Wasn't there a top-level domain added recently where Google already owned the.COM domain that browsers would redirect to? (whatever.tld would get you tld.com) Living and dying by swords and all that.
Because, by default, whois does a search match on the entire record rather than just the name. Since the names of a domain's DNS servers are part of that record, some smartasses with spare domains load up the DNS server names with useless extra strings that will match lookups against popular domains like google.
This only confuses humans, and has nothing to do with Google's outage and overly helpful browser code.
No link to them, so I went and had a look. They're definitely in the education business, that's for sure.
Their site starts cheerful enough with the reaching kid graphic and Putting Children Firstsm slogan. Strangely, their mission and who we are pages don't mention much about kids after that. The Starting a Charter School makes my eyes glaze over.
I have no idea of how good they are as schools, do they have a political leaning, or anything like that. If I was a parent, I'd probably ask some questions too. Definitely an Edu-Corp.
People are always complaining that the government never listens to them. Now that the government is actually doing something about it so that their voice will be heard, they're complaining. Typical!
When I looked at this picture of the NLS, I recognized it immediately. Mine's almost the same, probably a later version. I can't figure out why they used such a big display however.
There's plenty of software that will listen to the scanner via a sound card and break out the data, but I wasn't sure if anyone had decoded the blocks of engine performance data into anything useful. (Just the altitude/position data is good for a display like this.)
ACARS is an aircraft data telemetery system that transmits data, sometimes including engine performance, and can be receive with a simple scanner/computer setup.
In this series of two messages, we see a takeoff (TO) engine performance report.
Back in the '70s, Bell Canada went to a new pay phone and jacked the price to 20 cents. However the new phones didn't lock out the hook-switch from dialing without coins for a couple years.
If they're selling chunks of Mars, they're eventually going to have to deal with the Martian Embassy, and that's not healthy! (A classic radio show chopped to 11m24s RealAudio and Trainspotting music added. Nice.)
Ball-hogs on a grand scale eh? However I doubt that they're sitting on the data and not allowing anyone else to look at it. The other teams will just have to speed up their game, and soon they too will get the fame and endorsement contracts that go with being tops in the planetary science leagues.
Miyamoto Musashi was Mister Bushido! I'd have to check on historical periods and my dead-tree copy of his book to see if he'd encountered guns and had anything to say about them. Guns were known in Japan for quite a while before they were outlawed. (And then the Americans sailed in and made their gun-control laws useless. As a Canadian, I can relate.;)
Some other schools have a liking for extra-long swords. From the point of view of my strategy these must be seen as weak schools. This is because they do not appreciate the principle of cutting the enemy by any means. Their preference is for the extra-long sword and, relying on the virtue of its length, they think to defeat the enemy from a distance.
In this world it is said, "One inch gives the hand advantage", but these are the idle words of one who does not know strategy. It shows the inferior strategy of a weak sprit that men should be dependant on the length of their sword, fighting from a distance without the benefit of strategy.
I expect there is a case for the school in question liking extra-long swords as part of it's doctrine, but if we compare this with real life it is unreasonable. Surely we need not necessarily be defeated if we are using a short sword, and have no long sword?
It is difficult for these people to cut the enemy when at close quarters because of the length of the long sword. The blade path is large so the long sword is an encumbrance, and they are at a disadvantage compared to the man armed with a short companion sword.
From olden times it has been said: "Great and small go together." So do not unconditionally dislike extra-long swords. What I dislike is the inclination towards the long sword. If we consider large-scale strategy, we can think of large forces in terms of long swords, and small forces as short swords. Cannot few men give battle against many? There are many instances of few men overcoming many.
Your strategy is of no account if when called on to fight in a confined space your heart is inclined to the long sword, or if you are in a house armed only with your companion sword. Besides, some men have not the strength of others.
In my doctrine, I dislike preconceived, narrow spirit. You must study this well.
Alas, on the subject of in-yer-face flying green Jedi master combat styles, Musashi is silent.
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There's a whois *program*? Damn, I've just been using telnet whois.internic.net 43 all these years!
Google's DNS was down, browsers did something that most people don't expect. Nothing to see, move along.
google.com: Created on..............: 1997-Sep-15.
It probably depends on whose whois server that you're querying and the default command used by whatever program you're using.
Wasn't there a top-level domain added recently where Google already owned the .COM domain that browsers would redirect to? (whatever.tld would get you tld.com) Living and dying by swords and all that.
This only confuses humans, and has nothing to do with Google's outage and overly helpful browser code.
I have no idea of how good they are as schools, do they have a political leaning, or anything like that. If I was a parent, I'd probably ask some questions too. Definitely an Edu-Corp.
People are always complaining that the government never listens to them. Now that the government is actually doing something about it so that their voice will be heard, they're complaining. Typical!
When I looked at this picture of the NLS, I recognized it immediately. Mine's almost the same, probably a later version. I can't figure out why they used such a big display however.
That would explain the contents of the next message: ALL CRW HAD CHCKN. PLS CNFRM TED STRYKER ONBRD?
Well, actually it is. Scroll down to my ACARS telemetery post or read this.
There's plenty of software that will listen to the scanner via a sound card and break out the data, but I wasn't sure if anyone had decoded the blocks of engine performance data into anything useful. (Just the altitude/position data is good for a display like this.)
With a kind-of Huffman encoding.
Back in the '70s, Bell Canada went to a new pay phone and jacked the price to 20 cents. However the new phones didn't lock out the hook-switch from dialing without coins for a couple years.
If they're selling chunks of Mars, they're eventually going to have to deal with the Martian Embassy , and that's not healthy! (A classic radio show chopped to 11m24s RealAudio and Trainspotting music added. Nice.)
Ball-hogs on a grand scale eh? However I doubt that they're sitting on the data and not allowing anyone else to look at it. The other teams will just have to speed up their game, and soon they too will get the fame and endorsement contracts that go with being tops in the planetary science leagues.
Bridges? Like the Tacoma Narrows Galloping Gertie? I dunno...
Miyamoto Musashi was Mister Bushido! I'd have to check on historical periods and my dead-tree copy of his book to see if he'd encountered guns and had anything to say about them. Guns were known in Japan for quite a while before they were outlawed. (And then the Americans sailed in and made their gun-control laws useless. As a Canadian, I can relate. ;)
I asked him to give me a hand hacking it, but no luck.
Use this one.
Is this part of a cunning plan to get some hacker to leave IIS alone by distracting him with an XBox to hack?
At last we shall reveal ourselves to the Jedi!
From the Book of the Five Rings, I'd guess.