BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder

BrunoC writes "Following the story about VeriSign's new Site Finder, the Internet Software Consortium promises to release a patch to its (in)famous BIND that will block the controversial Site Finder. Wired News has full coverage of the ISC initiative against this name resolving atrocity."

Comments

Re:could NOT care less you idiot

[wiggys]

Unfortunetely, the (mis)use of "could care less" goes back at least a century or two.

What irritates me more is when people refer to junk email as "SPAM" instead of "spam" (it's not an acronym... and speaking of acronyms, when did we stop putting dots between the letters? It used to be R.S.P.C.A, now RSPCA is ok. And when did we start saying "dot" instead of "full stop" or "period"? Maybe we can blame the web for this!)

Similarly, "Mac" refers to a compter sold by Apple, whereas "MAC" is a unique number found in network cards.

Re:ROUTE TACO'S DICK

[Horny Smurf]

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Re:"couldn't care less"

[cetan]

Wrong again.
Maybe at one time, way back when the English language was first being developed, but that argument is now a load of dingos kidneys.

Cliches are especially prone to scrambling because they become meaningless through overuse. In this case an expression which originally meant "it would be impossible for me to care less than I do because I do not care at all" is rendered senseless by being transformed into the now-common "I could care less." Think about it: if you could care less, that means you care some. The original already drips sarcasm, so it's pointless to argue that the newer version is "ironic." People who misuse this phrase are just being careless.