Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: Olas
Re the 911, the vehicle registration ties it to somebody, so I would not just jump in and drive away.
In the UK, we have something calLed the DVLA (driver & vehicle licensing agency) who hold the records to all cars registered in the country.
You can apply to the DVLA to ave a registration document issued in your name, at which point the DVLA attempt to contact the registered owner. If they can't make contact, they issue a new registration cert. in your name.
So no, I wouldn't just drive it away.
Re the 10 dollar bill on the floor - if somebody cares so little about there 10 dollars that they'll leave it on the floor, they won't mind if I pick it up off the floor. Effectively picking litter.
Re the software, you can pay to download it or you can download it for free - either way you end up with a copy of it. If the programmer didn't want it to be distributed freely they should have written more lines of security, and code that prevents uploading or downloading.
Kinda like how if you don't want your house to burgled, you don't leave the door open. If you want to stay safe you lock e door. The programmers didn't lock their door, so I'll exploit the weakness. Hopefully this should prompt them to be more thorough next time they want to release something for commercial reasons.
After reading a post or two of yours in the Baltimore looting thread.....I am not at all surprised by your lack of ethics and misaligned concepts of justification.
Really a shame as you seem to be a fairly intelligent individual.
Are you telling me you would actively walk past the ten dollar bill on the floor, ignoring it? Or do you mean you leave your house unlocked and hope nobody will burgle you?
The fact is that the software is out there for free - if you choose to pay for it that's up to you, but the analogy is having the coupons for the rebate but not using them because you want to pay full price.
In a free society, when faced with a variety of options we are free to choos the option most appealing to us.