HavenCo In Trouble? 305
Evil Al writes "News.com is reporting on the talk given by Ryan Lackey, former CTO of HavenCo, at DefCon. Lackey claims that the company is teetering on the edge due to internal upheaval and lack of customers. Oh, and 9/11, of course."
RIAA Air Force (Score:4, Funny)
"The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better eaarn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way"
If Grokster is outlawed, only outlaws will have Grokster
no wonder they're in trouble! (Score:5, Funny)
Even their ex-CTO was a Lackey!
Re:i think... (Score:4, Funny)
I heard the investor prospectus came with some floaties.
Re:It was only a matter of time... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, sounds like a great business plan.
Business and lunatics (Score:5, Funny)
SARS (Score:5, Funny)
But what about SARS? Blaming 9/11 is old-school.
Help your friends at Sealand! (Score:5, Funny)
They're just another victim of the dot-com fallout, really. Yet another company that completely missed the boat.
I mean, their business directors must really be lost at sea as to how to resolve these problems.
Perhaps they'd succeed with a new software strategy? Say, pier-to-pier filesharing?
Oh, I kill me....
Re:Bad Publicity? (Score:5, Funny)
Now I feel really insulted. I'm always getting called quirky!
Could I Get a Bunch of My Red-Neck Cousins.... (Score:3, Funny)
What would happen?
Re:Help your friends at Sealand! (Score:3, Funny)
I hope you finish that particular task soon, the puns are killing me!
Re:It was only a matter of time... (Score:1, Funny)
No, s/he didn't. Why should s/he when s/he gets her/his posts modded up anyway?
Re:Business and lunatics (Score:5, Funny)
"Wanna know just how Exciting our Online Gambling Site is? OUR site is hosted on a rusting gun tower 6 miles off of the coast of England, run by a man that claims it as his own sovereign nation. That's right -- this gambling site is hosted out of a basketball-court-sized country called Sealand!"
"Reliability? Security? Just remember that all of your financial transactions are subject to the whims of a man that fancies himself a king!"
I like those odds.
Re:i think... (Score:3, Funny)
I seriously doubt that the UK is terribly interested in a reclaiming a rusted gun platform in the middle of the ocean with a single toilet.
Re:i think... (Score:2, Funny)
You're giving the our government way too much credit by implying a lack of action due to apathy.
The reality is that they probably haven't got a clue who Robert Lackey is. He flashed his US passport at customs. The only record of who he is and how long he's been here will be in his passport.
I think much of British prosperity comes down to the incompetence of our politicians allowing business to go on relatively unencumbered.
I mean, really, where else is it written in law that there's fine of a loaf of bread if you throw your faeces out of your balcony window and hit a passer-by in the street.
Re:Business and lunatics (Score:5, Funny)
And how'd 'e get to be king, eh? By exploitin' the geeks! Supreme authority 'as got to come from a widely distributed peer-to-peer network, not from some farcical aquatic hosting company!
I mean, if I went around sayin' I was king just because some moistened bint threw a bunch of servers and a fiber-optic link at me, they'd put me away!
Haven Undersea Defenses (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Oh Please...... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It was only a matter of time... (Score:5, Funny)
You're new here, aren't you?
bored bored bored... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, duh. Have you seen a picture of the place? It's two concrete pilings with a construction shack on top. WTF else is there to do after someone puts in some server racks with a fibre optic network uplink?
Re:i think... (Score:1, Funny)
Lamest. Sig. Ever.
Re:Business and lunatics (Score:5, Funny)