I actually read the EULA for the recent game "Civilization V", and it said they could take your contacts list, and share/sell it. Fortunently Valve/Steam was nice enough to give a refund before I installed it when I complained about it "As a one-time courtesy" not as policy, I'm sad to say. Particularly since the EULA wasn't available for viewing until after purchase. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2109777
"Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (Part Two) (#9.2)" (2009)
Dave Lister: What are these things? Kryten: They're Digital Versatile Discs, sir. DVDs for short. They were very popular in the early part of the 21st century before they died out and were replaced with what we use now. Dave Lister: Oh, you mean videos? Kryten: Precisely. Back then no one knew that the human race were utterly incapable of putting the DVDs back in their cases. Case in point: over 2 trillion went missing in just over 20 years. Videos are just too big to lose.
No, that's a terrible way to do it, since both companies may outsource to the same backend provider you've never heard of; and with the 'Cloud' you have no idea if you actually have idependant redundancy or not.
True, someone has a humerous flowchart posted outside their office near mine for posting social media updates, with questions like "Do you care if your parents see it?", "Do you care if your boss sees it?" (both lead to "Don't post it!" for 'yes')
The very first question is "Do you want anyone to see it?", and to "No" line leads (after a twisty path) to Google+
"A pollution control program in 1912 would have amounted to cleaning horse shit out of the streets."
Yep, that's why the Automobile was hailed for eliminating pollution. feces, urine, dead horses rotting in the streets were an immense problem, spreading disease that killed great numbers of people.
I'm thinking you should open electonics boxes at the register, before you leave the store; to avoid being the victim in such a scam, and having the store claim you're the one who switched it.
Well, some laws are best implemented everywhere at once; things like greenhouse gas controls. No one county wants to cripple its industries by placing expensive restrictions that no other country yet has. Otherwise companies will just move to those countries that lack the laws.
I'm wondering if there was a specific agreement with the national governments to preempt lawsuits, or at just a careful study of those countries laws to ensure it's (legally) safe.
You can stop the people dangerous to the government by doing so however.
Does the current screening only allow weak-willed people who are willing to let themselves get irradiated and molested for no good reason, just because the government says so; while excluding those who refuse to put up with such crap, and are likely to disagree with the government on other points?
Sadly, as I found when my neice recently made multiple houses for a school project, the recommended material is "Architectural Gingerbread" which while technically edible... isn't very.
Plus the fact the she used a bottle of corn syrup so old, it didn't have a manufacturers web address on it. (expiration date was in a weird code, hard to crack with one sample)
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I actually read the EULA for the recent game "Civilization V", and it said they could take your contacts list, and share/sell it.
Fortunently Valve/Steam was nice enough to give a refund before I installed it when I complained about it "As a one-time courtesy" not as policy, I'm sad to say.
Particularly since the EULA wasn't available for viewing until after purchase.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2109777
A software QA professional reviews the specs before coding the determine potential failures, and has them addressed in the spec beforehand.
Then to validates that it works correctly, as per the spec.
THEN you break it. Document the nature of the breakage, and note the issue catagory for future spec reviews.
Software QA is not just it's own process, it's improving the whole development process.
Tim(e) Lord with an item that has a surprising amount of space inside? ...
At least he didn't try and take it though airport security.
"Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (Part Two) (#9.2)" (2009)
Dave Lister: What are these things?
Kryten: They're Digital Versatile Discs, sir. DVDs for short. They were very popular in the early part of the 21st century before they died out and were replaced with what we use now.
Dave Lister: Oh, you mean videos?
Kryten: Precisely. Back then no one knew that the human race were utterly incapable of putting the DVDs back in their cases. Case in point: over 2 trillion went missing in just over 20 years. Videos are just too big to lose.
Not as cool as a Wave Motion Gun.
No, that's a terrible way to do it, since both companies may outsource to the same backend provider you've never heard of; and with the 'Cloud' you have no idea if you actually have idependant redundancy or not.
How about the rule: May not give the appearance of our endorsement.
True, someone has a humerous flowchart posted outside their office near mine for posting social media updates, with questions like "Do you care if your parents see it?", "Do you care if your boss sees it?" (both lead to "Don't post it!" for 'yes')
The very first question is "Do you want anyone to see it?", and to "No" line leads (after a twisty path) to Google+
"goddamned Facebook and Twitter links" So Google gets a free pass?
"A pollution control program in 1912 would have amounted to cleaning horse shit out of the streets."
Yep, that's why the Automobile was hailed for eliminating pollution. feces, urine, dead horses rotting in the streets were an immense problem, spreading disease that killed great numbers of people.
Graham Chapman's place will be filled by Andy Kaufman.
You'll something configured with XX Chromosones for that.
Because they would get slammed by the patent trolls.
What's the benifit to being able to start work in a half hour, if it'll take at least half a day to ship the result to this side of the planet?
Unless iPhone launched in asian markets first?
I'm thinking you should open electonics boxes at the register, before you leave the store; to avoid being the victim in such a scam, and having the store claim you're the one who switched it.
Or packaging with clear windows, at least.
Well, some laws are best implemented everywhere at once; things like greenhouse gas controls. No one county wants to cripple its industries by placing expensive restrictions that no other country yet has. Otherwise companies will just move to those countries that lack the laws.
I guess one important question is, what's the half-life of this particular contamination?
And is it (relativly) sealed in, or can it become airborne?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A09Ha5M82us
In the upcoming Zombie Apocolypse, you can use $20 bills to wipe you ass, but what will Bitcoins get you?
I'm wondering if there was a specific agreement with the national governments to preempt lawsuits, or at just a careful study of those countries laws to ensure it's (legally) safe.
Why do you think the've been finding them 6 timers faster now?
Yeah, but if they lose, what's the patent worth?... Zero.
You can stop the people dangerous to the government by doing so however.
Does the current screening only allow weak-willed people who are willing to let themselves get irradiated and molested for no good reason, just because the government says so; while excluding those who refuse to put up with such crap, and are likely to disagree with the government on other points?
Sadly, as I found when my neice recently made multiple houses for a school project, the recommended material is "Architectural Gingerbread" which while technically edible... isn't very.
Plus the fact the she used a bottle of corn syrup so old, it didn't have a manufacturers web address on it. (expiration date was in a weird code, hard to crack with one sample)