You can sue anybody for anything but that doesn't mean you'll win. If I thought I'd have a snaowball in hell's chance I'd sue Sony for that damned XCP rootkit my daughter infected my computer with.
OK, this is only marginally on topic (but WTF it may be FP so it will get modded offtopic or redundant anyway) but the words "Free Content" mande me think of the content-free encyclopedia.
Design defects are a part of life in the automotive world -- they're annoying and painful, but like death and taxes, there's no way of avoiding their existence.
Sounds funny when you change the context to a different industry. The response to this is "software today is so complex", well, it isn't THAT complex. Your car has hundreds of thousands of little bitty MOVING parts. The microprocessor itself is very complex, yet we only hear about Intel bugs every decade or so.
If we as customers would stop accepting shoddy products from every software house in existance including Apple and Microsoft then software bugs would be as rare as Intel Pentium bugs or exploding Crown Vics.
If there's a defect in a product, any product, somebody fucked up.
Shakespeare didn't write enough insults for sick bastard whores like Rush Limbaugh
Come on, man, please don't insult My Friends, the Whores like that! They provide a needed service to the world. "Ralph" (not his real name), my 86 year old friend, would probably be dead if it wasn't for his whores!
Ah, the arrogance of the right. What is it about you people that means you can't accept the fact that people may have considered an issue as carefully as you have and simply come to a different conclusion?
But no, there is one correct answer, and it's the one you have (shades of Mussolini's historical inevitability there) and anyone who disagrees needs re-education, or is misled, or brainwashed by lying left wing propaganda etc etc
BTW, I used to split my vote between Republicans and Democrats. Now I split it between Greens and Libertarians. A pox on both your houses.
This isn't an Apple problem, it's not an IT problem, its the single biggest thing that's wrong with the USA.
Apple's bugs need to be fixed before the damned machine goes into production. Ditto Microsoft, ditto Dell, ditto every other god damned corporation.
Damn, I'm in a bad mood and clicked on the one with the foot icon trying to get a laugh. Instead I'm in an even worse mood. Does anybody have any good funny journals? Even Dilbert wasn't funny today (it should have been considering its nerdiness, must be just me this morning)
Oh, I realise that it would probably be legal. They have armies of lawyers and lobbyists.
Now, I keep asking this question about EULAS: tell me, now. Mike buys a naked, no OS computer and a boxed set of Windows Vista Home, and asks me to install it for him. If I'm the one who agrees to the EULA, how is he legally held to that EULA? He didn't agree to anything, I did. And unless he's signed "power of attorney" to me, well?
What if his ten year old child (or neighbor kid) installs it?
What if it's already installed on a computer he gets at Best Buy? I ask this out of ignorance because I haven't bought a whole computer since 1987. You have to agree to a contract AFTER buying the computer?
How can this hold up in court?
If I have six PCs in my house networked together then I do own my network connection. I also own MY COPY of Windows. Nowhere on the box does it say I don't.
You can't put a contract in a new car's glove box saying "if you open this glove box you are held to the following conditions..."
I wish a real lawyer would explain to me how in the hell anybody thinks a EULA is binding on anybody. It makes no sense at all.
This has nothing to do with security, it's a means of saving money for Microsoft. If they can push their updates via worms, they use MY bandwidth to distribute their updates rather than their own.
Evil, sneaky bastards, ain't they? Tami would be proud.
-mcgrew
(PS- don't click that link, it will infect you with the "Tami" virus)
It keeps resurfacing every now and then. Get this through your thick skulls: It's my computer. Keep your God damned hands off of it. I don't care how good your intentions are, you have no right to infect MY computer with anything at all, good or bad.
If you use a tool like this on your own network, fine, but if I find it on my own you had better cover your tracks because I'll go ballistic.
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YHBT
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Score 0, offtopic? Damned near every comment I mande in this thread was modded "offtopic" by at least one asshat.
Who let somebody who never read Adams moderate anyway?
THIS comment is offtopic.
I hope you have more and better lawyers than microsoft then, and wish you luck (and a good judge)
Makes me wonder if you could sue Microsoft
You can sue anybody for anything but that doesn't mean you'll win. If I thought I'd have a snaowball in hell's chance I'd sue Sony for that damned XCP rootkit my daughter infected my computer with.
As it is, it only cost Sony one customer.
OK, this is only marginally on topic (but WTF it may be FP so it will get modded offtopic or redundant anyway) but the words "Free Content" mande me think of the content-free encyclopedia.
For those of us who care.
I should say something about the actual topic but...
You forgot the last two steps:
5. ???????
6. PROFIT!!!
Design defects are a part of life in the automotive world -- they're annoying and painful, but like death and taxes, there's no way of avoiding their existence.
Sounds funny when you change the context to a different industry. The response to this is "software today is so complex", well, it isn't THAT complex. Your car has hundreds of thousands of little bitty MOVING parts. The microprocessor itself is very complex, yet we only hear about Intel bugs every decade or so.
If we as customers would stop accepting shoddy products from every software house in existance including Apple and Microsoft then software bugs would be as rare as Intel Pentium bugs or exploding Crown Vics.
If there's a defect in a product, any product, somebody fucked up.
I live in Australia, so I don't really know much about this Rush Limbaugh fellow.
Lucky you!
Shakespeare didn't write enough insults for sick bastard whores like Rush Limbaugh
Come on, man, please don't insult My Friends, the Whores like that! They provide a needed service to the world. "Ralph" (not his real name), my 86 year old friend, would probably be dead if it wasn't for his whores!
Please don't compare Rush Limberger to whores.
I wouldn't mind helping the whiner
He doesn't need any help, he can whine just fine all by himself.
Then explain Windows. Who's Gates trying to piss off?
Ah, the arrogance of the right. What is it about you people that means you can't accept the fact that people may have considered an issue as carefully as you have and simply come to a different conclusion?
But no, there is one correct answer, and it's the one you have (shades of Mussolini's historical inevitability there) and anyone who disagrees needs re-education, or is misled, or brainwashed by lying left wing propaganda etc etc
BTW, I used to split my vote between Republicans and Democrats. Now I split it between Greens and Libertarians. A pox on both your houses.
Only the young ones. We old ones are all divorced drunken whoremongers.
Well, not all of us, just me.
-mcgrew
It's news because it's a known issue with Time Machine that now a high profile user is raising
Why should a "high profile user", i.e. "some rich and famous drug addict" have to raise issues before something is fixed?
This isn't an Apple problem, it's not an IT problem, its the single biggest thing that's wrong with the USA.
Apple's bugs need to be fixed before the damned machine goes into production. Ditto Microsoft, ditto Dell, ditto every other god damned corporation.
Damn, I'm in a bad mood and clicked on the one with the foot icon trying to get a laugh. Instead I'm in an even worse mood. Does anybody have any good funny journals? Even Dilbert wasn't funny today (it should have been considering its nerdiness, must be just me this morning)
-mcgrew
I meant to hit preview, I only meant to emphasize "do", not shout the whole end of the thing. I also apologise for responding to my own post.
Yeah, I saw that right after I hit "submit". It should have been "I R this FA".
If that's the worst mistake I make today I'm in good shape.
Oh, I realise that it would probably be legal. They have armies of lawyers and lobbyists.
Now, I keep asking this question about EULAS: tell me, now. Mike buys a naked, no OS computer and a boxed set of Windows Vista Home, and asks me to install it for him. If I'm the one who agrees to the EULA, how is he legally held to that EULA? He didn't agree to anything, I did. And unless he's signed "power of attorney" to me, well?
What if his ten year old child (or neighbor kid) installs it?
What if it's already installed on a computer he gets at Best Buy? I ask this out of ignorance because I haven't bought a whole computer since 1987. You have to agree to a contract AFTER buying the computer?
How can this hold up in court?
If I have six PCs in my house networked together then I do own my network connection. I also own MY COPY of Windows. Nowhere on the box does it say I don't.
You can't put a contract in a new car's glove box saying "if you open this glove box you are held to the following conditions..."
I wish a real lawyer would explain to me how in the hell anybody thinks a EULA is binding on anybody. It makes no sense at all.
In Soviet Russia, worm patches YOU!
Hot Grits
But does it run Lin OUCH!
Imagine a beowlf cluster of OW! OW! OK I'LL STOP!!!
I must be new here, I RTF this A.
This has nothing to do with security, it's a means of saving money for Microsoft. If they can push their updates via worms, they use MY bandwidth to distribute their updates rather than their own.
Evil, sneaky bastards, ain't they? Tami would be proud.
-mcgrew
(PS- don't click that link, it will infect you with the "Tami" virus)
OMFG your computer has the clap!
How many people went to prison for the Sony XCP rootkit?
That's right, none. There's your clue.
Or worse, Sony?
I couldn't find a wikipedia link to cover this idea, but uncyclopedia has one.
-mcgrew
It keeps resurfacing every now and then. Get this through your thick skulls: It's my computer. Keep your God damned hands off of it. I don't care how good your intentions are, you have no right to infect MY computer with anything at all, good or bad.
If you use a tool like this on your own network, fine, but if I find it on my own you had better cover your tracks because I'll go ballistic.
Well, you can start by lining these guys up against the wall... ;)
That acronym would apply to both major US parties.