Given that the government (or worse-Al Gore!) started the Internet, maybe they should just stay off the tubes entirely. And of course, the FCC controls the airwaves, so maybe it's back to golden tablets found in deserts or scrolls written by civilizations they don't believe in.
Exactly! I want a job where I only have to be right 1 percent of the time! Wouldn't that be awesome?
How about a system where trained monkeys fling shit at passengers in the queue and anyone who gets "tagged" gets interviewed. I bet I can beat 1 percent.
I disagree...you just have to be efficient in your lawsuits. Since they'll all be regarding the same issue, you need simply write it once and have a paralegal copy it a million times for filing in various courts. There will be plenty of people who don't show up for these hearings so you can get default judgments on them. Then you can either sell the judgment to someone for a percentage of the value (I think I just got an "unsolicited e-mail" about this "explosive industry") or garnish the person's wages. If you're worried about employment, buy Forbes' or WSJ's mailing list.
Or, if that's too complicated, just mail to people at work. Then you can sue the company AND the person.
DC has a great idea, but totally the wrong business model.
What they should be doing is mailing out useless products with ridiculous EULAs (redundant, I guess) to people who didn't ask for them, and then when they inevitably "violate the EULA", sue for millions!
Think of it. Very little capital involved, low start-up costs. Just a good law firm.
I just received my "cat" the other day, without my consent. But despite that, they think they can tell me how I can use it? I don't know if a court would agree with their assessment, as long as I'm not making money on their idea. Can Stanley tell me what type of nails I can hit with their hammer?
Maybe we should all give our cats (the silicon-based ones anyway) a good whack with a Stanley and send them back to DC. Or would that violate the EULA?
Scott Ripley
(Already happy with the two cats I have - no EULA)
I just installed OS X and Omniweb crashed on me three times. But the machine never stopped what it was doing (a huge file copy) and I just re-opened Omniweb.
Maybe, to preserve the institutional memory of Mac users, they have the browser crash once in a while. Just for old times sake.
I think I *can* speak for everyone when I say that we all know there will be a terminal.app available 10 minutes after OS X is released, either from Apple or someone else.
I don't think it's worth all this flaming for a 500k app.
I have had the pleasure of installing OS X servers in several places, and let me tell you, as a former Solaris/Irix sysadmin, it was a pleasure. There will always be a contingent that insists on vi and a / of a thousand text files. But for the rest of us, this GUI will put U*ix in places it's never been. And after all, isn't that what we all want? Scott Ripley Apple Corps
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Given that the government (or worse-Al Gore!) started the Internet, maybe they should just stay off the tubes entirely. And of course, the FCC controls the airwaves, so maybe it's back to golden tablets found in deserts or scrolls written by civilizations they don't believe in.
Yes, I think that'd be for the best.
Exactly! I want a job where I only have to be right 1 percent of the time! Wouldn't that be awesome?
How about a system where trained monkeys fling shit at passengers in the queue and anyone who gets "tagged" gets interviewed. I bet I can beat 1 percent.
I can tell you that one major government organization won't be getting sitefinder responses back any more.
I can tell you that b/c I'm the DNS admin and I'm gcc'ing the new BIND even now.
In fact, Cox and the other cable providers do block either UDP port 500 or protocol 50/51. Some do both.
But hey, Cisco's looking out for you. If you use their 3.5 VPN client, you can designate a TCP port for all your VPN traffic.
Port 80, anyone?
I disagree...you just have to be efficient in your lawsuits. Since they'll all be regarding the same issue, you need simply write it once and have a paralegal copy it a million times for filing in various courts. There will be plenty of people who don't show up for these hearings so you can get default judgments on them. Then you can either sell the judgment to someone for a percentage of the value (I think I just got an "unsolicited e-mail" about this "explosive industry") or garnish the person's wages. If you're worried about employment, buy Forbes' or WSJ's mailing list.
Or, if that's too complicated, just mail to people at work. Then you can sue the company AND the person.
DC has a great idea, but totally the wrong business model.
What they should be doing is mailing out useless products with ridiculous EULAs (redundant, I guess) to people who didn't ask for them, and then when they inevitably "violate the EULA", sue for millions!
Think of it. Very little capital involved, low start-up costs. Just a good law firm.
I just received my "cat" the other day, without my consent. But despite that, they think they can tell me how I can use it? I don't know if a court would agree with their assessment, as long as I'm not making money on their idea. Can Stanley tell me what type of nails I can hit with their hammer?
Maybe we should all give our cats (the silicon-based ones anyway) a good whack with a Stanley and send them back to DC. Or would that violate the EULA?
Scott Ripley
(Already happy with the two cats I have - no EULA)
I can testify to that...
I just installed OS X and Omniweb crashed on me three times. But the machine never stopped what it was doing (a huge file copy) and I just re-opened Omniweb.
Maybe, to preserve the institutional memory of Mac users, they have the browser crash once in a while. Just for old times sake.
Scott RipleyI think I *can* speak for everyone when I say that we all know there will be a terminal.app available 10 minutes after OS X is released, either from Apple or someone else.
I don't think it's worth all this flaming for a 500k app.
Scott Ripley
I have had the pleasure of installing OS X servers in several places, and let me tell you, as a former Solaris/Irix sysadmin, it was a pleasure. There will always be a contingent that insists on vi and a / of a thousand text files. But for the rest of us, this GUI will put U*ix in places it's never been. And after all, isn't that what we all want? Scott Ripley Apple Corps