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Approximately 3 people in this company. So not 100 - but 3. But hey, it's great grist to blame the tariff as causing a $178,000 annual revenue company failing (please ignore the fact that the "default of a large account added greatly to the problem").

What do you call 3 ruined Americans?

A good fucking start!

Approximately 3 people in this company. So not 100 - but 3. But hey, it's great grist to blame the tariff as causing a $178,000 annual revenue company failing (please ignore the fact that the "default of a large account added greatly to the problem").

That dillhole is still a CEO.

http://www.manta.com/c/mb4y2hx...

IANAL but I believe since Escape Media Group is incorporated they can fine the company but not the employees/owners of the company. To get anything from them they would have to pursue them separately.

Which are already greater than those of hosts as is using UDP (which you double using TCP). This is a "fix"?

Hosts do it WITHOUT that problem (stopping both redirect security issues AND aiding reliability when DNS goes crash & they do quite often).

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You already conceded these points so why argue now? See here -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... on dns using more:

1.) Electric Power (thus higher bills)
2.) CPU cycles
3.) Memory
4.) Other forms of I/O
5.) moving parts complexity is more than hosts
6.) Room for breakdown = greater than hosts
7.) Learning curve = greater than hosts

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Hosts 'break' NO services (so cut the lies) & save you CPU cycles, RAM, + other forms of I/O used by them!

So, turning off the DNS clientside USERMODE slower cache (with large hosts files only, since MS doesn't fix this by creating a flexible datastructure vs. a limited sized queue type) can be offset by using a KERNELMODE faster service you use already - the diskcaching kernelmode subsystem (which yes, caches hosts off disk like any other file), making up for it! Index loss is offset by placing your fav. sites @ the TOP of custom hosts (in my case, with 3++ million hosts entries, that equates to 2-3 million indexed seeks with 24 favorites sites of mine @ the top of hosts).

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You don't "run out of memory" with hosts either.

Compare them to AdBlock chewing up 4++ gb worth as shown in my original post, then talk. DNS uses more in its lists + combined with more parts it has in programs (hosts is just a file)?

You're wrong (again).

APK

P.S.=> I just point out facts in adblock + ghostery's inferiority vs. hosts (they do tons less for speed, security, reliability, & more is why + use more resources in a SLOWER mode of operations in usermode vs. hosts in kernelmode) & more facts (sold out or owned by advertisers & owned, respectively) http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... AND http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... (evidon = advertising agency http://www.manta.com/c/mr09wrx... )... apk

I believe that the newspaper industry's underlying problems existed before the internet. Yes, the internet exacerbated them and sped up the collapse, but they were around before the internet. I believe that, even without the internet, these problems would've eventually hit newspaper publishing revenues, but it would've taken longer to do so.

    First question... what was the newspaper business model? For many advertisers, newspapers were the only source of eyeballs for their products/services before the internet. Newspapers used their print advertising monopoly to charge extremely high ad rates, which paid for...
* the cost of printing/running the ad
* paying reporters and foreign correspondents all over the country and around the world
* and a nice fat 30%+ annual ROI for shareholders
In plain English, newspapers effectively levied a tax on advertisers. This defacto "advertising-tax" paid for newspaper journalism, among other things.

    The newspaper business model, which subsidized journalism, could be attacked by advertisers getting their products/services in front of customer eyeballs by a method other than newspaper ads ("advertising-tax avoidance"). The "advertising-tax avoidance" scenario played out over the years...

* "Auto Trader Magazine" was established in 1977. See http://www.manta.com/c/mmj727f/auto-trader-magazine It had one major advantage over newspaper classifieds... it did not have the overhead of paying for the salaries/accomadations/airline-tickets of reporters all over the planet. It was an advertising "pure play", that had a lot less overhead than a newspaper, and could make a profit while charging much lower ad rates.

* Right now in Toronto (where I live) there are 2 or 3 free weekly employment "papers" (to use the term loosely) that can be picked up at newspaper boxes around the city. They're 1/2 tabloid size. One reason they can use the free model is that they don't have to pay for reporters, etc. The ads paid for by employers are sufficient.

* Back in the mid-1980's, when I was looking for a place to live in Toronto, I found "The Real Estate Weekly". It was a free 1/2 tabloid put out by the local MLS (Multiple Listing Service), a co-operative venture of local real estate firms. It had a lot more leeway that Auto Trader or the employment weeklies. Auto Trader and the employment weeklies are put out by for-profit corporations. "The Real Estate Weekly" could break even, or even lose a bit of money. But as long as it cost the the member real estate firms less than running ads in local papers, the real
estate firms came out ahead.

* Major national chains began printing their own advertising flyers and having newspapers insert them ("advertising inserts"). The original reason was that it was a pain for a national outfit to co-ordinate running the same ad at the same time at dozens of papers across the country, or even a region. Also, there were some newspapers that didn't have 4-colour presses, and were physically incapable of printing the multicoloured ad inserts. Then the national chains found out that it cost a lot less to do their own printing, and let the newspapers do the physical delivery. Then, with falling newspaper circulation, it became obvious that the newspaper deliveries covered only part of the target market. The only way to cover all of a market was to either...
    - have a private firm deliver the flyers door-to-door (suitable for single-dwelling units)
    - or send the flyers as 3rd-class "junkmail" to all units in rental and condominium buildings

    Notice something about the 4 examples above? There is no mention whatsoever of the internet or the World Wide Web. Even in a pre-web world, newspapers were losing classified ad revenues for used cars, employment, real estate, and retail advertising to non-newspaper competitors. The competitors have now expanded to websites, but the first losses were occuring before the web existed.

Ugh ....
Maryland - Goddard Space Flight Center
New Mexico - AF Research Lab - Space Vehicles, Sandia Labs, Los Alamos Labs
Colorado - Ball, Raytheon, etc
California - JPL, Livermore Labs and way too many others to list
Virginia - Navy Research Lab, Wallops Island
Texas - UT Dallas, Texas A&M, Johnson Space Center, many more
Arizona - Orbital Sciences Corp., GD, etc
Tennessee - Oakridge
Alabama - U.S. Space and Rocket Center
Utah -Space Dynamics Laboratory, L3
Florida - Kennedy, ATK and many more
Alaska - Kodiak Island

The space industry is spread out over the entire country. This list could go on and on. Saying it is only Florida and Texas that benefit is mildly absurd. I agree with the idea, but it isn't nearly as narrow as that.

> For centuries we have been paying for news by buying
> newspapers - paying for news sites is pretty much the same thing

Fact... your subscription comes *NOWHERE NEAR* the full cost of a newspaper (buying paper, paying reporters, editors, printers, delivery trucks, janitors, secretaries, etc, etc). The vast majority of newspaper revenue has been from advertising. Newspaper ad revenue in the USA has fallen from $49.4 billion in 2005 to $23.9 billion in 2011 http://newsosaur.blogspot.ca/2012/03/newspaper-sales-slid-to-1984-level-in.html The last time it was that low was in 1984. That's *WITHOUT ADJUSTING FOR INFLATION*.

Just like Facebook, subscribers were never the real customers. Advertisers were the real customers, and subscribers' eyeballs were the product that newspapers sold to advertisers. In "the good ole days" newspapers had a virtual monopoly on advertising. They were able to charge extortionate rates for advertising. This allowed them pay for correpondents in Baghdad, London, Moscow, Washington, and at state/provincial legislatures, and at city halls, and still turn a big fat profit. Department stores, auto dealers, and home sellers were effectively paying an "advertising tax" to sell their products.

Where there's a tax, someone will look for tax loopholes ("advertising tax avoidance").
* "Auto Trader Magazine" was established in 1977. See...
http://www.manta.com/c/mmj727f/auto-trader-magazine It had one major advantage over newspaper classifieds... it did not have the overhead of paying for the salaries/accomadations/airline-tickets of reporters all over the planet. It was an advertising "pure play", that had a lot less overhead than a newspaper, and could make a profit while charging much lower ad rates. It ate newspapers' breakfast, lunch, and supper as far as used-car ads were concerned.

* Right now, where I live, there are 2 or 3 free weekly employment "papers" (to use the term loosely) that can be picked up at newspaper boxes around the city. They're 1/2 tabloid size. One reason they can use the free model is that they don't have to pay for reporters, etc

* Back in the mid-1980's, "The Real Estate Weekly" came out in Toronto. It was a free 1/2 tabloid put out by the local MLS (Multiple Listing Service), a co-operative venture of local real estate firms. It had a lot more leeway that Auto Trader or the employment weeklies. Auto Trader and the employment weeklies are put out by for-profit corporations. "The Real Estate Weekly" could break even, or even lose a bit of money. But as long as it cost the the member real estate firms less than running ads in local papers, the real estate firms came out ahead.

* Major national chains began printing their own advertising flyers and having newspapers insert them ("advertising inserts"). This cost less than having the newspapers print them. Next step was, with falling newspaper circulation, it became obvious that the newspaper deliveries covered only part of the target market. The only way to cover all of a market was to either...
- have a private firm deliver the flyers door-to-door (suitable for single-dwelling units)
- or send the flyers as 3rd-class "junkmail" to all units in rental and condominium buildings

Notice something about the 4 examples above? There is no mention whatsoever of the internet or the World Wide Web. Even in a pre-web world, newspapers were losing classified ad revenues for used cars, employment, real estate, and retail advertising to non-newspaper competitors. The competitors have now expanded to websites, but the first losses were occuring before the web existed.

To summarize newspapers main problem... their business model requires selling advertising at rates way in excess of cost, and using that margin to pay journalists. That works only as long as you have a monopoly/cartel situation. Once newspapers lost

The only thing that has changed between Ye Olde Sears Catalog and mighty Amazon is the scale and ease at which money is slipping away from the state's grasp AND current budget shortfalls causing states to look anywhere they can for that money.

I responded to this a little above this (search Scripto), but the short reply is: that's not the only thing that changed. Amazon has subsidiaries, legally acting as contractors, who do have a physical presence in many other states (19 last I looked). They're trying to claim interstate commerce when the product ships entirely intrastate, based on contracted "associate" subsidiaries, who are under the full control of Amazon, are NAMED Amazon, and do nothing but sell and ship Amazon products.

16px * 16px * 256 colors = 65536 favicons. A lot of them looks like shit.

Typing "number of companies united states" into my firefox awesomebar takes me to http://www.manta.com/mb, which claims it has "over 13 million company profiles for businesses in the United States." I think there may be an additional company or two in Europe, Asia and Oceania, and there might be a few non-commercial websites.

Not all of those has a web page, and not all of those who do has a favicon, but...