Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?

Congratulations! Your laptop does the equivalent of using the exit lane to jump ahead in traffic. There's bound to be an empty spot near the end, right?

The only reason that is a useful example to you is because that act is genuinely dangerous. There is nothing dangerous about swiping someone's IP and causing them to have to reconnect.

And yet it is exactly as dickish and disrespectful of others. Just like Apple as a whole, it seems.

Meh. Treating developers and the back end gingerly results in no benefit for consumers, in fact by and large it results in in a pretty clear loss.

Characterize it however you wish, as a user I'm going to go with the platform that focuses on pleasing me rather than making the lives of other users or developers easier.

I agree with Kant here: when deciding whether an action is right, one should consider what would happen if everyone started doing it.

Also, you're a dick. Congratulations.

I'm a dick for buying products that work best for me and not other users or developers? Ok... I thought the Hacker News community was supposed to have a modicum of maturity?