I think this is more about the right to tap and not an acusation that Verio is tapping anyone. By law, the FBI does have the right to tap lines (following the correct proceedure, of course) and they wantt to make sure that they maintain that right.
What do you mean by "low learning curve"? That's pretty euphamistic. There's nothing really to learn. You just read a page like the one posted and the info is almost all there. Just a little bit of patience to download and set the stuff up and you're there. Hell, you could even do it from Windows (*gasp*).
Great. Just what everyone needs. Silicon implants for your eyes;) You'll be walking down the street and everyone is just going: "Oh my God, look at her eyes. They are so big." What I really want to know is, can you be like Pamala Lee and have them taken out when you get tired of them or just want more publicity?
And there's also been the headlines recently about that plastic surgeon that placed breast implants into the ass of some women that wanted a bigger but. What's next, installing optical implants into someone's ass?
Way I see it, it's a bit like a chain collision on the highway, you dont go after the guy waaaay down the back who first hit, your insurance comapny goes the vehicle that hit YOU, who in turn goes the vehicle behind etc...
You've never been in one of those wrecks. From experience, the insurance companies all went after the original car because it was their fault. That went for my insurance and the guy in front of me when I was in the middle of a 3 car wreck. But, I appreciate the analogy - wrong as it was - you still proved my point.
Yeah, NetSol did something wrong. This guy is suing Nike. Nike didn't do it. I think that's why this comment scored so high. The basis of the lawsuit is over something stipid. This guy is trying to sue Nike for being hacked and increasing the traffic on his servers. Nike didn't send the traffic to his servers. Hell, Nike would have loved for the traffic to have been on their own servers as if nothing had happened.
What's funny is, his own site, admits that they were not only hacked but it was because they didn't have good security on their servers and that it wasn't hard for the hackers to compromise their servers too. This guy is so hypocritical, it's amazing.
But Nike didn't DoS them. Hell, Nike didn't do anything. Someone else sent NetSol an (unencrypted) e-mail spoofed to look like the billing contact for nike.com asking to change Nike.com to their control. For one thing, this person wasn't supposed to be able to controll the domain name and for another, it was supposed to be an encrypted e-mail. NetSol screwed up on this one.
Yes, he may have been inconvienenced by this. Now, if he wants to sue someone, sue the hackers that were responsible. Hell, sue Network Solutions for their screw up. Nike isn't the one that did something wrong.
Personally, I think it's part of being on the internet. To me, this is the same thing as owning a store on a street and trying to sue the store down the road because protesters gather out in front of it and the traffic jam they cause hurts your business. Sorry. C'est la vie. It's life, get on with it.
I've worked in customer service and tech support for an ISP before. Tell your clients what happened and most of them will understand. If you loose a few customers, that's business. They can go to another network and the next domain hijack can hurt them again. Most people realize that they can be hit by this anywhere on the net, regardless of their network.
I'm sitting here at work and just so happen to have one of the above mentioned monsters (WinDoze(TM), IE5, ActiveX control downloaded) and my system locks up each time. All I get is "IEXPLORE.EXE has caused a GPF in...".
Hey, that just gave me a great idea for a con! I'll market a new streaming video player that can do 1600x1200 on a 2400 baud modem. When everyone uses my player, it will crash their system and I'll blame it on Microshaft. I'll claim it works on my system.
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Or you could just be working in Beverly Hills. (Please don't let there be any moderators from there reading this.)
What's really funny about it is that the pr0n ads on warez sites are for pay sites. Yeah! Like I'm not going to pay for software but I will pay for porn.
You're not confused. I just seem to think it's funny that people would try to sue over something so stupid. I was comparing this to suing NetZero because they're both stupid. I mean, that's like suing the car company for gas charges because you're too dumb to turn the engine off when you aren't needing it.
Come on - don't complain that you're wasting online time when you're looking at ads that can be disabled. If you can't turn them off, you're dumb enough you need to pay... Think of it as a tax on stupidity.
What a cool interview. I think he must have had his pet mice:) write it for him.
Mods, if you haven't read his books and don't know that mice are the smartest creatures on Earth, don't mod me down:)...
No, seriously though. It's a great interview. It's nice to see someone put so much thought and effort into one of these. Definately worth the wait. I think I'll even go out and buy another one of his books today.
Hey, at first, I thought you were trolling. But you're right. The things he says makes Amigans "unique" could describe anyone in the *BSD/Linux group. I think Wayne was more interested in talking about the Amigan lifestyle than about Amiga and he goes on raving about the same things that the Linux community has been raving about for the last few years.
I do like that last part you copied. "if you can get through to one more person, wow. That's them helped out, especially in the world of the Microsoft monopoly. "Welcome to the fold Wayne.
It's always easiest to develope on what you know. If you're not familiar enough with Unix to know it's advantages, you probably won't have the experience with it to use it to program.
I'd still recommend checking it out or you'd never be familiar with it. I just don't recommend anyone wiping out their Windows partition, running down to the store and buying Linux and think that they can be a Unix programmer. Learn Unix first and when you know it well enough, you'll WANT to program with it.
Yeah, first it's rioting, but then the Debian crowd would start fighting with the SuSE crowd and the Mandraker's would think they were better Red Hatters than the Red Hatters and it's turn into a big-ass bar fight.
That's actually not too far from the truth. What about having these companies with online documentation make two boxes, one to keep on the shelves and then a smaller, "green:)" box to package the actual material in? This way, they still get the shelf-space and the advertising that comes with it, they can both save on the packaging and be a little more environmentally friendly.
Why not complain about those big 8" thick, 4' tall, 2' wide boxes that they have in a lot of the stores? Q3A was really pushing those in stores. Every EB I walked into had this huge Quake 3 box in the entrance.
Why are they doing it? It's advertising. Same thing goes with the bigger boxes with stuff in them. Personally, I'm more surprised that vendors put up with them. Why would they want to waste shelf space that they could have other products on? Maybe it's because that's what MS wants...
You're right. Even if you don't like (or use) IE, it has kept Netscape/Mozilla fighting to maintain it's place in the browser market. Without IE, Netscape wouldn't have any serious competition and wouldn't have the motivation to innovate. How many features in the current version of Communicator are there because Microsoft had similiar things in it's browser? How many are there because they wanted to do them before MS did?
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I think this is more about the right to tap and not an acusation that Verio is tapping anyone. By law, the FBI does have the right to tap lines (following the correct proceedure, of course) and they wantt to make sure that they maintain that right.
kwsNI
What do you mean by "low learning curve"? That's pretty euphamistic. There's nothing really to learn. You just read a page like the one posted and the info is almost all there. Just a little bit of patience to download and set the stuff up and you're there. Hell, you could even do it from Windows (*gasp*).
kwsNI
And there's also been the headlines recently about that plastic surgeon that placed breast implants into the ass of some women that wanted a bigger but. What's next, installing optical implants into someone's ass?
kwsNI
You've never been in one of those wrecks. From experience, the insurance companies all went after the original car because it was their fault. That went for my insurance and the guy in front of me when I was in the middle of a 3 car wreck. But, I appreciate the analogy - wrong as it was - you still proved my point.
kwsNI
What's funny is, his own site, admits that they were not only hacked but it was because they didn't have good security on their servers and that it wasn't hard for the hackers to compromise their servers too. This guy is so hypocritical, it's amazing.
kwsNI
Yes, he may have been inconvienenced by this. Now, if he wants to sue someone, sue the hackers that were responsible. Hell, sue Network Solutions for their screw up. Nike isn't the one that did something wrong.
Personally, I think it's part of being on the internet. To me, this is the same thing as owning a store on a street and trying to sue the store down the road because protesters gather out in front of it and the traffic jam they cause hurts your business. Sorry. C'est la vie. It's life, get on with it.
I've worked in customer service and tech support for an ISP before. Tell your clients what happened and most of them will understand. If you loose a few customers, that's business. They can go to another network and the next domain hijack can hurt them again. Most people realize that they can be hit by this anywhere on the net, regardless of their network.
kwsNI
I can just see Jar Jar as Shaft: Yousa dammmmn right.
kwsNI
This CNET article talks about Gateway and IBM using Transmeta processors. I think this is a big victory for Gateway over Dell.
kwsNI
Hey, that just gave me a great idea for a con! I'll market a new streaming video player that can do 1600x1200 on a 2400 baud modem. When everyone uses my player, it will crash their system and I'll blame it on Microshaft. I'll claim it works on my system.
kwsNI
Or you could just be working in Beverly Hills. (Please don't let there be any moderators from there reading this.)
kwsNI
What's really funny about it is that the pr0n ads on warez sites are for pay sites. Yeah! Like I'm not going to pay for software but I will pay for porn.
kwsNI
So you're saying that I'm a (Score: -1; Funny)?
kwsNI
Come on - don't complain that you're wasting online time when you're looking at ads that can be disabled. If you can't turn them off, you're dumb enough you need to pay... Think of it as a tax on stupidity.
kwsNI
Hey, I'm going to follow this. If this is crazy enough to work, I might find a judge that would let me sue Net Zero for making me look at pop-up ads.
kwsNI
I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist.
kwsNI
Mods, if you haven't read his books and don't know that mice are the smartest creatures on Earth, don't mod me down :)...
No, seriously though. It's a great interview. It's nice to see someone put so much thought and effort into one of these. Definately worth the wait. I think I'll even go out and buy another one of his books today.
kwsNI
I do like that last part you copied. "if you can get through to one more person, wow. That's them helped out, especially in the world of the Microsoft monopoly. " Welcome to the fold Wayne.
kwsNI
I'd still recommend checking it out or you'd never be familiar with it. I just don't recommend anyone wiping out their Windows partition, running down to the store and buying Linux and think that they can be a Unix programmer. Learn Unix first and when you know it well enough, you'll WANT to program with it.
kwsNI
Yeah, first it's rioting, but then the Debian crowd would start fighting with the SuSE crowd and the Mandraker's would think they were better Red Hatters than the Red Hatters and it's turn into a big-ass bar fight.
kwsNI
That's actually not too far from the truth. What about having these companies with online documentation make two boxes, one to keep on the shelves and then a smaller, "green :)" box to package the actual material in? This way, they still get the shelf-space and the advertising that comes with it, they can both save on the packaging and be a little more environmentally friendly.
kwsNI
Why are they doing it? It's advertising. Same thing goes with the bigger boxes with stuff in them. Personally, I'm more surprised that vendors put up with them. Why would they want to waste shelf space that they could have other products on? Maybe it's because that's what MS wants...
kwsNI
At least they aren't having the security conference at Las Alamos National Labs :)
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You're right. Even if you don't like (or use) IE, it has kept Netscape/Mozilla fighting to maintain it's place in the browser market. Without IE, Netscape wouldn't have any serious competition and wouldn't have the motivation to innovate. How many features in the current version of Communicator are there because Microsoft had similiar things in it's browser? How many are there because they wanted to do them before MS did?
kwsNI
Someone want to post the link to the site here on /.? They'll be Slashdotted in no time...
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