I'd add onto this, since a criminal law would never be enforced, that the recipient of a bogus takedown has the right to sue the takedown issuer for compensation, including legal fees.
Eh I've seen apps refuse to run on Android if it's rooted, which is a problem for custom firmwares that can't ever not be rooted.
Heck, even certain vendors' software (at least Samsung and T-Mobile did this) will do anything between refuse to run and intentionally brick the device if it even detects rooting.
Yeah, but now that we live in the error of grammar nazis calling out every minor "error", English is not going to evolve even in the minor ways it still could.
Ah I see, I think saying "and/or" would have been more appropriate.
I don't really know anything about late 19th-century European social norms so I don't know what flavors of Christianity were considered "acceptable" at the time.
Which is why I think that presidential campaigns should be officially declared as advertising and that not following through on campaign promises should be a civil offense (that way the citizens can press charges. like the executive branch would take action against themselves!).
Drive-by malware is already the norm, you just don't know it because you have secured your browser (through adblocking/disabled plugins/noscript/etc.).
Remember that the 80486 was back in the Golden Age of computing when Compaq could legally reverse-engineer an IBM PC and not get sued out of existence.
Yep. It's nice how they didn't just go to the boys will be boys shit. These kids need to learn about the consequences of their actions sooner rather than later. If they were adults throwing water balloons at others they would have been arrested. Why let them get away with it just because they're two years younger?
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Heck, even certain vendors' software (at least Samsung and T-Mobile did this) will do anything between refuse to run and intentionally brick the device if it even detects rooting.
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Wow, France's laws are strange
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I don't really know anything about late 19th-century European social norms so I don't know what flavors of Christianity were considered "acceptable" at the time.
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I don't think it'll matter
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A cell phone can be a dangerous weapon
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I'm glad they actually arrested these guys
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Isn't that just called analytics nowadays?
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