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Proof That People Cannot Read (EULAs)

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Deozaan:
Not reading an EULA can be VERY expensive.

I just put up some screenshots from my Android here:

http://cynic.me/2011/04/20/win-an-ipad-2-a-mobile-ad/

$10 per week + $5 to "join". To get a *chance* to win an iPad... OUCH~!-Renegade (April 19, 2011, 09:39 PM)
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That's why you don't click ads. :Thmbsup:

mouser:
miles, your animation made me laugh.  ;D

MilesAhead:
miles, your animation made me laugh.  ;D
-mouser (April 20, 2011, 05:05 AM)
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Heh.  They totally revamped the smiley site I use.  I can't find the guy chomping on the cigar anymore.  But there's lots of new ones. :)

superboyac:
By the way, a sometimes I've done something similar with documents I write for work.  When sending them out for review, I put in a line of text saying, "If you're the first reviewer to mention this sentence, I'll buy you lunch."  I'd say about half the time, I get called on it.  I can't remember where i got the idea - I think it was at my first 'real' job at a transit/traffic consulting firm where someone did this.
-mwb1100 (April 18, 2011, 03:51 PM)
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Hope you made out better than I did doing almost the same thing at my first real job.

I put a single line in the middle of a paragraph about halfway into a twenty page financial analysis I had just completed. I had offered to buy and bring the first person who saw it their morning coffee for an entire month.

I got called into my manager's office about an hour after I sent it up for approval. After being reminded we were expected to "act professionally at all times" (since this was the "grownup world") he strongly cautioned me against pulling any further "college pranks" if I planned on continuing to work there. I was then sent back to my desk with a red face and my tail between my legs.

But not before my manager also reminded me that, per my offer, I now owed him a month's worth of free coffee. (Black, two sugars please?)

(He made sure he collected on it too.)

 :-[

-40hz (April 18, 2011, 06:46 PM)
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Love it!!!

superboyac:
Not reading an EULA can be VERY expensive.

I just put up some screenshots from my Android here:

http://cynic.me/2011/04/20/win-an-ipad-2-a-mobile-ad/

$10 per week + $5 to "join". To get a *chance* to win an iPad... OUCH~!

The ad in the game:
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The "contest" screen. (composite with comments)
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And you KNOW damn well that they're COUNTING on you NOT scrolling down enough or reading the terms. You THINK that you're entering a contest/lottery, but you're not. You're signing up for some stuff. I think that stuff has been in the news before. It's not new.
-Renegade (April 19, 2011, 09:39 PM)
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That makes me so angry.  People should be allowed to sue for stuff like that.

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