Yeah, Opera has way too many (way too much of everything in general, in fact). We'll likely remove dmoz and just keep Find in Page and Google. Since Google is basically the best at find everything, we see no point in adding so many search engines. We may add specialized ones like dictionary.com, or just make it easier to add engines.
Re:Need better home page - like most open source
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Phoenix 0.4 Released
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Let's see. We're at a 0.4 release. Why do we want people who can't understand our homepage using it, again?
Is it just me or can Slashdot visitors not read?
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Phoenix 0.4 Released
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I already explained this earlier. Phoenix inherently has themes support because of its architect. Not a single thing was done for 0.4 to support themes. The difference was that some people decided to make themes for Phoenix.
Actually, no. Phoenix diverges more and more from Mozilla code every day. And, in fact, we did tweak the paint delay, so page loading may well seem faster in 0.4.
Phoenix has always had theme support. It inherently supports themes because of its architecture and would be foolish not to offer the capability. The difference in this milestone is that some people have begun making themes that work with Phoenix.
Woo hoo! Another misinformed, false story. By Jamie again, not a shock (the same person who wrote the last misinformed Mozilla story). It's obvious you made absolutely no attempt at all here to get the story right, since contacting ANYONE at all within the Mozilla organization would have filled you in that M16 JUST came out, and we're far from M17. Please get your facts straight and do a little *research* before writing a story. It also helps to make an EFFORT to contact Mozilla before you go and post false information.
No, you need to get the facts right before you post as if you know what's going on.
Greatdomains.com is basically a home to cybersquatters. It is a place where people can go and sign up with their site, and then list their domain name and description for why it is so good on a listings page. They then can put their price range or write MAKE OFFER. Prices usually are in the tens of thousands of dollars range, with some in the hundreds of thousands. About 75% of those sites (and go ahead and visit them if you don't believe me) are owned by cybersquatters looking to make a nice little profit...simply go to the majority of those pages and you won't see any remnants of a real site that used to be at the location, but rather a simple "for sale" page that greatdomains.com provides.
As if it wasn't bad enough that greatdomains.com promotes the idea of cybersquatting as a type of business forum (where users can go and try to resell their domains for tons of profit, rather than doing the respectable thing - simply not using it and letting InterNIC offer it to someone else for the *NORMAL* price of $70/2 yrs), greatdomains.com apparently also takes part in cybersquatting themselves. Your claim that "They do NOT own races.com...some guy in the UK registered the name" is completely wrong, because you failed to do sufficient research before attempting to prove what we said as incorrect. According to whois, a company called Sportworld, Ltd. registered the domain. And, according to the Wired article (maybe you actually should have read it more carefully before posting), Sportworld Ltd. is a "domain speculation company" which runs greatdomains.com. Now, admittedly, this seems odd to me - why would a company called Sportworld run greatdomains.com? Why would it be located in the UK and greatdomains.com says their in California? Perhaps Sportworld ltd. is just a made up name to pretend as if a sporting company had originally used races.com for its own purposes. However, I will assume that Wired has done sufficient amount of research to make the claim that Sportworld, Ltd. is the parent company of GreatDomains.com. The fact that races.com is hosted on servers provided by GreatDomains.com, and that if you go to the page it says it was registered on greatdomains.com, supports this claim.
And if there was any doubt that races.com was registered by a cybersquatter, let it be eliminated. For, just look at what it's registered under with whois: "Sportworld ltd dom for sale" They even put an for sale advertisement in their whois registration! And the domain has been registered for about a week and yet it's already up for $500,000 auction on greatdomains.com? Please.
The fact of the matter is that there's apparently a little partnership between register.com and greatdomains.com, one that is unjust and perhaps illegal, and at the very least, one that we the slashdot community should not accept. Someone (I forget who, sorry) brought up this idea before - obviously, register.com notifies greatdomains.com whenever a previously used domain that has potential for profit becomes available, at which point greatdomains.com is able to jump the gun by registering it right when it becomes available. In fact, register.com might even make it first available to greatdomains.com BEFORE the general public can register the domain for the normal price. In fact, they probably have people 'round the clock checking newly available domain names and either buying it for $70 just to turn around and sell it for $500,000, or rejecting if (if it's not a good one) so the general public can again buy it. This, to say the least, is absolutely disgusting, and by us sitting here and doing nothing, we give our sign of approval and acceptance.
We are their business, and their ultimate source of profit. If we stop coming, they'll listen.
It's more than a simple affiliation. Their pages have greatdomains.com all over it, and even their ads and images have the greatdomains.com logo next to it. They seem to be more like partners.
And yes, I realize that legally Network Solutions is the one to blame (as I mentioned). However, this is a campaign against greatdomains.com/register.com as potential cybersquatters. While it is not directly related to the issue at hand (about races.com), it stems from it.
First off -- I'm not surprised about the whole situation, especially www.register.com's refusal to give it back. "contract with the man" my ass - I invite you to check out greatdomains.register.com Yes, the two companies are affiliates - which explains the greatdomains.com advertisement on every page that is returned when a user searches for a domain name already in use. Now, I'll admit that this is absolutely pathetic of Network Solutions, and for one of the oldest domain name registrars in the business, they're certainly acting quite spineless and cowardly in this situation. Still, though, I cannot help but be FURIOUS at greatdomains.com, and now register.com as I found out that the two are affiliates. How low can they be, to register that domain name the EXACT instant it becomes available -- apparently, they have an automated system that searches for such domains, or something of the like. And greatdomains.com doesn't even bother -- ANYWHERE ON ITS SITE - to describe its motive, and how domain names - usually costing $70 - are upwards of $500,000 on their site. This is where my disappointment comes in...
Nope, it's not disappointment for either Network Solutions nor register.com/greatdomains.com. It's disappointment for the hundreds of thousands of SlashDot members out there who, though continuously complaining that they're 'sick of cybersquatters like greatdomains.com,' do absolutely nothing about it. Guys, we can comment about it til the sun goes down and that's not making a damn difference. But rather than moving on and forget about it, why don't we do something about it? Though small in comparison to the likes of c|net or ZDNET, the userbase of Slashdot is certainly large enough to put a dent in register.com's and greatdomain.com's wallet. Or at least make them sit up and take notice.
So why not, to start at least, an organized campaign boycotting greatdomains.com and register.com? I've found sportworld@msn.com (listed administrative contact) to be the most likely address to be checked - better than filling out the greatdomains.com support & bug report. I propose that each and every slashdot member out there who is sick of these types of stories, or having to pay $500,000 to a sleezy company who bought a domain for $70, write a letter - perhaps we could post a template of one here or, if Rob approves of this idea, on the main page - to register.com and greatdomains.com, telling them that (though it'd be inaccurate) every single one of the hundreds of thousands of slashdot members will now be using Network Solutions (in an attempt to get them to return the domain), and will definitely NOT be registering domains from greatdomains.com - and spreading the word as well. This is only the start. Letters could be sent to CNET, ZDNET, and just about any other electronics information site out there, publicizing this story and shining the light on what greatdomains.com does, including registering domains for cheap prices just for the purpose of reselling them for tons of cash. And of course, don't forget to mention their partnership with register.com The goal of this would be not so much to get McLanahan's domain back (though surely this is one goal), but in general to expose such companies as greatdomains.com/register.com and their motives.
I am not kidding around here, I'm talking about an organized effort of every slashdot member who's sick of this sort of thing, with letters to any person or company who might seem relevant in this matter, and perhaps a website set up for our campaign. I know some (most) of you are looking right now to get back at Network Solutions for being so weakminded and "hey, it wasn't us" about this. But right now I'm having trouble placing full blame (though they probably deserve it) on Network Solutions, having just seen (for the first time) greatdomains.com. Granted, I've seen cybersquatters in the past, but never have I seen such a slick business as greatdomains.com, who try to act as just another large, respectable organization, overshadowing their unjust motives - which I feel could change if such motives are exposed to enough people publicly, and especially if such companies are boycotted by slashdot's users (their target audience, mainly), among other people.
Guys, we've got an entire slashdot community and a voice. Let's use it.
I'm sorry, I realize none of you want to hear again the whole "playing god" thing, but I really think this has gone too far. Who does man think he is, to assume the role of god and create life? Are we really that conceited that we feel we are ALLOWED to create other organisms? I wasn't even thrilled when we began cloning other species, though at least we weren't starting with a lab table and ending up with a brand new organism.
I don't want to get off topic, but...man continues to disgust me. Too often we think that WE are the dominant species, the ones meant to survive. We are arrogant, and we are ignorant. Every day we cut down tons of trees for wood in order to keep industry alive. When will we realize that these very trees are what supply us with oxygen? And who gave us the job of ruining the habitats and lives of other organisms...why, just because we have more brainpower than them? People often say we're the smartest of species, but I disagree. For, if we truly were, we wouldn't be the only species on earth who kills its own for pleasure.
And now this. And now, we synthesize life, just another step in man's arrogant trip to the top. This comes at a time when we are trying to learn more about other plants, of which Mars comes to mind at the moment. The first thing we did when we found out we could get to Mars was send out probes to check if there was water there, and analyze the atmosphere -- why? Sure there were some minor scientific reasons: life on mars? history of mars? But the real reason - can it support human life? Once again, we are putting ourselves first, not worrying about how we will ruin Mars as we did Earth, and trying to extend our boundaries and God-given limitations.
Folks, I am not an overly religious person. But this has got to stop.
When will the realization that we are not the be-all end-all species set in, and finally limit our scientific expeditions?
Science can take us anywhere; it's time for us to set the limits on how far we'll let it take us.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, Opera has way too many (way too much of everything in general, in fact). We'll likely remove dmoz and just keep Find in Page and Google. Since Google is basically the best at find everything, we see no point in adding so many search engines. We may add specialized ones like dictionary.com, or just make it easier to add engines.
Let's see. We're at a 0.4 release. Why do we want people who can't understand our homepage using it, again?
I already explained this earlier. Phoenix inherently has themes support because of its architect. Not a single thing was done for 0.4 to support themes. The difference was that some people decided to make themes for Phoenix.
Actually, no. Phoenix diverges more and more from Mozilla code every day. And, in fact, we did tweak the paint delay, so page loading may well seem faster in 0.4.
Phoenix has always had theme support. It inherently supports themes because of its architecture and would be foolish not to offer the capability. The difference in this milestone is that some people have begun making themes that work with Phoenix.
Sure it has. Try downloading a nightly. In any case, Protozilla wasn't released by mozilla.org, so your comment is irrelevant.
Mozilla.org didn't release this, it was someone's project at MozDev. You clearly know this, since you linked to mozzev.org.
Woo hoo! Another misinformed, false story. By Jamie again, not a shock (the same person who wrote the last misinformed Mozilla story). It's obvious you made absolutely no attempt at all here to get the story right, since contacting ANYONE at all within the Mozilla organization would have filled you in that M16 JUST came out, and we're far from M17. Please get your facts straight and do a little *research* before writing a story. It also helps to make an EFFORT to contact Mozilla before you go and post false information.
--
Blake Ross
Mozilla Skinability QA
No, you need to get the facts right before you post as if you know what's going on.
Greatdomains.com is basically a home to cybersquatters. It is a place where people can go and sign up with their site, and then list their domain name and description for why it is so good on a listings page. They then can put their price range or write MAKE OFFER. Prices usually are in the tens of thousands of dollars range, with some in the hundreds of thousands. About 75% of those sites (and go ahead and visit them if you don't believe me) are owned by cybersquatters looking to make a nice little profit...simply go to the majority of those pages and you won't see any remnants of a real site that used to be at the location, but rather a simple "for sale" page that greatdomains.com provides.
As if it wasn't bad enough that greatdomains.com promotes the idea of cybersquatting as a type of business forum (where users can go and try to resell their domains for tons of profit, rather than doing the respectable thing - simply not using it and letting InterNIC offer it to someone else for the *NORMAL* price of $70/2 yrs), greatdomains.com apparently also takes part in cybersquatting themselves. Your claim that "They do NOT own races.com...some guy in the UK registered the name" is completely wrong, because you failed to do sufficient research before attempting to prove what we said as incorrect. According to whois, a company called Sportworld, Ltd. registered the domain. And, according to the Wired article (maybe you actually should have read it more carefully before posting), Sportworld Ltd. is a "domain speculation company" which runs greatdomains.com. Now, admittedly, this seems odd to me - why would a company called Sportworld run greatdomains.com? Why would it be located in the UK and greatdomains.com says their in California? Perhaps Sportworld ltd. is just a made up name to pretend as if a sporting company had originally used races.com for its own purposes. However, I will assume that Wired has done sufficient amount of research to make the claim that Sportworld, Ltd. is the parent company of GreatDomains.com. The fact that races.com is hosted on servers provided by GreatDomains.com, and that if you go to the page it says it was registered on greatdomains.com, supports this claim.
And if there was any doubt that races.com was registered by a cybersquatter, let it be eliminated. For, just look at what it's registered under with whois: "Sportworld ltd dom for sale" They even put an for sale advertisement in their whois registration! And the domain has been registered for about a week and yet it's already up for $500,000 auction on greatdomains.com? Please.
The fact of the matter is that there's apparently a little partnership between register.com and greatdomains.com, one that is unjust and perhaps illegal, and at the very least, one that we the slashdot community should not accept. Someone (I forget who, sorry) brought up this idea before - obviously, register.com notifies greatdomains.com whenever a previously used domain that has potential for profit becomes available, at which point greatdomains.com is able to jump the gun by registering it right when it becomes available. In fact, register.com might even make it first available to greatdomains.com BEFORE the general public can register the domain for the normal price. In fact, they probably have people 'round the clock checking newly available domain names and either buying it for $70 just to turn around and sell it for $500,000, or rejecting if (if it's not a good one) so the general public can again buy it. This, to say the least, is absolutely disgusting, and by us sitting here and doing nothing, we give our sign of approval and acceptance.
We are their business, and their ultimate source of profit. If we stop coming, they'll listen.
It's more than a simple affiliation. Their pages have greatdomains.com all over it, and even their ads and images have the greatdomains.com logo next to it. They seem to be more like partners.
And yes, I realize that legally Network Solutions is the one to blame (as I mentioned). However, this is a campaign against greatdomains.com/register.com as potential cybersquatters. While it is not directly related to the issue at hand (about races.com), it stems from it.
First off -- I'm not surprised about the whole situation, especially www.register.com's refusal to give it back. "contract with the man" my ass - I invite you to check out greatdomains.register.com Yes, the two companies are affiliates - which explains the greatdomains.com advertisement on every page that is returned when a user searches for a domain name already in use. Now, I'll admit that this is absolutely pathetic of Network Solutions, and for one of the oldest domain name registrars in the business, they're certainly acting quite spineless and cowardly in this situation. Still, though, I cannot help but be FURIOUS at greatdomains.com, and now register.com as I found out that the two are affiliates. How low can they be, to register that domain name the EXACT instant it becomes available -- apparently, they have an automated system that searches for such domains, or something of the like. And greatdomains.com doesn't even bother -- ANYWHERE ON ITS SITE - to describe its motive, and how domain names - usually costing $70 - are upwards of $500,000 on their site. This is where my disappointment comes in...
Nope, it's not disappointment for either Network Solutions nor register.com/greatdomains.com. It's disappointment for the hundreds of thousands of SlashDot members out there who, though continuously complaining that they're 'sick of cybersquatters like greatdomains.com,' do absolutely nothing about it. Guys, we can comment about it til the sun goes down and that's not making a damn difference. But rather than moving on and forget about it, why don't we do something about it? Though small in comparison to the likes of c|net or ZDNET, the userbase of Slashdot is certainly large enough to put a dent in register.com's and greatdomain.com's wallet. Or at least make them sit up and take notice.
So why not, to start at least, an organized campaign boycotting greatdomains.com and register.com? I've found sportworld@msn.com (listed administrative contact) to be the most likely address to be checked - better than filling out the greatdomains.com support & bug report. I propose that each and every slashdot member out there who is sick of these types of stories, or having to pay $500,000 to a sleezy company who bought a domain for $70, write a letter - perhaps we could post a template of one here or, if Rob approves of this idea, on the main page - to register.com and greatdomains.com, telling them that (though it'd be inaccurate) every single one of the hundreds of thousands of slashdot members will now be using Network Solutions (in an attempt to get them to return the domain), and will definitely NOT be registering domains from greatdomains.com - and spreading the word as well. This is only the start. Letters could be sent to CNET, ZDNET, and just about any other electronics information site out there, publicizing this story and shining the light on what greatdomains.com does, including registering domains for cheap prices just for the purpose of reselling them for tons of cash. And of course, don't forget to mention their partnership with register.com The goal of this would be not so much to get McLanahan's domain back (though surely this is one goal), but in general to expose such companies as greatdomains.com/register.com and their motives.
I am not kidding around here, I'm talking about an organized effort of every slashdot member who's sick of this sort of thing, with letters to any person or company who might seem relevant in this matter, and perhaps a website set up for our campaign. I know some (most) of you are looking right now to get back at Network Solutions for being so weakminded and "hey, it wasn't us" about this. But right now I'm having trouble placing full blame (though they probably deserve it) on Network Solutions, having just seen (for the first time) greatdomains.com. Granted, I've seen cybersquatters in the past, but never have I seen such a slick business as greatdomains.com, who try to act as just another large, respectable organization, overshadowing their unjust motives - which I feel could change if such motives are exposed to enough people publicly, and especially if such companies are boycotted by slashdot's users (their target audience, mainly), among other people.
Guys, we've got an entire slashdot community and a voice. Let's use it.
Skeptics of the campaign need not apply.
I'm sorry, I realize none of you want to hear again the whole "playing god" thing, but I really think this has gone too far. Who does man think he is, to assume the role of god and create life? Are we really that conceited that we feel we are ALLOWED to create other organisms? I wasn't even thrilled when we began cloning other species, though at least we weren't starting with a lab table and ending up with a brand new organism.
I don't want to get off topic, but...man continues to disgust me. Too often we think that WE are the dominant species, the ones meant to survive. We are arrogant, and we are ignorant. Every day we cut down tons of trees for wood in order to keep industry alive. When will we realize that these very trees are what supply us with oxygen? And who gave us the job of ruining the habitats and lives of other organisms...why, just because we have more brainpower than them? People often say we're the smartest of species, but I disagree. For, if we truly were, we wouldn't be the only species on earth who kills its own for pleasure.
And now this. And now, we synthesize life, just another step in man's arrogant trip to the top. This comes at a time when we are trying to learn more about other plants, of which Mars comes to mind at the moment. The first thing we did when we found out we could get to Mars was send out probes to check if there was water there, and analyze the atmosphere -- why? Sure there were some minor scientific reasons: life on mars? history of mars? But the real reason - can it support human life? Once again, we are putting ourselves first, not worrying about how we will ruin Mars as we did Earth, and trying to extend our boundaries and God-given limitations.
Folks, I am not an overly religious person. But this has got to stop.
When will the realization that we are not the be-all end-all species set in, and finally limit our scientific expeditions?
Science can take us anywhere; it's time for us to set the limits on how far we'll let it take us.
---Blake