I mean, sure, in some instances. But not in the case of all those EULAs people see only AFTER they make a purchase. Or AFTER they open the packaging on software or a print cartridge. (Including the Lexmark agreement that states that you can't resell the cartridge you purchased because by opening it you agree that you don't own it.)
Good luck upholding the EULAs on many web sites. American Airlines once required visitors to their website to click "I accept" on an EULA with 181 paragraphs. Even mentioning this probably violates the agreement, but somehow I don't expect to be sued for a copyright violation.
Sure, the customer would have a hard time fighting say, any privacy violations that the agreement allows. But at the same time the web site owner would have a hard time going after the customer for anything IT didn't like, based on any assumption that the customer read the whole damned EULA. Or had an obligation to.
In the news today here in Canada, a cable customer just won a victory over an EULA. He'd been quoted and agreed to a monthly price by Bell Canada. Then he was emailed an EULA stating that the promised price could be raised by Bell at any time. He wasn't having it, an neither was the court.
When you catch a robber, remove a computer virus or put out a fire,
Or all three combined. I've just received a call from a CEO who occasionally calls me for IT help. While doing his taxes online he got a pop-up warning him of a virus. "Microsoft" then convinced him to let them log into his computer remotely to fix it.
A proper fix involves investigating how it happened
No, really, HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?
and how to prevent it from happening again
I had him immediately unplug the computer from the network. "Microsoft" was also still on the other line.
Would I be overreacting to tell him to get his data off with a USB drive, and not plug the PC back into the company network until it's been wiped and reloaded?
I did my first programming with punch cards, back when it was still common to hear the claim "Computers don't make mistakes!"
Despite the astronomically high improbabilities claimed for false DNA matches, gosh, I hear of a lot of false matches. They're for much the same reasons as computers: Procedural errors at the lab. Data entry errors. And just plain bad data.
That includes the Phantom of Heilbronn: An unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.
Investigators later concluded that the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where the cotton swabs used at all the crime scenes were made.
Then you ask 'how can we fix this' - when the article shows how its already been fixed.
When you catch a robber, remove a computer virus or put out a fire, you've only fixed the immediate part of the problem. A proper fix involves investigating how it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.
a special chip inside the phone blows itself up, freezing the contents of the phone
It's only a very tiny explosion. It's not like it's half a millimeter from a paper-thin bit of foil that stops a lithium-ion battery from exploding on contact with air.
Airlines won't have any problems with the idea. No sir, none at all.
They were convicted on charges of terroristic threats, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a Georgia street gang terrorism statute.
It wasn't just the one family they terrorized. It was a whole string of incidents where they went around pointing guns at black people and terrorizing them.
Their own social media accounts helped convict them, documenting their links to the KKK and skinhead organizations...
...and documenting what the DA called a “wide sweeping attempt” to get all members of the Respect The Flag group to coordinate their lies after the incident.
A month ago it was reported that the Bitcoin blockchain contained child abuse imagery, making it potentially unlawful in many countries. Someone could add sex trafficking website links to the blockchain, making those storing copies or transmitting of it illegal under SESTA/FOSTA.
In your example the bus driver isn't "knowingly" participating. But once the word is out about illegal links in the blockchain, all those who don't erase their Bitcoin are "knowingly" participating.
The mayor of the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, faced with an overcrowded highway D909 through town, "solved" the problem recently by making the street one-way, sending traffic speedily into the adjacent town of Clichy-la-Garenne. That city's mayor (a political rival of the Levallois-Perret mayor) reacted by making his portion of D909 one-way back toward Levallois-Perret, creating a dilemma at the city limit. Other authorities are working to resolve the impasse.
Re: Animals and corporations are not persons, have no standing.
I welcome comments asserting that corporations ARE persons: you'll not help yourself if do! That's a useful similarity for some purposes, but it's NOT Constitutionally based any more than for monkeys.
As a matter of interpretation of the word "person" in the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. courts have extended certain constitutional protections to corporations. The basis for allowing corporations to assert such protections under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and the people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively....
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Re: Often it seems to be heading that way.
There have been close calls though.
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Re: Re: Copyright
Nope.
I mean, sure, in some instances. But not in the case of all those EULAs people see only AFTER they make a purchase. Or AFTER they open the packaging on software or a print cartridge. (Including the Lexmark agreement that states that you can't resell the cartridge you purchased because by opening it you agree that you don't own it.)
Good luck upholding the EULAs on many web sites. American Airlines once required visitors to their website to click "I accept" on an EULA with 181 paragraphs. Even mentioning this probably violates the agreement, but somehow I don't expect to be sued for a copyright violation.
Sure, the customer would have a hard time fighting say, any privacy violations that the agreement allows. But at the same time the web site owner would have a hard time going after the customer for anything IT didn't like, based on any assumption that the customer read the whole damned EULA. Or had an obligation to.
In the news today here in Canada, a cable customer just won a victory over an EULA. He'd been quoted and agreed to a monthly price by Bell Canada. Then he was emailed an EULA stating that the promised price could be raised by Bell at any time. He wasn't having it, an neither was the court.
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Re: Re:
Or all three combined. I've just received a call from a CEO who occasionally calls me for IT help. While doing his taxes online he got a pop-up warning him of a virus. "Microsoft" then convinced him to let them log into his computer remotely to fix it.
No, really, HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?
I had him immediately unplug the computer from the network. "Microsoft" was also still on the other line.
Would I be overreacting to tell him to get his data off with a USB drive, and not plug the PC back into the company network until it's been wiped and reloaded?
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I did my first programming with punch cards, back when it was still common to hear the claim "Computers don't make mistakes!"
Despite the astronomically high improbabilities claimed for false DNA matches, gosh, I hear of a lot of false matches. They're for much the same reasons as computers: Procedural errors at the lab. Data entry errors. And just plain bad data.
That includes the Phantom of Heilbronn: An unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.
Investigators later concluded that the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where the cotton swabs used at all the crime scenes were made.
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When you catch a robber, remove a computer virus or put out a fire, you've only fixed the immediate part of the problem. A proper fix involves investigating how it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.
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Re: So you'll enforce Truth HERE? Strictly factual and on topic?
Same old claim, same old response:
Wikipedia: Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
131 citations.
Wikipedia: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
441 citations.
And well worth a scan:
Wikipedia: Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
1113 citations.
An election or two from now you'll be here denying that Trump ever existed, or that links between Trump and the Republican Party ever existed.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the slow steady expansion of thought-crime laws
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It's only a very tiny explosion. It's not like it's half a millimeter from a paper-thin bit of foil that stops a lithium-ion battery from exploding on contact with air.
Airlines won't have any problems with the idea. No sir, none at all.
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Aaaaannd that sheds some new light on the US blacklisting of Huawei phones.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: the slow steady expansion of thought-crime laws
13 years in jail for one, and six years for the other. A couple other things worth mentioning:
Contrary to the Daily Fail article above, they were not charged with "hate crimes." Georgia does not have a hate crime statue.
They were convicted on charges of terroristic threats, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a Georgia street gang terrorism statute.
It wasn't just the one family they terrorized. It was a whole string of incidents where they went around pointing guns at black people and terrorizing them.
Their own social media accounts helped convict them, documenting their links to the KKK and skinhead organizations...
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Re: Re: You're against what ordinary folk think ordinary, and in favor
(This is why no-one is even suggesting dragging you into court.)
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Technology sets up even worse examples:
A month ago it was reported that the Bitcoin blockchain contained child abuse imagery, making it potentially unlawful in many countries. Someone could add sex trafficking website links to the blockchain, making those storing copies or transmitting of it illegal under SESTA/FOSTA.
In your example the bus driver isn't "knowingly" participating. But once the word is out about illegal links in the blockchain, all those who don't erase their Bitcoin are "knowingly" participating.
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Re: willing to engage
As the story states, they did respond, and quite reasonably.
If the street is "clearly dangerous" as you say, then why doesn't the city itself treat it as such?
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Re: Re: Not on my street!
That works until the folks next-door do the same thing.
October 2009:
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And what an interesting precedent that would make!
The world is full of homes that are hit repeatedly. By drivers who lose control when going over railroad tracks (11 times and counting). Or who take a curve too fast (3 times in 6 months).
I've seen plenty of similar stories. There would be plenty of gaps in the maps, some on main routes.
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Goop: The lifestyle brand for folks so goddamned stupid and gullible that a MAGA hat is inadequate.
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Re: Animals and corporations are not persons, have no standing.
OK, I'll bite...
Wikipedia: Corporate personhood: In the United States
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Close, though.
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Re: Re:
Of course!
President John Barron and VP David Dennison.
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