Spam filters may have hurt the Internet for the reason you state... But the alternative is wading through an inbox (or webforum, blog, etc) that is 99.999% spam.
Of the servers I've dealt with, something. Like 98% of the raw smtp traffic was spam. Without spam filters, the Internet would be unusable.
If his name wasn't on it, he wouldn't have had a default judgment. If he didn't ignore it, he wouldn't of got a default judgement. Thus, dude is an idiot.
You assume this summons was filed with malicious intent. It was most likely a honest mistake. A stupid mistake? Very much so, but an honest one.
The grandparent has it right. That fifty cents is the cost of living in civilization. Pay it and be thankful that you didn't get hauled out of bed at night, shoved in a bag and "disappeared"
Depends on the jurisdiction. In Washington, if by mail it has to be both by certified letter and first class mail. (at least for what I had to assist filing)
It would have been no more expensive then a phone call. The only case it would cost thousands is if the plaintiff wanted to be an ass and still sue you after pointing out they got the wrong website. And If that was t he case, you'd probably have a lot of options for recourse—many involving a lawsuit against them for all kinds of moneys.
Dude could have just picked up the phone and said "yo, wrong website". Laywer would have laughed, said "thanks for the tip!" and off you would have gone. You don't get to ignore a court summons. There is a reason they (and warrants) exist. Without them the legal system wouldn't work cause people could just stall the case forever.
If 100 people filed 100 cases, yes either the judge or some government prosecutor would probably look into it. Why? Either homeboy is racking up cases because he is doing something fishy, or somebody is committing a crime by basically filling bogus lawsuits. In short, that kind of stuff is suspicious.
In this case, nothing is suspicious. Case filed, summons delivered, no-show defendant... Next! No justice system on earth has the time to check the evidence. Plus it probably wouldn't be legal anyway. How would it be fair to the plaintiff if the defendant could get off the hook simply by not showing up?
Except you don't get court summons delivered by email, facebook, or Twitter. You get them via certified letter, in person, or some other means that is easy to audit.
Either the summons went to the wrong mail address (Whois for thedirty.com) or it went to the right address and right defendant. It sounds like it went to the wrong name & address.
Once this gets overturned and they presumably go after the correct party, I susped the plaintiff will have a hard time explaining why she didn't notice the mistake. The lawyer would have at least gone to the website with her in person. If she cared that much about some nasty comment in a website, you think she would notice that the lawyer was on the wrong site, wouldn't you?
My bet is this fuck up will cost her the real case. If you are pissed about some website, you don't exactly forget what the website looked like!
If you get a court summons, you should not ignore it. Even if they sent it to the wrong guy (you), you could at least call the plaintiff and say "yeah, I got this summons, but I think you got the wrong website).
If you just ignore the thing and hope it goes away, guess what... By not showing up in court the judge doesn't have to examine the evidence. They just assume since you didn't respond and didn't show up, you don't mind entering into a default judgement.
It isn't a fucked up justice system... It is an idiot who ignored a court summons. Can he wiggle out of it? Yes. But now it will cost him a whole lot more time, money, and hassle than if he had just picked up the phone and said "WTF is this summons about?"
Where the hell do you live where cable costs $10 a month!? I call bullshit on that.
Maybe for broadcast only, but your average cable bill is usually one of the most expensive bills of the house. I spend almost $120 a month for Comcast (digital + HBO). Even if I dumped HBO I'd still be looking at $100.
So tell me, where and how are you getting cable for so cheap?
Mutitouch isn't hype! It's potential has barely been scratched!
Think maps. Big maps. Used on boats for navigation. Pinch to zoom in and out—way more intuitive and way quicker than keyboard and mouse.
Think retouching photos—way easier to move around a picture with multitouch.
Think browsing the web—way quicker to click on links and scroll pages than the mouse or keyboard.
Think healthcare.
Think of the music industry—put one of those puppies on a soundboard or as the display on your bitchin' keyboard!
Jesus, people said mice were hype too! They were way, way wrong. In five years, everything will be multitouch.
By the way, if you need so many gestures and keyboard shortcuts to effectively use a piece of software, that says something about the design of the application, not multitouch..
Make it a game. Every one of those apps (with a few exceptions) are just spam. You can block them by clicking on the "posted by 'stupid app'" then on the apps page click on "block application".
Word on the street is there exists a firefox addin that does this for you--but I have never bothered to find it.
I've seen a network brought down when a student (or employee) plugged their toy windows 2000 server into the campus network. Said "server" was configured as a domain controller (or whatever they called it before active directory, it's been a while). Toss in DHCP and their box got DOS'd as the entire campus tried using them for authentication.
Good times. Can you even do that kind of thing these days?
But it isn't good hardware! It is old, slow, buggy, and most of all power hungry. Besides, it is *expensive* to maintain older hardware. Expensive because it is harder to find parts, harder to find support, and harder to find software that is compatible with it. Not to mention people, like you (and those that for some reason moderated you up), tend to do it all for spite. Spite = stress, which is not good for your body, so even in those terms it is expensive
So my advice to you is to toss your old crap and buy new hardware. It won't kill you, I promise.
If you still refuse, I have to ask why you bother reading a technology website when you clearly hate technology (or at least modern technology)? It is one of the things that bugs me about slashdot (and lands the site in my firewall every so often to break the damn time sink)--why are so many people here such damn Luddites?
Nonsense. Facebooks customers are it's users. You piss off the users too much and you lose their traffic. Lose the traffic and you lose your ad revenue.
Bottom line it is in the best interest of Facebook to please its user base.
Why would a bit of software that is essentially a lightning fast javascript compiler with a web browser attached really go out of there way to help Luddites running noscript? Seriously, turn on JavaScript. It isn't slow on a modern browser like chrome.
I see that she now has a phone that still can't compare to my HTC Desire with Android 2.1.
But does she think that way? Does she know exactly what version the operating system her phone is running? Do you keep telling her about how awesome your phone is and she just shrugs it off?
Besides, why the fuck should she care exactly what version her operating system is? Who really gives a shit?
It's just that a lot of Android devices lack the "shiny factor" of the iDevices.
It is a hell of a lot more than the "shiny factor" that sells the iDevices. And even if it was the shiny factor, why the hell has nobody else in the market even come *close* to matching the build quality of an iDevice?
But really, I suspect the reason so many of you are so intent on proving how awesome "Version 2.2" of your operating system is might be because you and I both know the iDevice is the future. And it pisses you off because for the first time ever, "computers" dont need you and I to maintain them. They just fucking work, instead of barely work.
Let me tell you, it is about damn time too. The Wii did it with the game console market, and apple has done it with the "computer" market. The "computer" has come of age. And they are iPads and iPhones.
Rule number one in the new world order of touch driven tablet computers: "Operating systems designed for keyboards and mice do *not* translate into good operating systems for touch". Apple realized this and ditched OSX. I would think they deliberatly made it hard to port desktop applications over because you cannot just port an app designed for the Keyboard/Mouse app over to a touch-based environment. You have to rethink the entire design of your application.
It would be a huge mistake for Microsoft to allow code-interop between their desktop OS and their touch-driven mobile (and presumably tablet) operating system. The last thing you want it is to encourage people to half-ass-idly port their legacy junk over without giving thought to how it would work with touch.
Why would anybody want a task manager on their phone? Task managers exist to weed out shitty software and kill them. Basically, they are a way to maintain a complex system.
The thing about complexity is people pay good money to hide it. Who wants to buy a phone that requires such levels of fiddling that it requires a task manager? Is your time so worthless to you that you enjoy seeing every damn thing running on your phone?
Any phone that has a task manager (outside of some archane debug tool for development) is guaranteed to be a failure in the mass-market.
Face it, the days of geeks ruling the computing kingdom are over. Nobody cares about that crap... another poster said it best--
I didn't realize "power users" meant "a dwindling niche of users stuck in the past".
True words. Our industry is all about rapid change. Either you adopt and update your skills or you die (professionally, that is). Guess what? things are changing in a *huge* way. In a few years, iPads and similar devices will be *the way* the majority of people interact with the internet. They'll do it on their couch and they will have zero patience for shitty software that requires something like a "task manager" (what is that, a debug tool?)
The front-end is the whole point of the program. If it isn't driving the backend development, you are doin' it wrong. Companies who let the backend drive development get blown away whenever something new comes along.
You need to develop the low-level stuff first, and do so well and solidly.
What parts you *develop* first dont matter so much as you *design* your user interface first. Note I did *not* suggest you go jumping into *programming* the GUI first. Instead I advocated you *design* the GUI *before* you write a single line of code.
I mean, it is common sense! How the hell do you know what you should be programming before you know how the damn application should work!?
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Spam filters may have hurt the Internet for the reason you state... But the alternative is wading through an inbox (or webforum, blog, etc) that is 99.999% spam.
Of the servers I've dealt with, something. Like 98% of the raw smtp traffic was spam. Without spam filters, the Internet would be unusable.
If his name wasn't on it, he wouldn't have had a default judgment. If he didn't ignore it, he wouldn't of got a default judgement. Thus, dude is an idiot.
You assume this summons was filed with malicious intent. It was most likely a honest mistake. A stupid mistake? Very much so, but an honest one.
The grandparent has it right. That fifty cents is the cost of living in civilization. Pay it and be thankful that you didn't get hauled out of bed at night, shoved in a bag and "disappeared"
Depends on the jurisdiction. In Washington, if by mail it has to be both by certified letter and first class mail. (at least for what I had to assist filing)
It would have been no more expensive then a phone call. The only case it would cost thousands is if the plaintiff wanted to be an ass and still sue you after pointing out they got the wrong website. And If that was t he case, you'd probably have a lot of options for recourse—many involving a lawsuit against them for all kinds of moneys.
Dude could have just picked up the phone and said "yo, wrong website". Laywer would have laughed, said "thanks for the tip!" and off you would have gone. You don't get to ignore a court summons. There is a reason they (and warrants) exist. Without them the legal system wouldn't work cause people could just stall the case forever.
If 100 people filed 100 cases, yes either the judge or some government prosecutor would probably look into it. Why? Either homeboy is racking up cases because he is doing something fishy, or somebody is committing a crime by basically filling bogus lawsuits. In short, that kind of stuff is suspicious.
In this case, nothing is suspicious. Case filed, summons delivered, no-show defendant... Next! No justice system on earth has the time to check the evidence. Plus it probably wouldn't be legal anyway. How would it be fair to the plaintiff if the defendant could get off the hook simply by not showing up?
Except you don't get court summons delivered by email, facebook, or Twitter. You get them via certified letter, in person, or some other means that is easy to audit.
Either the summons went to the wrong mail address (Whois for thedirty.com) or it went to the right address and right defendant. It sounds like it went to the wrong name & address.
Once this gets overturned and they presumably go after the correct party, I susped the plaintiff will have a hard time explaining why she didn't notice the mistake. The lawyer would have at least gone to the website with her in person. If she cared that much about some nasty comment in a website, you think she would notice that the lawyer was on the wrong site, wouldn't you?
My bet is this fuck up will cost her the real case. If you are pissed about some website, you don't exactly forget what the website looked like!
If you get a court summons, you should not ignore it. Even if they sent it to the wrong guy (you), you could at least call the plaintiff and say "yeah, I got this summons, but I think you got the wrong website).
If you just ignore the thing and hope it goes away, guess what... By not showing up in court the judge doesn't have to examine the evidence. They just assume since you didn't respond and didn't show up, you don't mind entering into a default judgement.
It isn't a fucked up justice system... It is an idiot who ignored a court summons. Can he wiggle out of it? Yes. But now it will cost him a whole lot more time, money, and hassle than if he had just picked up the phone and said "WTF is this summons about?"
Where the hell do you live where cable costs $10 a month!? I call bullshit on that.
Maybe for broadcast only, but your average cable bill is usually one of the most expensive bills of the house. I spend almost $120 a month for Comcast (digital + HBO). Even if I dumped HBO I'd still be looking at $100.
So tell me, where and how are you getting cable for so cheap?
Did any body else catch that the Foursquare API has you sending your username and password in the clear?
Please tell me you can do all this on port 443 and that your phone is using SSL.
That said, I love it!
Mutitouch isn't hype! It's potential has barely been scratched!
Think maps. Big maps. Used on boats for navigation. Pinch to zoom in and out—way more intuitive and way quicker than keyboard and mouse.
Think retouching photos—way easier to move around a picture with multitouch.
Think browsing the web—way quicker to click on links and scroll pages than the mouse or keyboard.
Think healthcare.
Think of the music industry—put one of those puppies on a soundboard or as the display on your bitchin' keyboard!
Jesus, people said mice were hype too! They were way, way wrong. In five years, everything will be multitouch.
By the way, if you need so many gestures and keyboard shortcuts to effectively use a piece of software, that says something about the design of the application, not multitouch..
Make it a game. Every one of those apps (with a few exceptions) are just spam. You can block them by clicking on the "posted by 'stupid app'" then on the apps page click on "block application".
Word on the street is there exists a firefox addin that does this for you--but I have never bothered to find it.
I've seen a network brought down when a student (or employee) plugged their toy windows 2000 server into the campus network. Said "server" was configured as a domain controller (or whatever they called it before active directory, it's been a while). Toss in DHCP and their box got DOS'd as the entire campus tried using them for authentication.
Good times. Can you even do that kind of thing these days?
Stupid slashdot botching my HTML...
Why would you want a hub in the first place? The only hub on newegg was some $650 24-port 10/100 deal. But unless you were trying to keep some crazy legacy network alive, why not spring for a modern 10/100/1000 switch?
But it isn't good hardware! It is old, slow, buggy, and most of all power hungry. Besides, it is *expensive* to maintain older hardware. Expensive because it is harder to find parts, harder to find support, and harder to find software that is compatible with it. Not to mention people, like you (and those that for some reason moderated you up), tend to do it all for spite. Spite = stress, which is not good for your body, so even in those terms it is expensive
So my advice to you is to toss your old crap and buy new hardware. It won't kill you, I promise.
If you still refuse, I have to ask why you bother reading a technology website when you clearly hate technology (or at least modern technology)? It is one of the things that bugs me about slashdot (and lands the site in my firewall every so often to break the damn time sink)--why are so many people here such damn Luddites?
Nonsense. Facebooks customers are it's users. You piss off the users too much and you lose their traffic. Lose the traffic and you lose your ad revenue.
Bottom line it is in the best interest of Facebook to please its user base.
Why would a bit of software that is essentially a lightning fast javascript compiler with a web browser attached really go out of there way to help Luddites running noscript? Seriously, turn on JavaScript. It isn't slow on a modern browser like chrome.
Ah sourceforge, where good projects go to die.
Last update on Preload? 2009-04-15. More than a year ago.
Until it is build into the kernel, I'll pass, thanks.
But does she think that way? Does she know exactly what version the operating system her phone is running? Do you keep telling her about how awesome your phone is and she just shrugs it off?
Besides, why the fuck should she care exactly what version her operating system is? Who really gives a shit?
It is a hell of a lot more than the "shiny factor" that sells the iDevices. And even if it was the shiny factor, why the hell has nobody else in the market even come *close* to matching the build quality of an iDevice?
But really, I suspect the reason so many of you are so intent on proving how awesome "Version 2.2" of your operating system is might be because you and I both know the iDevice is the future. And it pisses you off because for the first time ever, "computers" dont need you and I to maintain them. They just fucking work, instead of barely work.
Let me tell you, it is about damn time too. The Wii did it with the game console market, and apple has done it with the "computer" market. The "computer" has come of age. And they are iPads and iPhones.
Rule number one in the new world order of touch driven tablet computers:
"Operating systems designed for keyboards and mice do *not* translate into good operating systems for touch".
Apple realized this and ditched OSX. I would think they deliberatly made it hard to port desktop applications over because you cannot just port an app designed for the Keyboard/Mouse app over to a touch-based environment. You have to rethink the entire design of your application.
It would be a huge mistake for Microsoft to allow code-interop between their desktop OS and their touch-driven mobile (and presumably tablet) operating system. The last thing you want it is to encourage people to half-ass-idly port their legacy junk over without giving thought to how it would work with touch.
Why would anybody want a task manager on their phone? Task managers exist to weed out shitty software and kill them. Basically, they are a way to maintain a complex system.
The thing about complexity is people pay good money to hide it. Who wants to buy a phone that requires such levels of fiddling that it requires a task manager? Is your time so worthless to you that you enjoy seeing every damn thing running on your phone?
Any phone that has a task manager (outside of some archane debug tool for development) is guaranteed to be a failure in the mass-market.
Face it, the days of geeks ruling the computing kingdom are over. Nobody cares about that crap... another poster said it best--
True words. Our industry is all about rapid change. Either you adopt and update your skills or you die (professionally, that is). Guess what? things are changing in a *huge* way. In a few years, iPads and similar devices will be *the way* the majority of people interact with the internet. They'll do it on their couch and they will have zero patience for shitty software that requires something like a "task manager" (what is that, a debug tool?)
The front-end is the whole point of the program. If it isn't driving the backend development, you are doin' it wrong. Companies who let the backend drive development get blown away whenever something new comes along.
What parts you *develop* first dont matter so much as you *design* your user interface first. Note I did *not* suggest you go jumping into *programming* the GUI first. Instead I advocated you *design* the GUI *before* you write a single line of code.
I mean, it is common sense! How the hell do you know what you should be programming before you know how the damn application should work!?