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Comment Re:Slow day in tech, then? (Score 1) 575

This wasn't an overbooked flight, it was the airline wanting to transport its employees on a flight where all seats were taken by paying passengers. Auctioning seats may be "capitalist", but the only course of action that measures up to the standard of "fair" is for the airline to bend over and take the consequences of going short staffed at the destination where the employees were needed.

Comment Re:Facebook - Do this, DEA will have to stop (Score 1) 239

"No cops allowed" in the TOS isn't enough to keep cops out; I'm sure pirate websites have tried this and failed.

But the fact that "No cops allowed" can't be the whole of your legal armour doesn't mean that it can't be part of it:

  1. 1. Add a clause stating that the new user signing up indemnifies all other users against any harm of which the new user's violation of the TOS is a material cause; falsely claiming that you're not a cop is a violation.
  2. 2. Add a clause stating that the new user must insure their liability for that indemnification with company X. No confirmation of cover from company X? Then no new user account for you. Company X will charge the new user a premium of 1 trillion dollars if they admit to being a cop. And like any other insurance company, you have to consent to them ratting on you to the other insurance companies if they catch you lying.

Cops can still penetrate the legal armour, but now they have to lie to an insurance company. And "lied to an insurance company" is something that noone has enough lawyers to wash away.

Comment Re:Still abusive (Score 0) 511

So Valve have empowered the producers of commercial cheats to flag innocent players as cheaters simply by hosting their DRM servers on the same physical box as another non-cheat related service that gamers are likely to use.

But that power won't be abused of course because there's no correlation between charging money for enabling players to cheat in video games and being a douchebag </sarcasm>.

Comment Re:Jackpot (Score 2) 617

So i have to ask, suppose you purchased something locally snd the clerk gave you to much change, what would you do?

I think you'll find that most brick and mortar stores have a notice telling you to "check your change before leaving the counter as mistakes cannot be rectified later". Note that "mistakes" is unqualified, not qualified as "mistakes in our favour". Keeping excess change when the store makes a mistake in your favour is simply accepting that policy.

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