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Boy, isn't that the truth.
There is a restaurant chain in the U.S. named Ruby Tuesday, and they consistently make you wait 45 minutes to get the food after you order.
You have to eat before you go there so you don't die of hunger waiting for the food. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hint...they're pushing the salad bar. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That is an interesting theory. I hadn't thought of that.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ask your broker...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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In India, in my younger days, they were called as 'servers'. In fact, there is a movie in Kannada language, named "Server Somanna" (where Somanna is the server's name).
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As I do every once in a while, I fired up the weather app built into Windows 10 this morning to have a quick look at today's forecast. I was greeted by a small dialog box saying Microsoft had updated its licensing terms, and presenting two buttons, Learn More and Continue (or Ignore...I forget already). I hit the latter and carried on. Typically the Learn More button would load some page showing the entire EULA. No way I'm gonna bother reading that, even though a part of me was curious as to what it is exactly they've changed.
Then I got thinking: What apps with changing Terms of Service need is a Differences screen, like Visual Studio does when you're about to check code into a source control system. That is, present the previous and current versions side-by-side, but highlight the parts that are different. I'll bet a lot more people would actually read them if presented in that way. I know I would.
But, no doubt nobody's ever going to do that, since the current method allows them to slip in more and more nefarious items over time that would otherwise be placed into the spotlight.
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I think if you understand your rights under fair use, then you don't need to look hard at EULAs unless you're looking for something specific (like "more" freedom).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I think if you understand your rights under fair use,
Fair use is one thing, but I'd still rather proactively be made aware of what claims are being made in the EULA.
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And you would do what? Not accept at that point and wait until they got back to you? Having information and doing something with it are 2 different things. And there's the reading time, etc. A net loss situation.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: And you would do what?
Not saying I would do anything. Just saying I want to be aware of what's changed, for the sake of being informed. If I have to re-read the whole thing--then I just won't bother.
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That's what is being counted on...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's it, exactly - no doubt about that.
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I’ve sometimes wondered about it too. I figure they’re tightening up on some loophole that a new lawyer found.
Reading both versions, old and new, and being able to realize the differences would be impossible for me.
I like when a company provides a summary of the relevant changes. I’ve considered downloading the various versions and running them through a diff tool. But, then I lose steam or interest and just say ‘elephant it - doesn’t really matter.’
Anyway, there’s nothing wrong with being curious (being aware?).
Cheers,
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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EULA's under CP'w license are fair and simple;
But some are beyond what is fair, and most go beyond simple.
This world predatory.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Nobody reads them, say as NDA's and so forth.
My standard NDA pre 2000 included the ritual sacrifice of the first born child as a penalty for disclosure, but it was always signed without comment or revision.
I even got asked to sign a NDA that had been copied from it at one point. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: My standard NDA pre 2000 included the ritual sacrifice of the first born child as a penalty for disclosure
To which god(s)?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I didn't specify ... leaves more scope for creativity!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I once read about a guy who changed his mortgage contract, signed it and then sent it back to the bank, who also signed it without reading.
He changed it so he got negative rent and such, which of course he didn't get.
Either one sued the other, but I can't say who won 
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I don't; any agreement that's agreed upon under misconception, deception or fraud is not an agreement in legal terms; it simply doesn't count as "agreeing". It's one of the basic concepts. 1
Everyone clicks "I agree", since we not lawyers and hardly understand the legal bullshit, but we need to click there to get access to the product we actually paid for.
We all ignore it, because their "terms" are worth de nada. They present jargon to use what you paid for. Everyone says "I agree". Misleading agreements are no agreements. So, we not bound to it; it is a form of legal intimidation, but nothing more. Those agreements are void.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yeah, that's the other part I didn't want to get into - I think the common agreement is that EULAs are generally non-enforceable.
My point was one of morbid curiosity however - trying to immediately spot what it is they try to sneak in over time. If the changes are brought to focus, it's easier to see where they're coming from, and from that, make up your own mind about the company.
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I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
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Just had an email from Amazon Prime - and Outlook (rightly) blocked the images to prevent phishers getting a "live email address" indicator.
Trouble is, Prime emails are all pictures, so I have no idea what has "Just arrived on Prime Video".
No hassle - there is a "click here to open in your browser" ribbon kindly provided by Outlook for just such occasions. Click it.
"Are you sure? The security settings will not be the same". Yes.
So it ... opens it in IE11 ... 
So a moments thought tells me why: Outlook looks at the email in HTML and packages it in a MHT file and uses the default app to open those via Process.Start (or similar). Unfortunately, neither Chrome nor Edge support MHT files anymore, so it digs up the oldest browser it can find on the computer and uses that ...
So MS's recommended email product produces a file that MS's recommended browser can't open any more ... that's joined up thinking at it's best, that is!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Oddly enough that happened to me a few days ago. I though it was just a glitch in something and ignored it.
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Sounds like they need to update Outlook to produce a better file format. Knowing Microsoft, Outlook will continue to produce and consume MHT files long after the rest of the world has moved on.
Real programmers use butterflies
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MHTs are a good file format. They work, are standardised, and supported. Outlook is doing the right thing by generating MHTs.
As I say in my other message, it would simply help if Outlook could alert the user to other MHT viewers available in the system. (Or even view its own MHTs, which it should be able to do given that they are standard EML files).
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