In bankruptcy cases, courts have the power to "claw back" even legitimate recent expenses to pay the judgement creditor (especially the tax department!). All that would do is fuck over 15 different cleaning services and a limo company, because the payments to them would be deemed illegitimate and clawed back to pay the mob... er, creditor.
They can go lawyer all over anyone who writes this software, but it costs a lot less to write a bot (in terms of time and resources) than it takes to sue someone out of existence. If the authors properly incorporated, then they can file for a new LLC for about $100, and be back in business by Friday. So, Blizzard == a pack of drooling idiots.
Unless the judge writes a clause into the judgement binding any successor companies founded by the same principals. Much like this judge did. So no, that wouldn't work because then they'd be facing charges for willful violation.
If you are so confident that this is not the case in your country, publish details sufficient for someone to send you a wire transfer on some web site, and see how long it takes for you to start getting calls.
I - and every other company in New Zealand - already does this. Seriously, just search the.nz namespace for "bank account number" and you'll see heaps of them.
Usually $0.20-$0.50 per transaction plus 2% (assuming blended, otherwise if it's interchange plus, it depends on card type, merchant type, whether the card has a rewards program, business or personal card, etc).
You know, in sane countries your bank account number is nowhere near sufficient information to enact a withdrawal from an account. I don't understand the US system where you have to protect your account number at all costs or people can steal all your money at all.
To get away with the "no fees", they really can't accept credit cards, and have to hope that the interest on the money they hold for 2 days makes up for the interchange on the debit transaction.
And for the love of god, put election boundaries in the control of an independent authority?
(Here in NZ, the electoral boundaries are controlled based on sheer population, as determined using results of the census and implemented by the independent Electoral Commission, which even has the power to prosecute the government for violating electoral law).
Only a very limited subset of permissions though. Microphone, location, contacts, photos. You can't revoke an app's internet access, camera access, file system access, bluetooth access, and so on - all permissions the app developer demands in the applications.pinfo, and which you have no choice to grant or deny.
You might want to read the detailed explanation of that:
"Changing this setting does not impact how your name and photo might look in a shared endorsement that is not in an ad – for example, when you share a music recommendation that is displayed in the Play Store. You can limit the visibility of activity outside of ads by deleting the activity or changing its visibility settings."
I tend to think that if I intentionally share an endorsement, then I might just have given explicit consent to... um, share that endorsement.
"Based on your domain's current settings, your name and profile picture will not appear in shared endorsements paired with ads. If your domain administrator changes this in the future, your choice here will be honoured."
Which means that for Google Apps users, you are actually not permitted to opt in, because it explicitly says it will ignore you and keep you opted out anyway!
Hang on, so even if found not guilty you're OK with the sites posting up details and slandering individuals? Sounds like you're advocating "guilty until proven innocent - and guilty even then". Boy, do the federal prosecutors have a job waiting for you!
When you share the check-in, change the privacy settings on the post to "Only Me". Then no-one but you and the application that thinks you posted it know it even existed.
I also encourage this for fucking Facebook games that insist on spamming your friends list once every 32 seconds.
I'm personally surprised, living in a country which does have relatively high taxes and an extensive social welfare and universal healthcare system, that you people are so gullible as to somehow believe that welfare systems are inherently not in your best interests and a violation of your rights and somehow designed to make it so unemployed "bludgers" can get shinier things than you.
No, I'm not wrong. People aren't wrong just because they disagree with you. That is an example of a lack of integrity, and probably explains why all your accounts have a starting score of -1. Because even if you were right (and frankly I believe you are not) you come across as a dick.
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Google was actively capturing and keeping payload data (though they claimed this was a misconfiguration). A lot different.
In bankruptcy cases, courts have the power to "claw back" even legitimate recent expenses to pay the judgement creditor (especially the tax department!). All that would do is fuck over 15 different cleaning services and a limo company, because the payments to them would be deemed illegitimate and clawed back to pay the mob... er, creditor.
They can go lawyer all over anyone who writes this software, but it costs a lot less to write a bot (in terms of time and resources) than it takes to sue someone out of existence. If the authors properly incorporated, then they can file for a new LLC for about $100, and be back in business by Friday. So, Blizzard == a pack of drooling idiots.
Unless the judge writes a clause into the judgement binding any successor companies founded by the same principals. Much like this judge did. So no, that wouldn't work because then they'd be facing charges for willful violation.
If you are so confident that this is not the case in your country, publish details sufficient for someone to send you a wire transfer on some web site, and see how long it takes for you to start getting calls.
I - and every other company in New Zealand - already does this. Seriously, just search the .nz namespace for "bank account number" and you'll see heaps of them.
Actually? Most of them actually more closely resemble orchestration software suites or application server middleware.
Usually $0.20-$0.50 per transaction plus 2% (assuming blended, otherwise if it's interchange plus, it depends on card type, merchant type, whether the card has a rewards program, business or personal card, etc).
Yeah, like how Square will stop accepting payments due to flaws in the service, and keep sending out payments to recipients?
You know, in sane countries your bank account number is nowhere near sufficient information to enact a withdrawal from an account. I don't understand the US system where you have to protect your account number at all costs or people can steal all your money at all.
To get away with the "no fees", they really can't accept credit cards, and have to hope that the interest on the money they hold for 2 days makes up for the interchange on the debit transaction.
Indeed. Not just a director, Lars is the ENTIRE DIRECTORY!
And for the love of god, put election boundaries in the control of an independent authority?
(Here in NZ, the electoral boundaries are controlled based on sheer population, as determined using results of the census and implemented by the independent Electoral Commission, which even has the power to prosecute the government for violating electoral law).
Only a very limited subset of permissions though. Microphone, location, contacts, photos. You can't revoke an app's internet access, camera access, file system access, bluetooth access, and so on - all permissions the app developer demands in the applications .pinfo, and which you have no choice to grant or deny.
Digital Illusions CE is not to be confused with DICE Holdings, two completely different companies.
Really though, Digital Illusions is an EA subsidiary. Poor Lars indeed.
You might want to read the detailed explanation of that:
"Changing this setting does not impact how your name and photo might look in a shared endorsement that is not in an ad – for example, when you share a music recommendation that is displayed in the Play Store. You can limit the visibility of activity outside of ads by deleting the activity or changing its visibility settings."
I tend to think that if I intentionally share an endorsement, then I might just have given explicit consent to ... um, share that endorsement.
Yup, think it's the Google Apps thing.
"Based on your domain's current settings, your name and profile picture will not appear in shared endorsements paired with ads. If your domain administrator changes this in the future, your choice here will be honoured."
Which means that for Google Apps users, you are actually not permitted to opt in, because it explicitly says it will ignore you and keep you opted out anyway!
Unless it's graphics. Or Lexmark printers.
Then fuck you is what they are.
No, it's worse. They have a religious motivation.
If the person did not commit a crime, er, yes. Yes it is.
So in other words, you're quite firmly brainwashed by the Tea Party crowd into believing that we have a somehow worse standard of living than you?
You know what, I actually feel sorry for you.
Hang on, so even if found not guilty you're OK with the sites posting up details and slandering individuals? Sounds like you're advocating "guilty until proven innocent - and guilty even then". Boy, do the federal prosecutors have a job waiting for you!
When you share the check-in, change the privacy settings on the post to "Only Me". Then no-one but you and the application that thinks you posted it know it even existed.
I also encourage this for fucking Facebook games that insist on spamming your friends list once every 32 seconds.
I'm personally surprised, living in a country which does have relatively high taxes and an extensive social welfare and universal healthcare system, that you people are so gullible as to somehow believe that welfare systems are inherently not in your best interests and a violation of your rights and somehow designed to make it so unemployed "bludgers" can get shinier things than you.
Honestly, how do you people believe that crap?
Or Apple's Active Desktop... Er, Live Wallpaper... Er, Dynamic Wallpapers?
Telecom's phone booths all take Visa, Mastercard, American Express - very few take cash now.
No, I'm not wrong. People aren't wrong just because they disagree with you. That is an example of a lack of integrity, and probably explains why all your accounts have a starting score of -1. Because even if you were right (and frankly I believe you are not) you come across as a dick.