worried.
"Okay guys, the awards are coming up and we need some PR exposure...who we gonna sue?"
since they are a legitimate news site (gonna get flamed for that)
;)
You probably will. I suggest in the future you enclose the term in quotes ("legitimate"), or perhaps to be safer, phrase it as a question.
and made the credit cards pin-accessible only so that you never had to get your card out of your purse/wallet
You'd still have to get your card out of your purse or wallet. Many people have more than one credit card, so how would the device know which one to use? Unless it scanned all your cards and you put in the pin for the one you want to use? But that way lies madness; I wouldn't want *all* my cards to be scanned, just the one I'm using for the purchase.
But that's just my personal preference -- there are serious security implications there as well. Imagine someone getting a hold of a reader and surreptitiously scanning a passerby's purse. In an instant, several different card numbers are stolen. Hell, I know people who carry around 7 or 8 cards! So, no thank you. I'll be swiping my card, and if the clerk wants to see my ID, I have no problem with that.
something like x number of notes have to be similar or identical to be an infringement
I believe Vanilla Ice can tell you that 1/32nd of a note makes all the difference.
Turning a hand crank would make use of cheap, available human power.
A pocket hand crank? I can see it now, a whole new array of pickup lines...
"Excuse me miss, can you turn my hand crank? It's in my pants."
As with so many things in life, it's simply a knee-jerk reaction. Google announces this new initiative and is immediately lambasted for limited language availability, just as it was on /. when Google Maps was announced. It's time to grow up, kids. Just because Google is popular doesn't mean that they have phalanxes of staff grinding away so that basic beta functionality can be used in 30 languages right away. Jesus Christ, they're an American corporation with headquarters in the U.S. Of course they're going to do new things in English first! Let them work out the kinks first, and then they'll port it to other languages.
I think so too, but the bottom line is that pissant little punks like this kid are a big reason why prices are so unfair to consumers these days. If you don't like a corporation, vote with your feet -- don't buy its products. If you can't do that, then keep bugging the company via letters, petitions, etc. Now in this particular case, there probably wasn't a lot of monetary damage involved. But in a general nutshell, if a store gets vandalized, it has two choices:
- Have insurance pay for the cleanup (resulting in higher insurance premiums for the company, which passes that off to consumers through higher prices)
- Pay for the cleanup itself (resulting in costs that are passed off to consumers through higher prices)
As a consumer, neither choice looks good to me.Here is a mirror, as I have found the site to be /.'d already.
But that poop could eventually fertilize a garden.
Don't panic, it's under control. Stay hoopy and you'll sass what the froods are up to.
...let's have a three-day weekend (probably).
What would there defence in a class action law suit even be?????
Grand Theft Auto made me do it!
Relax, Dubya just ordered a new box of crayons. He'll be back to signing things soon.
No way!!! And all this time I was blaming the sun...
Sorry Sol.
SPY ACT Act! 4.0
It stops spyware AND helps you manage your contacts and schedule!
Um, yes.
When you get mod points, come back to me and award them retroactively. ;)
Grand Theft Auto made him do it!
I wonder if ownership of the computer has anything to do with it. Our family computer was purchased with a credit card in my name, hence it technically belongs to me. If I want to install a keylogger or whatever, that should be perfectly acceptable.
Clever, but that's too insulting to La Cosa Nostra. ;)
C'mon, we've done fried eggs on a CPU, but that's not enough. I wanna cook a T-bone on that sucker!