There are registrars outside US jurisdiction e.g www.gandi.net and joker.com.
While this means you should be careful on the terms and conditions and check their track records (so far I've used gandi before and they seem ok, I don't know much about joker), it means companies in other countries will have to work a bit harder to take down your domain.
Of course, if you use Gandi and do something that annoyed the French Gov, they might be able to force Gandi to pull your domain.
I recall when I last used them and let my domains expire, they didn't hog them, unlike some registrars which have a habit of squatting domains.
The other advantage is they are in France and in their view you own the domain name (subject to ICANN or TLD-specific rules - which you can't really blame them for). So non-French companies will need to work harder to shutdown your domain name;).
Uh just yell to your crowd address system: "Everyone! That guy in the crowd has got a gun! Take cover!" and take cover. If the rest of the people in crowd are the usual civilians, they'll try to disperse ASAP.
After 5-10 minutes (depends on size of crowd) if there are still a few able bodied people in the area, you can get your snipers to start pointing their guns at them (if they aren't already).
The ray gun isn't going to save anyone in the crowd from a gunman in the crowd. And seriously, it's not going to save you from a gunman in crowd if he knows you have this ray gun.
And this is why the US is having so much trouble in Iraq.
The people in charge are either evil or incompetent.
They take over Iraq (lying about the reasons). They don't listen to the experienced generals. They then tell the surrendered Iraqi army, "get lost!". Then they send young "cowboys" into the crappy situation, so the cowboys end up shooting random Iraqis just to "teach them a lesson"/"Show them whose boss"/"avenge my best buddy Joe" etc.
All the problems are not because of the lack of technology.
Lastly what's with all this War on Hearts and Minds, War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Crime? Sound just like those Jihad-loving bunch.
I think people are complaining about it because instinctively they are thinking something is wrong somewhere, but most just can't put their finger on it.
Say you have a company with lots of employees that hate the Management. Instead of addressing the real issues, Management sacks a whole bunch of people, and buys expensive technologies to "control the rest of the complainers", and says "hey at least we aren't sacking them".
So far I have not seen any sign of changes in the priorities or hearts of the "Management", and to me the focus on these sort of technologies just shows me what their true priorities are and the way they think.
In a war you kill people. But this technology is not for a war against soldiers. It's not for defending buildings or people, since this won't work against armed people out to kill or destroy.
What you see here is a Government that is spending money on _technologies_ for a "war" against civilians. I call it a war, because it seems to be such a popular word nowadays - war against drugs, war against terror, war against crime, war seems so popular no wonder we have so much of it.
Lastly, how much is that machine going to cost? USD1 million? USD5 million?
If it's that expensive given that this machine is likely to just piss protestors off, cause a stampede + various injuries and they'll just come back another day more prepared, you could achieve a similar thing by scattering thousands of USD100 bills away from the "protected" area... Not saying this is a good idea, just saying it's about as stupid and effective at solving the "problem".
The reason why the US is having problems ( in Iraq or wherever) is not really because of technology. It's because the people in charge are either evil or incompetent.
It's like a company with lots of employees that hate the Management. And now Management decides to buy expensive technology to fix that...
"The floggings will continue till morale improves".
The entire world should stick to XP and DirectX9, until WINE, Cedega etc can come up with compatible versions.
Then we can have some competition and not a monopoly. Otherwise you will have the same problem over and over again.
After all Vista isn't really an upgrade or that beneficial to users. It's main benefit is to the people who want DRM, and to Microsoft so that they can continue "slowly boiling frogs" - break compatibility a bit every few years so that competitors cannot make "windows compatibles" and so Microsoft won't end up becoming something like a "BIOS vendor"...
The only reasons the people on the street have given aren't really good reasons:
1) directx10 (nothing stops DX10 for being on XP/2K except Microsoft), and no games currently require DX10. 2) Because other people will upgrade (doh). 3) Better security (haha, right - their controls are so annoying people will turn them off). 4) Because Dell etc will only provide Vista (not true for now, and if people keep insisting on XP, Dell will have a nice chat with Microsoft).
Actually, I think the other Tank Man, is the soldier driving the first tank.
The one who chose NOT to run him over.
Countries need more soldiers like that. Soldiers who will refuse to kill their countrymen just because they were "following orders". There are good reasons for soldiers to kill fellow citizens, but "following orders" isn't a good one.
I wonder what happened to that Tank Man - the one driving the tank.
If I'd ever want to hire a good artist it's not that important to me whether the artist knows how to draw using 20 different tools. Or a writer/programmer knows 20 different languages.
I'd be more interested to know what they have actually created for work and fun, and intend to create in the future.
But then, I'm not working in HR or a boss of a company, so what do I know...
Uh, if you ask them of course they will say they believe in the right to intellectual property.
That's because you are using the brainwashing term called "intellectual property". That term is used to help spread the lie that copying is theft. And as you will see, most people fall for it.
Even so most people still don't think it should be wrong for them to make a copy of a CD track so that they can play it on their mp3 player.
But soon if the **AA have their way, in the future people may eventually think it's not right for them to replay a song/video in their artificially augmented brains[1] without getting permission or pay for the "privilege".
And that's why people should be more careful on what they allow.
[1] It's not impossible in the near future people could add a "photographic memory" feature to their brains. Nor impossible that certain Corporations would instantly want mandatory DRM on it.
A penny for your^H^H^H^HThe Copyright Owner's thoughts?
Yeah, I find it funny when people make such a big deal about running around to house making sure all the small stuff is totally off instead of continuously leaking 5W in "standby", and then they go drive with a heavy foot on their SUVs, leave the airconditioner on max.
It's even sillier if they are actually in a cold climate- because the 5W stuff contribute to heating.
Most conservation efforts/ideas appear to be more about "feel good" than actual practical conservation based on good science, engineering and economics.
Spending tens of thousands on solar panels NOW just to save the same amount in electric bills over decades is stupid. Only a good idea if the panels are much cheaper.
So the big question is, will having more people spending thousands on expensive panels make cheap and efficient panels more likely?
They just need to know which points the soldiers will eventually pass through. For the sort of warfare being conducted, they can just pick and choose. They are not trying to rescue people stuck somewhere, or kill a particular target by a particular date. They appear to be just killing as many US/Iraqi soldiers as convenient (the Iraqi soldiers helping the US are easier targets).
Can't smell through walls? You'd have to walk somewhere to get behind that wall. Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water 30+ feet deep. .
Dogs can even detect cancer and detect mine fields from air samples taken from various areas - samples are linked to GPS coordinates (but some are considering replacing dogs with rats in this case - rats are cheaper and have a good sense of smell too, plus I think you can breed the best performers faster).
If it's the same spam as the real active accounts are getting then it could be useful.
You have a source of 100% spam. So a machine will know what spam is.
Spammers could do the following tho: 1) Find out and avoid email accounts you are using to identify spam. 2) Send unique spam to each user (costs them more). 3) Copy and resend legit mass mails to try to get them to be deleted (but whitelisting can help).
"Yes, time - but where to go? Autodesk invested billions into AutoCAD and other products; their Inventor suite is married to the most inner guts of Windows, using DirectX and OLE and COM/COM+ and every other Windows "technology" that there is"
I'm quite surprised that AutoCAD 2007 doesn't work on Vista - either MS or Autodesk screwed up.
Bu anyway the point is- the Windows O/S hasn't really gone anywhere except downhill with Vista, so there's no point going where MS wants us to go. Just stay with XP till hopefully Cedega, WINE etc catch up. Then we can decide where to go if anywhere.
The BIOS people didn't really go anywhere, but that hasn't stopped the rest of the computer world from getting things done.
Microsoft can't pull XP in one year. If they really tried I bet huge companies would start making threatening noises about Linux, and there'll really be a huge demand for an XP compatible (they may even pour money into WINE, Transgaming etc).
They'll make exceptions for the big companies like always. So the issue is whether small timers (small but numerous) will continue demanding XP, or fall into Microsoft's trap.
I know that Microsoft in the past allowed new licenses to be used for old software. Whether they will allow this for Vista is a good question. And even if they don't, the Courts may allow it.
But the main thing is to try to get software and hardware vendors to maintain "Windows 2000/XP compatibility".
If they can maintain it long enough, then other alternative "Windows 2000/XP compatible" software/OS would be viable substitutes for Vista when Microsoft wants to pull the plug on Win XP. Some large companies have only just recently moved to XP (and I can understand why - XP SP2 is now what I consider reasonably stable. The earlier editions of XP weren't ). So if Microsoft wants to discontinue XP in 2 years, I doubt these big customers will be happy.
I'll say it again: this is the time to break free from the MS O/S monopoly. If people don't take the opportunity, then they'll continue to pay MS for producing nothing really great for many more years.
1) Use a different OEM. 2) Buy with the no O/S. Or return the software if it's bundled.
I also know a company which used Windows 95 before with >= Win2K licenses. Even Microsoft said it was OK.
If people really want to be free from this, they should let their suppliers know they are fine with just XP. As long as suppliers know their customers are actually using XP, and so continue to target "Windows XP compatibility" instead of using Vista-specific stuff, it'll work.
I figure this is the only good chance in very many years for people to make a break from Microsoft's path.
But the odds are most people will be willing to be boiled slowly.
What people should do if they ever want windows is INSIST on XP instead of Vista! If we hijack the Windows bandwagon from Microsoft, then Microsoft will be like a BIOS vendor when it comes to Windows. Anyone remember "IBM compatible PC"?
If almost everybody stays with XP and DirectX 9 and doesn't move on to Vista, then Windows XP+DX9 could become a defacto standard that even Microsoft can't get rid of! Just like Intel can't get rid of x86 - they tried and failed with their Itanic, and when IBM tried to switch to MCA.
Then the jobs of people doing Wine, Crossover office, Cedega and more become a lot easier - they have a fixed target instead of multiple moving targets.
Be realistic and ignore the fanboys out there, there are many valid reasons for wanting Windows. XP will continue to make a good substitute for Vista, unless more and more people start switching to Vista.
There really is no Linux substitute for Windows yet, BUT if enough people stick to XP, it becomes far more likely for there to eventually be one.
Just a look at Vista will tell you that Microsoft is no longer improving things significantly or meaningfully, so we might as well freeze Windows, and be able to spend more time and resources on innovating elsewhere.
So everyone, start telling Dell, HP et all to preload and sell XP instead of Vista, and tell your friends to insist on XP instead of Vista.
Linus doesn't really care about stability or reliability of a particular release, he's already basically said he just does what he wants - which appears to be putting in nice new features, capabilities to the kernel, and trying to make it more efficient in most popular scenarios (which is good in some ways).
Sure Suse etc have had their screw ups as well, but they at least do a bit more testing (they supposedly have more resources).
FWIW, an Alan Cox approved Linux kernel counts for more to me than a Linus approved one.
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There are registrars outside US jurisdiction e.g www.gandi.net and joker.com.
While this means you should be careful on the terms and conditions and check their track records (so far I've used gandi before and they seem ok, I don't know much about joker), it means companies in other countries will have to work a bit harder to take down your domain.
Of course, if you use Gandi and do something that annoyed the French Gov, they might be able to force Gandi to pull your domain.
You could check out www.gandi.net
;).
I recall when I last used them and let my domains expire, they didn't hog them, unlike some registrars which have a habit of squatting domains.
The other advantage is they are in France and in their view you own the domain name (subject to ICANN or TLD-specific rules - which you can't really blame them for). So non-French companies will need to work harder to shutdown your domain name
I have had no problems running stuff on both Win2K and WinXP. Games, apps etc. Only a very few apps required WinXP (I can't even remember them).
Vista breaks compatibility significantly. And this is intentional for the reasons I gave.
Vista is a trap.
Uh just yell to your crowd address system: "Everyone! That guy in the crowd has got a gun! Take cover!" and take cover. If the rest of the people in crowd are the usual civilians, they'll try to disperse ASAP.
After 5-10 minutes (depends on size of crowd) if there are still a few able bodied people in the area, you can get your snipers to start pointing their guns at them (if they aren't already).
The ray gun isn't going to save anyone in the crowd from a gunman in the crowd. And seriously, it's not going to save you from a gunman in crowd if he knows you have this ray gun.
And this is why the US is having so much trouble in Iraq.
The people in charge are either evil or incompetent.
They take over Iraq (lying about the reasons). They don't listen to the experienced generals. They then tell the surrendered Iraqi army, "get lost!". Then they send young "cowboys" into the crappy situation, so the cowboys end up shooting random Iraqis just to "teach them a lesson"/"Show them whose boss"/"avenge my best buddy Joe" etc.
All the problems are not because of the lack of technology.
Lastly what's with all this War on Hearts and Minds, War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Crime? Sound just like those Jihad-loving bunch.
I think people are complaining about it because instinctively they are thinking something is wrong somewhere, but most just can't put their finger on it.
Say you have a company with lots of employees that hate the Management. Instead of addressing the real issues, Management sacks a whole bunch of people, and buys expensive technologies to "control the rest of the complainers", and says "hey at least we aren't sacking them".
So far I have not seen any sign of changes in the priorities or hearts of the "Management", and to me the focus on these sort of technologies just shows me what their true priorities are and the way they think.
In a war you kill people. But this technology is not for a war against soldiers. It's not for defending buildings or people, since this won't work against armed people out to kill or destroy.
What you see here is a Government that is spending money on _technologies_ for a "war" against civilians. I call it a war, because it seems to be such a popular word nowadays - war against drugs, war against terror, war against crime, war seems so popular no wonder we have so much of it.
Lastly, how much is that machine going to cost? USD1 million? USD5 million?
If it's that expensive given that this machine is likely to just piss protestors off, cause a stampede + various injuries and they'll just come back another day more prepared, you could achieve a similar thing by scattering thousands of USD100 bills away from the "protected" area... Not saying this is a good idea, just saying it's about as stupid and effective at solving the "problem".
Why is it so promising?
The reason why the US is having problems ( in Iraq or wherever) is not really because of technology. It's because the people in charge are either evil or incompetent.
It's like a company with lots of employees that hate the Management. And now Management decides to buy expensive technology to fix that...
"The floggings will continue till morale improves".
The entire world should stick to XP and DirectX9, until WINE, Cedega etc can come up with compatible versions.
Then we can have some competition and not a monopoly. Otherwise you will have the same problem over and over again.
After all Vista isn't really an upgrade or that beneficial to users. It's main benefit is to the people who want DRM, and to Microsoft so that they can continue "slowly boiling frogs" - break compatibility a bit every few years so that competitors cannot make "windows compatibles" and so Microsoft won't end up becoming something like a "BIOS vendor"...
The only reasons the people on the street have given aren't really good reasons:
1) directx10 (nothing stops DX10 for being on XP/2K except Microsoft), and no games currently require DX10.
2) Because other people will upgrade (doh).
3) Better security (haha, right - their controls are so annoying people will turn them off).
4) Because Dell etc will only provide Vista (not true for now, and if people keep insisting on XP, Dell will have a nice chat with Microsoft).
Sounds like many modern Democracies to me :).
Currently there's a limit to how long you can extend your lifespan especially when you're talking about a quality lifestyle.
So unless you enjoy screwing up companies or just like making money, you might as well do something more fun for the rest of your life.
As long as you don't spend like Larry Ellison, your tens of millions will go a long long way.
Actually, I think the other Tank Man, is the soldier driving the first tank.
The one who chose NOT to run him over.
Countries need more soldiers like that. Soldiers who will refuse to kill their countrymen just because they were "following orders". There are good reasons for soldiers to kill fellow citizens, but "following orders" isn't a good one.
I wonder what happened to that Tank Man - the one driving the tank.
Actually AIs can be pretty good, and you don't even need some silly AI hardware.
;).
The problem is in most FPS even a small team of similarly equipped AI enemies WILL kill 99% of the human players.
So you'd have to overpower the humans and weaken the NPCs - so it'll be like Godzilla vs intelligent bunny rabbits
If I'd ever want to hire a good artist it's not that important to me whether the artist knows how to draw using 20 different tools. Or a writer/programmer knows 20 different languages.
I'd be more interested to know what they have actually created for work and fun, and intend to create in the future.
But then, I'm not working in HR or a boss of a company, so what do I know...
Uh, if you ask them of course they will say they believe in the right to intellectual property.
That's because you are using the brainwashing term called "intellectual property". That term is used to help spread the lie that copying is theft. And as you will see, most people fall for it.
Even so most people still don't think it should be wrong for them to make a copy of a CD track so that they can play it on their mp3 player.
But soon if the **AA have their way, in the future people may eventually think it's not right for them to replay a song/video in their artificially augmented brains[1] without getting permission or pay for the "privilege".
And that's why people should be more careful on what they allow.
[1] It's not impossible in the near future people could add a "photographic memory" feature to their brains. Nor impossible that certain Corporations would instantly want mandatory DRM on it.
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Re your sig: Sure the tank man is chinese, but is he alive and free or dead/jailed?
Yeah, I find it funny when people make such a big deal about running around to house making sure all the small stuff is totally off instead of continuously leaking 5W in "standby", and then they go drive with a heavy foot on their SUVs, leave the airconditioner on max.
It's even sillier if they are actually in a cold climate- because the 5W stuff contribute to heating.
Most conservation efforts/ideas appear to be more about "feel good" than actual practical conservation based on good science, engineering and economics.
Spending tens of thousands on solar panels NOW just to save the same amount in electric bills over decades is stupid. Only a good idea if the panels are much cheaper.
So the big question is, will having more people spending thousands on expensive panels make cheap and efficient panels more likely?
That's why going paperless is bad.
:).
Grow more trees. Tricky bit: find a resource cheap way to convert them to paper. Use the paper. Bury/hoard the paper. Repeat.
But point is: recycling isn't automatically good for the environment.
They just need to know which points the soldiers will eventually pass through. For the sort of warfare being conducted, they can just pick and choose. They are not trying to rescue people stuck somewhere, or kill a particular target by a particular date. They appear to be just killing as many US/Iraqi soldiers as convenient (the Iraqi soldiers helping the US are easier targets).
Can't smell through walls? You'd have to walk somewhere to get behind that wall. Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water 30+ feet deep. .
Dogs can even detect cancer and detect mine fields from air samples taken from various areas - samples are linked to GPS coordinates (but some are considering replacing dogs with rats in this case - rats are cheaper and have a good sense of smell too, plus I think you can breed the best performers faster).
If it's the same spam as the real active accounts are getting then it could be useful.
You have a source of 100% spam. So a machine will know what spam is.
Spammers could do the following tho:
1) Find out and avoid email accounts you are using to identify spam.
2) Send unique spam to each user (costs them more).
3) Copy and resend legit mass mails to try to get them to be deleted (but whitelisting can help).
"Yes, time - but where to go? Autodesk invested billions into AutoCAD and other products; their Inventor suite is married to the most inner guts of Windows, using DirectX and OLE and COM/COM+ and every other Windows "technology" that there is"
I'm quite surprised that AutoCAD 2007 doesn't work on Vista - either MS or Autodesk screwed up.
Bu anyway the point is- the Windows O/S hasn't really gone anywhere except downhill with Vista, so there's no point going where MS wants us to go. Just stay with XP till hopefully Cedega, WINE etc catch up. Then we can decide where to go if anywhere.
The BIOS people didn't really go anywhere, but that hasn't stopped the rest of the computer world from getting things done.
Microsoft can't pull XP in one year. If they really tried I bet huge companies would start making threatening noises about Linux, and there'll really be a huge demand for an XP compatible (they may even pour money into WINE, Transgaming etc).
They'll make exceptions for the big companies like always. So the issue is whether small timers (small but numerous) will continue demanding XP, or fall into Microsoft's trap.
I know that Microsoft in the past allowed new licenses to be used for old software. Whether they will allow this for Vista is a good question. And even if they don't, the Courts may allow it.
But the main thing is to try to get software and hardware vendors to maintain "Windows 2000/XP compatibility".
If they can maintain it long enough, then other alternative "Windows 2000/XP compatible" software/OS would be viable substitutes for Vista when Microsoft wants to pull the plug on Win XP. Some large companies have only just recently moved to XP (and I can understand why - XP SP2 is now what I consider reasonably stable. The earlier editions of XP weren't ). So if Microsoft wants to discontinue XP in 2 years, I doubt these big customers will be happy.
I'll say it again: this is the time to break free from the MS O/S monopoly. If people don't take the opportunity, then they'll continue to pay MS for producing nothing really great for many more years.
1) Use a different OEM.
2) Buy with the no O/S. Or return the software if it's bundled.
I also know a company which used Windows 95 before with >= Win2K licenses. Even Microsoft said it was OK.
If people really want to be free from this, they should let their suppliers know they are fine with just XP. As long as suppliers know their customers are actually using XP, and so continue to target "Windows XP compatibility" instead of using Vista-specific stuff, it'll work.
I figure this is the only good chance in very many years for people to make a break from Microsoft's path.
But the odds are most people will be willing to be boiled slowly.
What people should do if they ever want windows is INSIST on XP instead of Vista!
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If we hijack the Windows bandwagon from Microsoft, then Microsoft will be like a BIOS vendor when it comes to Windows. Anyone remember "IBM compatible PC"?
If almost everybody stays with XP and DirectX 9 and doesn't move on to Vista, then Windows XP+DX9 could become a defacto standard that even Microsoft can't get rid of! Just like Intel can't get rid of x86 - they tried and failed with their Itanic, and when IBM tried to switch to MCA.
Then the jobs of people doing Wine, Crossover office, Cedega and more become a lot easier - they have a fixed target instead of multiple moving targets.
Be realistic and ignore the fanboys out there, there are many valid reasons for wanting Windows. XP will continue to make a good substitute for Vista, unless more and more people start switching to Vista.
There really is no Linux substitute for Windows yet, BUT if enough people stick to XP, it becomes far more likely for there to eventually be one.
Just a look at Vista will tell you that Microsoft is no longer improving things significantly or meaningfully, so we might as well freeze Windows, and be able to spend more time and resources on innovating elsewhere.
So everyone, start telling Dell, HP et all to preload and sell XP instead of Vista, and tell your friends to insist on XP instead of Vista.
There are already other valid reasons to prefer XP to Vista, for example: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_
How do you receive 2 million spams a day after 30 days with the domains off? You temporarily put them back on to check?
If you are really no longer using those addresses for communications, you could use them as a spam canaries.
Increase the spam "score" of any message that goes to those addresses. If it's multiple "unrelated" addresses then it's even more likely to be spam.
The spammer has to somehow detect this or send more unique emails - which slows them down.
You mean "For painful experience". ;).
Linus doesn't really care about stability or reliability of a particular release, he's already basically said he just does what he wants - which appears to be putting in nice new features, capabilities to the kernel, and trying to make it more efficient in most popular scenarios (which is good in some ways).
Sure Suse etc have had their screw ups as well, but they at least do a bit more testing (they supposedly have more resources).
FWIW, an Alan Cox approved Linux kernel counts for more to me than a Linus approved one.