He said laid off, not quit.

Personally, if I quit (or otherwise left) on good terms, I'd have no problem telling someone how to fix/change such things before I left.
If they laid me off, I wouldn't care about being sloppy.

It could possibly be trademarked. But unlike copyright, trademark is not automatic. They would have to specifically register (and be granted trademark protection; it could - and likely would - be denied) and maintain the trademark for each code.

In this case, though, this is not what happened though because the email specifically says:

Which to me seems like a purposely confusing way of saying the article is telling people how to violate copyright... but that isn't even copyright violation.

This is a big part of the reason why I refuse to work an hourly-paid job...

Unless they copy/pasted (or typed word-for-word) exactly what was in the instruction manual, it's not a copyright violation. It is not a copyright violation to read instructions and re-write them in your own words.

Nevermind, I just realized the reason - because the card could be fake. I suppose they ARE actually calling their bank who then checks it against a list.

The 1 single time I've been asked for ID when using a credit card, the card wasn't even in my name, it was in my husband's name. They still let me use it.

What reasons? Because it isn't obvious. I have never seen/experienced a merchant calling their own bank for this - always the customer's bank. Though I've always seen it as the customer reading off the number, not the merchant holding the card and reading it.

I know that for cards issued by a credit union, at least, the number called must be the credit union, not the card company. (It makes for one hell of a pain when you have an issue during the weekend. Which just happens to be when I do most of my buying and in-person selling.) The store/vendor can't be expected to keep every local credit union's number on file, and call the correct one when there is an issue. And if it isn't local, well you get the idea...

The internet isn't just youtube. I make my living by selling the products I make online. I afford food thanks to coupons I get online combined with sales that I find out about online. I order medication online. I find out that a water main was broken and the town's water is not safe to drink online. I pay my property taxes (to keep my shelter) online. It is all connected, nowadays.

Uh, but they don't need to be competitive - they have a monopoly! Staying competitive would only be an issue if customers actually had the ability to choose a competitor. The majority of the US has ONE isp to choose from.

That was not an option when I canceled my cable and had to return the cable box. I specifically asked if I could mail it - nope, not even on my own dime.

Well, that's great if you have the time to go in. Comcast won't let us change our service from my husband's ex-wife's name to my husband's name unless both of them go into the office. The office is 30 minutes away from us, an hour away from the ex, and only open during the hours my husband is at work. They were never able to coordinate a time/day to go there.

When we canceled our cable tv, it was during a time that I couldn't drive due to seizures. We had to pay the rental fee on a cable box that did nothing for a few months, until my husband's vacation from work when he was able to take it in.

books, which are never updated and only rarely publish errata - and when errata IS published, it is never stored with the book. I'd love to see someone walk into a school, open a textbook and denounce every "hoax" inside. Bonus points if it's a school in an "underprivileged" area, which most likely uses older books!

My brother went to look something up in an encylopedia the other day... but it was not there, because it was something that came about or was discovered after his encyclopedia set was published.

! Not so that the kids can yell at me, but so that I can actually HEAR them over the wind blowing through the windows and the cars outside. I know how to project my voice, so the kids hear me fine, but I can't hear them at all. And I'm just in a car.

But just no, to the conversation mirror - most parents already don't keep their eyes on the road, we don't need to give them another excuse.

I would think that would lead to abortions, which would greatly reduce infanticide...