All this suit is saying is that illegal contracts are to be contested in court. They signed a contract with MS they now claim that the contract is illegal. In this country you can take people to court and let the court decide who is right. Don't let your irratinal ideology corrupt the basic premise of freedom which is the enforcability of contracts by the govt. If contracts law is useless then free enterprise falls apart.
If your really want to help the masses quit and get a job at Apple. Or better yet pick an open source project that you are interested in and design the best damned gui ever made for it. Use your talents to help better mankind and not put a few more dollars into the pockets of the richest man in the universe.
I think the point was that you claimed that the entire basis for the lawsuit was the dialog box. This is clearly not the case. Caldera could have pounded very hard at the exclusionary contracts and per CPU charges MS extorted from PC vendors.
In either case the rumored 150 mil is a substantial amount if MS lawyers are that stupid then they all ought to get canned. You know it's going to effect the bottom line even in a huge monopoly like MS.
"Store a cookie with some unique identifier and pass that identifier along with the $ to take to a secondary server which is not net accessible ot do the actual transaction."
But it IS accessable. When you make a purchase they tell you the last four digits so they must have it available. I suppose they could just be storing the last four but I highly doubt it. One way or another there is apthway between my credit card number and the web server. Who cares if it's not on the server itself.
He only started giving away money after the DOJ suit started. To him it's nothing but a PR expense budget item. I don't really think a man as unethical as Gates is actually cares about other people.
You are right it makes no sense to kill the crew and sink the ship. What is more reasonable and easier to do would be to kill the CEO of the company. Ultimately the buck stops with him/her. Also the CEO would be an easier target and a cheaper one too. To sink a ship you would need heavy firepower to kill a CEO a bullet or two.
No I am not kidding this is the only real solution. If enough CEOs get killed you will see the megacorps acting much more responsibly.
It seems like the quality of discussion on/. is going downhill very fast. The ACs are working very hard to disrupt threads with NATALIE/NAKED/COMMIE/GRITS posts. What plans do you have (if any) for bringing more adults into the slashdot fold and to try and make for a more inteligent discussion.
No we should not ban.sig lines but we should be smart enough to remove them when we send a press release. People may think that we are idiots if we don't.
That's not the point at all. He has every right to his own opinion but when he is speaking for the linux community he should hot mix his own politics into it. Remember the email was intended as a press release (look at the to field). The mainstream press is going to pick this up and say that the Linux community is pro gun. Maybe they will say "what the hell does guns have to do with DVDs". Who is ESR speaking for? Who is he speaking to? If he is not smart enough to remove.sig from a press release he is not smart enough to speak for me.
I think he wrote that piece because he really really likes to hear himself talk (or read what he has written maybe) and he actually believes we care what he thinks. ESR to me comes off as a pompous(sp?) ass and if he keeps appending silly gun-nut propaganda to his publicity stunts he will be known to the rest of the world as one too. I never elected him as a spokesman for me and I think he makes a lousy figurehead for the linux movement.
1) Direct non compatible browsers to a page explaining that all complaints should be sent to the email address of your boss.
2) Explain to your PHB that at this very moment there is a person on webtv, cell phone, palm pilot who is trying to access your site and can't and in the future when he is trying to access the page from his car or toaster he will not be able to either.
Paranoia may be bad but so is lying. The big lie is that produce is modified to increase yield. Even a cursory investigation would reveal that GM modified plants are NOT designed to produce more food, better tsting food, or more nutricious food. They are designed to make monsanto more money that's all.
Even if by some freak unforseen consequence GM crops yielded more food how do you propose that this food get into the hands of the starving masses. The US govt has HUGE silos of wheat they buy from farmers who produce too mauch and can't sell on the open market. Same with dairy and meat products. Who is going to donate their extra crops to Africa? Who is going to pay to ship them there? who is going to distribute them? Nobody that's who. We stockpile food while others starve this is the way of the world. Today people are starving because of greed, economics, and politics not because there is not enough food to go around. In a few years that might change though.
Maybe you are right if you are losing 300 million a year like amazon and can afford to pay the million or so to oracle (I imagine they have a lot of Mz over there). But for me and millions of small business owners this is completely out of the question. The vast majority of the businesses in this country employ less then a 100 people and it's this market that MS targets so successfully with Access and then MSQL. Although Linux has Postgresql which is competent if not easy to use and set up it severely lacks an Access like tool. Most businesses start with Access and grow into MSQL.
I agree. Internet is important but not more important then freedom, clean air, juman rights, prison labor, or a whole host of other issues. A lot of people in this county either vote straight party line (so they don't have to think too much) or vote on a single issue (abortion acomes to mind). Actually most people don't even vote and I imagine this is also true of te "geek" community. Perhaps the most important thing is to actually get off your butt and vote but I know that's too much to ask of Americans we don't give a crap about the greater good just ourselves.
Give me convenience or give me death. Jello Biafra
>Can Interbase possibly compete against Oracle8? >Um... doubtfully.
Have you priced Oracle lately. Here is what they quoted me. 160/ user plus 20/MGHZ to put my database on the internet. I have a 500 Mz server and that is $10,000 to publish my oracle database on the internet. God forbid I put in another processor.
Right now we use the jury system to assign blame in these types of situations. I don't see why we can't continue using the same juries to assign a percentage of the blame. A Jury should have the right to be able to say 70% guilty your honor and let the judge adjust the punishment accordingly. In a civil case the 70% guilty party would pay 70% of the award.
Responsibilty cuts both ways. Take for example a community that has abnormal rates of cancer. The corporation who has been exposing the town to asbestos dust for years will argue that nobody can PROVE 100% that asbestos caused that cancer and therefore they should not be held responsibly IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER (libby Montana Dec 1999). Not even a tiny little bit. People see this and say to themselves what is good for the goose is good for the cancer. If the mine is not resposible for the cancers in my town then I am not resposible for running the red light cos I was drunk.
What we need is to get away from holding somebody 100% resposible or 0% responsible. In real life there is plenty of blame to go around. I say hold everybody responsible for their part. Example Lets say the a felon buys a gun and shoots somebody. The store that sold a gun to a felon has SOME responsibility don't you think? They shouldn't get off scott free.
But computers are being used to run battleships. I guess it could be argued that a shipboard network is not tied to the outside world but most networks are hacked from within by lower grade users. It would be hard to bribe a sysadmin but probably you could bribe a cook to gain access to a network, hack admin, and download secrets.
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All this suit is saying is that illegal contracts are to be contested in court. They signed a contract with MS they now claim that the contract is illegal. In this country you can take people to court and let the court decide who is right. Don't let your irratinal ideology corrupt the basic premise of freedom which is the enforcability of contracts by the govt. If contracts law is useless then free enterprise falls apart.
How much did they pay Borland?
If your really want to help the masses quit and get a job at Apple. Or better yet pick an open source project that you are interested in and design the best damned gui ever made for it.
Use your talents to help better mankind and not put a few more dollars into the pockets of the richest man in the universe.
I think the point was that you claimed that the entire basis for the lawsuit was the dialog box. This is clearly not the case. Caldera could have pounded very hard at the exclusionary contracts and per CPU charges MS extorted from PC vendors.
In either case the rumored 150 mil is a substantial amount if MS lawyers are that stupid then they all ought to get canned. You know it's going to effect the bottom line even in a huge monopoly like MS.
"Store a cookie with some unique identifier and pass that identifier along with the $ to take to a secondary server which is not net accessible ot do the actual transaction."
But it IS accessable. When you make a purchase they tell you the last four digits so they must have it available. I suppose they could just be storing the last four but I highly doubt it. One way or another there is apthway between my credit card number and the web server. Who cares if it's not on the server itself.
I's doubt some script kiddie could wade through thousands of lines of PERL code and find a hole. PERL is hard enough to debug as it is.
"So. What kind of dipshit e-commerce company keeps their customer database ONLINE?'
Mmm How about amazon.com, dell, BN etc.
Just about every big E-commerce company will keep your credit card on hand so you don't have to enter it the next time you come in.
He only started giving away money after the DOJ suit started. To him it's nothing but a PR expense budget item. I don't really think a man as unethical as Gates is actually cares about other people.
You are right it makes no sense to kill the crew and sink the ship. What is more reasonable and easier to do would be to kill the CEO of the company. Ultimately the buck stops with him/her. Also the CEO would be an easier target and a cheaper one too. To sink a ship you would need heavy firepower to kill a CEO a bullet or two.
No I am not kidding this is the only real solution. If enough CEOs get killed you will see the megacorps acting much more responsibly.
It seems like the quality of discussion on /. is going downhill very fast. The ACs are working very hard to disrupt threads with NATALIE/NAKED/COMMIE/GRITS posts. What plans do you have (if any) for bringing more adults into the slashdot fold and to try and make for a more inteligent discussion.
Those winoze lusers are getting more stupid every day. Yet another reason to switch, who wants to be in the same category as this joker.
Check out Free Pascal or GNU Pascal or Lazarus and see if any of them might work for you.
No we should not ban .sig lines but we should be smart enough to remove them when we send a press release. People may think that we are idiots if we don't.
That's not the point at all. He has every right to his own opinion but when he is speaking for the linux community he should hot mix his own politics into it. Remember the email was intended as a press release (look at the to field). The mainstream press is going to pick this up and say that the Linux community is pro gun. Maybe they will say "what the hell does guns have to do with DVDs". Who is ESR speaking for? Who is he speaking to? If he is not smart enough to remove .sig from a press release he is not smart enough to speak for me.
I think he wrote that piece because he really really likes to hear himself talk (or read what he has written maybe) and he actually believes we care what he thinks. ESR to me comes off as a pompous(sp?) ass and if he keeps appending silly gun-nut propaganda to his publicity stunts he will be known to the rest of the world as one too. I never elected him as a spokesman for me and I think he makes a lousy figurehead for the linux movement.
Two quick solutions.
1) Direct non compatible browsers to a page explaining that all complaints should be sent to the email address of your boss.
2) Explain to your PHB that at this very moment there is a person on webtv, cell phone, palm pilot who is trying to access your site and can't and in the future when he is trying to access the page from his car or toaster he will not be able to either.
Paranoia may be bad but so is lying. The big lie is that produce is modified to increase yield. Even a cursory investigation would reveal that GM modified plants are NOT designed to produce more food, better tsting food, or more nutricious food. They are designed to make monsanto more money that's all.
Even if by some freak unforseen consequence GM crops yielded more food how do you propose that this food get into the hands of the starving masses. The US govt has HUGE silos of wheat they buy from farmers who produce too mauch and can't sell on the open market. Same with dairy and meat products. Who is going to donate their extra crops to Africa? Who is going to pay to ship them there? who is going to distribute them? Nobody that's who. We stockpile food while others starve this is the way of the world. Today people are starving because of greed, economics, and politics not because there is not enough food to go around. In a few years that might change though.
Maybe you are right if you are losing 300 million a year like amazon and can afford to pay the million or so to oracle (I imagine they have a lot of Mz over there). But for me and millions of small business owners this is completely out of the question. The vast majority of the businesses in this country employ less then a 100 people and it's this market that MS targets so successfully with Access and then MSQL. Although Linux has Postgresql which is competent if not easy to use and set up it severely lacks an Access like tool. Most businesses start with Access and grow into MSQL.
I agree. Internet is important but not more important then freedom, clean air, juman rights, prison labor, or a whole host of other issues. A lot of people in this county either vote straight party line (so they don't have to think too much) or vote on a single issue (abortion acomes to mind). Actually most people don't even vote and I imagine this is also true of te "geek" community. Perhaps the most important thing is to actually get off your butt and vote but I know that's too much to ask of Americans we don't give a crap about the greater good just ourselves.
Give me convenience or give me death. Jello Biafra
Ask oracle how much it costs to put tie an oracle server to the internet. For me they quoted $10K.
>Can Interbase possibly compete against Oracle8? >Um... doubtfully.
Have you priced Oracle lately. Here is what they quoted me. 160/ user plus 20/MGHZ to put my database on the internet. I have a 500 Mz server and that is $10,000 to publish my oracle database on the internet. God forbid I put in another processor.
Right now we use the jury system to assign blame in these types of situations. I don't see why we can't continue using the same juries to assign a percentage of the blame. A Jury should have the right to be able to say 70% guilty your honor and let the judge adjust the punishment accordingly. In a civil case the 70% guilty party would pay 70% of the award.
Responsibilty cuts both ways. Take for example a community that has abnormal rates of cancer. The corporation who has been exposing the town to asbestos dust for years will argue that nobody can PROVE 100% that asbestos caused that cancer and therefore they should not be held responsibly IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER (libby Montana Dec 1999). Not even a tiny little bit. People see this and say to themselves what is good for the goose is good for the cancer. If the mine is not resposible for the cancers in my town then I am not resposible for running the red light cos I was drunk.
What we need is to get away from holding somebody 100% resposible or 0% responsible. In real life there is plenty of blame to go around. I say hold everybody responsible for their part.
Example Lets say the a felon buys a gun and shoots somebody. The store that sold a gun to a felon has SOME responsibility don't you think? They shouldn't get off scott free.
Not only are you absolutely right but you quote the residents in your sig. Too bad you (probably) don't live in my town I'd buy the beers.
But computers are being used to run battleships. I guess it could be argued that a shipboard network is not tied to the outside world but most networks are hacked from within by lower grade users. It would be hard to bribe a sysadmin but probably you could bribe a cook to gain access to a network, hack admin, and download secrets.