It's just a thought, but go and notice that their specific exchange only sells items for DAoC and Anarchy Online. Since they arn't selling item's on Everquest/Ashernon's Call/Etc, they have no grounds to be suing them.
Not that I think they have any grounds to be suing mythic either, but use your brains people.
I like this bit:
"He also maintains that no search warrant was needed because the FBI lacks jurisdiction in Russia. "
Apparently the FBI believes their lack of jurisdiction in Russia allows them to ignore rules they are normally subject to. Does this mean the police dept in the neighboring town is allowed to break into my house and search around because they lack jurisdiction?
We use exchange 5.5/Outlook2k(I'm sorry). The people at my company love being able to share stuff, and every day they want to share something new. I think originally microsoft planned to make it easy for end users to do this themselves, and somewhere along the way forgot to. To share things they way the people in my company like to share them(other persons inbox/calander/whatever appears in their outlook every time they open it) involves the person sharing to go into scary menus they don't understand to share the thing they want. Then the person who has to read it has to go into the mail control panels and figure out how to make outlook open another users mailbox. If they manage to make it that far, all the different permissions set on different levels of nested components of the mailbox inevitably lead to a call to tech support. At this point, whenever someone wants to share something, they don't even try. They just call me.
How it should work:
Step one: Person who wants to share clicks on item(s) they want to share, clicks a button marked "share" (or right clicks and gets it from the popup), clicks the user they want to share with.
Step two: Person who will be reading the share gets a popup " has shared with you. Would you like to add it to your mailbox? Yes/No
End of story. The server/client handles all the permissions of nested folders. There are no trips to control panels. No restarting the mail client. None of that. It appears, permanently, and tech support doesn't get called.
Theaters should have a simple policy. If your phone rings in the theater, you have to leave. You are not allowed to reenter. If you can't be bothered to turn your phone to vibrate or off before you start watching a movie then thats the penalty you pay. If you are a doctor or something, put the phone on VIBRATE. If the call is so important, you should probably be leaving to go to where you are needed anyway.
Has anyone ever seen how toys R Us sells video games? They have 1 empty box for each product mounted on the wall, with tickets under them. If you want the game, you grab a ticket, pay for it at the register, and then trade your ticket for the game at a counter behind the register. It seems to me if stores like compusa used a system like this, you could really knock down the amount of packaging used. The manufactures could still have their big box to appear on the shelves, but when you actually bought the thing, you'd get a nice little efficent oem style package. Take it a step further, rather than have tickets, just have a credit card swipe under each product or something. Swipe your credit card on what you want, when you are done, walk to the counter in the front of the store and swipe your card again, and it charges your card, and gives you a nice list to hand to the man behind the curtain.
Nextel allows for international calls. You have to tell them you want it available when you sign up(I assume you can have it later activated.) It doesn't cost anything to have it enabled, but I don't know what they charge for the call. Nextel is more geared to buissness than personal(read, more expensive, w/ features for a workforce, such as direct connect and international calling). It really is worth it if you can get a few friends to sign up too(for the direct connect.)
I haven't hung up my internet connection in over 3 weeks, and that was only because of a storm that took out the landline. Neither dsl or cablemodem has reached my area yet, and the line quality is so bad I'm pretty much locked at 2.8k a sec. I use my cellphone for everything voice. My nextel plan is wildly expensive(~100US a month), but I don't pay extra for incoming calls, long distance calls, roaming. I have voicemail, caller id, call forwarding, 3 way call, etc all included. Plus Direct Connect(a 2 way radio feature between me and other users. It bounces off the cell towers, so the range is . I actually use that more than I use the actual phone part, as its not included in my monthly 600 minutes, and it tends to circumvent the "hi, how ya doin. blah blah blah." effect when all I want to do is ask a quick question. To the people who are saying "cellphone network coverage has to be near 100% before..." or something like that, does your landline cover the whole US? If the cellphone covers your house and the surrounding area greater than the radius of a 2.4 ghz cordless, it's more convient. Plus, if you get a small phone, and a comfortable clip, you never have to run to get a phone call.
metatopic: if you're considering a cellphone, the speakerphone on the motorola i1000 plus is incredible. Nobody every knows your on a speakerphone.
Untrue. If not enough people don't think(or don't know) a cd is worth $18, then record companies just won't manufactuer the music from that band anymore. If what you were saying were true, we'd see a lot of artists out there with cheap cds coming from major labels. we don't.
(Reuters - Washington DC) Randy Right (R-Idaho) and Laura Left (D-Indiana) today annouced their bipartisan bill to protect the public, and especially the children. The new bill would require manufacturers of all televisions to begin installing in all new televisions, an as of yet undeveloped device called the "Intelligence Chip, or The I Chip." At the same time a new rating board known as the SAWNPFTA(Stupid Americans Who Need Protection From Themselves Association) would be created. This group would assign and Intelligence Rating to each commercial and program developed for television. The I Chip would monitor these ratings, and whenever the program on the screen exceeded the rating set on the chip, the tv will immediatley switch to the WB's "popular" or Fox's "Americas scariest police chases 84^23e324." "Every day, the world gets more confusing, and at the same time, American's are getting stupider. It's time the government stopped listening to special interests and started responding to the needs of the people." the two congress members said in a joint statement. The bill is expected to pass without opposition. In entertainment news, The WB and FOX both annouced sharp increases in their advertising rates for the following shows...
So how about we make voting compulsory, but add an extra line to the ballot that says "abstain." That way, people will still have the ability to say "I hate all the choices."
It is the NRA that fights things like required gun certification. If you want to license them like cars, fine. Register every single damn one to the person who bought it. Keep records of who bought and sold them. If someone has a gun, and can't produce their license confiscate it, on the spot. When a crime happens, you'll know right who to go to. Require recertification every few years. If you can't pass the test, you can't have your guns. period. Severely regulate what is an is not allowed(If I can't have a racecar or a monster truck, I hardly see why an assault rifle is okay). Require saftey features. If your kid takes a parent's gun and commits a crime with it, hold the parent responsible. Take THEIR license away and never give it back. The NRA fights all these things.
Yeah, and not one person was killed by the explosives. Not one. Nobody. Nada. Every person who died in that building died as a result of a gunshot wound.
Now lets imagine they had access to explosives in the manner they had access to guns. Rather than some tiny pipe bombs, and other homebrew stuff that didn't work, they would have had high explosives that could level the whole building in one blast, prescision detonators that could have made all or some the bombs detonate simultaneously or with precision timing, mercury switches that would triggered more bombs as students fleed down halls, opened doors. The simple fact that it was illegal to aquire these things prevented them from having them.
Yeah, like that pesky childhood tendency to press every button and pull every lever they can find.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget the urge to put things in their mouths.
It's a lot easier to intentionally kill someone with a gun. It's a lot easier to accidentally kill someone with a gun. It's a lot easier to accidentally intentionally(rage attack) someone with a gun. Let's get rid of the damn things.
If you were to ban(or much more severly control access to) guns, it would not affect criminals access to guns right away, but over time it would. If the sources a dried up, eventually guns are going to start drying up too. They'll wear out, they'll be used in crimes and confiscated, lost, put into private collections never to be touched again, etc. In 10 years you would see a difference. In 30 they'd be practically non-existant.
Also, you seem to think that all gun related crime is committed by career criminals. Don't forget there are millions of people who are normal everyday law abiding people, who happen to own or have access to a gun, and one day/week/month/year/lifetime something causes them to be very mad/enraged/desperate/drunk/careless/etc and it ends in gunshots and bloodshed. If the people who "OBEY the law" as you say don't have/make the guns available, then none of those incidents are ever going to happen. The guy who shoots his neighbor in a fit of rage was not the criminal(s) you were talking about.
I see the label every celebrity who doesn't believe in jesus a cultmember and every movie they star in a recruitment attempt by this cult wackos are out again.
If you look near the upper left corner of the top page, it says "The onion will return on April 5th." Sometimes they take a week off, and thats where they tell you.
With all this stupidity going on with region encoding, and macrovision, and psx2s that don't work right, and this and that and 7-11, I find myself loving my little Apex DVD player more and more every second. Mmm, No region encoding. Mmm, no macrovision. I don't even care about the copy protection aspect, I just like hooking it up through the vcr instead of having to buy a new tv to get the damn inputs that dvd players friggin support. Mmmm, if you can still find an Apex anywhere, get one. Mmmm.
Oh sure, Just because amazon.com can't own Amazon.sucks doesn't mean they won't find a way to lock it down. Either by having an employee, or a family member of an employee, or a stockholder, or a random guy on the street they paid 100 dollars to, etc. No matter how many rules you make about how this person or that person is not eligible to own the domain, the company or person that wants not to be criticized just goes one step further. This doesn't even cover the inevitable attempts to squat the domain names. The day the registers open, you'll have a bunch of guys running scripts that basically buy up the.sucks equivalent of everything that's already registered in.com. They'll put up a page that says domain.com sucks on each one, so that they can even say they are using it for the intended purpose. Maybe it would be possible to limit the # of domains a person could register in a day, but even that is highly impracticle, since any company could still get each employee to register their allottment each day and then transfer ownership, start dummy companies, pay temps to register more in their names, etc. Maybe you could do it as a lottery system, where someone tries to register a domain, but they don't get it for a specified period of time, while other people can try to register it. At the end, its randomly assigned to one of the people who tried to get it. I imagine you wouldn't tell people a name has been put into the system, or else, whenever any domain was locked in, every squatter on earth would put themselves in too, in hopes of selling it to the one guy who wants it. Just keep it a secret, and after a week, say "Registerer #598 gets it." That would help at least control the initial rush for buissness.sucks, drugs.sucks, otherbigmoneydomain.sucks. Still, I imagine the vast majority of the attempted registers would be squatters. Augh. Capitalism has destroyed the internet.
Since when is talking about your own personal experiences not a legitimate way to demonstrate an idea, and ethic, etc? Its an accepted practice to establish the ground from which you are stating your views. If anything, its one of the most legitimate. Thats why people read things like autobiographies. Thats why people who have been through a lot of stuff are hired to speak at graduations, weddings, funerals, technical speechs, etc.
begin sarcasm In fact, lets examine your specific post.
"I've been reading/. for about 6 months now," "Sometimes I" "Or I should say, I hate most of the writing he does on/. I have often enjoyed his works on freedomforum.org, which I also read regularly, so I was disappointed to read in his interview that he will be doing more writing for/. and less for other venues in the future. I don't recall ever seeing Katz talk about himself in his freedomforum.org writings"
Look! You are talking about your own experiences! Gasp! Get offa slashdot till you have something to talk about beside yourself! end sarcasm
If a library wanted to put magazines like Playboy or Hustler on their shelves, it would have to be at the expense of some other material. A libray does not have unlimited space to store materials, nor does it have unlimited money to purchase them. You cannot find Playboy in many libraries for the same reason you can't find Popular Science, most editions of the bible, and basically every magazine, book, etc that has ever come into existance. It is not economically or spacially feasiable. In the case of pay sites, a similar paradigm would apply, but with the vast majority internet(free), this is not the case. It does not take up any extra space in the library, nor does it require additional investment to leave these sites unblocked. Quite to the contrary, the installation of the software is what consumes further resources, by requiring money to buy the software, space to store it, and employees to maintain it.
First let me admit it up front: MY PRIMARY DESKTOP IS A WIN 98 MACHINE.(This is so someone doesnt yell at me later when I mention palm desktop.)
Anyway, when I need an address, and I am near my computer. I don't pull out my palm pilot, because it is still easier to fire up palm desktop than it is to pull out the palm pilot, pull out the pen, and find the address that way.
I'm gonna be extremely bored the day that PCs go away. One of the best things about PCs(at least x86 ones) is that I can just go and grab some random parts at a computer show, or even *gasp* comp usa(they are selling cases now, which they wern't a year ago), and an hour later I can have a system that is better than most of the computers I can buy from the dells and compaqs of the world. Sure, I suspose it would be possible to sit down with bare processors, generic lcds and a soddering iron and make my own palm pilot, but that just doesn't seem the same. I'd say there's a good chance you'll start to see internet appliances like the iopener replace the budget sub 1000 dollar PCs, who's primary reason for existing is to use AOL(Cnn, MTV, the NYSE: You won't find those on the internet!), but for the powerhouse applications like 3dsmax and Quake 3, I just can't see my Palm Pilot taking their place anytime soon.
When I sit down in front of my gf's p133 with 1 meg video, I dont notice that its not my PII 450 w/ geForce ddr 90% of the time, but it's that 10% of the time that I do notice that reminds me that power desktops are going to be around for a long time.
Hey guys. How does this sound? NEITHER of you wasted 6 hours. You both enjoyed yourself, right? What does it matter that you did it different ways? Rather than get into a screaming match, just accept it that there is more than one viewpoint in this world. Geez. This same kind of thing causes so many problems all over the world. How much good does it do the Linux community when someone starts calling every person who uses Windows a moron, and proclaiming that they have turned their brains off? I'll give you a hint: Rhymes with very little. Sure, it may be obnoxious to someone that the Backstreet Boys are plastered all over everything, and that millions of screaming little girls are obsessed with them. Does that mean that everyone who doesn't automatically turn off the radio whenever they come on and push away every person who has the/audacity/ to like a song should be stigmatized and pushed away? What good does that do? My point here is, just because someone doesn't get their kicks out of the same thing you do doesn't make them a moron not worth your time. Insulting, shunting, mocking and stereotyping people because they don't think exactly like you hurts everyone and doesn't help anyone.
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It's just a thought, but go and notice that their specific exchange only sells items for DAoC and Anarchy Online. Since they arn't selling item's on Everquest/Ashernon's Call/Etc, they have no grounds to be suing them.
Not that I think they have any grounds to be suing mythic either, but use your brains people.
I like this bit: "He also maintains that no search warrant was needed because the FBI lacks jurisdiction in Russia. " Apparently the FBI believes their lack of jurisdiction in Russia allows them to ignore rules they are normally subject to. Does this mean the police dept in the neighboring town is allowed to break into my house and search around because they lack jurisdiction?
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"What is that sound its making?"
We use exchange 5.5/Outlook2k(I'm sorry). The people at my company love being able to share stuff, and every day they want to share something new. I think originally microsoft planned to make it easy for end users to do this themselves, and somewhere along the way forgot to. To share things they way the people in my company like to share them(other persons inbox/calander/whatever appears in their outlook every time they open it) involves the person sharing to go into scary menus they don't understand to share the thing they want. Then the person who has to read it has to go into the mail control panels and figure out how to make outlook open another users mailbox. If they manage to make it that far, all the different permissions set on different levels of nested components of the mailbox inevitably lead to a call to tech support. At this point, whenever someone wants to share something, they don't even try. They just call me.
How it should work:
Step one: Person who wants to share clicks on item(s) they want to share, clicks a button marked "share" (or right clicks and gets it from the popup), clicks the user they want to share with. Step two: Person who will be reading the share gets a popup " has shared with you. Would you like to add it to your mailbox? Yes/No
End of story. The server/client handles all the permissions of nested folders. There are no trips to control panels. No restarting the mail client. None of that. It appears, permanently, and tech support doesn't get called.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Theaters should have a simple policy. If your phone rings in the theater, you have to leave. You are not allowed to reenter. If you can't be bothered to turn your phone to vibrate or off before you start watching a movie then thats the penalty you pay. If you are a doctor or something, put the phone on VIBRATE. If the call is so important, you should probably be leaving to go to where you are needed anyway.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Has anyone ever seen how toys R Us sells video games? They have 1 empty box for each product mounted on the wall, with tickets under them. If you want the game, you grab a ticket, pay for it at the register, and then trade your ticket for the game at a counter behind the register. It seems to me if stores like compusa used a system like this, you could really knock down the amount of packaging used. The manufactures could still have their big box to appear on the shelves, but when you actually bought the thing, you'd get a nice little efficent oem style package. Take it a step further, rather than have tickets, just have a credit card swipe under each product or something. Swipe your credit card on what you want, when you are done, walk to the counter in the front of the store and swipe your card again, and it charges your card, and gives you a nice list to hand to the man behind the curtain.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Nextel allows for international calls. You have to tell them you want it available when you sign up(I assume you can have it later activated.) It doesn't cost anything to have it enabled, but I don't know what they charge for the call. Nextel is more geared to buissness than personal(read, more expensive, w/ features for a workforce, such as direct connect and international calling). It really is worth it if you can get a few friends to sign up too(for the direct connect.)
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"What is that sound its making?"
I haven't hung up my internet connection in over 3 weeks, and that was only because of a storm that took out the landline. Neither dsl or cablemodem has reached my area yet, and the line quality is so bad I'm pretty much locked at 2.8k a sec. I use my cellphone for everything voice. My nextel plan is wildly expensive(~100US a month), but I don't pay extra for incoming calls, long distance calls, roaming. I have voicemail, caller id, call forwarding, 3 way call, etc all included. Plus Direct Connect(a 2 way radio feature between me and other users. It bounces off the cell towers, so the range is . I actually use that more than I use the actual phone part, as its not included in my monthly 600 minutes, and it tends to circumvent the "hi, how ya doin. blah blah blah." effect when all I want to do is ask a quick question.
To the people who are saying "cellphone network coverage has to be near 100% before..." or something like that, does your landline cover the whole US? If the cellphone covers your house and the surrounding area greater than the radius of a 2.4 ghz cordless, it's more convient. Plus, if you get a small phone, and a comfortable clip, you never have to run to get a phone call.
metatopic: if you're considering a cellphone, the speakerphone on the motorola i1000 plus is incredible. Nobody every knows your on a speakerphone.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Untrue. If not enough people don't think(or don't know) a cd is worth $18, then record companies just won't manufactuer the music from that band anymore. If what you were saying were true, we'd see a lot of artists out there with cheap cds coming from major labels. we don't.
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"What is that sound its making?"
but the cost it would run me to pull it off is way above that. I'd buy one in a second.
-Tony
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"What is that sound its making?"
I'd imagine they'd keep something like this secret by failing to keep a presidential blowjob secret to distract everyone.
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"What is that sound its making?"
(Reuters - Washington DC) Randy Right (R-Idaho) and Laura Left (D-Indiana) today annouced their bipartisan bill to protect the public, and especially the children. The new bill would require manufacturers of all televisions to begin installing in all new televisions, an as of yet undeveloped device called the "Intelligence Chip, or The I Chip." At the same time a new rating board known as the SAWNPFTA(Stupid Americans Who Need Protection From Themselves Association) would be created. This group would assign and Intelligence Rating to each commercial and program developed for television. The I Chip would monitor these ratings, and whenever the program on the screen exceeded the rating set on the chip, the tv will immediatley switch to the WB's "popular" or Fox's "Americas scariest police chases 84^23e324."
"Every day, the world gets more confusing, and at the same time, American's are getting stupider. It's time the government stopped listening to special interests and started responding to the needs of the people." the two congress members said in a joint statement. The bill is expected to pass without opposition.
In entertainment news, The WB and FOX both annouced sharp increases in their advertising rates for the following shows...
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"What is that sound its making?"
So how about we make voting compulsory, but add an extra line to the ballot that says "abstain." That way, people will still have the ability to say "I hate all the choices."
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"What is that sound its making?"
It is the NRA that fights things like required gun certification. If you want to license them like cars, fine. Register every single damn one to the person who bought it. Keep records of who bought and sold them. If someone has a gun, and can't produce their license confiscate it, on the spot. When a crime happens, you'll know right who to go to. Require recertification every few years. If you can't pass the test, you can't have your guns. period. Severely regulate what is an is not allowed(If I can't have a racecar or a monster truck, I hardly see why an assault rifle is okay). Require saftey features. If your kid takes a parent's gun and commits a crime with it, hold the parent responsible. Take THEIR license away and never give it back. The NRA fights all these things.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Yeah, and not one person was killed by the explosives. Not one. Nobody. Nada. Every person who died in that building died as a result of a gunshot wound.
Now lets imagine they had access to explosives in the manner they had access to guns. Rather than some tiny pipe bombs, and other homebrew stuff that didn't work, they would have had high explosives that could level the whole building in one blast, prescision detonators that could have made all or some the bombs detonate simultaneously or with precision timing, mercury switches that would triggered more bombs as students fleed down halls, opened doors. The simple fact that it was illegal to aquire these things prevented them from having them.
in short:open mouth, insert foot.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Yeah, like that pesky childhood tendency to press every button and pull every lever they can find.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget the urge to put things in their mouths.
It's a lot easier to intentionally kill someone with a gun. It's a lot easier to accidentally kill someone with a gun. It's a lot easier to accidentally intentionally(rage attack) someone with a gun. Let's get rid of the damn things.
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"What is that sound its making?"
If you were to ban(or much more severly control access to) guns, it would not affect criminals access to guns right away, but over time it would. If the sources a dried up, eventually guns are going to start drying up too. They'll wear out, they'll be used in crimes and confiscated, lost, put into private collections never to be touched again, etc. In 10 years you would see a difference. In 30 they'd be practically non-existant.
Also, you seem to think that all gun related crime is committed by career criminals. Don't forget there are millions of people who are normal everyday law abiding people, who happen to own or have access to a gun, and one day/week/month/year/lifetime something causes them to be very mad/enraged/desperate/drunk/careless/etc and it ends in gunshots and bloodshed. If the people who "OBEY the law" as you say don't have/make the guns available, then none of those incidents are ever going to happen. The guy who shoots his neighbor in a fit of rage was not the criminal(s) you were talking about.
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"What is that sound its making?"
I see the label every celebrity who doesn't believe in jesus a cultmember and every movie they star in a recruitment attempt by this cult wackos are out again.
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"What is that sound its making?"
If you look near the upper left corner of the top page, it says "The onion will return on April 5th." Sometimes they take a week off, and thats where they tell you.
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"What is that sound its making?"
With all this stupidity going on with region encoding, and macrovision, and psx2s that don't work right, and this and that and 7-11, I find myself loving my little Apex DVD player more and more every second. Mmm, No region encoding. Mmm, no macrovision. I don't even care about the copy protection aspect, I just like hooking it up through the vcr instead of having to buy a new tv to get the damn inputs that dvd players friggin support. Mmmm, if you can still find an Apex anywhere, get one. Mmmm.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Oh sure, Just because amazon.com can't own Amazon.sucks doesn't mean they won't find a way to lock it down. Either by having an employee, or a family member of an employee, or a stockholder, or a random guy on the street they paid 100 dollars to, etc. No matter how many rules you make about how this person or that person is not eligible to own the domain, the company or person that wants not to be criticized just goes one step further. .sucks equivalent of everything that's already registered in .com. They'll put up a page that says domain.com sucks on each one, so that they can even say they are using it for the intended purpose.
This doesn't even cover the inevitable attempts to squat the domain names. The day the registers open, you'll have a bunch of guys running scripts that basically buy up the
Maybe it would be possible to limit the # of domains a person could register in a day, but even that is highly impracticle, since any company could still get each employee to register their allottment each day and then transfer ownership, start dummy companies, pay temps to register more in their names, etc. Maybe you could do it as a lottery system, where someone tries to register a domain, but they don't get it for a specified period of time, while other people can try to register it. At the end, its randomly assigned to one of the people who tried to get it. I imagine you wouldn't tell people a name has been put into the system, or else, whenever any domain was locked in, every squatter on earth would put themselves in too, in hopes of selling it to the one guy who wants it. Just keep it a secret, and after a week, say "Registerer #598 gets it."
That would help at least control the initial rush for buissness.sucks, drugs.sucks, otherbigmoneydomain.sucks. Still, I imagine the vast majority of the attempted registers would be squatters.
Augh. Capitalism has destroyed the internet.
-Tony
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"What is that sound its making?"
Since when is talking about your own personal experiences not a legitimate way to demonstrate an idea, and ethic, etc? Its an accepted practice to establish the ground from which you are stating your views. If anything, its one of the most legitimate. Thats why people read things like autobiographies. Thats why people who have been through a lot of stuff are hired to speak at graduations, weddings, funerals, technical speechs, etc.
/. for about 6 months now," /. I have often enjoyed his works on freedomforum.org, which I also read regularly, so I was disappointed to read in his interview that he will be doing more writing for /. and less for other venues in the future. I don't recall ever seeing Katz talk about himself in his freedomforum.org writings"
begin sarcasm
In fact, lets examine your specific post.
"I've been reading
"Sometimes I"
"Or I should say, I hate most of the writing he does on
Look! You are talking about your own experiences! Gasp! Get offa slashdot till you have something to talk about beside yourself!
end sarcasm
So anyway, seriously, think before you speak.
-Tony
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"What is that sound its making?"
If a library wanted to put magazines like Playboy or Hustler on their shelves, it would have to be at the expense of some other material. A libray does not have unlimited space to store materials, nor does it have unlimited money to purchase them. You cannot find Playboy in many libraries for the same reason you can't find Popular Science, most editions of the bible, and basically every magazine, book, etc that has ever come into existance. It is not economically or spacially feasiable.
In the case of pay sites, a similar paradigm would apply, but with the vast majority internet(free), this is not the case. It does not take up any extra space in the library, nor does it require additional investment to leave these sites unblocked. Quite to the contrary, the installation of the software is what consumes further resources, by requiring money to buy the software, space to store it, and employees to maintain it.
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"What is that sound its making?"
First let me admit it up front: MY PRIMARY DESKTOP IS A WIN 98 MACHINE.(This is so someone doesnt yell at me later when I mention palm desktop.)
Anyway, when I need an address, and I am near my computer. I don't pull out my palm pilot, because it is still easier to fire up palm desktop than it is to pull out the palm pilot, pull out the pen, and find the address that way.
Just a thought.
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"What is that sound its making?"
I'm gonna be extremely bored the day that PCs go away. One of the best things about PCs(at least x86 ones) is that I can just go and grab some random parts at a computer show, or even *gasp* comp usa(they are selling cases now, which they wern't a year ago), and an hour later I can have a system that is better than most of the computers I can buy from the dells and compaqs of the world. Sure, I suspose it would be possible to sit down with bare processors, generic lcds and a soddering iron and make my own palm pilot, but that just doesn't seem the same. I'd say there's a good chance you'll start to see internet appliances like the iopener replace the budget sub 1000 dollar PCs, who's primary reason for existing is to use AOL(Cnn, MTV, the NYSE: You won't find those on the internet!), but for the powerhouse applications like 3dsmax and Quake 3, I just can't see my Palm Pilot taking their place anytime soon.
When I sit down in front of my gf's p133 with 1 meg video, I dont notice that its not my PII 450 w/ geForce ddr 90% of the time, but it's that 10% of the time that I do notice that reminds me that power desktops are going to be around for a long time.
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"What is that sound its making?"
Hey guys. How does this sound? NEITHER of you wasted 6 hours. You both enjoyed yourself, right? What does it matter that you did it different ways? Rather than get into a screaming match, just accept it that there is more than one viewpoint in this world. Geez.
This same kind of thing causes so many problems all over the world. How much good does it do the Linux community when someone starts calling every person who uses Windows a moron, and proclaiming that they have turned their brains off? I'll give you a hint: Rhymes with very little.
Sure, it may be obnoxious to someone that the Backstreet Boys are plastered all over everything, and that millions of screaming little girls are obsessed with them. Does that mean that everyone who doesn't automatically turn off the radio whenever they come on and push away every person who has the
My point here is, just because someone doesn't get their kicks out of the same thing you do doesn't make them a moron not worth your time. Insulting, shunting, mocking and stereotyping people because they don't think exactly like you hurts everyone and doesn't help anyone.
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"What is that sound its making?"