Comment Re:"the real magic behind the Facebook story..." (Score 1) 223
...is that anyone can write apps that will suck the remaining privacy we have out of us and sell it to the highest bidder.
Nobody wants to suck my privacy out of me
...is that anyone can write apps that will suck the remaining privacy we have out of us and sell it to the highest bidder.
Nobody wants to suck my privacy out of me
but have you ever actually been to Eastern Europe?
You mean the countries where tax evasion is a national sport, the people don't even realize they should pay for software, and when you tell them, they know you're joking?
I personally have not seen *anyone* who paid for any version of Windows unless their company got hit with an extensive tax audit. I'm from Hungary.
No confirmation, no denials, no explanation, no reason to believe it at all...
Well, I didn't hear it before, so I guess it qualifies...
My grandmother lives in Vladivostok.
Hint: if it's closer to Japan than Germany, it's not Europe.
Can you invite them as friends? Can you say social networking?
Please don't give them ideas
You sound like a person blaming women being raped because she dresses sexy.
The people we're talking about are not just dressing sexy, they're walking in a prison, pulling their pants down and yelling "Come and get it, boys!".
The thing is, noscript doesn'HEY YOU JUST TYPED AN APOSTROPHE, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)t offer much in the way of proHEY YOU JUST TYPED AN O, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)tection and an awful loHEY YOU JUST TYPED AN O, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)t of annoyance.HEY YOU JUST TYPED A FULL STOP, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)
Stop using Vista then.
QNX's support for massive SMP (more than 8-16 CPUs) is bad, its scheduler is not quite good enough.
How will they ever compete in the handheld market?
but US laws do not apply on Swedish soil.
Tell that to The Pirate Bay.
$1 million is restitution? That's barely 1 copyrighted song.
Funny because it's sad.
Of course the mere act of writing that program also makes you a terrorist. They thought of everything!
I read somewhere that there are no Siemens systems in Bushehr, making that particular plant immune to this worm. Is that true?
debased our currency to worthlessness,
No, you did that to the whole world. Somehow, I don't think Nixon will be remembered for Watergate in 50 years.
the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation, trickery, or some other form of pressure or force
And this is not what happens? Let me guess: they pay up in a voluntary manner after being threatened with lawsuits.
Hop over to section 2703 and in subsection (b) article (1) subsection (B) subsection (ii) says you can get a court order as long as you follow article 2703 subsection (d)
No, at this point you give up and ask a lawyer. Wanna bet there's another text somewhere that further qualifies this?
You're at Witt's End.
