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Google returns about 24.8 billion results for the word "the". Keep in mind, that's four times the total number of people on the planet. It's 32 times the number of people online. So assuming all things were equal, that would mean that even if we wired up every person on the planet, they would each have four webpages, at least.

Sorry, but we're not there yet. You'd think it'd be time for some natural selection of the Internet. Who the fuck wants to read anything Jack Thompson has to say? Surely we could do without Heroic domain and typo squatters, couldn't we?

The problem is, even if no one clicks on typosquatter ads for quite awhile, these Heroic pages probably won't go away without a fight. They'll find other ways to make money, other places to hide, all without cancelling the ones that aren't working.

So what happens to all the old Linux distros? Oh, they might even still be available, but the unpopular ones won't be maintained. Remember tomsrtbt? That was my best recovery tool, before I had a cd burner, cheap CDs, and noticed how everyone had ubiquitous CD drives. Now I use RIP. Let's compare those -- tomsrtbt still works on the same computers it did before, but doesn't support the filesystems I need, and my main computer no longer has a floppy drive -- not to mention, it was last released in 2002. RIP probably takes less time to load, even though it pulls some 75 megs into RAM before you use it, versus tomsrtbt's 2 megs, because tomsrtbt is on a floppy (a slower floppy than usual), and RIP is on a CD. And let's not forget, RIP was last released four days ago.

So, why is tomsrtbt still online? It's still on DistroWatch, even.

The problem is, when a project is truly forgotten, you also forget to remove it, even if there's a natural replacement.

And right up there with Spammers in my opinion.

You have to be a born Devil's Advocate to think that cybersquatting is a legitimate activity. The sole reason these %$#$ers register a popular product's name or every possible mispelled variation of those names is to catch the unwary and attempt to separate them from their money.

Why do you think that slahdot.org, slasdot.org & slshdot.org all have such a strangely familiar name and all lead to a bogus "search the web" sites? Coincidence, right?

Good on the UK court system for taking away the iTunes.co.uk domain away from that low life and I hope it sets a precedent that helps to rid the web of more squatters. We're not talking about someone registering "Romance.com" and making a profit from a legitimate foresight, we're talking about the act of a premeditated parasite.

Thats funny you'd think a portal such as Slahdot would have a big story such as this in their news section....

...about the squatters:

http://www.slasdot.org
http://www.slahsdot.org
http://www.slahdot.org
http://www.lsashdot.org
http://www.slashdto.org

Look at slahdot.org for example - Number of visits: 384835. It obviously works, and that's even a relatively hard one to misspell accidentially.

Here are some more evil scammers sites that are out to get us:

http://www.slahdot.org/
http://www.slasdot.org/
http://www.slshdot.org/
They try to sell you domain registration and mail-shipped OS ISOs.

:-P

Dude, Hemos... learn to spell.

There are plenty of reasons to do this, the best reason would be to stop looking like an idiot. Professionalism not only involves mastering a clever plan, but also taking care of all the little details. Another reason why it's important to spell things correctly is to find proper search results, or grep matches.

There are plenty of other idiots out there, you don't need to enlarge their ranks:
linnux
Slahdot - Number of visits: 310481 (Since 09-23-2000)
slahsdot
Naspter
Mircosoft

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