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Pros: Today's article has more content than the usual Dice front page linkage. Great article if you're not a programmer but feel stymied by the wide assortment of languages out there. Although instead of hemming and hawing before making your first project you're better off listening to Winston Churchill and sticking your feet in the mud: "The maxim 'Nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt shorter -- 'Paralysis."

Cons: It barely scratches the surface of an incredibly deep topic with unlimited facets. And when one is considering investing potential technical debt into a technology, this probably wouldn't even suffice as an introduction let alone table of contents. Words spent on anecdotes ("In 2004, a coworker of mine referred to it as a 'toy language.'" like, lol no way bro!) could have been better spent on things like Lambdas in Java 8. Most interesting on the list is Erlang? Seems to be more of a random addition that could just as easily been Scala, Ruby, Groovy, Clojure, Dart -- whatever the cool hip thing it is we're playing with today but doesn't seem to quite pan out on a massive scale ...

ICANN likely referred him to the UN as an arbitrator because the current ronpaul.com is curently owned in Panama, that is, outside of US juridiction. I understand that you have an axe to grind against Paul and that you would jump to conclusions but at least do some research into the matter first.

I think it's a stupid move on his part turning into a complete PR disaster, but this isn't as clean-cut a case of hypocrisy as you would have hoped. Personally, I think this has more to do with Paul telling a legal firm to do whatever they can fix it and them not taking into account the implications of accepting the UN as an arbitrator. Still a stupid move, but not like he just up and decided to go cry to the UN because someone has 'his' domain name.

I read somewhere that ICANN can recommend the UN as an arbitrator in cases where one of the parties in the dispute isn't a US entity, as is the case now according to WHOIS. That could be a lawyer-made decision and not a case of Ron Paul going straight to the UN as a solution to his problem. I don't know that for sure but it seems more plausible to me than someone like RP heading straight to the UN.

Time to get your meds adjusted and change the tinfoil in your hat, there, Sparky.

I will consider all medical advice on the basis of scientific merit. For the past ~15 years I required no significant medical intervention, only diet and exercise. My IT and physical security policies (if that's what you mean by "tinfoil hat") are both non-intrusive and effective, but I am always open to suggestions. I have a very long history of using my real name and even my contact information online, so you have absolutely no basis for implying that I'm paranoid, while you yourself are hiding behind an alias. (My posting as "AC" on /. is a result of politically biased mods.)

If you have anything constructive to add to this conversation, you should do so through reasonable arguments, not insults.

--libman

No, posted as "libman". (This crude mechanism of identification does not prove authenticity, but that is a separate issue. I have seen no fake "libman"s here so far... I'll fix that problem later by publishing a list of all my posts from an authenticated source.)

I'm pretty much the polar opposite of an "Anonymous Coward". I always use my real name on the Internet, and even my real address can be known most of the time from things like political donations (ex), domain name records, etc. I also take no steps to hide my IP / hostname (ex. on IRC). My career has taken a huge hit from clients Googling my name and finding much controversy and reactionary commie slander, but that's a price that I'm willing to pay. My reluctantly-AC-like activity on Slashdot is explained entirely by moderator bias, which limits my AlexLibman account to 2 posts per day.

The bad guys know where to find me.

--libman

Check the whois info: http://whois.net/whois/nasaupdatecenter.us Unless there's a new 'Cape Carnival' with postcode '666666'... I call it a (well-done) fake.

And anyway, IPv6 addresses are ugg-ly.

Learn DNS. You should only be looking at a IPv6 address if you are a network engineer.

Saying "only," you and many others sound pretty sure that real users NEVER see ip address in the clear, though Vista and Ubuntu show you both v4 and v6 on wireless connection status and ifconfig lines --forum users asked to post theirs for troubleshooting are not all network engineers, either. Was DNS was created not for IPv4's sake, but for some not-yet-foreseen future IPv6 tech? DNS is perfect for the disaster that is writing out an IPv6 location... It isn't as dependable as some think even in our mature, saturated, well understood IPv4 world, and thus your argument falls apart. Look closer:

Remember that less than a 10 months ago in our supposedly mature year 2010 in IPv4, we all still saw IP addresses in the browser address bar for google cache pages. Of all organizations, geeks have the most respect for them, but if Google were fueled by cash from geeks alone, it would not be #2 in Netcraft's survey of most visited sites*

That alone means that a lot of people have been seeing naked IP's in their web searches. From hundreds of millions of yearly searches, even a tiny made up number like 1% is millions of individuals using a cache and finding this weird thing in their location bar called a naked IP address. In 2010. Oh, sorry, that must mean they are all certified network engineers, no? The dns domain they are using is only 2 years old, yet google caches with this "network-engineer" IP glitch in our address-bars is probably as old as google, a domain registered 12 years ago.

Now your focus will shift to "ooh, an honest 12 year mistake", or "only network engineers ever bookmark/e-mail/tweet/link address bar links with google's highlighted search keyworks," but a nobody and a never proven wrong once show dubiousness to the reliability of your thinking. Right, you said IPv6. I'm not a network engineer, but like thousands of sixx.net's tunnel users, I need to enter long, annoying sequences of IPv4 and IPv6 naked gateway and DNS server addresses into my router or tunnel. Without being an engineer, there are websites built for me and others to enter that world with sites on "free IPv6 only pr0n." Oh, so they must have meant this pr0n to network admins only... : )

Anyway, if IPv4 blunders can last for 12 years, rest assured that our fear is that IPv6 and bad *real* network admins will be lazy, like Google's were --or much, MUCH worse because IPv6 is annoying to deal with and retraining courses are few and far between. The problem will be a pest for the next decade or more. The naked IP problems of today worseing for tomorrow will bring you lots of IPv6 links when sc/pammers start targetting the IPv6-only users thanks to the relative inconvenience of hiding somewhere in IPv6 space. Proof of concept later later becomes a reality exploited by few, then more, and then all.

* Bested only by facebook, with 500 million active users.

http://www.whois.net/whois/gctip.org

gctip was registered by Lauren Weinstein on behalf of Vortex Technology, which also appears to be run by Lauren. According to their whois record, they have an office in this building. On her blog, she claims to be self-employed.

They also seem related to pfir.org, though not by whois. What exactly that connection is, besides webdesign, is unclear.

My guess, this is either a well-meaning person who has never run a 100k response survey before, or they're a First Class Grep Wizard.

"If a business or trademark name is "deceptively or intentionally similar" to an established entity, it is technically in violation by definition."

Bing! did purchase bing.biz back in 2001, so I'd say that's prior art, although bing.com has been registered since 1996, but bing.com use to be some kind device that notifies you of cellphone calls(more info) so that certainly wasn't conflicting with a web design site.

I can understand why they'd want to sue, after all whenever you search for bing all you get is the microsoft bing, they're no where to be found.

"If a business or trademark name is "deceptively or intentionally similar" to an established entity, it is technically in violation by definition."

Bing! did purchase bing.biz back in 2001, so I'd say that's prior art, although bing.com has been registered since 1996, but bing.com use to be some kind device that notifies you of cellphone calls(more info) so that certainly wasn't conflicting with a web design site.

I can understand why they'd want to sue, after all whenever you search for bing all you get is the microsoft bing, they're no where to be found.

"If a business or trademark name is "deceptively or intentionally similar" to an established entity, it is technically in violation by definition."

Bing! did purchase bing.biz back in 2001, so I'd say that's prior art, although bing.com has been registered since 1996, but bing.com use to be some kind device that notifies you of cellphone calls(more info) so that certainly wasn't conflicting with a web design site.

I can understand why they'd want to sue, after all whenever you search for bing all you get is the microsoft bing, they're no where to be found.

Barbara talks about the "Miracle Pill" known as Resveratrol

Notice they didn't user her last name. But they use her image and the abc News logo ... their domain name is hilarious, news3news.com (looks like newsnews and 3news were taken, ha) which leads one to the registrant residing at:

PO Box 12068
George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1010

P.O. Box in the Cayman Islands. Imagine that. They don't even bother to use domainsbyproxy or a similar service like most of the other domains listed in this Wired story.

Selling questionable meds is probably pretty hard to prosecute ... but using abc's logo and Walters' image for advertising is definitely prosecution worthy. I hope some of these companies go after this scum.

http://www.whois.net/whois/bingsucks.com

Available Domains

easybingsucks.com
bestbingsuckslive.com
mybingsuckspro.com ...

That's about what I'd expect from a website owned by Bayer. They lost the trademark in countries that matter.

You need to contact Yahoo! about correcting the old data they have about this IP address because I think Yahoo! may use their own whois data a. Ehh! You should check several third party systems to check if whois data has propagated to all of servers in the world properly. You can use these websites to check:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://uwhois.com/
http://www.whois.net/
If you see one that is out of sync then you need to contact that registry server/db owner and tell them to update that data.
I remember I updated my whois data for my company several months ago and occasionally I find a backwater server that still has the old whois information and depending who they are I'll contact them to update their server/db.

Dreamhost didn't host the mail before. It's run through SquirrelMail. I write this not because I'm some sort of pontificating intarwebs expert with illogical expectations and notions but because I have multiple domains running on DreamHost, like this one. I highly recommend them.

That's because securepaynet.net is owned by WildWestDomains.com which is the reseller arm of GoDaddy's domain registration service. So both websites you linked to are owned by GoDaddy, which explains the identical website layouts.

indeed, it worked

http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=networksolutionstakesitupthekeister&tld=com

Domain name is not currently registered. Available for you now!

  xrtfdddrsrsrsr.com
  Register a domain name from only
    Make your selection(s) and click

Your desired domain name also is available with the following extensions. Check the domain names you would like to purchase,
then click the Order Now button.

Domain name is not currently registered. Available for you now!

  xrtfdddrsrsrsr.com
  Register a domain name from only
    Make your selection(s) and click

Your desired domain name also is available with the following extensions. Check the domain names you would like to purchase,
then click the Order Now button.

Domain name is not currently registered. Available for you now!

  xrtfdddrsrsrsr.com
  Register a domain name from only
    Make your selection(s) and click

Your desired domain name also is available with the following extensions. Check the domain names you would like to purchase,
then click the Order Now button.

Domain name is not currently registered. Available for you now!

  xrtfdddrsrsrsr.com
  Register a domain name from only
    Make your selection(s) and click

Your desired domain name also is available with the following extensions. Check the domain names you would like to purchase,
then click the Order Now button.

what about when he essentially gives an open endorsement, using the facts for his own publicity and even naming his favorite?

That's chucknorrisfacts.com, (which chuck norris owns at this point, see the WHOIS). Ian Spector has nothing to do with that website. Ian Spector scraped the facts from all over and compiled a book, basically stealing everyone else's work and trying to make a profit off it.

http://whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=icecap&tld=us

Administrative Contact Email: jdaleo6331@aol.com

Some republican with an AOL account. But hey, he has an official-sounding domain name -- consider me convinced!

I imagine the board meeting went like this:

No way, that was far too coherent. The slashdot blurb was virtually unreadable; since TFA isn't likely to be any better I see no reason to R (eye muss knot bee knew hear, looser). A whois lookup for my site does in fact reveal my identity, although the address and phone numbers are my registrar's, but the email addresses are correct (although the insightbb address won't work; I didn't pay my bill). My other site has all the info, although most of it is out of date with my old apartment (I bought a house), disconnected landline (I'm cell-only now) and email (I changed ISPs).

There is no way to make certain that whois data is current, or even correct. So considering that (and the unparsability of the blurb and presumably TFA as well) I'm having a hard time figuring out what the controversy is. Maybe if I'd used my host's "masking service" it would be easier; and note that my host is in an entirely different country than I am!

FUCK law enforcement; they have more than enough tools to do their dirty, sinful jobs.

-mcgrew

PS- OT, but I'm at work using IE6, and the slashdot headlines are invisible today, white on white (unless you highlight them). Also, I'd like someone to provide me with some reefer to compensate me for this fine but now illegal post! After all, I do own copyright on it, do I not? ;)

• IE sucks
• Adblock is not compulsory with Fx
• Firefox is capitalised with one large F, not two
• Checking whois can tell us that the registered owner of the domain is one Danny Carlton, who after a quick Googling turns out to be a web designer also responsible for the Wikipedia is Trash campaign, and claims that God called him to Seminary. Now in my opinion, this means that he is trying to use a twisted version of Christianity to push his Conservative, capitalist, and quite honestly completely unfounded attempt at spreading FUD about Fx.

Email your questions to valdi_ivancic@hotmail.com

whois entry
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=medisoncelebr ity&tld=com

Plus, if you look at the Whois, the registrant's email is from a hotmail account. That sure seems official and someone well versed in laptop manufacturing.

In case some people want to see for themselves the Netcraft stats can be found here and to verify who owns a domain and what the authoritative nameservers are one should use whois.
Is this stuff that matters? Perhaps not for everybody, but some people may be interested. The P2Plawsuits site to settle your case online instead of risking court was moved fast, but I wonder how many people would be willing to enter their credit card info on a site with an invalid SSL cert.

I notice that someone has already registered www.09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.com, and did so at least long enough ago that it's propagated across DNS servers, but if there was a site there, it appears to have been taken down already.

It looks like it was just registered on April 29th, though, and the registrant's kept his identity hidden.

doesn't look like he's benefitting from them.

I personally thought it was an insightful comment, except for the poll part, but everyone has random parts of their comments that aren't necessarily insightful, but that doesn't make the rest of the comment suck.

Well the copyright date is from 2006 and look at this Whois result.

http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=http%3A%2F%2F www.linuxpersonas.com&tld=com

A whois turned up an address. We might as well let her know how incompetent she is.

Does anyone know of a way to offset the costs for the Internet Archive? It's a shame to see a troll suck resources from such a noble project.

Good find! If you don't like Crook's two-faced approach to his case, feel free to write him a letter or give him a call:

Michael Crook
8417 Oswego Rd. #179
Baldwinsville, NY 13027
Phone: 347-218-7773
Email: mcwhoismail@gmail.com

Info courtesy of Whois.net.

well, this guy was smart and didn't put his personal information in his DNS entries. But you can still send him flame mail here! 575e59eacfa44540b56fee1b6f116b63.protect@whoisguar d.com

Maybe somewhere buried in the linux kernel is the code to generate the Blue Screen Of Death, and Microsoft finally found it. Why would it take so long to discover you ask? Simple, because the code's never been invoked on linux :-P.

Maybe they pulled people off of web development to search the linux kernel for their code, because I noticed the other day that Microsoft's WHOIS record is really messed up (http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=microsoft&tl d=com)

on that note .. please don't /whois please please pleeeeeeease!

Sure.

They created the dellbatteryprogram.com domain on Nov 2005, obviously with a reclaim in mind already.

Anyone know if this guy is a known spammer? He's now upgraded to trafficking in stolen property.

http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=5sec.us

(sorry, lameness filter is being lame, here's just the basics badly formatted)

Registrant Name Sean Rogers
Registrant Organization Sean Rogers
Registrant Address1 1275 Falkland Rd
Registrant City Jacksonville
Registrant State/Province FL
Registrant Postal Code 32221
Registrant Country United States
Registrant Country Code US
Registrant Phone Number +95.486824101
Registrant Email gsmmax@mail.ru

in-game ad campaigns resulted in a 60 percent increase in awareness of new brands.

Hmm... are you aware of this brand you've never heard of? Ok, now play this game. Now are you aware of it? No? $%&#ing 40% jerkoffs.

50 percent of study participants said they found that in-game ads make the experience more realistic, while just 21 percent disagreed. Similarly, 54 percent said in-game advertising "catches your attention." Just 17 percent disagreed, the company said.

82% agreed that the ads were "bloody annoying." Oh wait, they didn't release that statistic. I'm sure tons of people would agree that Nike signs in a baseball stadium are realistic. And that they really do grab your attention away from the game that you're playing. Neither of these things is necessarily positive, nor does it imply a sale.

If you go to Double Fusion's home page, notice how all of the pictures in the bottom-left hand corner say "fictional advertisers" in tiny text that is almost entirely cut off?

At least Massive doesn't have to lie to people about its advertisers.

Even in the FAQ things sound a little dodgy.
Does DoubleFusion gather personally identifiable information about game users?
DoubleFusion conforms to the game publisher's policy.

Which is a nice way of saying, "as much as we can get away with."

And as a final nail in the coffin, would you trust your game to an unproven israeli company whose only managed to get into one game that nobody can find? And that game has a copycat name to a legitimate game developer?

http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=www.google.com

Sept 15, 1997.

http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=gmail.com according to them it was setup in 95 maybe it was a typo. whois also says that google.com was set up in september 1997

because people who call themselves "futurists" who are also coincidently American (as apposed to japanese/korean/european/australian) have a habit of making wild predictions that are invariably full of shit, why is that huh ?

look at 1950's USA science shows and see them talk about flying cars, and duck and cover ! its just more of the same, bullshit is what they spout off best

if there is one thing to be said , americans have wild imaginations but they never seem to be grounded in reality, now is this singularitywatch.com run by americans too ? hmmm oh yes what a suprise

FuckBlackboard.com

That was the site i threw together shortly after they got the smack down from Blackboard at Interz0ne II. Unfortunately i let the domain expire and Blackboard(!) bought it.

whois fuckblackboard.com

You may be kidding, but Google registered gbrowser.com/org/net for a reason...

Already notified the American Red Cross. I hope the less tech-savvy won't fall into that trap. I feel sorry for those who has conveniently revealed all their private information to this Elizabeth Cantrell [whois.net] person.

I'm suprised no one mentioned that Googlezon.com is already up...

Although not sure about the authenticity of it.

http://www.wikipediasucks.com/ probably qualifies as libel. Anyone want to set up a donation fund to take him out? (If Mr. Wales is interested in filing suit, that is. Unlikely, but we can hope?)

Beyond that:

TOH c/o AIS
Domain Register (dnr@theasi.net)
+1.3863165425
Fax: +1.5555555555
4613 University Dr Number 311
Coral Springs, ST 33067
US

The html got messed up somewhere along the line. Here's my original submission:

An article on Mozillanews.org is reporting on Google's registration of the domain Gbrowser.com (nothing to look at there yet). The article provides a summary of rumours that Google will release a branded version of Mozilla Firefox (along with some interesting speculation).