While I despise spammers, the idea of using a domain registrar who is likely to unplug me because some third-party spambot owner decided to use one of my domains without my permission as a spam address makes me even more unhappy... and at least one of my domains comes up for renewal in the next few weeks.
So who's a good, low-cost registrar with no relationship to GoDaddy?
Since I'm serious, please don't respond with "Network Solutions".
When the "science pundits" pushing a corporate agenda directly opposed to what real scientists have to say create work publishable in peer-reviewed scientific journals, I'll be happy to see whether or not their work can be refuted at a scientific level. I'm sorry that you can't tell a "science pundit" who gets paid out of corporate PR funds from a real scientist, but your gullibility really isn't my problem.
Real scientists publish in scientific journals. Be ashamed that you can't tell the difference between scientists and "scientific pundits" and a corporate agenda from a scientific agenda.
When you can find scientific journal cites for Carter's junk science, I'll listen to you.
As far as I know, there are NO climate experts who seriously dispute that the global climate is changing due to greenhouse gases and that those gases are produced by human activity.
There are whores with PhDs, sometimes in the sciences, who are directly or indirectly (usually, via ultra-right-wing think-tank) on Exxon-Mobil's payroll willing to state otherwise. If you want to consider them scientists, go right ahead.
accepts 10 cents or $10 billion, Federal money = Federal control.
However, the average district gets more than 10 cents.
Although federal funding constitutes roughly seven percent of a school districts
budget, it is needed to fund increased costs for services that are attributable to
rising student enrollment and inflation. A primary concern regarding federal funding for education
programs appropriated by Congress each year is that the actual amounts fall below
what has been designated, or authorized, under laws such as the Individuals With
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).. .."
Laughable? You go tell a school board at a meeting that they really don't need 7% of their budget. While you might get laughter as a response, they aren't going to be laughing with you, they'll be laughing at you.
There isn't any insight here, just a semi-literate mess that isn't worth the trouble to deconstruct.
Using a "bringing a gun to school" analogy for an action that didn't take place on campus... whoever modded this up should apologize to the community for stupidity.
"Fermion", you should devote your efforts to getting an education for yourself from whatever middle school you are attending and not commenting on subjects you don't appear to know anything about based on your post.
JPB: I mean I've made a fair amount of money over the years writing songs for 'The Grateful Dead' who allowed their fans to tape their concerts.
We were at one point the biggest grossing performing act in the United States, and most of our records went platinum sooner or later.
It's an economic model that has worked in my experience and I think it does work. It's just that it seems like it wouldn't. It seems counter-intuitive.
DK: It is ridiculous to believe that you can give product away for free and be more successful. I mean it defies the laws of nature.
Looks more to me like smart businessmen vs old, marginally competent businessmen who can't prop up their business models short of using Congress for rent-seeking. Personally, I regard going to Congress for help protecting an obsolete business model as the last refuge of incompetence.
The Dead are hardly the only rock band to have gotten rich largely due to giving away free content. Though the model predates the Grateful Dead.
How much have you paid CBS or Fox or Clear Channel lately to buy their content?
What amuses me is Dan Glickman's asserting that "free content" business models can't work, in a conversation with somebody who got wealthy in the process of proving that one can.
The *AA companies left standing will switch to more modern business models once the dinosaurs, and will be more profitable as a result.
is a bunch of far right corporate spokesdroids.
Below is a partial list of their donors. I suspect that a great many of you will recognize them.
A.Lizard
Armstrong Foundation
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
Carthage Foundation
Jaquelin Hume Foundation
Earhart Foundation
JM Foundation
F.M. Kirby Foundation
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation
Roe Foundation
IPI's president Tom Giovanetti wrote in an email exchange with Australian blogger Tim Lambert that "IPI has an absolute policy of protecting our donors' privacy". [12]
"If you are correct that organizations like IPI are being funded by companies who have an interest in these areas, the more you rail against us and "expose" us, the more heroic you make us appear to our assumed benefactors, and the checks just keep coming," he wrote. [13]
Unfortunately for their donor "privacy", 503(c) organizations have to file lists of their donors every year. Assume that the telcos will show up in the next filing statement... and that the "policy wonk" is a corporate shill who'd be bloviating in favor of Net Neutrality if Google had paid IPI first. Or NAMBLA if that pedophile organization had paid IPI off to generate "neutral" opinions.
The reality is that open source can trap a customer into an outsourcer relationship more readily than commercial software. This is because commercial platforms expose standard APIs for third party applications and any consultant can develop for them. open source will go the way of other IT industry fads that were once trumpeted as the way of the future, like Macintosh computers, business AI, 4GL programming languages and Y2K.
You mean like Search & Destroy? It's practically universally recommended... but good luck if you try to buy a copy, it's donationware. Before I stopped running Linux full time, I ran several Windows security apps, all of which were freeware.
Now that I've established that you don't know what you're talking about. . .
As for:
Open Source software, which by definition is approaching perfection like 1-e**(-k*x) approaches unity, will never, ever be subject to malware
I have so much confidence in your statement that I keep a copy of F-Prot for Linux running on this box at all times. While it's a commercial product, the Linux version is free for home users.
As for Open Source approaching perfection. . . if Open Source were remotely close to perfection, I wouldn't be writing Linux tutorials for money, everything would be running a GUI from which everything could be done easily and there'd be no market for Linux tutorials.
the "Wall Street" faction is the Democratic Leadership Council, (DLC) which was created by Bill Clinton and friends for the purpose of putting a corporate-friendly face on the Democratic Party which would get corporate campaign money Democrats could use to win elections with. The URL connects to a history of the DLC and discusses where they get their funding, including the ultra-right wing political foundations like Bradley and Olin.
After Clinton retired, the DLC demonstrated an inability to win elections, they deserve the credit for losing the House, Senate, and White House. But since most Congressional Democrats are DLCers, we're still stuck with the DLC.
The disconnect between Democratic party activists at places like DailyKos and "national Democrats" is fairly complete.
People like McCurry are retained by corporations for the sake of their political influence, both with legislators and their own political community.
McCurry's name is mud in the Democratic activist community, of which Daily Kos is an important part. Hopefully, he'll be so radioactive after this that legislators won't want to be associated publically with him.
He should quit whining, suck it up, and deal. Influence peddling for a living has its occupational hazards. Especially when one tries to sell it to the wrong people.
Perhaps Exxon-Mobil can find him a PR job. Or NAMBLA.
Red State users are the kind of people who think future technology is whatever is created by MS and therefore have no use for slashdot?
Seriously, why would a bunch of "creation science" types who get their opinions about the environment from Exxon-Mobil junk "scientists" (aka PR flacks) have anything to say that would be interest at a technology/science site? We're not likely to have any interest in content-free "balance" on technology and science subjects from people who know zip about either.
If you want to find a place full of Republicans who think they're clued about technology and might have opinions of interest to slashdotters, try Always-On Network, the VC / entrepreneur / wannabe blog.
It's great for sending messages to people in foriegn countries, and it's great for sending passwords for encrypted zipfiles via a channel different from the one used to send the zipfile.
(looking down at myself) I'm not a teenage girl that I've noticed lately, otherwise I'd look at myself in the mirror instead of pr0nsurfuing.
With respect to a PDA, since I got it to sync to my Linux box, I use it all the time. Great for reading e-books and a notebook replacement, I can squirt any notes I take straight into the computer without having to transcribe them.
The only advantage I can see to a camphone is... the ability to take so-so quality pictures without making it obvious one is doing so.
However, I should not have to spend hours with an instruction manual trying to decipher my phone's UI. I don't care what features are on my phone above the basic voice call and text messaging as long as the UI makes them easy to get to and they don't compromise basic functionality.
In almost all of the rest of the world, there's a single GSM standard and frequency range... and a GSM phone can be used basically anywhere, going from one mobile telco network to another is seamless, from the user POV, it's one big network that's everywhere. (presumably until the user who does lots of traveling gets her phone bill)
Here, the FCC said "let the marketplace decide"... and we have lots of big networks, but little interoperability between them and changine networks isn't a matter of changing a SIM, generally, it's a matter of buying a new phone. So as a Cingular GSM user, if I can't access Cingular I'm standing next to a Nextel PCS cell, I'm still screwed... and changing networks because I like their prices better generally means buy a new phone... the idea behind this from the industry POV is to REDUCE marketplace competitiveness by making it expensive to change networks.
When industry steps up to the plate and promises jobs for people who go into science and technology careers in a credible way... as in an enforceable contract) of a job for anyone in certain defined majors upon graduation by a group of major corporations, kids will shift to sci-tech education.
I put it that way because the credibility of technology companies in terms of their interest in providing jobs to Americans who take the science and technology careers they demand isn't zero, it's negative.
Students already know that if they spend 4+ years studying for a sci-tech career, that employers will basically be cherry-picking a handful of top graduates and everyone else on those career paths will be going to work at McDonald's, with educational debts their fellow burger-flippers won't have. They also know that if they get cherry-picked, their jobs will last as long as it takes the company to find cheaper replacements in India and China.
What else? If it's shown that people who create salable important intellectual property for corporations are rewarded on the scale of rock stars, kids will seek to emulate Edison, not Eminem.
Society shows what it really values by the scale of rewards that go with specific professions. What it has shown in this case that the ability to make good science or new technology is considered basically worthless.
People like Dean Kamen and Bill Gates can either step up to the plate on this or STFU. If the young people of America are expected to create the new inventions that'll keep America a First World nation, they can damned well have a reasonable expectation of getting paid for their time.
Using a mathematical model that he has devised himself, and which has been tested by predicting the strength of materials such as nano-crystalline diamond, Pugno calculates that large defects will unavoidably bring a cable's strength below about 30 GPa
In other words, this is completely unverified. Even if it is verified, there may be engineering approaches that can deal with the problems.
It's a bit early to describe this as impossible and certainly not based on a single theoretical analysis.
Not that it's all that exciting if it is impossible, there are other approaches that may reduce the launch costs below what would be possible with a space elevator.
the Sony r00tkit itself proves that there are people in big technology companies capable of signing off on that kind of idiocy. And they basically got off with a gentle pat on the wrist and fingers wagged at them, not one of the corporate officers getting an involuntary vacation at Club Fed for infringing anti-hacking laws that would be directed against private individuals doing the same thing.
I can easily see some computer-illiterate Luddite at a *AA member organization looking at what happened with Sony and deciding to tell somebody with half a clue to look for a "security consultant" to write an anti-P2P virus.
Did this happen that way? I don't know, but these companies have both motive, opportunity, and for practical purposes, near-immunity from prosecution; if they get caught, they can always go to the Congresscritters they 0wN and buy a law to make their misconduct legal.
of SCOTUS, it's all the more important when people like that inadvertently get it right that people say nice things about it, in the faint hope that they might do something right later. It's called positive reinforcement.
When a case involving DRM or *AA lawsuits based on bot-gathered information gets to SCOTUS, we're going to need all the good will on their part we can get.
Is any information you gather in video preparation or that you send to clients confidential?
If your shipping vendor is inspecting material at random on any other basis, you CAN NOT guarantee confidentiality. Period. Not having drugs in your shipments no longer guarantees even a reasonable probability of the data on shipped disks being confidential.
While telling FedEx you aren't doing business anymore and telling them why would be a good thing, I think your solution is going to have to be encryption. Password protected zipfiles is probably adequate, or look into other crypto solutions like PGP/GPG.
Slashdot Mirror
So who's a good, low-cost registrar with no relationship to GoDaddy?
Since I'm serious, please don't respond with "Network Solutions".
However, since the science pundits in question are easily verified as being personally connected to corporate lobbying firms, for me to bother to do so would be like my bothering to take the time to respond to Microsoft's latest anti-Linux FUD.
The other author, Carter writes for the Tech Central Science Foundation, which is owned by a DC lobbying firm which received $95K from ExxonMobil.
Real scientists publish in scientific journals. Be ashamed that you can't tell the difference between scientists and "scientific pundits" and a corporate agenda from a scientific agenda.
When you can find scientific journal cites for Carter's junk science, I'll listen to you.
There are whores with PhDs, sometimes in the sciences, who are directly or indirectly (usually, via ultra-right-wing think-tank) on Exxon-Mobil's payroll willing to state otherwise. If you want to consider them scientists, go right ahead.
Laughable? You go tell a school board at a meeting that they really don't need 7% of their budget. While you might get laughter as a response, they aren't going to be laughing with you, they'll be laughing at you.
Using a "bringing a gun to school" analogy for an action that didn't take place on campus... whoever modded this up should apologize to the community for stupidity.
"Fermion", you should devote your efforts to getting an education for yourself from whatever middle school you are attending and not commenting on subjects you don't appear to know anything about based on your post.
Because they accept Federal funding, mainly, though they are subject to other Federal laws by virtue of being an educational institution.
The Dead are hardly the only rock band to have gotten rich largely due to giving away free content. Though the model predates the Grateful Dead.
How much have you paid CBS or Fox or Clear Channel lately to buy their content?
What amuses me is Dan Glickman's asserting that "free content" business models can't work, in a conversation with somebody who got wealthy in the process of proving that one can.
The *AA companies left standing will switch to more modern business models once the dinosaurs, and will be more profitable as a result.
- Armstrong Foundation
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
- Carthage Foundation
- Jaquelin Hume Foundation
- Earhart Foundation
- JM Foundation
- F.M. Kirby Foundation
- Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation
- Roe Foundation
Unfortunately for their donor "privacy", 503(c) organizations have to file lists of their donors every year. Assume that the telcos will show up in the next filing statement... and that the "policy wonk" is a corporate shill who'd be bloviating in favor of Net Neutrality if Google had paid IPI first. Or NAMBLA if that pedophile organization had paid IPI off to generate "neutral" opinions.Here's another IPI opinion:
Now that I've established that you don't know what you're talking about. . .
As for:
I have so much confidence in your statement that I keep a copy of F-Prot for Linux running on this box at all times. While it's a commercial product, the Linux version is free for home users.
As for Open Source approaching perfection. . . if Open Source were remotely close to perfection, I wouldn't be writing Linux tutorials for money, everything would be running a GUI from which everything could be done easily and there'd be no market for Linux tutorials.
After Clinton retired, the DLC demonstrated an inability to win elections, they deserve the credit for losing the House, Senate, and White House. But since most Congressional Democrats are DLCers, we're still stuck with the DLC.
The disconnect between Democratic party activists at places like DailyKos and "national Democrats" is fairly complete.
Though responding to GOP groupthink with facts really isn't fair.
McCurry's name is mud in the Democratic activist community, of which Daily Kos is an important part. Hopefully, he'll be so radioactive after this that legislators won't want to be associated publically with him.
He should quit whining, suck it up, and deal. Influence peddling for a living has its occupational hazards. Especially when one tries to sell it to the wrong people.
Perhaps Exxon-Mobil can find him a PR job. Or NAMBLA.
Seriously, why would a bunch of "creation science" types who get their opinions about the environment from Exxon-Mobil junk "scientists" (aka PR flacks) have anything to say that would be interest at a technology/science site? We're not likely to have any interest in content-free "balance" on technology and science subjects from people who know zip about either.
If you want to find a place full of Republicans who think they're clued about technology and might have opinions of interest to slashdotters, try Always-On Network, the VC / entrepreneur / wannabe blog.
available anywhere? (preferably online for the obvious reason)
It's great for sending messages to people in foriegn countries, and it's great for sending passwords for encrypted zipfiles via a channel different from the one used to send the zipfile.
(looking down at myself) I'm not a teenage girl that I've noticed lately, otherwise I'd look at myself in the mirror instead of pr0nsurfuing.
With respect to a PDA, since I got it to sync to my Linux box, I use it all the time. Great for reading e-books and a notebook replacement, I can squirt any notes I take straight into the computer without having to transcribe them.
The only advantage I can see to a camphone is... the ability to take so-so quality pictures without making it obvious one is doing so.
However, I should not have to spend hours with an instruction manual trying to decipher my phone's UI. I don't care what features are on my phone above the basic voice call and text messaging as long as the UI makes them easy to get to and they don't compromise basic functionality.
Here, the FCC said "let the marketplace decide"... and we have lots of big networks, but little interoperability between them and changine networks isn't a matter of changing a SIM, generally, it's a matter of buying a new phone. So as a Cingular GSM user, if I can't access Cingular I'm standing next to a Nextel PCS cell, I'm still screwed... and changing networks because I like their prices better generally means buy a new phone... the idea behind this from the industry POV is to REDUCE marketplace competitiveness by making it expensive to change networks.
I put it that way because the credibility of technology companies in terms of their interest in providing jobs to Americans who take the science and technology careers they demand isn't zero, it's negative.
Students already know that if they spend 4+ years studying for a sci-tech career, that employers will basically be cherry-picking a handful of top graduates and everyone else on those career paths will be going to work at McDonald's, with educational debts their fellow burger-flippers won't have. They also know that if they get cherry-picked, their jobs will last as long as it takes the company to find cheaper replacements in India and China.
What else? If it's shown that people who create salable important intellectual property for corporations are rewarded on the scale of rock stars, kids will seek to emulate Edison, not Eminem.
Society shows what it really values by the scale of rewards that go with specific professions. What it has shown in this case that the ability to make good science or new technology is considered basically worthless.
People like Dean Kamen and Bill Gates can either step up to the plate on this or STFU. If the young people of America are expected to create the new inventions that'll keep America a First World nation, they can damned well have a reasonable expectation of getting paid for their time.
that most scientists are "cooks and bottle washers".
In other words, this is completely unverified. Even if it is verified, there may be engineering approaches that can deal with the problems.
It's a bit early to describe this as impossible and certainly not based on a single theoretical analysis.
Not that it's all that exciting if it is impossible, there are other approaches that may reduce the launch costs below what would be possible with a space elevator.
I can easily see some computer-illiterate Luddite at a *AA member organization looking at what happened with Sony and deciding to tell somebody with half a clue to look for a "security consultant" to write an anti-P2P virus.
Did this happen that way? I don't know, but these companies have both motive, opportunity, and for practical purposes, near-immunity from prosecution; if they get caught, they can always go to the Congresscritters they 0wN and buy a law to make their misconduct legal.
When a case involving DRM or *AA lawsuits based on bot-gathered information gets to SCOTUS, we're going to need all the good will on their part we can get.
Using the same rationalitions.
If your shipping vendor is inspecting material at random on any other basis, you CAN NOT guarantee confidentiality. Period. Not having drugs in your shipments no longer guarantees even a reasonable probability of the data on shipped disks being confidential.
While telling FedEx you aren't doing business anymore and telling them why would be a good thing, I think your solution is going to have to be encryption. Password protected zipfiles is probably adequate, or look into other crypto solutions like PGP/GPG.
just remember that the dogs will only pick up on recordable C/DVDs.