Why do Apple do this?

[LynxThe1st]

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Who the fuck in their right mind, would make a nuclear missed out of iTunes?!

this is in their terms and conditions btw

sorry if this is the wrong sub forum

What are your thoughts on this?

honestly I think it's just bullshit, pure bull

Or do they mean to use your iPad to make a nuclear missed? Is my iPad Optimus prime now? Can it transform? 

iPads roll out!

 

[HPWebcamAble]

I have no idea why they mention that specifically but it says "any purposes prohibited by US law" too

[aneil1998]

Some tech companies actually do put stuff like that in their ToS. It's more of an easter egg if i had to say.

[vanished]

I heard about this a long time ago.  Jokes were made.  I guess they still haven't changed it

[LynxThe1st]

Just now, HPWebcamAble said:

I have no idea why they mention that specifically but it says "any purposes prohibited by US law" too

Still though, was someone high when they done this?

Of course no one, in any country, is gonna make a nuclear bilogical or chemical weapon out of iTunes 

i doubt the US Law had anything to do with it

[minibois]

So they can't be sued

[Glenwing]

I remember my old iPod touch quick start guide warning users not to crush, puncture, shred, microwave, paint, or incinerate their iPod  

[GreezyJeezy]

in a TOS a company put if you read this you can claim a cash prize and the first person to read that a few years after it was out got a cash prize for it. its just something funny because no one ever reads the TOS

[Arty]

My School TOS says no guided missiles. like the fuck. 

[PlayStation 2]

Thank the people who know that you can sue anyone for any fucking thing (at least in the United States) if it's not specifically stated.

[HPWebcamAble]

2 minutes ago, Arty said:

My School TOS says no guided missiles. like the fuck. 

Right? I wanted to bring a guided missile to show and tell but my teacher was like "no thats danger you give me scare"

[Godlygamer23]

Covering all the bases. 

[Scruffy90]

Its been in there since the first iphones release. Always thought they were joking

[VerticalDiscussions]

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There, i just told you how to make a Trident II Missile

[theninja35]

18 minutes ago, Arty said:

My School TOS says no guided missiles. like the fuck. 

Well, man, it's your school district. All wacky.

[LynxThe1st]

1 minute ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

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Can't snip on iPad ;-; it might be engaging the nuclear missles 

 

exactly

[Arty]

3 minutes ago, theninja35 said:

Well, man, it's your school district. All wacky.

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Weapons
A student will not conceal, possess, handle or transmit a weapon, or any
instrument capable of causing injury or bodily harm to another person.
Weapons include but are not limited to, firearms, starter guns, BB guns and
pellet guns, paintball guns, airsoft guns, any instrument propelling a
dangerous projectile by spring, gas, air or explosive chemicals, knives,
pocket knives, black jacks, martial arts devices, explosive devices including,
but not limited to, bullets, bombs, grenades, poison gas or mine, projectile
missiles and rockets. 

 

[Mark77]

Might be some obscure ITAR requirement. 

 

Basically any sort of computer produced today, if produced in the 1990s, would have been banned for export as a protected munition per US law.  But the tech industry managed to cajole the government into loosening the export restrictions so they could offshore hundreds of thousands of jobs in what formerly was a very lucrative electronics manufacturing sector in the United States.

 

"Silicon Valley" was named that, not because of all the software companies that inhabit it now, but rather because it literally used to be home to a number of state-of-the-art fabs.  The groundwater contamination remains, but the jobs are long gone.

[VerticalDiscussions]

16 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

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Well, aint that interesting. To be honest, i think Silicon Valley fame is overhyped Xd. But as long as there are people there saying "9 BbbbbBillionnn Transiistorrsss", i guess its a wonderful place to visit ehe :p.

[royalcrown]

Why are you so worried about it going to make a nuclear missed in your garage?  The United States has strict laws regarding the exportation of any computer equipment because they're paranoid about nations not on our friends list  or rogue factions using any advanced computer equipment to make any kind weapons. Even though it unlikely the government's probably worried that if people can hook up 1000 play stations together to make a cluster that somebody will find a way to hook one thousand ipads together to make a cluster. 

[vanished]

4 minutes ago, royalcrown said:

Why are you so worried about it going to make a nuclear missed in your garage?  The United States has strict laws regarding the exportation of any computer equipment because they're paranoid about nations not on our friends list  or rogue factions using any advanced computer equipment to make any kind weapons. Even though it unlikely the government's probably worried that if people can hook up 1000 play stations together to make a cluster that somebody will find a way to hook one thousand ipads together to make a cluster. 

But I don't know how anyone could use iTunes to design a nuclear weapon  

[royalcrown]

Well iTunes can be weaponized, my stepdaughter's singing is worse than a nuclear weapon! Her singing should be considered cruel and unusual punishment and against the Geneva conventions. 

[Guest]

"in their right mind", not everyone is right in the brain :P, also not many people read that...

I personally do bc i have no life 

[nekomata]

8 hours ago, Arty said:

My School TOS says no guided missiles. like the fuck. 

How abou missiles strapped to a quadcopter?

 

Regarding OP. I take the tos as a challenge

[KWelz]

ITAR most likely.  

 

Many TOS have things like this in them.  

 

Heck read your insurance policy on your home some day.  Mine has a clause excluding damage from a Nuclear strike.