No photo, it didn't happen.... then again, ok, no photo required!

They were up front and honest NOW. I was writing to them back in 09 telling them that I'm pretty sure that there system was hacked, as I was receiving spam at a disposable email address I only used for them, and they flat out denied it. It seemed this mainly come to the forefront because there were others like me, who were using disposable email addresses, so knew where the email addresses came from, who instead of approaching the company, informing them they had a problem (and being told no we don't go away), decided to instead talk about it in forums and try to work out what happened. So no, they weren't "upfront and open", until their hand was forced!

You won't pirate music anymore, like the days of Napster, but you are also (probably) a different person now. Years have pasted, you probably have more to lose, and therefore the risk/gain is completely different. This may not actually be you, but for me it is. Back in the days of Napster, I was a broke student. I could hardly pay for my Internet connection, I definitely couldn't pay for the amount of music I wanted to listen to. Also there is the fact that I had nothing to lose, I was broke. These days things are different, I have a job, a wife, car, etc.,etc., etc. I have more to lose, but I also have more money. Last night I went onto iTunes and brought an album for about 11 bucks ($NZ). I wouldn't have done that back then, would have been a good chunk of my money for a while, now its just about what i'm going to spend on lunch today. If I cut back on luncha little for the next tw days i'm square again, but I don't even need to do that. So I could say that it has worked, and I won't pirate anymore because of it, but that would be crap in my case, I don't pirate now because it is easier to go to iTunes for me. What really pisses me off these days is when I go to iTunes and I can't get what I want because of stupid licensing, and then I have to look at different methods to get my song, which take more effort, be it pirating, or going down to a store. So in reality, for us who actually used to use Naspter, it is hard to say if they really succeeded, because we are (most probably) different people than we were back then. Just my 2c worth.

Right on.

If there is no R18+ label, the game companies will (and do) try to get as much as they can into the lower labels, even if it means keeping resubmiting the same games with slight changes until they get in under the lower standard.

This isn't helping parents, its just making the lower standards more violent/sexual/whatever than they would have been if the game companies could just put the R18+ on them.

Some parents won't care and let little Johnny play R18+ games, some will, and can block them, but at this stage, it just means more stuff crammed into lower ratings, and the parents who get upset will get even more upset because they will see it there. If there was an R18+ rating, the parents who care that much will be happy, because they will be able to eaiser able to police their own children.

The one problem the parents who get upset will have is that they won't be able to police other people's children, and that's what worries them.

Come on, who hasn't been down at a game stopre, and seen a parent/adult buy a rated game which has just been handed to them by their kid who picked it off the shelf, but can't purchase it themselves. I've seen it enough times.

Cool, they may as well also throw in a charge of false advertising, as he was there for promotion, so if he was lying about the fact, that is false advertising. I assume you can be fined for that in the states, as you can in New Zealand.

like ensuring a cheap supply of oil from the middle east for example?

The real question is... If I pay 1 SEK off there bill/fine/whatever, even though it cost the law firm more to process than i actually donated, I hope that dam bill is reduced by 1 SEK, after all, there fees/arrangements with their bank aren't my problem, my problem is if I pay 1 SEK, I want my 1 SEK to count!

Already beee done (somebody placed one on a online auction site when the police did this to him (in New Zealand))
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/48059

Just because all you can see is a quarter sized device, doesn't mean there is more that you can't see, and you would be kind of stupid to start tugging around to see if you can find more before reporting it, so I reckon, small electronic device, damed if I'm sticking my neck under there to investigate further!

Sell the thing ... it was connected to your car, so must have been there when you brought it, you don't think you need it, auction it.

Guy in New Zealand who found a police tracking device on his car ripped it out and placed it on an online auction site.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/48059

Quote "A police operation to covertly follow a man came to an abrupt halt when the man found tracking devices planted in his car, ripped them out, and listed them for sale on Trade Me"

That's starting a slippery slope,

Ubuntu has hundreds, if now thousands of different little pieces of software running it, from Large apps like Firefox, Open office, gnome, down to tine little command line utils only needed my the OS itself or people doing stuff on the command line. If they have to display one for Mozilla, then everybody could jump on the bandwagon, and you have to 'read' and click through a few thousan agrements before you even get to the desktop! Bad idea making exceptions, try to talk to them about the issues they may cause, and if a suitable agreement can't be found, use Iceweasel or another solution. Just my 2c worth :)