You remember all those boring pages of legal text we all ignore when we install a software product.
Well think of them when you read this article about, laughably, a battery charger by Energizer.
Now, first of all why would something that plugs into a USB port purely to charge batteries ever need software? It is so we get a nice app showing the battery states. Although I bet they have nice LEDs on the unit showing the state of the batteries already. We geeks like our toys and buttons.
Secondly, why is this sort of shit not illegal? It is a con job pure and simple, everything I want to do is illegal why should these big corporations get away with it? They make these pop up acceptance boxes so long and boring so that nobody can read them without falling asleep. They may then claim that they told us and we just couldn’t be bothered reading which makes it our fault.
At least when Sony were doing it I could get my own back. They have many games and films I could copy once their DRM was stripped as a form of revenege. You may think it is childish but that is what I am. But here all I can do is not buy Energizer. Unless I just nick a few batteries from the local store but it’s just not the same as it punishes a third party.
Permission to snoop
You remember all those boring pages of legal text we all ignore when we install a software product.
Well think of them when you read this article about, laughably, a battery charger by Energizer.
Now, first of all why would something that plugs into a USB port purely to charge batteries ever need software? It is so we get a nice app showing the battery states. Although I bet they have nice LEDs on the unit showing the state of the batteries already. We geeks like our toys and buttons.
Secondly, why is this sort of shit not illegal? It is a con job pure and simple, everything I want to do is illegal why should these big corporations get away with it? They make these pop up acceptance boxes so long and boring so that nobody can read them without falling asleep. They may then claim that they told us and we just couldn’t be bothered reading which makes it our fault.
At least when Sony were doing it I could get my own back. They have many games and films I could copy once their DRM was stripped as a form of revenege. You may think it is childish but that is what I am. But here all I can do is not buy Energizer. Unless I just nick a few batteries from the local store but it’s just not the same as it punishes a third party.