A WebFerret search (did I say that WebFerret is one damn fine app? Too bad the parent company got eaten by ZDNet...) for "PR-964 cruise missile" turned up absolutely nothing anywhere on the web, and a search for "PR-964" turned up 143 hits (when I stopped it..) -- none of which had anything to do with NATO or cruise missles..
(For the curious, the most common hit seemed to be a reference to a 1987 Compliance Test Report from the NHTSA regarding the pounds of force applied to the right femur (964 pounds, to be exact) of a crash dummy in a 1987 Chrysler Le Baron 2 door...)
...and a WebFerret search (Damn! now there's program that oughta be ported over to Linux!) finds absolutely nothing whatsoever for "Krasnokutovka" -- and only two hits for "KrasnoConv" -- both of which are the home page itself.
Not surprising, since the domain name's only been live for a coupla weeks..
..but there's absolutely no other reference to this company, founded in 1995, anywhere, good, bad or indifferent, on the web?
registrant-title: Herr registrant-firstname: Andrej registrant-lastname: Schachnasarow registrant-organization: KrasnoConv registrant-street: Au 5 registrant-pcode: 94140 registrant-city: Ering registrant-ccode: DE
Which is Germany, isn't it..?
registrant-phone: +49 8573 12345
Is there anything funny about the phone number, or... nah!
registrant-email: KrasnoConv@mail.ru
And the registrant is using a maildrop in Russia..
From the website's "Company Info" page:
"KrasnoConv solutions are a privately owned company, established 1995, located in Krasnokutovka, Ucraine."
There is no "Krasnokutovka" in the index of the National Geographic Atlas of the World, Revised Sixth Edition, 1996. The closest matches are "Krasnokamsk" and "Krasnoleninskiy"...
"What the RIAA is looking for is not a preservation of their time-worn business model, but revamping of their buisness model. Not only the control of the medium, but the use of the medium."
Well put.
This is the big issue I have with both the RIAA and the MPAA: their attempt to control how and when lawfully purchased DVD's or CD's are used, and more to the point of this current topic, on what hardware.
The point is not that rights are lost by not buying the movie; the point is that rights are being lost after one has bought the movie.
As stated above, (which may not have been posted when you made your post) it seems as if purchase outright is suddenly being unilaterally turned into rental, with conditions not clearly stated up front...
Apparently you no longer own a DVD or a CD outright; you may take physical possesion of it, but suddenly it can only be used in very restricted ways: only you can watch the one original copy you bought, and it can only be viewed or listened-to on one device at any one moment in time.
The RIAA and the MPAA utterly misunderstand an entirely new media form and distribution channel, and as a result are trying to assert unreasonable restrictions on their customers who have made legal purchases.
I disagree with that narrow and self-serving restriction: the RIAA and the MPAA are antiquated in their thinking, and my position is that radical actions are justified to force them into re-thinking their positions...
"...but I can drag an icon from one directory to another faster than I can type "copy readme.txt d:\rogue" or, for that matter, "copy reade.txt to d:\rogue"..."
But that is exactly what I have not been experiencing, myself.
Using kfm under kde, or (erk..) Windows Explorer, I spend 'way more time getting the windows sized so I can see both directories, or clicking one directory open and then clicking open a subdirectory, and then what if I want to move a set of file that aren't contiguous, I gotta control-click each one...
I can type a command-line task that includes a complex rule to select and move a specific set of files 'way faster..
I'm quite certain that AC posts can be modded up or down, if that's what you mean.
That's really the only way I ever see 'em, now that I'm cruising at Threshold: 2 -- unfortunately, probably not enough AC posts get modded up, but hey! life's tough!
Of course there's no way for any one individual AC poster to accumulate karma, if that's what you mean..
I just submitted an "Ask Slashdot" which posed the question:
"Is it time (once again..) to ask whether the AC should be done away with to get *some* kind of control over the volume of crap that's getting posted to/."
For example, cruising at Threshold: 2, this article is currently 91.7% posts at 1 or under!
91.7%
And if you were to bother to look, the majority of 'em are plain crap!
/. has *really* gone all to hell in the last several months..
"This article at the BBC mentions that while Coca-Cola still has the most valuable brand name, Microsoft is a close second."
Branding and corporate identity are really joined at the hip into inseparable twins in modern global consumerist marketing.
One of the most common additions to video and audio advertising is the URL.
This is why I think the entire issue of establishing any new tld's is missing a major problem: no corporate conglomerate is going to let anything that's even close-sounding to it's precious brand name appear in any form in the new tld's, so much of the current scarcity will be replicated immediately, and mere mortals (and domain-name scalpers) will still be fighting over what's left.
As others have pointed out, most people don't type in url's as they surf, they click links or use their bookmarks. So the corporations aren't concerned with the url per se; the corporations really want to control what's just one more aspect of their carefully-crafted brand identity.
Is Coca-Cola gonna let *anybody* register anything even vaguely like "coca-cola" even though the tld is different?
No.
Is Micro$oft gonna let anybody register anything Micro$oft-ish?
Nope..
Brand name is king. That's the core issue in a lot of the current domain name quarrels. And it'll just be the same deal, no matter how many new tld's you create.
t_t_b -- I think not; therefore I ain't®
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"Openning your story, by calling the people who like X-Men alienated from society, and pretty much starting on a round of geek bashing, and slamming people who are into comics.."
Let's see; Katz says:
"He (which is Brian Singer, at this point) had to try and please the rabid X-Men fans -- who make up one of the most impassioned sub-genres of outcast culture and who were noisily vigilant for even the slightest deviations from the comic version."
..and then Katz says:
"It's easy to see why some geeks and many outcasts have always loved the X-Men - a sentiment very much reflected in the movie."
..and then Katz says:
"It's easy to resonate with a film that has a U.S. Senator pushing for the public listing of all "mutants" - here Katz is talking about the movie - and seeking to remove them from the public school system of America because they might conceivably be dangerous."
And you translate that into:
"Come on dude, you don't write columns to people, and have them want to continue reading your column, by saying "I'd first like to say that you're all a bunch of raging assholes."
"This just in, JonKatz has yet again managed to alienate programmers and developers everywhere..."
I dunno: I don't find Katz once mentioning either "raging assholes" or anything at all about "programmers and developers" -- what were you reading?
Once again, there's just some people who are hell bent on disliking Katz without apparently reading him...
...what he had to say about the Micro$soft PDC 'cause I lost interest in that crap when I bailed on my MSDN subscription about 3 years ago.
But, I did read some of J. Scott Bushey's other stuff (diatribes, he calls 'em - I call 'em tantrums..) and is this guy ever full of himself!
From: "Greed isn't Good My Ass!"
"Am I Evil? If you have ever asked one of your direct reports "What do you want to be when you grow up?" or tried to trade corporate culture for salary with an applicant, your answer is yes. I am coming for you and your organization, I am going to drive you out of business, gobble you up, split you into pieces, and if I can, buy your bank then foreclose on your house."
Christ! I'll bet that's Bill Gates on line 2 right now, wanting to cut a deal before you eat him alive!
"I am your future. I am greedy, self-centered, avaristic, and what's worse, I think the most altruistic thing in the world is to do something so well, for so much value, that people want to pay me for it."
Oh. You intend to work for a living. Good plan, and a novel concept! Welcome to the club.
"The juggernaut that is the J. Scott Bushey experience is heading to a neighborhood near you. I've finally got to feel what its like to own a car, a bed, a new pair of shoes. No more nights curled up on the concrete floor with sore arches for me baby, no way. Now its payback time, and you dare to despise greed, the lifeblood of capitalism, when I've finally gotten a taste...?"
Ah! The untrammeled enthusiasm of youth! They're so cute at this age!
But wait:
"Currently I am employed as a consultant with Information Control Corporation. assigned to a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier in the telecommunications industry."
So he's a consultant/worker-bee.
I bet the VC's are hounding him to get a piece of his action!
"Slashdot is wasting our time and their time interviewing some lame kid who happened to find a security hole in AOL, who cares?"
Christ! Give the kid a break!
And give/. a break while you're at it!
If your time is so GD important, don't read the bloody article!
You should be able to scan a post here in seconds and decide if it's worth your valuable time.
Of course, posting to/. does let you display your self-promoting.sig...
...and it's interesting to note that a quick check of your site reveals the interesting fact that 45% of your links have either "My" or "Nathan" in them.
So I guess you do think you're pretty important...
And finally (not to pick;-) I'd turn down the refresh=7 on your web cam page a little. Something more like 15 or even 30 works well: at least then the entire image would have a chance to load before the refresh timer goes off and starts all over again...
Slashdot Mirror
For your right!
To make /. AC spam-free
t_t_b
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A WebFerret search (did I say that WebFerret is one damn fine app? Too bad the parent company got eaten by ZDNet...) for "PR-964 cruise missile" turned up absolutely nothing anywhere on the web, and a search for "PR-964" turned up 143 hits (when I stopped it..) -- none of which had anything to do with NATO or cruise missles..
(For the curious, the most common hit seemed to be a reference to a 1987 Compliance Test Report from the NHTSA regarding the pounds of force applied to the right femur (964 pounds, to be exact) of a crash dummy in a 1987 Chrysler Le Baron 2 door...)
But I digress..
That whole deal is a scam!
t_t_b
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Not surprising, since the domain name's only been live for a coupla weeks..
Anywhere?
Yeah, right!
I'm betting this is a shuck!
t_t_b
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At dns411.com:
domain: KRASNOCONV.COM
created: Jul 1 2000
So this domain name is about 23 days old...
last-changed: Jul 1 2000
registration-expiration: Jul 1 2001
registrant-title: Herr
registrant-firstname: Andrej
registrant-lastname: Schachnasarow
registrant-organization: KrasnoConv
registrant-street: Au 5
registrant-pcode: 94140
registrant-city: Ering
registrant-ccode: DE
Which is Germany, isn't it..?
registrant-phone: +49 8573 12345
Is there anything funny about the phone number, or... nah!
registrant-email: KrasnoConv@mail.ru
And the registrant is using a maildrop in Russia..
From the website's "Company Info" page:
"KrasnoConv solutions are a privately owned company, established 1995, located in Krasnokutovka, Ucraine."
There is no "Krasnokutovka" in the index of the National Geographic Atlas of the World, Revised Sixth Edition, 1996. The closest matches are "Krasnokamsk" and "Krasnoleninskiy"...
Food for thought...
I'll let you draw your own conclusions...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Well put.
This is the big issue I have with both the RIAA and the MPAA: their attempt to control how and when lawfully purchased DVD's or CD's are used, and more to the point of this current topic, on what hardware.
Ta hell with 'em, sez I...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
As stated above, (which may not have been posted when you made your post) it seems as if purchase outright is suddenly being unilaterally turned into rental, with conditions not clearly stated up front...
Apparently you no longer own a DVD or a CD outright; you may take physical possesion of it, but suddenly it can only be used in very restricted ways: only you can watch the one original copy you bought, and it can only be viewed or listened-to on one device at any one moment in time.
The RIAA and the MPAA utterly misunderstand an entirely new media form and distribution channel, and as a result are trying to assert unreasonable restrictions on their customers who have made legal purchases.
I disagree with that narrow and self-serving restriction: the RIAA and the MPAA are antiquated in their thinking, and my position is that radical actions are justified to force them into re-thinking their positions...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
But that is exactly what I have not been experiencing, myself.
Using kfm under kde, or (erk..) Windows Explorer, I spend 'way more time getting the windows sized so I can see both directories, or clicking one directory open and then clicking open a subdirectory, and then what if I want to move a set of file that aren't contiguous, I gotta control-click each one...
I can type a command-line task that includes a complex rule to select and move a specific set of files 'way faster..
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
For your right!
To make /. AC spam-free
Remember the good old days when the biggest issue about posting was First Post! posts?
t_t_b
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For your right!
To make /. AC spam-free
It's past time for this kinda stuff to go!
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
For your right!
To ban AC spam!
Isn't anybody besides me getting tired of this crap?
t_t_b
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For your right!
To ban AC spam!
Return /. to it's past years of glory, when most of the posts were vaguely on-topic!
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
For your right!
To ban AC spam!
t_t_b
Power to the People! Smash the fascism of AC Spam!
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For your right!
To ban AC spam!
t_t_b
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipi^H^H^H^H^Hproblem!
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For your right!
To ban AC spam!
t_t_b
When over 80% of posts are spam, you know it's Spamdot!
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For your right!
To ban AC spam!
t_t_b
(I'm expecting to get bitchslapped for this...)
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That's really the only way I ever see 'em, now that I'm cruising at Threshold: 2 -- unfortunately, probably not enough AC posts get modded up, but hey! life's tough!
Of course there's no way for any one individual AC poster to accumulate karma, if that's what you mean..
t_t_b
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And just when I use up all my moderator points, I come across this crap...
You, sir, are an idiot.
t_t_b
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Funny you should mention that!
I just submitted an "Ask Slashdot" which posed the question:
"Is it time (once again..) to ask whether the AC should be done away with to get *some* kind of control over the volume of crap that's getting posted to /."
For example, cruising at Threshold: 2, this article is currently 91.7% posts at 1 or under!
91.7%
And if you were to bother to look, the majority of 'em are plain crap!
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
Just don't read it!
You folks have apparently got enough time to bring up articles you don't like and then make comments about how much the're a waste of your time.
Must be a slow day at work, huh?
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
"This article at the BBC mentions that while Coca-Cola still has the most valuable brand name, Microsoft is a close second."
Branding and corporate identity are really joined at the hip into inseparable twins in modern global consumerist marketing.
One of the most common additions to video and audio advertising is the URL.
This is why I think the entire issue of establishing any new tld's is missing a major problem: no corporate conglomerate is going to let anything that's even close-sounding to it's precious brand name appear in any form in the new tld's, so much of the current scarcity will be replicated immediately, and mere mortals (and domain-name scalpers) will still be fighting over what's left.
As others have pointed out, most people don't type in url's as they surf, they click links or use their bookmarks. So the corporations aren't concerned with the url per se; the corporations really want to control what's just one more aspect of their carefully-crafted brand identity.
Is Coca-Cola gonna let *anybody* register anything even vaguely like "coca-cola" even though the tld is different?
No.
Is Micro$oft gonna let anybody register anything Micro$oft-ish?
Nope..
Brand name is king. That's the core issue in a lot of the current domain name quarrels. And it'll just be the same deal, no matter how many new tld's you create.
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Let's see; Katz says:
"He (which is Brian Singer, at this point) had to try and please the rabid X-Men fans -- who make up one of the most impassioned sub-genres of outcast culture and who were noisily vigilant for even the slightest deviations from the comic version."
"It's easy to see why some geeks and many outcasts have always loved the X-Men - a sentiment very much reflected in the movie."
"It's easy to resonate with a film that has a U.S. Senator pushing for the public listing of all "mutants" - here Katz is talking about the movie - and seeking to remove them from the public school system of America because they might conceivably be dangerous."
And you translate that into:
"Come on dude, you don't write columns to people, and have them want to continue reading your column, by saying "I'd first like to say that you're all a bunch of raging assholes."
"This just in, JonKatz has yet again managed to alienate programmers and developers everywhere..."
I dunno: I don't find Katz once mentioning either "raging assholes" or anything at all about "programmers and developers" -- what were you reading?
Once again, there's just some people who are hell bent on disliking Katz without apparently reading him...
t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®
But, I did read some of J. Scott Bushey's other stuff (diatribes, he calls 'em - I call 'em tantrums..) and is this guy ever full of himself!
From: "Greed isn't Good My Ass!"
"Am I Evil? If you have ever asked one of your direct reports "What do you want to be when you grow up?" or tried to trade corporate culture for salary with an applicant, your answer is yes. I am coming for you and your organization, I am going to drive you out of business, gobble you up, split you into pieces, and if I can, buy your bank then foreclose on your house."
Christ! I'll bet that's Bill Gates on line 2 right now, wanting to cut a deal before you eat him alive!
"I am your future. I am greedy, self-centered, avaristic, and what's worse, I think the most altruistic thing in the world is to do something so well, for so much value, that people want to pay me for it."
Oh. You intend to work for a living. Good plan, and a novel concept! Welcome to the club.
"The juggernaut that is the J. Scott Bushey experience is heading to a neighborhood near you. I've finally got to feel what its like to own a car, a bed, a new pair of shoes. No more nights curled up on the concrete floor with sore arches for me baby, no way. Now its payback time, and you dare to despise greed, the lifeblood of capitalism, when I've finally gotten a taste...?"
Ah! The untrammeled enthusiasm of youth! They're so cute at this age!
But wait:
"Currently I am employed as a consultant with Information Control Corporation. assigned to a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier in the telecommunications industry."
So he's a consultant/worker-bee.
I bet the VC's are hounding him to get a piece of his action!
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
In Spanish-speaking countries (like Mexico - GM's neighbor immediately to the south..) it easily translates into "no go"
t_t_b
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Christ! Give the kid a break!
And give /. a break while you're at it!
If your time is so GD important, don't read the bloody article!
You should be able to scan a post here in seconds and decide if it's worth your valuable time.
Of course, posting to /. does let you display your self-promoting .sig...
So I guess you do think you're pretty important...
And finally (not to pick ;-) I'd turn down the refresh=7 on your web cam page a little. Something more like 15 or even 30 works well: at least then the entire image would have a chance to load before the refresh timer goes off and starts all over again...
Just a thought..
t_t_b
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So now he's in the eighth or ninth grade (or just out of it: it's summer!) and he's probably 14-15 years old and he probably lives at home.
Not everybody is a 3l337 adult...
t_t_b
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