This sounds to me like a Bad Thing(tm). Some of these machines are engineered so badly that you can't add too much extra hardware (second hard drive, faster video card) with the included cooling fans without it overheating.
Got one better. Macintosh catalog, selling iMacs, iBooks, PowerBooks and G3s/G4s. Every last screen shot in the catalog is very obviously running Mac OS 7.5, which isn't supported on any of the computers they're selling. Funny as hell.
Actually, the war analogy is very accurate. This may be a market space, but as the past generations have shown, there is only room for one big player.
The war analogy is only accurate if you're trying to win. If you want Linux to be the dominant operating system, then yes, you have a war to fight. That's not what I want. I want to knock Microsoft off its high horse, and I want Linux to be used where it's appropriate to be used, and I want Linux to improve so that it will be more useful to more people, but why should it dominate? Remember that Linus Torvalds himself said that he doesn't want Linux to control 90% of the market, because then Linux would start to suck almost as bad as Windows.
A much better goal to strive for is interoperability. Make it so that if I use platform A and you use platform B, we can still communicate and share documents and ideas and such, and our choice of platform doesn't matter. This is where Microsoft has a stranglehold. If you regularly exchange Office documents and your corporate intranet uses Exchange, you're pretty much stuck with Windows (there are other apps that can read Office documents but none of them are good enough to be acceptible alternatives in a Windows-centric environment where many documents are exchanged).
No, Jon, they couldn't. Those have been proven to be mostly environmental factors.
Bad skin sounds like a genetic thing to me, not caused by environmental factors.
I have heard that a particular gene makes one more likely to become an alcoholic (and yes, this was in a psychology class). It doesn't make you become an alcoholic, people who don't have this gene can still become alcoholics, and some people who have this gene don't drink at all. But if you do drink, this gene makes it more likely that you'll become addicted. That's the kind of thing I think Katz is talking about.
Oh yeah? Well my karma's up to 47 already, and as soon as my friend finishes reinstalling Apache after recovering from a hard drive failure, my home page will be back up again! Woohoo!
This suit is patently ridiculous and should get thrown out as soon as Nike's lawyers say "We had nothing to do with this." Then the lawyers should say, "Here's our counter-suit for this bonehead aiding the hax0rs." Nike does have a legitimate suit against Smith and NSI.
You know, that may be the best suggestion yet. If Smith can claim that Nike's security was lax, Nike can surely claim the same of Smith's ISP for letting his DNS servers get h4x0r3d (assuming he didn't do that himself, which he claims he didn't).
In order for there to have been a major problem, he must have had nike.com in his nameservers pointing to the IP of one of his customers. If this was just about getting gazillions of DNS queries, well, that doesn't eat up that much bandwidth, and BIND should be able to handle the load just fine.
Yep, I got that too. Now you can have them e-mail you a confirmation thingie, and you have to reply to it before they'll do anything. I dunno why they haven't been doing this already.
Hopefully you'll be able to get them to send you the confirmation thingie as part of the original e-mail you get off their Web site, so you can just reply once and have it done, instead of having to get an e-mail, reply to it, wait for their reply, and reply to that.
But Nike didn't DoS them. Hell, Nike didn't do anything.
This is true. Really, Smith should be suing NSI, but it's already been demonstrated numerous times that NSI can't be sued. If Nike were to sue NSI, it might be possible to set a new legal precedent making it possible to sue them again in the future.
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.
This is also true; I've also worked in customer service/tech support at a couple of ISPs.
which allows them to not be sued for crimes against little kiddies in sweatshops that work for food while I pay $90 for 'em
So why the hell do you give them $90?? Personally I wear Costco's store-brand $30 shoes. Sure, they're not as good a quality, but how long will it take me to go through three pairs (to get up to $90)?
This is my first troll, i have ten karma, be as mean as you like
I got an e-mail from NSI yesterday saying that they're offering a new authentication method: you e-mail them your request, they e-mail you back, and you have to reply to their e-mail. That would most likely solve this sort of problem. Why didn't NSI think of this years ago?
What might be the best outcome here would be for Smith and Nike to arrange a settlement, and for Nike to sue NSI for damages which include the ammount paid to Smith as well as their own damages. Nike has a fair ammount of legal clout, and might actually get somewhere - and that would probably benefit everyone.
Exactly how did his ISP suffer? Emotional damages? Those big, bad packets scare customers away?
"Denial of service" means "service is denied" to your paying customers and their clients. Flooding an ISP with more traffic than it can handle causes problems for the people trying to use the ISP.
Sorry, not gonna happen. Apple was looking at the idea for awhile, but considering IBM's new G3 chips, there's really no reason to go with a Crusoe over a PowerPC. Because of the way Crusoe works and the differences between RISC and CISC instructions, a Crusoe can emulate a Pentium much more efficiently than it can emulate a PowerPC, so the new G3s would just blow it out of the water on performance. You'd get a boost in battery life, but the G3s aren't bad in that arena either.
Microsoft owns Apple. Apple lost, Microsoft won, microsoft "saved" apple by becoming part owner....
As others have pointed out, Microsoft certainly does not own Apple. I'd like to add that Microsoft's investment was in non-voting shares, and Microsoft also paid Apple an undisclosed sum rumored to be between $200-$800 million in cash, made a public statement supporting Apple, signed an agreement to continue supporting Office and Internet Explorer, signed a cross-patent licensing agreement, and all of this was to keep Apple from suing them for stealing again.
Also, nobody from Microsoft is on Apple's board of directors, while Larry Ellison from Oracle is.
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The war analogy is only accurate if you're trying to win. If you want Linux to be the dominant operating system, then yes, you have a war to fight. That's not what I want. I want to knock Microsoft off its high horse, and I want Linux to be used where it's appropriate to be used, and I want Linux to improve so that it will be more useful to more people, but why should it dominate? Remember that Linus Torvalds himself said that he doesn't want Linux to control 90% of the market, because then Linux would start to suck almost as bad as Windows.
A much better goal to strive for is interoperability. Make it so that if I use platform A and you use platform B, we can still communicate and share documents and ideas and such, and our choice of platform doesn't matter. This is where Microsoft has a stranglehold. If you regularly exchange Office documents and your corporate intranet uses Exchange, you're pretty much stuck with Windows (there are other apps that can read Office documents but none of them are good enough to be acceptible alternatives in a Windows-centric environment where many documents are exchanged).
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That was the only reason I might have hesitated. Definitely gonna get Myst III now. *drool*
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Bad skin sounds like a genetic thing to me, not caused by environmental factors.
I have heard that a particular gene makes one more likely to become an alcoholic (and yes, this was in a psychology class). It doesn't make you become an alcoholic, people who don't have this gene can still become alcoholics, and some people who have this gene don't drink at all. But if you do drink, this gene makes it more likely that you'll become addicted. That's the kind of thing I think Katz is talking about.
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"Agh! My [feature] is too [adjective], cuz you guys messed with my genes! I hate you!"
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NSI should ignore the Reply-to: header - in fact, they should send all replies to the address listed on the domain registration.
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Oh yeah? Well my karma's up to 47 already, and as soon as my friend finishes reinstalling Apache after recovering from a hard drive failure, my home page will be back up again! Woohoo!
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You know, that may be the best suggestion yet. If Smith can claim that Nike's security was lax, Nike can surely claim the same of Smith's ISP for letting his DNS servers get h4x0r3d (assuming he didn't do that himself, which he claims he didn't).
In order for there to have been a major problem, he must have had nike.com in his nameservers pointing to the IP of one of his customers. If this was just about getting gazillions of DNS queries, well, that doesn't eat up that much bandwidth, and BIND should be able to handle the load just fine.
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Hopefully you'll be able to get them to send you the confirmation thingie as part of the original e-mail you get off their Web site, so you can just reply once and have it done, instead of having to get an e-mail, reply to it, wait for their reply, and reply to that.
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This is true. Really, Smith should be suing NSI, but it's already been demonstrated numerous times that NSI can't be sued. If Nike were to sue NSI, it might be possible to set a new legal precedent making it possible to sue them again in the future.
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.
This is also true; I've also worked in customer service/tech support at a couple of ISPs.
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So why the hell do you give them $90?? Personally I wear Costco's store-brand $30 shoes. Sure, they're not as good a quality, but how long will it take me to go through three pairs (to get up to $90)?
This is my first troll, i have ten karma, be as mean as you like
I've got 45, so nyaah.
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"Denial of service" means "service is denied" to your paying customers and their clients. Flooding an ISP with more traffic than it can handle causes problems for the people trying to use the ISP.
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If you want to use the built-in trackpad though, you're stuck with one button.
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Here's the same article at ZDNet.
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As others have pointed out, Microsoft certainly does not own Apple. I'd like to add that Microsoft's investment was in non-voting shares, and Microsoft also paid Apple an undisclosed sum rumored to be between $200-$800 million in cash, made a public statement supporting Apple, signed an agreement to continue supporting Office and Internet Explorer, signed a cross-patent licensing agreement, and all of this was to keep Apple from suing them for stealing again.
Also, nobody from Microsoft is on Apple's board of directors, while Larry Ellison from Oracle is.
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I don't know; I wouldn't be surprised either way.
If it is not, I take it the GPL would allow someone else to port the *nix code?
Absolutely, as long as the result was released under the GPL.
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