The fact that people are using.xxx to try to extort anti-porn ransoms from child friendly companies in the first place speaks volumes by itself.
Good old fashioned trademark and fraud law should be good enough to give hostile registrations the happy boot.
The real enemy in this case are extortionists trying to take advantage of.xxx to squeeze money out of innocent bystanders, and the.xxx registry capitalizing on those fears to skim off their cut of the ransom money.
the whole point of delegation and restriction of top level names is to reduce administrative burden.
that's probably why ICANN charges a metric fuckton to open a new TLD. Because they're the ones that get stuck with the database load.
Even now, the.com registry is causing pains for Verisign trying to keep up, and there's been some consideration for creating subdomains under.com for industry wide groupings like bank and so on.
The problem with bitcoin from my point of view is that it's too damn easy to steal.
At least with cold hard cash you have to be pickpocketed or burglarized before you lose it. With bitcoin all you need is some two bit hacker taking advantage of a technophobe running a jacked computer and bam, all his bitcoins are belong to the haxxors.
All it takes is one rogue hacker to misdirect bitcoin payments and you have instant skimming.
And since it competes with government control, civil authorities won't investigate bitcoin fraud like they will fraud involving real money.
And you should also realize the same corporations also own the media and are going to do everything they can to keep things the way they are by smearing anyone they don't like.
Which means that almost by definition an honest politician isn't going to even make it to the primaries before he fails the corporate kiss-ass test and squashed out of the running.
Since being fired will cause the unvested stock options to vanish anyway, the sole purpose of this move seems to be Zynga pulling rank and letting its workers know who is boss.
The corrupt, corporate donk sucking politicians in congress would impeach him in no time flat, if the media owned by the same corporate sector even allowed such a reformer to get into the whitehouse in the first place.
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The fact that people are using .xxx to try to extort anti-porn ransoms from child friendly companies in the first place speaks volumes by itself.
Good old fashioned trademark and fraud law should be good enough to give hostile registrations the happy boot.
The real enemy in this case are extortionists trying to take advantage of .xxx to squeeze money out of innocent bystanders, and the .xxx registry capitalizing on those fears to skim off their cut of the ransom money.
the whole point of delegation and restriction of top level names is to reduce administrative burden.
that's probably why ICANN charges a metric fuckton to open a new TLD. Because they're the ones that get stuck with the database load.
Even now, the .com registry is causing pains for Verisign trying to keep up, and there's been some consideration for creating subdomains under .com for industry wide groupings like bank and so on.
Simple
Require full disclosure from each candidate where all of his campaign contributions come from.
Being rich enough to buy laws that keep everyone else poor is a profitable move indeed.
No
They, like every other part of the government, is simply for sale to the highest bidder.
And when you can buy something that can make other people poor, you can stay on top pretty nicely.
That confusion is only natural when the MAFIAA equates piracy with the same level of wrongfulness that nanny staters do with "think of the children!"
The problem with bitcoin from my point of view is that it's too damn easy to steal.
At least with cold hard cash you have to be pickpocketed or burglarized before you lose it. With bitcoin all you need is some two bit hacker taking advantage of a technophobe running a jacked computer and bam, all his bitcoins are belong to the haxxors.
All it takes is one rogue hacker to misdirect bitcoin payments and you have instant skimming.
And since it competes with government control, civil authorities won't investigate bitcoin fraud like they will fraud involving real money.
And who won't be promptly impeached by the entrenched politicians already in office.
Folding@Home just took on a whole new meaning.
Did your company bother to press criminal charges?
I'd think that with solid proof the guys would at the very least wind up getting thrown in jail.
It's only illegal if you get caught AND if the powers that be see fit to not let you get away with it.
Stealth and selective enforcement often go together.
And you should also realize the same corporations also own the media and are going to do everything they can to keep things the way they are by smearing anyone they don't like.
Which means that almost by definition an honest politician isn't going to even make it to the primaries before he fails the corporate kiss-ass test and squashed out of the running.
That ruling was only a "problem" because washington is full of corrupt assholes that allow themselves to be legally bribed.
Trust me, the biggest wallets have ALWAYS outvoted the little folks. The court ruling just made obvious what was already going on behind the scenes.
It does if the person who gave you that advice is an arsonist...
Indeed.
Since being fired will cause the unvested stock options to vanish anyway, the sole purpose of this move seems to be Zynga pulling rank and letting its workers know who is boss.
And the fact is that people are still desperate enough for a job that they'd rather bend over and take it.
Bingo.
Who has the most bargaining power and the most leesh to bully the weaker?
In this world it's all about power and politics.
Getting revenge can be quite satisfying if your shares are going to be worthless no matter what you do anyway.
There was a crime committed, but she waited too long to reveal the video and the statute of limitations expired.
The only way to get into office is to make it past the corporate gatekeepers controlling the media.
No kidding.
The corrupt, corporate donk sucking politicians in congress would impeach him in no time flat, if the media owned by the same corporate sector even allowed such a reformer to get into the whitehouse in the first place.
Not to mention hardware vendors that get away with making shitty circuitry and then hiding the problems behind windows only drivers.
Or maybe they just have you write their code for free under the guise of evaluating.
Poaching an evaluation for free consulting isn't exactly new.
Correlation and causation and all of that jazz.
I could be more detailed but why bother?
That's because facts, by definition, are true things that do not yield to opinions.
If it wasn't true, it wouldn't be a fact in the first place.
That said, whether something is a fact or not IS a matter of opinion, and things aren't facts/not facts just because we say they are.