GoDaddy doesn't have an API to fetch the domains you have in your account - you have to request a report to be run from a batch server - and all you get is the domain name and few tidbits. No A records, no CNAME, no TXT, no MX, nothing actually useful.
If you don't think this is a problem try managing 300+ dedicated tactic URL's that marketing changes every two months. Sure, it's a solvable problem with scripts & bash tools but it wouldn't take them more than a day to give me a CSV download in real time that contained more than just the domain name.
They have an API for their cloud VPS that they didn't write. And now they proudly announce a TXT record auto discovery thingie? Really? It's like putting chrome muffler extensions on a Yugo...
So why is it, dear Slashdot readers, that all domain registrars suck beyond sucking? Their interfaces are klunky and many of them make easy chores more difficult requiring click after click. Go Daddy recently "improved" their interface so it takes two clicks to do what used to take one. Don't even get me started on Network Solutions, they are practically a criminal enterprise...
That's why when the shit hits the fans there are amateur radio operators around... To save your life.
The fire department, and the police department, are also using grandpa's technology.
Because... it just works.
As one who is on Skype calls five, six hours a day I would LOVE to know what you consider a "decent bluetooth headphone" as I have spent hundreds of dollars buying different ones and having them die within 90 days.
I returned one particular brand to Best Buy ten times under warranty and got a new one - and then they stopped carrying them altogether.
I now use a Logitech Web Cam/integrated microphone and Creative Studio Speakers which is great except for when I am working early and the house wants to sleep, or I want to have a private call.
The Plantronics wired headset - assuming you tie-wrap the cord to the microphone as the cords pull out of the headsets in less than 3 months - is the best unit at some $60 but you look like an idiot wearing it as it's huge, and it's heavy. And it has a cord that gets caught on everything.
Yes but what is the most interesting is to compare Slashdot of 2008 to Slashdot of 2016. In 2008 had any poster dared to question Mr. Nye's comments he would have been flooded with angry emails, ridiculed, called all kinds of horrible names... Those people - the great cuttters and pasters of talking points - now find themselves in the minority, the majority are actually thinking for themselves.
It's why I have posted as AC for the last five years... until today.
I've been on Windows 10 for quite a while, I don't get ads, and it works just fine for me.
No I am not a MS employee, or even a big fan of MS. I have Apple products, and multiple Linux servers. Windows Server absolutely sucks but I'll take Windows 10 over 7, or 8 any day because:
Windows 8 just plain sucked
Windows 10 has a USABLE start menu with an EXCEPTIONAL way to setup shortcuts to the apps I use all the time.
Windows 10 makes it oh so easy to get to the control panel items you actually use
Windows 10 starts faster and shuts down quicker
Windows 10 plays nice with my Office 365
Windows 10 replicates the task bar on all monitors
I could care less that MS is watching. My company does web dev, so I am a bit of an expert on how your web activities are tracked, if you want privacy get a flip phone, disconnect the internet service, watch OTA HDTV, and use all cash...
You ignore that much of the cost of many products is marketing because people buy them for emotional egotistical reasons not practical ones.
While many males people blather on about how they want to live in a homogenized society and how "efficient" it would all be if we all wore the same clothes every day, all personal items were "commoditized", etc. this fantasy only works in Hollywood movies.
You need to ask a woman about this. She can explain it to you.
Saying on thing - loudly, and with great flourish of righteous indignation - and doing the exact opposite - is the definition of the modern progressive. The real illness in society is how many people are so easily duped into believing the nonsense, as history tells us these are people who end up being enslaved.
I fully support the ideals of the progressives, 100%. But the current crop of so called "progressives" are anything but.
Bought one of these, and while it has great feel and appears to be built like a tank it is so incredibly noisy it's hard to get used to. I think a typewriter is quieter....
I'm inclined to agree with you. Being the owner of a small business, and dealing with a considerable number of people (clients, employees, prospects, other small business owners) I find about ten to fifteen percent are simply "not nice people". They lie without remorse, cheat, and steal without seeming to posses a conscience at all.
Interestingly enough, ideology and religious affiliation is equally distributed in this group, which dispels the notion of the evil Republican CEO.vs. the warm, giving progressive. I have found the same to be true when it comes to people who claim a strong religious affiliation. There is some correlation with culture - some cultures believe it's OK to cheat people to make a buck, whereas others do not.
I am not so confident that we can infallibly test for these conditions. With the criminally insane, we test with the MMPI, I don't believe there's a belief that a normal person will be tempted to commit a serious criminal act under just the right circumstances -- but a normal person, when exposed to the chance to become fabulously wealthy might suddenly turn crazy.
Of course we run the risk of being accused of supporting eugenics... But we're talking about pre-screening people, which we do a terrible job of today.
Get honest politician and the mass surveillance police state collapses as it loses the power to exert control via extortion.
Absolutely agreed, but if you cease to make being a politician so profitable... then dishonest greedy people won't get into politics, problem solved. As long as politicians can affect the flow of capital in society, setting up what are, in effect, money laundering machines where they skim the take into the party coffers, the current march towards a feudalistic police state will not stop. In the U.S. both parties do this using different sets of lies, but the results are exactly the same.
A shame you posted this as AC because you're the only person on the entire page who mentions the Higgs field, which was proven by the LHC this creating the current Standardized Theory. It seems to me that if you to invent a graviton, then like the Higgs boson it would have to appear simultaneously in the entire known universe 10 -12 seconds after the big bang, same as the Higgs field, so why haven't we found it yet?
Probably because the graviton doesn't exist. Gravity is a function of mass, that warps space, just as Einstein thought. Perhaps someone who does this sort of thing for a living could weigh in. I just find it extremely interesting.
Impressive. I'm thinking we might be neighbors, I am near the motor city, my company does work for the big 3, and it is only in those circles I encounter people who actually understand how engines work to this level.
I'm in Digital Interactive, not engineering, but you don't live around here and frequent the halls of the Big 3 without knowing a few things.
Good point, but the real problem is that we're spending more money on infrastructure today than we were at the peak of the Interstate Highway construction and getting less and less and less for it. Why? The legalized money laundering systems that the politicians have spent years and years and years building...
Case Study: Detroit. Wisconsin. Most blue states. Many Red States.
Get rid of legalized theft from the taxpayer and put all that money into actual roads and they would be paved in gold, every year.
the government isn't responsible for inflation, that's down to (in the US) the Federal Reserve.
Huh? So printing money by the boatload... to finance an absurd deficit... doesn't create inflation? The U.S. Treasury would need to collect about $1.33 for each and every day since the Dawn of Time to be able to pay off the hard debt racked up in just the last six years. A buck-thirty-three a day may not strike one as a lot of money, it’s considerably less than what some folks pay for their daily latte, but the payment schedule would be spread out over “eternity.”
The CBO re-rated ObamaCare at 2 trillion dollars... $55,000 per person to provide the insurance. So while the Military budget is staggering, and the Iraq war was a horrible waste of money, ObamaCare certainly ranks at the top of the most over-hyped totally insane later Federal Program ever created.
And no, if you budget a 5% increase, and you are borrowing more than you take in, and the rate of increase is only 3%, that is NOT A TWO PERCENT SAVINGS!!! Only governments can get away with this nonsense. It's like saying "Well, I didn't borrow $100,000 I don't have anyway, so TODAY I SAVED $100,000 dollars". Which is exactly what you hear politicians saying in flowery terms every single year.
And as long as I am ranting I am not sure sure about CPI, as everything in the grocery store is a lot more expensive than CPI says it should be...
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This is all well and good but Mars is not shielded from cosmic rays so what's the life expectancy?
This is retaliation for his speech at the RNC convention, duh.
GoDaddy doesn't have an API to fetch the domains you have in your account - you have to request a report to be run from a batch server - and all you get is the domain name and few tidbits. No A records, no CNAME, no TXT, no MX, nothing actually useful.
If you don't think this is a problem try managing 300+ dedicated tactic URL's that marketing changes every two months. Sure, it's a solvable problem with scripts & bash tools but it wouldn't take them more than a day to give me a CSV download in real time that contained more than just the domain name.
They have an API for their cloud VPS that they didn't write. And now they proudly announce a TXT record auto discovery thingie? Really? It's like putting chrome muffler extensions on a Yugo...
So why is it, dear Slashdot readers, that all domain registrars suck beyond sucking? Their interfaces are klunky and many of them make easy chores more difficult requiring click after click. Go Daddy recently "improved" their interface so it takes two clicks to do what used to take one. Don't even get me started on Network Solutions, they are practically a criminal enterprise...
That's why when the shit hits the fans there are amateur radio operators around... To save your life.
The fire department, and the police department, are also using grandpa's technology.
Because... it just works.
As one who is on Skype calls five, six hours a day I would LOVE to know what you consider a "decent bluetooth headphone" as I have spent hundreds of dollars buying different ones and having them die within 90 days. I returned one particular brand to Best Buy ten times under warranty and got a new one - and then they stopped carrying them altogether. I now use a Logitech Web Cam/integrated microphone and Creative Studio Speakers which is great except for when I am working early and the house wants to sleep, or I want to have a private call. The Plantronics wired headset - assuming you tie-wrap the cord to the microphone as the cords pull out of the headsets in less than 3 months - is the best unit at some $60 but you look like an idiot wearing it as it's huge, and it's heavy. And it has a cord that gets caught on everything.
Yes but what is the most interesting is to compare Slashdot of 2008 to Slashdot of 2016. In 2008 had any poster dared to question Mr. Nye's comments he would have been flooded with angry emails, ridiculed, called all kinds of horrible names... Those people - the great cuttters and pasters of talking points - now find themselves in the minority, the majority are actually thinking for themselves.
It's why I have posted as AC for the last five years... until today.
Creating "artificial scarcity" is how we got fracking. Because you can't regulate people out of making a living.
I've been on Windows 10 for quite a while, I don't get ads, and it works just fine for me.
No I am not a MS employee, or even a big fan of MS. I have Apple products, and multiple Linux servers. Windows Server absolutely sucks but I'll take Windows 10 over 7, or 8 any day because:
Windows 8 just plain sucked
Windows 10 has a USABLE start menu with an EXCEPTIONAL way to setup shortcuts to the apps I use all the time.
Windows 10 makes it oh so easy to get to the control panel items you actually use
Windows 10 starts faster and shuts down quicker
Windows 10 plays nice with my Office 365
Windows 10 replicates the task bar on all monitors
I could care less that MS is watching. My company does web dev, so I am a bit of an expert on how your web activities are tracked, if you want privacy get a flip phone, disconnect the internet service, watch OTA HDTV, and use all cash...
Holy Crap, Dude, where on earth do you work? If I abused my development staff in this way they would all quit. You need to find another employer.
I agree, and if we could just legislate and talk those pesky laws of physics into doing what we want them to, we could live in the Star Trek Universe.
You ignore that much of the cost of many products is marketing because people buy them for emotional egotistical reasons not practical ones. While many males people blather on about how they want to live in a homogenized society and how "efficient" it would all be if we all wore the same clothes every day, all personal items were "commoditized", etc. this fantasy only works in Hollywood movies. You need to ask a woman about this. She can explain it to you.
You said "Yellowstone Park" not Jackson hole.
Uh there is no Four Seasons resort in Yellowstone Park...
Corporations only have one goal: making the upper management as rich as possible.
Please, please, please go out and start your own business and get back me after a few years, will you?
And yet we are all told we must "embrace diversity"...
While simultaneously supporting policies that...
Saying on thing - loudly, and with great flourish of righteous indignation - and doing the exact opposite - is the definition of the modern progressive. The real illness in society is how many people are so easily duped into believing the nonsense, as history tells us these are people who end up being enslaved.
I fully support the ideals of the progressives, 100%. But the current crop of so called "progressives" are anything but.
Bought one of these, and while it has great feel and appears to be built like a tank it is so incredibly noisy it's hard to get used to. I think a typewriter is quieter....
I'm inclined to agree with you. Being the owner of a small business, and dealing with a considerable number of people (clients, employees, prospects, other small business owners) I find about ten to fifteen percent are simply "not nice people". They lie without remorse, cheat, and steal without seeming to posses a conscience at all.
.vs. the warm, giving progressive. I have found the same to be true when it comes to people who claim a strong religious affiliation. There is some correlation with culture - some cultures believe it's OK to cheat people to make a buck, whereas others do not.
Interestingly enough, ideology and religious affiliation is equally distributed in this group, which dispels the notion of the evil Republican CEO
I am not so confident that we can infallibly test for these conditions. With the criminally insane, we test with the MMPI, I don't believe there's a belief that a normal person will be tempted to commit a serious criminal act under just the right circumstances -- but a normal person, when exposed to the chance to become fabulously wealthy might suddenly turn crazy.
Of course we run the risk of being accused of supporting eugenics... But we're talking about pre-screening people, which we do a terrible job of today.
Get honest politician and the mass surveillance police state collapses as it loses the power to exert control via extortion.
Absolutely agreed, but if you cease to make being a politician so profitable... then dishonest greedy people won't get into politics, problem solved. As long as politicians can affect the flow of capital in society, setting up what are, in effect, money laundering machines where they skim the take into the party coffers, the current march towards a feudalistic police state will not stop. In the U.S. both parties do this using different sets of lies, but the results are exactly the same.
Personally I am not sure if this is possible.
A shame you posted this as AC because you're the only person on the entire page who mentions the Higgs field, which was proven by the LHC this creating the current Standardized Theory. It seems to me that if you to invent a graviton, then like the Higgs boson it would have to appear simultaneously in the entire known universe 10 -12 seconds after the big bang, same as the Higgs field, so why haven't we found it yet?
Probably because the graviton doesn't exist. Gravity is a function of mass, that warps space, just as Einstein thought. Perhaps someone who does this sort of thing for a living could weigh in. I just find it extremely interesting.
Impressive. I'm thinking we might be neighbors, I am near the motor city, my company does work for the big 3, and it is only in those circles I encounter people who actually understand how engines work to this level.
I'm in Digital Interactive, not engineering, but you don't live around here and frequent the halls of the Big 3 without knowing a few things.
Sure, and when all the cars (powered by Windows) get the BSOD and millions of people are injured the trial lawyers will have ALL our money,
Good point, but the real problem is that we're spending more money on infrastructure today than we were at the peak of the Interstate Highway construction and getting less and less and less for it. Why? The legalized money laundering systems that the politicians have spent years and years and years building...
Case Study: Detroit. Wisconsin. Most blue states. Many Red States.
Get rid of legalized theft from the taxpayer and put all that money into actual roads and they would be paved in gold, every year.
the government isn't responsible for inflation, that's down to (in the US) the Federal Reserve.
Huh? So printing money by the boatload... to finance an absurd deficit... doesn't create inflation? The U.S. Treasury would need to collect about $1.33 for each and every day since the Dawn of Time to be able to pay off the hard debt racked up in just the last six years. A buck-thirty-three a day may not strike one as a lot of money, it’s considerably less than what some folks pay for their daily latte, but the payment schedule would be spread out over “eternity.”
The CBO re-rated ObamaCare at 2 trillion dollars... $55,000 per person to provide the insurance. So while the Military budget is staggering, and the Iraq war was a horrible waste of money, ObamaCare certainly ranks at the top of the most over-hyped totally insane later Federal Program ever created.
And no, if you budget a 5% increase, and you are borrowing more than you take in, and the rate of increase is only 3%, that is NOT A TWO PERCENT SAVINGS!!! Only governments can get away with this nonsense. It's like saying "Well, I didn't borrow $100,000 I don't have anyway, so TODAY I SAVED $100,000 dollars". Which is exactly what you hear politicians saying in flowery terms every single year.
And as long as I am ranting I am not sure sure about CPI, as everything in the grocery store is a lot more expensive than CPI says it should be...