Encyclopaedias have done this for ages too. Make up a boring tiny entry for.. Boring Arkansas, and wait for a rival to copy it, then sue them. (Appologies if there is a Boring Arkansas, I am so sorry for you.)
Prior to that I was running Coherent. (Still got the floppies and man for that.) I waited until networking stabilized and let friends take the arrows first.
And what if the advertisement changed after you bought the reader? i.e. when you bought it the company was selling it for normal security uses, etc. Later they realized that there was BigBuck$ to be made pushing illegal uses. Who keeps a copy of an ad or web site years later? (Other than the wayback machine at archive.org.)
I was going to buy one of those smartcard programmers to steal free wash and dry in my building's laundry room. But now DirecTV is going to sue me if I do. Damn you!
I've still got my Slackware 1.2 CD, and I have it running on a 486/66 on my LAN. It fits nicely on to a small hard drive and there's tonnes of archive software that runs fine on it. It ran my multi-user BBS stable for years. It hasn't got all the latest bells'n'whistles, and I don't know if I'd expose it to the Internet, but it does the job.
and get a lighter sentence than if I downloaded a few songs/movies from the internet
What if you're in a state that has "three strike" harsher sentencing for the third felony offence, and you download an albulm? Yeah, probably part of a single charge, but can you imagine someone getting caught for the third time and doing 20+ with no parole?
And if you register with a non-US registrar? ICANN and such already have this as a rule, but very few registrars enforce it. (Look at all the bogus spammer registrations.)
What's the name of this box? I RTFAed, but it was always "the box", "the device", etc. I don't know how we take this thing seriously if it doesn't have a name?
Hmm.. Thing, I like it. (Why? I dunno. He's on third, and I don't give a darn...)
I always like to use anonymous email accounts with chinese email providers.
Fine, except for the large parts of the net that block China (and Korea and South America...) at their mail servers, if not their routers and firewalls. Sad, but if they want to be cheap spam whores, oh well.
They say they do, but they also have an extremely high churn rate -- users coming/going all the time. The moment that conditions change and users stop joining, their churn rate will hurt them badly. (That happened with the Source, Compuserve, etc, and were gobbled by the next fish in line.) I bet they count those 3 month free CD users as part of their market share too.
Ouch! I hear you, although in my case it was early '80's and 300 bps modems. If I heard one more whiney complaint that our industrial GDCs didn't work properly -- with their excellent $29.95 Yugomodem... "Luser is about to die!"
That doesn't always work. I've still got a perfectly good HP Deskjet 500. When I bought it, the cartridges worked fine, lasted a reasonable time. I haven't been able to use it in years because HP's nu'n'inproved cartridges for it SUCK at a much higher price. I no longer buy printers that tie me a single source for ink/toner.
I remember when inkjet printers first came out and the prices/life were reasonable. (Not great, just reasonable.) Then HP more than doubled the price and claimed that they doubled the life. (They didn't.) And the damned ink ran out of the cartridges if you didn't print for a week, which it didn't do before.
If they'd just kept the technology/pricing where it was 13 years ago I'd be happy. I am not happy, fsck them!
Yet another bloody buffer overflow! Why can't a single company impose internal standards for checking and handling buffer overflows, especially on ports facing the Internet?
Interesting how adopting a free open source OS was an "unfair trade practice" (how?). Thankfully (Munich et al) that view seems to be changing. (Yes, I know that they're spending more for it. Customization and training aren't free.)
$2M sounds like a lot of money until you figure out even a modest burn-rate for the Mozilla Foundation. AOL probably just paid out more than that for their 50 serverance packages.
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Encyclopaedias have done this for ages too. Make up a boring tiny entry for .. Boring Arkansas, and wait for a rival to copy it, then sue them. (Appologies if there is a Boring Arkansas, I am so sorry for you.)
Prior to that I was running Coherent. (Still got the floppies and man for that.) I waited until networking stabilized and let friends take the arrows first.
And what if the advertisement changed after you bought the reader? i.e. when you bought it the company was selling it for normal security uses, etc. Later they realized that there was BigBuck$ to be made pushing illegal uses. Who keeps a copy of an ad or web site years later? (Other than the wayback machine at archive.org.)
I was going to buy one of those smartcard programmers to steal free wash and dry in my building's laundry room. But now DirecTV is going to sue me if I do. Damn you!
Why shouldn't it still run??
What if you're in a state that has "three strike" harsher sentencing for the third felony offence, and you download an albulm? Yeah, probably part of a single charge, but can you imagine someone getting caught for the third time and doing 20+ with no parole?
And if you register with a non-US registrar? ICANN and such already have this as a rule, but very few registrars enforce it. (Look at all the bogus spammer registrations.)
I hope they worded that one carefully (ha!) or they might have made search engine web crawlers and caches illegal.
"Motorola Broadband Media Center", catchy!
Hmm.. Thing, I like it. (Why? I dunno. He's on third, and I don't give a darn...)
Fine, except for the large parts of the net that block China (and Korea and South America...) at their mail servers, if not their routers and firewalls. Sad, but if they want to be cheap spam whores, oh well.
They say they do, but they also have an extremely high churn rate -- users coming/going all the time. The moment that conditions change and users stop joining, their churn rate will hurt them badly. (That happened with the Source, Compuserve, etc, and were gobbled by the next fish in line.) I bet they count those 3 month free CD users as part of their market share too.
Aren't they those Google message boards? :^P
Ouch! I hear you, although in my case it was early '80's and 300 bps modems. If I heard one more whiney complaint that our industrial GDCs didn't work properly -- with their excellent $29.95 Yugomodem... "Luser is about to die!"
Nor most of other ports that Microsoft opens up willy-nilly. SQL Server, messaging, file sharing, etc. Hell, I wouldn't open up IIS on port 80!
That doesn't always work. I've still got a perfectly good HP Deskjet 500. When I bought it, the cartridges worked fine, lasted a reasonable time. I haven't been able to use it in years because HP's nu'n'inproved cartridges for it SUCK at a much higher price. I no longer buy printers that tie me a single source for ink/toner.
If they'd just kept the technology/pricing where it was 13 years ago I'd be happy. I am not happy, fsck them!
Yet another bloody buffer overflow! Why can't a single company impose internal standards for checking and handling buffer overflows, especially on ports facing the Internet?
If they want to improve security, will they be paying Microsoft not to develop software?
Interesting how adopting a free open source OS was an "unfair trade practice" (how?). Thankfully (Munich et al) that view seems to be changing. (Yes, I know that they're spending more for it. Customization and training aren't free.)
Forked from 386BSD, which predates Linux. History would have been different, but it was railroad time--someone would have built one.
Wasn't it decended from RUNOFF*** (pre-1970) on Dartmouth Time-Sharing?
$2M sounds like a lot of money until you figure out even a modest burn-rate for the Mozilla Foundation. AOL probably just paid out more than that for their 50 serverance packages.
They were tracked and located.
Perhaps it'll get blown to the Land of Oz, and the Wizard can fix it up with something?