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Oops wrong site. Stupid copy paste. This is it: craigslist.com. For anyone interested, she charges $25 for a handjob, $50 for a blowjob, $100 for a fuck, and $250 for anal. She gives me a discount cause I'm best friends with her brother :)

I'll just start my OWN internet! With blackjack, and hook...never mind.

Deep linking when linking to an external website, is just good etiquette and stops me wasting time

Stick it on Craigs List in your area. A simple posting "Free wires, hardware and software. You pick up. You take all." You'll be surprised how quickly it will go.

TLDs are pointless.

Proof:

http://slashdot.com/
http://www.google.net/
http://www.microsoft.net/
http://www.craigslist.com/

All of those are paid for by their respective owners, and they redirect or just display the content of the "real" TLD.

Country codes would be nice, its annoying to go to a .com and find I'm in the UK, and I'm not going to order from them.

If I want to go to a company's website, I don't type www.barnes and noble.net, I ask google for it. Also, with the typosquatting, and whatnot, typing urls is simply unsafe. I do use the URL's history. s completes to slashdot, and whatnot. Just in case you need rock hard erections go to http://www.slashdot.net/

ICANN is the organisation we should turn to: perhaps make a rule that the owner of a domain has to actually do something with it within a set period of time (say 6 months to a year). If all they've done in that time is plaster it in advertising (or have done nothing) it should return to the pool, perhaps with a bar disallowing the ghastly spammer from buying it again for a year.

There are too many problems with suggestions like these to name.

1) What if the POINT of the business is advertising? Hey, I might want to buy an airplane, or rent a room - being able to find one is a legitimate service!

2) Who is going to police it? Really? With the bazillions of domain names expiring every year, policing this is just an absurd task.

3) Just because I haven't done anything yet with a domain, EG: doesn't mean I don't have plans for it. Granted, the plans may be a year or more before completion, but that's not to say that nothing is happening!

4) And even if problems 1 to 3 could be addressed, whose standard are you going to apply? Remember, the Internet is INTERNATIONAL and ICAAN is more of a technical body than a regulatory or legislative one.

Personally, I think that the way to handle this is to take out some of the profit potential for being a sleazebag like TFA is about. Domain squatting is a civil offense, and the loser is the person who can't own an otherwise useful domain because the squatter has, in a classic case of "tragedy of the commons", already taken the domain name.

So I suggest that

A) ICANN publish a set of rules for what determines a legitimate use of the domain. These rules would allow for defense of trademarks, and parking for intended future development.

B) Provides a procedure for arbitration, where there are fees which are paid by the LOSER of the arbitration.

Thus, if I need the domain Watermelon.com and find it squatted, I could initiate proceedings with a reasonable expectation of getting the domain free of charge if the domain is legitimately squatted according to ICANN rules.

This would drastically deflate the profit potential of the domain-name land-grab that's been going on and provide a reasonable expectation that domain names have something to do with who registers them. This would effectively shift the cost of dealing with the scumbags onto the 'bags themselves.

If I profit off some dope $400 bucks and his PS3 craps out a month later, I wouldn't mind sending it in for him/her. Long as he/she pays for it.

Nationally/internationally, there isn't. Locally, there absolutely is: craigslist. I'm sure you've heard of them. Since it's more geographics-centric, craigslist doesn't come across as having as much stuff on offer, but if you live near a metro area, eventually good stuff will pop up.

Well duh, it's Craigslist. I can also find prostitutes, free porn and Madeline dolls.

"Local" seems to be big everywhere now. Craigslist, Google Base and Local, Yahoo Local, ebay local, are all the big guys targetting the local market. Rumors of local news aggregates are growing hot as well....

I'm in Houston, and I'm a fan of the popular Kingwood Yard Sales, which is site targetted at a specific community (there are several others around Houston and in other parts of the US). Judy's Book is the "big metropolitan" model, like Craigslist. Some big newspapers I know are aiming at the local online community market as well, trying to stay above water.

The big question for big companies is "where is the money?" which has left the opportunity for small players to fill the niche left behind...the "long tail"...

I have been hunting for a PHP job too(well, I don't actually want to do PHP but I know there places that will pay me more than $10 an hour to do it). What I've noticed is there are fewer PHP jobs, they pay less and are more likely to be a wage position instead of salary. Having experience is very important. I have 3 years of it (ugh). To build up your experience I would suggest using sourceforge or maybe even rentacoder(If you live at home). Be sure to watch craigslist - http://www.craigslist.com/about/cities.html - for job postings as sites like hotjobs, careerbuilder or monster usually require a higher degree of education or more experience. If I hadn't been in school this semester I could've gotten a job, so I'm saying fuck you to school in the hopes for a better world.

That being said though, I'm pissed off at Yahoo now, since I signed up for a month to try it out and was possibly scammed since someone had "messaged" me before I signed up, but never messaged after I contacted them back.

They same thing happened to me on match.com! Someone interesting looking popped up when my sub was soon to be expiring, after I'd renewed it seemed she suddenly had second thoughts on communicating with me.

Actually something really funny happened a week or so ago. I recieved an email from match telling me someone had viewed my profile (they recently started allowing you to see what members have been viewing your profile, if you're a subscriber). And they were egging me on to resubscribe so I could see who it was.

The funny thing is my profile has been Hidden for months now (because I got involved with someone I met in real life).

Fortunately I've since been tipped off to the existence of 100% free sites like http://www.craigslist.com/ and http://www.plentyoffish.com/ which don't require you to pay. Plenty of Fish makes their money from Google advertising instead of scamming people with fake people.

There are also sites that charge per transaction, so if a relationship fizzles out after a few emails you haven't wasted a whole $25 if nothing else comes up in the next 30 days. One of them was Act For Love, but as I check now it appears they have moved to a normal subscription scheme, although it is less than many other sites. The more focused interest group it promotes may mean people who are closer to what other members are looking for and make up for the smaller pool when compared to match, yahoo, ect.

99% of the things you can pay for on the Internet are a scam if you don't get something tangible out of it that you can hold in your hands. And even then, there's things you can hold which are still a scam like drugs.

Don't spend what you can't afford to lose.

That being said though, I'm pissed off at Yahoo now, since I signed up for a month to try it out and was possibly scammed since someone had "messaged" me before I signed up, but never messaged after I contacted them back. Not even a note to blow me off, which I found strange, but figured she'd found someone else or my reply wasn't interesting. While I accepted that my shortlived subscription was just a Blind Date that was a bit expensive and failed, now I feel victimized too. There's no way to know if she was a Yahoo shill, or just some woman that didn't find me interesting. Either way it's not a happy outcome. There can't be too many happy online daters out there in cyberland today upon hearing this news.

Fortunately I've since been tipped off to the existence of 100% free sites like http://www.craigslist.com/ and http://www.plentyoffish.com/ which don't require you to pay. Plenty of Fish makes their money from Google advertising instead of scamming people with fake people.

No paper newspaper can ultimately compete with this (except by being in an ignored market). And frankly, I doubt an online "newspaper" would bother since the margins on online ads can be driven so low.

(Note: The member profiles have since been taken down by Yahoo)

lol, aww man, I needed those pics because I'm in real shortage of good quality voyeur pics. For examples of awesome boyfriend revenges see CraigsList in any major city (like NY) under casual encounters.

If craigslist gets slashdotted, the low opinion of /.ers is warranted, eh?

Have you tried here?

What first drew me online and kept me excited for years was the sense of community that people had in the BBS scene before the rising popularity of the Web. Despite many attempts at creating this same feeling on the web from AIM, to Craigslist, Friendster, gMail to even Slashdot or Kuro5hin, I have not been able to develop the same type of relationships. It seems almost bizarre to suggest that a global online community could have a BBQ or meet for dinner at a local fast food restaurant.
People like Jom Jennings of FidoNet and Scott Converse of OneNet really deserve to be recognized by organizations like the VCF. The communities they fostered, perhaps because local dial-up networks kept everything provincal, are probably what I miss about the modern Internet with its spammers, phishers, con artists, Patriot Act, unsecure email and general lack of polite behavior. More than anything else, this misplaced sense of community is what I miss about the early days online.

I tried looking on Monster, and all those, but nothing came of it. My resume only got 40 views in a few months.

Then I posted my resume on Craigslist (mostly for San Francisco Bay Area), at 11pm, and less than 12 hours later, I had an offer to come in for an interview. I'm posting this from that employeer. Yes, they know I surf Slashdot.