Plenty of Sony crap that never gets sold on thinkgeek gets seemingly infinite amounts of praise on the slashdot front page (even when it is not unique).
slashdot = stagnated.
Is that news for you some how? Slashdot has been running on autopilot for some time now... When was the last time someone who worked for slashdot actually participated in a discussion here on slashdot that pertained to slashdot?
They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are.
So, you're saying that pretty much any big brand might as well stop advertising?
No, I'm saying GoDaddy's advertising is futile.
Everyone knows Coca Cola by now... They might as well stop advertising, because anyone feels like cola, they just buy Coca Cola!
That isn't even remotely a reasonable comparison. Most people who are alive today have had a soda of some sort, somewhere, or will before they die. It might not be coke or pepsi, but if you say soda (or pop, or coke, or whatever term is used in their part of the world) to them they will know what you mean. On the other hand, domain registrars have a very limited market. Even amongst the fraction of the world that uses the internet plenty of people have no idea what a domain registrar is or why they would ever want to use one. Even amongst the people who might decide they want a website this year, few of them will actually care what registrar they use - they will likely let whoever sets up and hosts their website pick a registrar for them. For that matter, many people don't even know the difference between web hosting and domain registration.
It's just for those moments when the consumer actually wants to buy a domain, the name will ring a bell.
You're making the assumption that the people who are likely to buy domains to start websites in the coming years will actually care who they buy that domain from. Being as many people who will be buying in the future will likely be less technically proficient than those who have purchased in the past, the likelihood of those consumers making the purchase decision on their own is not very high.
I think they overvalue themselves...
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I don't know that GoDaddy (or any internet registrar, for that matter) really needs to advertise at the superbowl - or any other mainstream television event. Every super bowl since they've started advertising, I've had to explain to at least one person what GoDaddy is and what they do; which generally leads to a rather long discussion of why it matters at all.
They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are. I highly doubt there was a Joe Six-Pack watching the super bowl who arrived at the idea after seeing the ad to go look up what a GoDaddy is, and then buy a new domain name from them.
Currently most libraries have most of their inventory in printed books, which really aren't helped by this. The printed books do not magically become ebooks for people to check out through this reader. Sure, libraries can buy more ebooks to loan out, but that doesn't do much for the existing inventory. For that matter, many library systems are currently facing budgetary shortfalls, and now Sony is asking them to spend more money.
And on top of that, it sounds that this system actually discourages (or at least, de-incentivizes) patrons from visiting the library, which doesn't help the books much either.
The preacher has called off his plans to burn Qurans on Saturday. Apparently an Imam from Gainesville met with him and talked something regarding a small shred of intelligence into him; they are set to later meet together with the Imam behind the so-called "ground zero mosque project" which apparently the preacher is also upset about.
But for now, the book burning is canceled; at least as an official production of the preacher's church.
and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all.
Yes, because open source drivers means that they always work, no matter how strange or obscure your hardware and software combination is. That's right, just like all other open source software that never, ever, fails to live up to expectations under any situation. In fact the news is so remarkable that the sun just came out where I live, and I think some very peaceful velociraptors just woke from a very long sleep and are peacefully munching on cabbage, all thanks to this incredible news.
I wonder if Rackspace is this high and mighty about kicking pro terrorist and islamic jihad websites off their servers?
Can you find an example of Rackspace hosting a jihad or terrorist website?
If they state that the dove church group is violating its TOS or AUC, it is because of what they have done recently. If a group wanted to open a website to promote jihad or terrorism, it would likely have been rejected beforehand for violating the same.
With regards to the Quran. However, when pushed further (in the same article, no less), he went on to say
I have no experience with it whatsoever. I only know what the Bible says.
So he claims to know the Quran, then later admits to having never read it. Indeed it probably would do him some good to read the text that he claims to know something about. But we can't stop people from being ignorant of their own choice. Of course, if his knowledge was truly limited only to the Bible, I would love to know how it could tell him that a book published more recently than it could be "full of lies".
Which is why some Government agency and not ICANN should be administering the domain names, or at the least some governing body with members posted from each of the major nations on the net or something.
That wouldn't be nearly profitable enough for anyone's palette. And getting an agreement on domain name registration terms between the larger nations on the net would be a cat-herding exercise at best, to say nothing of the massive unpopularity in the US regarding any actions that resemble uniting nations.
Considering some 20% of the US still believes Obama is himself a Muslim (or "Moslem" as this guy prefers), it might be sold as a sequel to this stunt.
Maybe the reason they think he's a muslim is because he's tried to appear that way to muslims
Do you have a source for those actions? When did Obama do something to make himself appear to be Muslim? Just because you sit down for a meeting or a meal with someone of a different faith does not make you automatically a convert to their faith.
while also doing and saying things that make christians think he's not a christian, in spite of what he tells people.
Right now everyone and their dog has their own view of what actions are - or are not - "Christian". And every single person - and their dog - is wrong in at least some aspect when they get to be that specific. There are lots of contradictions in the Christian Bible; many times when various characters in the story do one thing in one book and then something seemingly very different in another one. Hence in order to define what actions are - and are not - "Christian", people have to cherry-pick what they like and discard what they do not; otherwise they would not have a consistent definition.
Wouldn't a good next step be to eliminate domain registrars that allow these sorts of sites to get created in the first place?
I agree whole-heartedly that something should be done about the crooked and complacent registrars. The problem is, who should take the action? The most logical step is ICANN, since they handle registrar accreditation, except they have shown repeatedly that they will not take any meaningful steps. And of course, ICANN only does accreditation for registrars of the largest TLDs (for now), so anything from another country's list of TLDs is beyond their jurisdiction (and soon pretty much everything will be beyond their jurisdiction).
So if ICANN won't do it, who then should? It is pretty well impossible to take legal action against the registrars and expect anything meaningful to come of that, so unless you want to advocate vigilante justice you're just SOL.
The registrars could do their part to shut down the bogus websites faster - by invalidating the WHOIS records - but they don't. Of course, we all know why they don't; it's because they make money by chosing to not do that. Of course if you read into the existing WHOIS records for the bogus websites you'll find that quite a few of them already have bogus WHOIS data; often the only part that means anything is the DNS referral, which shows quickly whose side the registrars are on.
If our good friends at ICANN actually gave half a shit about the problem they would crack down on complacent registrars, but that isn't very profitable for them, either.
Some pastor who leads a might congregation of 50 members, in a run-down part of a state known for below-average intelligence,
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida.
Which is to say.. you're right!
Sadly, Floridians are not regarded as having much of a sense of humor, either. Just think of how miserable they must have been before they sold a large swamp to a mouse...
Some pastor who leads a might congregation of 50 members, in a run-down part of a state known for below-average intelligence, has come up with an incredibly short-sighted plan and now the whole world is talking about him. While no reasonable person would overlook the stupidity of such a stunt, this guy basks in the controversy. We can't turn on the news anywhere without seeing either him or his trailer. Even though his event is centered around a group of people smaller in numbers than an average wedding reception he has managed to get himself condemned by people all over the world.
While his actions are stupid, the effects - in terms of drawing massive attention - are brilliant. Just wait for copy-cat backwater churches elsewhere to fight for the next great stunt; my money is on someone to burn Obama in effigy behind their church next. Considering some 20% of the US still believes Obama is himself a Muslim (or "Moslem" as this guy prefers), it might be sold as a sequel to this stunt.
You either don't hang around here much, or you haven't been paying attention to the discussions around here if you have. I assure you, there are plenty of zombies running around here on a regular basis.
I will go so far as to forecast that in three days we will have even more zombie activity than normal...
Forget it. If you can't get people to realize that it is important to look at the road while driving, you'll never get people to realize that it is important to listen to their environment while walking. Thankfully if a non-listening pedestrian gets struck by a car out of their own stupidity it is nowhere near as great a magnitude of damage as some idiot driving their car into something they didn't see out of their own stupidity.
It is nice of these people to take time to acknowledge the birthday and contributions of this veteran. However this is just one man who they took time for, they could have directed their efforts in a more wide-reaching manner. After all, we do still have many WWII (and other war) veterans who are worthy of praise, thanks, and acknowledgment.
If they really want to help the veterans, my first suggestion would be to look into helping the Veterans Administration (VA). The various resources of the VA - especially their hospitals - are scattered around our country and often stretched thin. Regardless of your position on government-funded, government-aided, or government-provided health care, the VA is the hospital of choice for a great number of great people. If you want to thank and help our veterans, your local VA can direct you to ways that you can do that. You could volunteer to help veterans get to their appointments, you could advocate for better resources for the hospitals, or do any number of other things. I wouldn't be surprised if your local VA would even appreciate volunteers to come and visit with the hospitalized family-less vets.
Several points have been raised already about whether or not drivers in Nevada are competent enough to manage 90 mph. However it is equally important to consider the readiness of the vehicle for that speed. The braking energy from 90 to 0 is dramatic; and the handling acuity required for corrections at 90 mph are significantly greater than they are at 70. Sure most cars on the road in the USA today have speedometers that go up to 120 or more, but that doesn't mean that the car should be driven at that speed.
And of course tires are another major concern - I frequently see idiots on the freeway where I live passing people at 80mph with a space saver spare on a drive wheel of their car; the danger of that gets even worse at 90 mph (on a tire rated for 45 mph). Add to that the probability of any given car having at least one tire that is beyond its safety limit for tread wear, and there is a significant risk of a car accident that is not due to lack of driver ability, but rather due to lack of driver knowledge.
But that's OK for me, I never really had a reason to go to Nevada anyways.
It's certainly easier than, you know, actually acknowledging and dealing with their ideas...
How exactly are you supposed to acknowledge and deal with ideas from a group whose platform includes never, ever, under any circumstances, even consider compromise? It's one thing to have "new" ideas, but it is another thing to approach life with a my-way-or-the-highway mentality and then complain endlessly that nobody is willing to talk to you.
In other words, they are asking (very loudly) for respect that they refuse to give to anyone else.
You're not looking very hard. I was at the grocery store today, in the little household goods aisle right next to the super glue were these little rubber stick on feet. Fits perfectly on my Dell laptop.
Except that my laptop has long narrow feet on the underside that are fairly tall. Hence nothing commonly carried anywhere fits, and the manufacturer doesn't even have a part number for these 8-or-so year-old parts anymore.
But thanks for assuming I'm lazy and/or stupid when you didn't have enough information.
Although perhaps just as significant of a misstep in your assumption is taking the statement of "the union representing Colgan's roughly 480 pilots" at face value. You do realize that the Airline Pilots Association represents most of the carriers in the US and Canada, right?
Nothing you've said or linked supports your position that unions aren't fighting against advances in flight data recorders.
In particular, the one Union press release you linked doesn't even discuss the issues at hand.
That's because people are erroneously making that assumption when they are not taking that position.
So you are taking an interview of one pilot, from 6 years ago, and trying to extrapolate that to cover the opinions of an entire staff of pilots, today?
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it's not for sale on thinkgeek...
Plenty of Sony crap that never gets sold on thinkgeek gets seemingly infinite amounts of praise on the slashdot front page (even when it is not unique).
slashdot = stagnated.
Is that news for you some how? Slashdot has been running on autopilot for some time now... When was the last time someone who worked for slashdot actually participated in a discussion here on slashdot that pertained to slashdot?
their set top box that is utterly guaranteed to not fit into any stereo component rack you might have
Did someone from Boxee get in a fight with slashdot's corporate overlords?
They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are.
So, you're saying that pretty much any big brand might as well stop advertising?
No, I'm saying GoDaddy's advertising is futile.
Everyone knows Coca Cola by now... They might as well stop advertising, because anyone feels like cola, they just buy Coca Cola!
That isn't even remotely a reasonable comparison. Most people who are alive today have had a soda of some sort, somewhere, or will before they die. It might not be coke or pepsi, but if you say soda (or pop, or coke, or whatever term is used in their part of the world) to them they will know what you mean. On the other hand, domain registrars have a very limited market. Even amongst the fraction of the world that uses the internet plenty of people have no idea what a domain registrar is or why they would ever want to use one. Even amongst the people who might decide they want a website this year, few of them will actually care what registrar they use - they will likely let whoever sets up and hosts their website pick a registrar for them. For that matter, many people don't even know the difference between web hosting and domain registration.
It's just for those moments when the consumer actually wants to buy a domain, the name will ring a bell.
You're making the assumption that the people who are likely to buy domains to start websites in the coming years will actually care who they buy that domain from. Being as many people who will be buying in the future will likely be less technically proficient than those who have purchased in the past, the likelihood of those consumers making the purchase decision on their own is not very high.
I don't know that GoDaddy (or any internet registrar, for that matter) really needs to advertise at the superbowl - or any other mainstream television event. Every super bowl since they've started advertising, I've had to explain to at least one person what GoDaddy is and what they do; which generally leads to a rather long discussion of why it matters at all.
They should have been smart enough to realize that anyone who needs their services already knows who they are. I highly doubt there was a Joe Six-Pack watching the super bowl who arrived at the idea after seeing the ad to go look up what a GoDaddy is, and then buy a new domain name from them.
breathe new life into library books
Currently most libraries have most of their inventory in printed books, which really aren't helped by this. The printed books do not magically become ebooks for people to check out through this reader. Sure, libraries can buy more ebooks to loan out, but that doesn't do much for the existing inventory. For that matter, many library systems are currently facing budgetary shortfalls, and now Sony is asking them to spend more money.
And on top of that, it sounds that this system actually discourages (or at least, de-incentivizes) patrons from visiting the library, which doesn't help the books much either.
Looks like some folks with mod points are abusing them by downmodding people they don't agree with.
We certainly have some hacks with mod points running around and mod-trolling this discussion.
...
However, I also have some idiot trying to mod-bomb me. Be careful what you wish for, or they might think you are me
The preacher has called off his plans to burn Qurans on Saturday. Apparently an Imam from Gainesville met with him and talked something regarding a small shred of intelligence into him; they are set to later meet together with the Imam behind the so-called "ground zero mosque project" which apparently the preacher is also upset about.
But for now, the book burning is canceled; at least as an official production of the preacher's church.
and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all.
Yes, because open source drivers means that they always work, no matter how strange or obscure your hardware and software combination is. That's right, just like all other open source software that never, ever, fails to live up to expectations under any situation. In fact the news is so remarkable that the sun just came out where I live, and I think some very peaceful velociraptors just woke from a very long sleep and are peacefully munching on cabbage, all thanks to this incredible news.
I wonder if Rackspace is this high and mighty about kicking pro terrorist and islamic jihad websites off their servers?
Can you find an example of Rackspace hosting a jihad or terrorist website?
If they state that the dove church group is violating its TOS or AUC, it is because of what they have done recently. If a group wanted to open a website to promote jihad or terrorism, it would likely have been rejected beforehand for violating the same.
Reading a book from cover to cover should be a prerequisite to burning it.
I support the freedom of people to peacefully burn whatever they so choose. However, the idiot pastor in question claims that
"it's full of lies"
With regards to the Quran. However, when pushed further (in the same article, no less), he went on to say
I have no experience with it whatsoever. I only know what the Bible says.
So he claims to know the Quran, then later admits to having never read it. Indeed it probably would do him some good to read the text that he claims to know something about. But we can't stop people from being ignorant of their own choice. Of course, if his knowledge was truly limited only to the Bible, I would love to know how it could tell him that a book published more recently than it could be "full of lies".
Which is why some Government agency and not ICANN should be administering the domain names, or at the least some governing body with members posted from each of the major nations on the net or something.
That wouldn't be nearly profitable enough for anyone's palette. And getting an agreement on domain name registration terms between the larger nations on the net would be a cat-herding exercise at best, to say nothing of the massive unpopularity in the US regarding any actions that resemble uniting nations.
Considering some 20% of the US still believes Obama is himself a Muslim (or "Moslem" as this guy prefers), it might be sold as a sequel to this stunt.
Maybe the reason they think he's a muslim is because he's tried to appear that way to muslims
Do you have a source for those actions? When did Obama do something to make himself appear to be Muslim? Just because you sit down for a meeting or a meal with someone of a different faith does not make you automatically a convert to their faith.
while also doing and saying things that make christians think he's not a christian, in spite of what he tells people.
Right now everyone and their dog has their own view of what actions are - or are not - "Christian". And every single person - and their dog - is wrong in at least some aspect when they get to be that specific. There are lots of contradictions in the Christian Bible; many times when various characters in the story do one thing in one book and then something seemingly very different in another one. Hence in order to define what actions are - and are not - "Christian", people have to cherry-pick what they like and discard what they do not; otherwise they would not have a consistent definition.
Wouldn't a good next step be to eliminate domain registrars that allow these sorts of sites to get created in the first place?
I agree whole-heartedly that something should be done about the crooked and complacent registrars. The problem is, who should take the action? The most logical step is ICANN, since they handle registrar accreditation, except they have shown repeatedly that they will not take any meaningful steps. And of course, ICANN only does accreditation for registrars of the largest TLDs (for now), so anything from another country's list of TLDs is beyond their jurisdiction (and soon pretty much everything will be beyond their jurisdiction).
So if ICANN won't do it, who then should? It is pretty well impossible to take legal action against the registrars and expect anything meaningful to come of that, so unless you want to advocate vigilante justice you're just SOL.
The registrars could do their part to shut down the bogus websites faster - by invalidating the WHOIS records - but they don't. Of course, we all know why they don't; it's because they make money by chosing to not do that. Of course if you read into the existing WHOIS records for the bogus websites you'll find that quite a few of them already have bogus WHOIS data; often the only part that means anything is the DNS referral, which shows quickly whose side the registrars are on.
If our good friends at ICANN actually gave half a shit about the problem they would crack down on complacent registrars, but that isn't very profitable for them, either.
Some pastor who leads a might congregation of 50 members, in a run-down part of a state known for below-average intelligence,
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida.
.. you're right!
Which is to say
Sadly, Floridians are not regarded as having much of a sense of humor, either. Just think of how miserable they must have been before they sold a large swamp to a mouse...
Some pastor who leads a might congregation of 50 members, in a run-down part of a state known for below-average intelligence, has come up with an incredibly short-sighted plan and now the whole world is talking about him. While no reasonable person would overlook the stupidity of such a stunt, this guy basks in the controversy. We can't turn on the news anywhere without seeing either him or his trailer. Even though his event is centered around a group of people smaller in numbers than an average wedding reception he has managed to get himself condemned by people all over the world.
While his actions are stupid, the effects - in terms of drawing massive attention - are brilliant. Just wait for copy-cat backwater churches elsewhere to fight for the next great stunt; my money is on someone to burn Obama in effigy behind their church next. Considering some 20% of the US still believes Obama is himself a Muslim (or "Moslem" as this guy prefers), it might be sold as a sequel to this stunt.
You either don't hang around here much, or you haven't been paying attention to the discussions around here if you have. I assure you, there are plenty of zombies running around here on a regular basis.
I will go so far as to forecast that in three days we will have even more zombie activity than normal...
Forget it. If you can't get people to realize that it is important to look at the road while driving, you'll never get people to realize that it is important to listen to their environment while walking. Thankfully if a non-listening pedestrian gets struck by a car out of their own stupidity it is nowhere near as great a magnitude of damage as some idiot driving their car into something they didn't see out of their own stupidity.
It is nice of these people to take time to acknowledge the birthday and contributions of this veteran. However this is just one man who they took time for, they could have directed their efforts in a more wide-reaching manner. After all, we do still have many WWII (and other war) veterans who are worthy of praise, thanks, and acknowledgment.
If they really want to help the veterans, my first suggestion would be to look into helping the Veterans Administration (VA). The various resources of the VA - especially their hospitals - are scattered around our country and often stretched thin. Regardless of your position on government-funded, government-aided, or government-provided health care, the VA is the hospital of choice for a great number of great people. If you want to thank and help our veterans, your local VA can direct you to ways that you can do that. You could volunteer to help veterans get to their appointments, you could advocate for better resources for the hospitals, or do any number of other things. I wouldn't be surprised if your local VA would even appreciate volunteers to come and visit with the hospitalized family-less vets.
Several points have been raised already about whether or not drivers in Nevada are competent enough to manage 90 mph. However it is equally important to consider the readiness of the vehicle for that speed. The braking energy from 90 to 0 is dramatic; and the handling acuity required for corrections at 90 mph are significantly greater than they are at 70. Sure most cars on the road in the USA today have speedometers that go up to 120 or more, but that doesn't mean that the car should be driven at that speed.
And of course tires are another major concern - I frequently see idiots on the freeway where I live passing people at 80mph with a space saver spare on a drive wheel of their car; the danger of that gets even worse at 90 mph (on a tire rated for 45 mph). Add to that the probability of any given car having at least one tire that is beyond its safety limit for tread wear, and there is a significant risk of a car accident that is not due to lack of driver ability, but rather due to lack of driver knowledge.
But that's OK for me, I never really had a reason to go to Nevada anyways.
Either way, it was just thinking ahead, like her college fund she may never want to use.
Fair enough, but the college fund will at least have some value over time (assuming of course it starts with at least some money in it).
Heheh, I set up an account for my daughter in the UID 700k range. She's 4 now...
What makes you think that she will want it by the time she's old enough to make use of it?
And what makes you think slashdot will still be relevant (or even existent) at that time?
It's certainly easier than, you know, actually acknowledging and dealing with their ideas...
How exactly are you supposed to acknowledge and deal with ideas from a group whose platform includes never, ever, under any circumstances, even consider compromise? It's one thing to have "new" ideas, but it is another thing to approach life with a my-way-or-the-highway mentality and then complain endlessly that nobody is willing to talk to you.
In other words, they are asking (very loudly) for respect that they refuse to give to anyone else.
You're not looking very hard. I was at the grocery store today, in the little household goods aisle right next to the super glue were these little rubber stick on feet. Fits perfectly on my Dell laptop.
Except that my laptop has long narrow feet on the underside that are fairly tall. Hence nothing commonly carried anywhere fits, and the manufacturer doesn't even have a part number for these 8-or-so year-old parts anymore.
But thanks for assuming I'm lazy and/or stupid when you didn't have enough information.
Although perhaps just as significant of a misstep in your assumption is taking the statement of "the union representing Colgan's roughly 480 pilots" at face value. You do realize that the Airline Pilots Association represents most of the carriers in the US and Canada, right?
Nothing you've said or linked supports your position that unions aren't fighting against advances in flight data recorders. In particular, the one Union press release you linked doesn't even discuss the issues at hand.
That's because people are erroneously making that assumption when they are not taking that position.
Here's a winner I found from 2004 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_30_18/ai_n6281128/
So you are taking an interview of one pilot, from 6 years ago, and trying to extrapolate that to cover the opinions of an entire staff of pilots, today?