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Re:Software is eating the car by brewdad on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:31PM (#27464630)
I should think that owning a car for more than a few weeks without accepting the EULA could serve as reasonable "proof" that you had no intention of accepting it regardless of what is logged. Especially if the EULA is presented at every startup.
Re:Software is eating the car by MereInterest on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:52PM (#27464924)
> It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done ... chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever.

I think consent dialogs are one of the closest things to Newspeak that exist. In any spoken language, new words can be coined to express a desired meaning. In consent dialogs, there is no longer "Accept" and "Decline", instead there is "Accept" and "Ask me later". When presented with an upsell, the choices are not "Yes" and "No", but "Yes, sign me up!" and "No, I don't want to save money."

Re:Software is eating the car by anoncake on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:35PM (#27468355)
"No thanks" is bad enough when I mean "fuck off".
Re:Software is eating the car by duped on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:41PM (#27464747)
Prove that you didn't accept the EULA when you drove it off the lot, if the system was never designed to log when the acceptance was made.