I would have to agree, with this one. I'm not so against the bias, everyone has their bias, especially/.'ers.
However, the information presented in this article is telling a lie whether it be through ignorance or just for sensationalism. Please, at least research and then present semi-true information before spreading it to thousands of others, it destroys the credibility of the site and underlying organization, namely Slashdot.
The last few weeks I have noticed the quality of Slashdot's postings has deteriorated. Alot of duplicate postings etc... I don't know maybe I'm just too critical... any thoughts along these lines?
With all of the email viruses, internet borne viruses, worms, holes, DDOS attacks, it surprises me that anyone even uses the internet or related technologies at all. It will be a sad day when the whole idea of the internet is just "dumped" because of hackers (the bad kind), holes and bandwidth abuse. It seems like daily that I read through the articles on slashdot and find a new hole, exploit or virus that is being used or abused. Take for instance the recent decision to shut down the first IRC server, because of repeated DDOS attacks, that is truly a shame. As I have said often before, abuse it and lose it...
Arnold is a little bit older no doubt but he is still ARNOLD. 7 time Mr. Olympia, 3 time Mr. Universe, one of the best know faces on the planet. Arnold is awesome, any movie graced by his presence is awesome, regardless of the movie quality itself. Arnold has a presence about him that makes him almost superhuman. Arnold is the American Dream... what next, the Presidency?
Stop the whining about Arnold being "too old", he is in better shape even now at 55 then 99.9% of you twenty year olds out there. Arnold is Awesome, Arnold is back...
What is with IRC and DDOS attacks? If you abuse it you lose it... What about this do the DDOS attackers not understand, they are only hurting themselves, if the whole internet gets shut down because of their antics then what? Don't they see they are only hurting themselves?
I wonder if Microsoft is not trying to rush the "abandonware" concept. I mean if they can get rid of everything except for their next iterations of WinXP and.NET server, they can probably make up a ton of lost profit from people who don't license "every" copy of Windows they are using. That is the motive behind this in my opinion, I wouldn't be surprised if they accelarate their "unsupport" policy.
Has anyone ever taken into the consideration that dangerous nature of these things? Maybe I'm thinking wrong but if these lasers are always on then it wouldn't take much to accidentally trip or turn and zap your buddy.
I agree, it took a certain ammount of blood, sweat and tears to get them even viable, but at some point they began to use their power in an abusive manner. These anti-trust cases do have some merit you know. I'm not totally anti-microsoft, however I see how they treat their legitimate competion and their own customers.
If all these rich people have all this money and power, why don't they work together and build themselves a "privatized" space station and space program, so they can stop abusing the government funded ones that cost us taxpayers billions of dollars to put up. Lets get real if Bill Gates and some of his richer buddies got together on an idea like this they could probably have an even more impressive "space hotel" than the ISS, I wouldn't doubt it, and their own shuttle to go with it (seating for 30).
I say let the rich people build their own space program if what they want are "vacations and joy rides".
Come to think of it why doesn't Microsoft with all its money not dabble more in the communication industry, particularily satellites and other space ventures, if they really want to be innovative I think this is where its at...
You are somewhat correct I suppose, however a domain name registration is far cry from an OS that you install on your PC at home. The tangibility of a domain name is the fact that you use it in your email address or web site or you put your web address on your company phamplets, a domain name does have tangibility in that it is a source for information, look at the power of the domain name "slashdot.org", a name is literally what you make it. We could easily say that slashdot doesn't really exist because in a sense there is no physical presence it is completely online. Your parallels you make need some rethinking.
At least that is what I call it, ok what are you really getting here, your getting the "right" to use their OS on another machine. Wow...
Come on, if your going to pay another $80.00 bucks at least M$ could provide you with a nice box, CD and manual and perhaps some little stickers etc...
I can hardly think of any industry where you pay 90% full price of a product and you see really no tangible "product". Granted this is the software business, but who is really saving money here, not the consumer really, only microsoft. The consumer is actually not saving anything, M$ is jacking them out of the CD, box, etc... so yeah... the price should be $10 less. Personally, I would rather pay full price for a totally new copy so I can have another backup CD of the OS in case I damage the first one.
Your absolutely right, just think your driving down the freeway and your timing belt snaps after 130,000 miles (this happened to me on my last trip back from Canada while driving through Montana last year) of driving. No problem just slowly ease your car to the shoulder of the road, turning on your hazard lights and thumb a ride. Ok now lets parallel this to a small airplane... something goes wrong in your engine (I'm not an airplane engine expert so I won't go into details, however whatever the problem is it basically shuts down your engine) no problem you assume the correct glide angle for maximum decent time based on your airplane specs and your cargo weight, this can all easily be programmed into any advanced airplane with an onboard computer. Ok, so now we are descending at a safe rate now the next step, find a safe landing strip... not so easy. What if your flying over residential or urban areas? How about over a large body of water, better yet over a treacherous rocky mountain range. You get my point, ditching an airplane isn't as simple as some would like to think, something else to think about is how many small aircraft pilots have actually practiced a ditched landing without any engine power? I knew a seaplane pilot who had the luck of such a landing, some pranksters drained the fuel out of his tanks about 1 min. after takeoff his engine sputtered to a stop, he managed to land back on the same lake just brushing the tops of the Cedars as he glided in, five feet less altitude and he probably would have been dead. The point is that driving a car and an airplane cannot even be compared, there are alot of different variables that must be considered before mass transit via small airplanes should be considered.
Unfortunately, this does work, even when the charges were perfectly valid. You would not believe how many of our customers (sometimes accidentally, their brother or someone used their CC to purchase a domain or hosting account without them knowing) call their CC company and request a charge back. 99% of the time it goes through and they get their money back. The point is a domain registration is such a small ticket item that most companies just write it off since it is too small to waste the time fighting. If for whatever reason you are being defrauded, then by all means use this method, because it does work. Even if you do make a mistake, usually the merchant or CC company eats it anyway, especially if it is a small ticket item. That is the unfortunate part about it for merchants like ourselves, but I guess it is one of the costs of doing business. Fortunately most people are honest and don't do charge backs unless there really is reason to do so.
What is even more interesting lately is they have added in a second confirmation step. They have deliberately worded the confirmation so as to make it confusing, many of our clients reply "yes" only to find out that they basically had confirmed: "Yes, I want to keep my domain registration with Verisign". When in actual fact they thought they were replying: "Yes, I want to move my domain to the new registrar". They are using every tactic in the book trying to hang onto their sagging market share, of course trying to keep everything "borderline" legal so they stay out of real trouble. If you read through the ICANN website and visit the forum section you will see how many complaints have been filed regarding this sort of treatment and unprofessional tactics on Verisign's/NSI part.
Yes, this is a problem that plagues almost 90% of our customers transfering their domain away from Verisign. It is simply their policy to lock the domain name down, I unfortunately have to deal with it on a dail basis, as a result I have posted up a warning on our transfer page: Registrar Transfer Page
Even with this notice posted, most people ignore it somehow, then when the transfer comes back declined they want their transfer fee refunded which of course we lose money on since crediting back a credit card (even a small amount) costs us a dollar. Its gotten to the point that I don't even want to try to do registrar transfer anymore. Too much hassle and headaches...
Granted I am a bit biased, since we are a Tucows/OpenSRS reseller. However, I have not found a more reliable and friendly company to work with than Tucows. The development team is awesome and their support staff is more than willing to work with you. We have been registering our domains through them over a year and a half now, and have never once regretted the move from first NSI and then later registrars.com
We currently retail domains at $13.00 per year (which isn't the cheapest price out there) after buying them wholesale from Tucows at $10.00 year.
If you are serious about registering lots of domains I strongly suggest becoming a Tucows reseller.
With this experiment is it going to be real isolation, I mean on Mars your not going to be able to hop onto the internet or call someone when you get bored, I think the psycological testing is more important than the physical aspects, granted that does need to be addressed as well.
Truthfully though you have a point, 50% of the server cases I have had shipped have been damaged, usually in route. I mean lets face it if you throw down a box with a flimsy computer case inside something has got to give. The funny thing though is the situation I had about 8 months ago, I ordered the identical case from Onvia.com and Egghead.com (not my favorite vendors, but they had the lowest price at the time). Both cases arrived about 2 days apart, both were severly damaged. However, they were shipped with different companies, FedEx and UPS. At first I thought it was just a coincidence, and my "luck".
Then when I was looking at the shipping labels getting ready to return them to their respective companies, I noticed that they have both been shipped from the same location. (Somewhere in Florida, can't remember the exact address, not that it matters). Come to find out they had both come out of the same warehouse. That seemed rather strange, then it donned on me that the shipping companies were probably not at fault here. The merchandise was damaged before it even left the warehouse. Anyhow, I contacted the warehouse after some digging and explained the situation further, (gave them my case model number: Antec SX1030) and asked them to check into it. They later contacted me and explained that one of their forklift drivers had accidentally backed into a pallet full of these cases, but had not reported it to their superior, so not knowing anything was really wrong (even though the cardboard boxes they came in looked pretty mangled to me) they had proceeded to ship that damaged goods, at least that was their story.
Long story short, I got my money back and UPS and FedEx were both exonerated.
I'm starting to agree with you, its not going to be any big money maker, however it is kind of nice getting a name that you've always wanted... I've registered a few myself just for that reason.
Ok, I'm not sure what you see is funny in this, I mean how many people laughed when the Hubble was found to be near sighted, or we lost our last major probe to Mars, come on this stuff cost us and countless other tax payers millions of dollars. I don't see what there is to laugh about...
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"hoop" = (verb) To destroy or break, to be rendered useless, also used commonly in the past tense (ie. This car is hooped.)
I would have to agree, with this one. I'm not so against the bias, everyone has their bias, especially /.'ers.
However, the information presented in this article is telling a lie whether it be through ignorance or just for sensationalism. Please, at least research and then present semi-true information before spreading it to thousands of others, it destroys the credibility of the site and underlying organization, namely Slashdot.
The last few weeks I have noticed the quality of Slashdot's postings has deteriorated. Alot of duplicate postings etc... I don't know maybe I'm just too critical... any thoughts along these lines?
With all of the email viruses, internet borne viruses, worms, holes, DDOS attacks, it surprises me that anyone even uses the internet or related technologies at all. It will be a sad day when the whole idea of the internet is just "dumped" because of hackers (the bad kind), holes and bandwidth abuse. It seems like daily that I read through the articles on slashdot and find a new hole, exploit or virus that is being used or abused. Take for instance the recent decision to shut down the first IRC server, because of repeated DDOS attacks, that is truly a shame. As I have said often before, abuse it and lose it...
Arnold is a little bit older no doubt but he is still ARNOLD. 7 time Mr. Olympia, 3 time Mr. Universe, one of the best know faces on the planet. Arnold is awesome, any movie graced by his presence is awesome, regardless of the movie quality itself. Arnold has a presence about him that makes him almost superhuman. Arnold is the American Dream... what next, the Presidency?
Stop the whining about Arnold being "too old", he is in better shape even now at 55 then 99.9% of you twenty year olds out there. Arnold is Awesome, Arnold is back...
Hmmm... I was just wondering, I registered slashdot.info for the fun of it, I don't think it is trademarked but if it is what then?
What is with IRC and DDOS attacks? If you abuse it you lose it... What about this do the DDOS attackers not understand, they are only hurting themselves, if the whole internet gets shut down because of their antics then what? Don't they see they are only hurting themselves?
I wonder if Microsoft is not trying to rush the "abandonware" concept. I mean if they can get rid of everything except for their next iterations of WinXP and .NET server, they can probably make up a ton of lost profit from people who don't license "every" copy of Windows they are using. That is the motive behind this in my opinion, I wouldn't be surprised if they accelarate their "unsupport" policy.
Has anyone ever taken into the consideration that dangerous nature of these things? Maybe I'm thinking wrong but if these lasers are always on then it wouldn't take much to accidentally trip or turn and zap your buddy.
I agree, it took a certain ammount of blood, sweat and tears to get them even viable, but at some point they began to use their power in an abusive manner. These anti-trust cases do have some merit you know. I'm not totally anti-microsoft, however I see how they treat their legitimate competion and their own customers.
If all these rich people have all this money and power, why don't they work together and build themselves a "privatized" space station and space program, so they can stop abusing the government funded ones that cost us taxpayers billions of dollars to put up. Lets get real if Bill Gates and some of his richer buddies got together on an idea like this they could probably have an even more impressive "space hotel" than the ISS, I wouldn't doubt it, and their own shuttle to go with it (seating for 30).
I say let the rich people build their own space program if what they want are "vacations and joy rides".
Come to think of it why doesn't Microsoft with all its money not dabble more in the communication industry, particularily satellites and other space ventures, if they really want to be innovative I think this is where its at...
My answer, one word: monopoly
You are somewhat correct I suppose, however a domain name registration is far cry from an OS that you install on your PC at home. The tangibility of a domain name is the fact that you use it in your email address or web site or you put your web address on your company phamplets, a domain name does have tangibility in that it is a source for information, look at the power of the domain name "slashdot.org", a name is literally what you make it. We could easily say that slashdot doesn't really exist because in a sense there is no physical presence it is completely online. Your parallels you make need some rethinking.
Does anyone have information as to what exactly a Leonid is?
Sorry for the ignorance...
At least that is what I call it, ok what are you really getting here, your getting the "right" to use their OS on another machine. Wow...
Come on, if your going to pay another $80.00 bucks at least M$ could provide you with a nice box, CD and manual and perhaps some little stickers etc...
I can hardly think of any industry where you pay 90% full price of a product and you see really no tangible "product". Granted this is the software business, but who is really saving money here, not the consumer really, only microsoft. The consumer is actually not saving anything, M$ is jacking them out of the CD, box, etc... so yeah... the price should be $10 less. Personally, I would rather pay full price for a totally new copy so I can have another backup CD of the OS in case I damage the first one.
I'm sticking with Win2k for now.
Your absolutely right, just think your driving down the freeway and your timing belt snaps after 130,000 miles (this happened to me on my last trip back from Canada while driving through Montana last year) of driving. No problem just slowly ease your car to the shoulder of the road, turning on your hazard lights and thumb a ride. Ok now lets parallel this to a small airplane... something goes wrong in your engine (I'm not an airplane engine expert so I won't go into details, however whatever the problem is it basically shuts down your engine) no problem you assume the correct glide angle for maximum decent time based on your airplane specs and your cargo weight, this can all easily be programmed into any advanced airplane with an onboard computer. Ok, so now we are descending at a safe rate now the next step, find a safe landing strip... not so easy. What if your flying over residential or urban areas? How about over a large body of water, better yet over a treacherous rocky mountain range. You get my point, ditching an airplane isn't as simple as some would like to think, something else to think about is how many small aircraft pilots have actually practiced a ditched landing without any engine power? I knew a seaplane pilot who had the luck of such a landing, some pranksters drained the fuel out of his tanks about 1 min. after takeoff his engine sputtered to a stop, he managed to land back on the same lake just brushing the tops of the Cedars as he glided in, five feet less altitude and he probably would have been dead. The point is that driving a car and an airplane cannot even be compared, there are alot of different variables that must be considered before mass transit via small airplanes should be considered.
Unfortunately, this does work, even when the charges were perfectly valid. You would not believe how many of our customers (sometimes accidentally, their brother or someone used their CC to purchase a domain or hosting account without them knowing) call their CC company and request a charge back. 99% of the time it goes through and they get their money back. The point is a domain registration is such a small ticket item that most companies just write it off since it is too small to waste the time fighting. If for whatever reason you are being defrauded, then by all means use this method, because it does work. Even if you do make a mistake, usually the merchant or CC company eats it anyway, especially if it is a small ticket item. That is the unfortunate part about it for merchants like ourselves, but I guess it is one of the costs of doing business. Fortunately most people are honest and don't do charge backs unless there really is reason to do so.
What is even more interesting lately is they have added in a second confirmation step. They have deliberately worded the confirmation so as to make it confusing, many of our clients reply "yes" only to find out that they basically had confirmed: "Yes, I want to keep my domain registration with Verisign". When in actual fact they thought they were replying: "Yes, I want to move my domain to the new registrar". They are using every tactic in the book trying to hang onto their sagging market share, of course trying to keep everything "borderline" legal so they stay out of real trouble. If you read through the ICANN website and visit the forum section you will see how many complaints have been filed regarding this sort of treatment and unprofessional tactics on Verisign's/NSI part.
Yes, this is a problem that plagues almost 90% of our customers transfering their domain away from Verisign. It is simply their policy to lock the domain name down, I unfortunately have to deal with it on a dail basis, as a result I have posted up a warning on our transfer page: Registrar Transfer Page
Even with this notice posted, most people ignore it somehow, then when the transfer comes back declined they want their transfer fee refunded which of course we lose money on since crediting back a credit card (even a small amount) costs us a dollar. Its gotten to the point that I don't even want to try to do registrar transfer anymore. Too much hassle and headaches...
Granted I am a bit biased, since we are a Tucows/OpenSRS reseller. However, I have not found a more reliable and friendly company to work with than Tucows. The development team is awesome and their support staff is more than willing to work with you. We have been registering our domains through them over a year and a half now, and have never once regretted the move from first NSI and then later registrars.com
We currently retail domains at $13.00 per year (which isn't the cheapest price out there) after buying them wholesale from Tucows at $10.00 year.
If you are serious about registering lots of domains I strongly suggest becoming a Tucows reseller.
With this experiment is it going to be real isolation, I mean on Mars your not going to be able to hop onto the internet or call someone when you get bored, I think the psycological testing is more important than the physical aspects, granted that does need to be addressed as well.
Truthfully though you have a point, 50% of the server cases I have had shipped have been damaged, usually in route. I mean lets face it if you throw down a box with a flimsy computer case inside something has got to give. The funny thing though is the situation I had about 8 months ago, I ordered the identical case from Onvia.com and Egghead.com (not my favorite vendors, but they had the lowest price at the time). Both cases arrived about 2 days apart, both were severly damaged. However, they were shipped with different companies, FedEx and UPS. At first I thought it was just a coincidence, and my "luck".
Then when I was looking at the shipping labels getting ready to return them to their respective companies, I noticed that they have both been shipped from the same location. (Somewhere in Florida, can't remember the exact address, not that it matters). Come to find out they had both come out of the same warehouse. That seemed rather strange, then it donned on me that the shipping companies were probably not at fault here. The merchandise was damaged before it even left the warehouse. Anyhow, I contacted the warehouse after some digging and explained the situation further, (gave them my case model number: Antec SX1030) and asked them to check into it. They later contacted me and explained that one of their forklift drivers had accidentally backed into a pallet full of these cases, but had not reported it to their superior, so not knowing anything was really wrong (even though the cardboard boxes they came in looked pretty mangled to me) they had proceeded to ship that damaged goods, at least that was their story.
Long story short, I got my money back and UPS and FedEx were both exonerated.
I'm starting to agree with you, its not going to be any big money maker, however it is kind of nice getting a name that you've always wanted... I've registered a few myself just for that reason.
Ok, I'm not sure what you see is funny in this, I mean how many people laughed when the Hubble was found to be near sighted, or we lost our last major probe to Mars, come on this stuff cost us and countless other tax payers millions of dollars. I don't see what there is to laugh about...
there is a simple test of stability, look for the telltale signs of movement which are "crevasses".
If you don't find any then you can be pretty sure the mass of ice is not moving.
Ok, this is great. Now lets gets a similar journaling file system for FreeBSD, that would really be something.