If you need a badly written article on Slashdot telling you how to "impress your friends" with your technical knowledge about a bad techno-thriller, then maybe you should stop reading Slashdot, stop trying to impress people, and read a book or something to learn a damn thing or two?
You both missed a very key point: they're not paying these domains.
The simply reserve them using a registrar's 5 day grace period & if nobody buys the domain from Network Solution for 5 days, they simply release the reserve. I.e., it's available again to the general public.
It's something a registrar can do, that you & I can't. Basically, a loophole that a few trusted companies in the system are exploiting for profit.
This came up a big back when a registrar would "try" domains, to see if the type-in traffic made more than the cost of registering. (E.g., by using Google's DomainPark for Domain Squatters.)
The President of GoDaddy wrote about it a little over a year ago:
If the planet is as fubar as some have posited, and beyond the point of salvation, as others have assert, shouldn't be *increasing* funding for exploration, terraforming, and settlement of other planets?
By no means is this is a China-only issue. It happens all the time in Western countries. If you're complaint is they're harder to deal with because they speak Chinese, that's mildly ridiculous.
Which is why it would nice if every law expired after one year.
That way lawmakers would spend their time on real issues, instead of parading in front of constituents w/ silly things they spend their free time on, such as Schiavo & Foley.
It says very specifically it's been noted in 30 years.
No assertion is made that the Northwest Passage has been closed for the entirety of the last 4,000 years. Maybe it was, but we don't know, and that's not what's being asserted.
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If you need a badly written article on Slashdot telling you how to "impress your friends" with your technical knowledge about a bad techno-thriller, then maybe you should stop reading Slashdot, stop trying to impress people, and read a book or something to learn a damn thing or two?
-Bill
Does this mean I'll be obligated to join & fork over 10% of income?
Anyone have a ha'penny?
I'm not a doctor, but as a Slashdot Editor, I feel free to correct those who are.
You both missed a very key point: they're not paying these domains.
The simply reserve them using a registrar's 5 day grace period & if nobody buys the domain from Network Solution for 5 days, they simply release the reserve. I.e., it's available again to the general public.
It's something a registrar can do, that you & I can't. Basically, a loophole that a few trusted companies in the system are exploiting for profit.
This came up a big back when a registrar would "try" domains, to see if the type-in traffic made more than the cost of registering. (E.g., by using Google's DomainPark for Domain Squatters.)
The President of GoDaddy wrote about it a little over a year ago:
http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html.
One registrar in particular, DirectNIC, "registered" 8.4 million domains but only permanently registered -- i.e. paid for -- 51,400.
Overall, I'm with you in spirit of screwing bastards like this over, but it seems the only way to do so is close the loophole in the system.
-Bill
The general time/date/etc. is correct. It seems to manifest in "world clocks" only (at least for me).
"Takes one to know one!"
-Bill
Rumor spreads that Google is helping an open source project & Slashdot falls over with praise.
Yahoo helps open source & the first question is "Hey, are they cookin' the books?"
Go figure.
-Bill
I don't get it.
If the planet is as fubar as some have posited, and beyond the point of salvation, as others have assert, shouldn't be *increasing* funding for exploration, terraforming, and settlement of other planets?
-Bill
Um, welcome to the Internet?
By no means is this is a China-only issue. It happens all the time in Western countries. If you're complaint is they're harder to deal with because they speak Chinese, that's mildly ridiculous.
-Bill
I heard he's avoiding Slashdot parties, lest he find himself a piñata.
-Bill
Uh, no. 151.20 has four (not even 5) significant digits, whereas 222,000 has six.
A refresher:
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/sig_fig/SIG_dig.htm
-Bill
Correct.
This would only be news if it was "Swift Boat Veterans" or another conservative cause.
In that case, it would be BUSH USES GOOGLE TO DESTROY CONSTITUTIONAL FREE SPEECH. IMPEACH NOW!!1!
*rolls eyes*
-Bill
What record labels are finally learning is that just because they can steal, doesn't mean the majority of people will.
-Bill
In the last half of Slashdot's history, we've seen several new editors -- timothy, michael, kdawson, etc.
The problem is, from the view of the community, most of them suck.
How are editors selected? Is community feedback important? How should the community voice it's opinion if they really dislike an editor?
-Bill
"...and features CAPTCHAs which are a usability nightmare and not nearly as impregnable as the author thinks."
Using CAPTCHAs for protection is a bit like using the rhythm method instead of condoms.
-Bill
True to form, Microsoft just stole the idea.
Intel introduce the idea with the Pentium FDIV bug.
-Bill
Which is why it would nice if every law expired after one year.
That way lawmakers would spend their time on real issues, instead of parading in front of constituents w/ silly things they spend their free time on, such as Schiavo & Foley.
Why should the SAT scores of Foreign students count at all?
That's not the question at hand. Rather, if everyone else is reporting them, why should MIT be exempt?
-Bill
The assertion is that, every time someone has checked in the last 400+ years,
Do you really believe civilization -- any civilization -- had the ability to truly check in 1607?
This sounds like a lot of other global warming hype. "Since we don't know, we'll assume it was in a state favorable to our theory."
-Bill
It says very specifically it's been noted in 30 years.
No assertion is made that the Northwest Passage has been closed for the entirety of the last 4,000 years. Maybe it was, but we don't know, and that's not what's being asserted.
-Bill
Forget about Norway -- more like Snoreway!
Come to Kenya, they got lions!
-Bill
...is now passable for the first time in recorded history...
Wherein "recorded history" is 30 years?
Shit, all this time I was hoping someone else was making backups of recorded history. Guess not.
-Bill
... I can definitely tell you there is a firewall. Short of using a proxy (thank you ssh -D), no machine can access Wikipedia, Blogger, etc.
-Bill
Tell that to /etc/passwd, bitch!
/etc/shadow?
Isn't that the point of
-Bill