Just another case of a manufacturer that failed to keep innovating. Blackberries and iPod touches took them out of the handheld data market, and there are currently way too many equal and better smartphones out there today. Palm became irrelevant about 2 years ago. The only angle they could possibly have used at this point was customer service, and unfortunately for Palm, they actually started at the bottom of that pile and stayed there. On that note I'd say "good riddance". Complete lack of product support made me a one-unit-customer.
I certainly won't miss them. They neither offered a good product nor pushed the industry in the right direction.
In order to install it on a machine below Apple's 800 MHz specs, you must hack the original installation code or perform other tricks, and that act itself is a violation of Apple's license.
Nope.
It's easy to do and does not violate the license agreement, nor require you to "hack" any installation software. We'll use my G4/733 as an example. It says it doesn't meet the minimum requirements when I boot the 10.5.6 disc.
Boot a powermac g5 off the 10.5.6 disc. Reboot the G4 in firewire target mode and plug it into the G5. The g4's hard drive will mount up and be an eligible volume for installation. Install to the G4's hard drive. When the G5 restarts, unplug the firewire cable and restart the G4.
Complete the installation by setting up your account on the g4 and go get your software updates. You haven't violated the licensing agreement. The closest pass you've made is the "install on one computer". But you have installed on one computer, using another computer.
Apple also recommends having a bootable external hard drive for troubleshooting, and companies like Alsoft recommend this. It's a whole different world than windows. So many of the things that MS makes difficult or impossible, are simply accepted as normal and even expected on a mac. Like portability of OS between hardware. I have a single external hard drive here that will blow your mind. 250gb, 12 partitions. Contains a bootable partition for the 9.2.1, 10.3.4, 10.4.6, 10.5.6, and 10.6.0 install disks, and installed 9.2.2, 10.4.11, 10.5.8, and 10.6.3. (full usable installs, not stripped down) There is no mac in the world it won't both boot to desktop and install OS to, provided it has firewire or USB2. (one of the many reasons actual serious repair techs prefer working on macs)
Really? I'd like to see 10.6 running on either 384 or 512 MB.
(instructions at the bottom)
BUT I can say with personal experience that even Tiger will run on 128mb, and leopard will run on 256mb. They're not HAPPY, but they do run. A bit like Vista if you install it on one of the silly "vista ready" stickered netbooks in minimum configuration.
I'm also aware that doing that violates Apple's 10.5 license.
Perhaps I missed something, can you enlighten me on this, it says you can only install it on an "apple brand computer" iirc. My G4/733 is "Apple branded". It may not meet minimum system requirements for 10.5, but nothing in the license forbids my getting it running on it? And 10.5 actually runs pretty good on that old dog. It's the gigabit ethernet model and I use it as a local fileserver. Much better SMB sharing support in 10.5.
OS 10.6 requires 1 gigabyte; no exceptions.
Patently false. I've personally worked on several original macbooks that shipped with 10.4.7 and two 256mb sodimms, that had been upgraded to 10.5, and now they wanted to go to 10.6. Advised them they needed more memory to run good, denied, just update the os. Updated to 10.6 (by temporarily swapping one 256 for a 1gb) and then ran sw updates to 10.6.2 and put back the 256. Ran dog slow on 512mb. They changed their minds once they saw it, and we replaced both 256's with 512's or 1gb's and things were much smoother.
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OS 10.6 requires 1 gigabyte; no exceptions. But WIN7 runs well on just 1/2 GB. Apple's OS appears *twice* as bloated.
Actually 10.6 will run in 384mb. It won't install with under 1gb of ram. (and other requirements like processor speed)
The difference here is, Windows will let you install into a memory footprint that will make you want to slit your wrists with an icepick. It has nothing to do with the amount of memory either of them needs, but how much they sensibly require. It's like the Dells that were sold as "vista ready" and that were basically unusable until you upgraded them. It's hard to make a good comparison, but OS X and Vista are actually about on par for performance vs hardware host.
This is probably a foreign concept though for you, being able to install on one machine, and move the hard drive to another machine, and have it immediately work perfectly. But you can do that with OS X. One of the many, many advantages of maintaining and servicing a mac. You were making observations on things that you can and can't do between the two OS's, so I'd hope you wouldn't ignore this disparity?;)
didn't you know, when you're in space the lack of gravity causes your legs to expand back up to their 'natural length'
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"The company he once built"
Because the other steve just had nothing do to with it
Last I checked, Jobs was the businessman and Woz was the tech. Without Jobs there never would have been an Apple Computer Inc. And Woz would still be in his garage tinkering. That's what each of them does. Jobs does business, Woz does tinkering. Both are necessary to start a computer company. But unfortunately, in the long run, only one of them is necessary to continue it. Woz was an incredible and probably an essential contribution to Apple in its early stages, but as a company grows, the value and results from powerful business leaders quickly overshadows the brilliant minds working within. The reason's pretty simple.... a sizable company can fairly easily replace good techs, but a good businessman is much riskier to replace. (as Apple found out a few years ago when it tried to replace Jobs)
Right now Jobs has dozens of people at or near Woz's technical level working for him. Apple needs many techs at this stage. But they work best wit only one business leader providing direction. That kind of waters down the tech's importance, regardless of what level it's at.
While "April Fools Joke" may be an american tradition, the concept of a practical joke on any day is universal. Believing a globally preposterous newspaper article any day of the year should win you some sort of razzy'ish award.
Unless you think the average Jordanian would even consider such an article to be true, any day of the year? No, this one was a dim bulb. OR, OR he happens to have a greater-than-average belief in aliens, and just latched onto it before someone could hit him with a common-sense-bat. There's my bet.
I think Lucas is so pissed the he will forever be remembered for Star Wars and nothing else
Oh I think Alec Guinness (Obi Wan Kenobi) has him beat a country mile. That absolutely drove him crazy, he was an actor on stage and played roles like Hamlet, and yet his role in Star Wars is what 99% of the people that know the face will remember him for.
Why would they do that? Its in Google's best interest to quietly do a deal with Facebook.
Although google certainly is a company for profit and carries all the associated baggage that comes with it, they place a much higher value on their reputation and public image than most other companies, even to the point of having faith that taking a stand on certain things will in the short-term cost them money, but in the long-term will be a net benefit.
Remember, their mission statement is "do no evil"
This sort of crusade is right up their alley. Right on par with pulling out of China. Remember that from last week? Your memory is certainly short.
sort of a streisand effect if you look at it right. he's trying to shift the blame away from himself and is stepping into the spotlight as a result. but the error is so obvious that near 100% of the observers realize who the fool is.
The mayor called the local security authorities, who combed the area
So... the mayor set aside common sense, skipped the whole "why don't we call the newspaper and see what their source for this story is?" and called in the marines? AND the local law enforcement ALSO failed their reality check, made no attempt to talk sense into the mayor, and headed out on their alien snipe hunt?
I say the whole group got what they deserved. The only reason the mayer is lawyering up is in retribution for a whole henhouse full of egg on his face.
I'm bummed that Facebook are taking a legal position that would cripple the web if it was adopted (how many people would Google need to hire to write letters to every single website they crawled?)
I was just thinking the same thing... that looks like an excellent dragon for google to slay to the benefit of the entire internet community. And they're in a good position to do it. One way or another, someone's going to have to do it. This is a battle that either google is going to go looking for, or that is going to come looking for google. (when some very stupid smaller group tries to "pull a facebok" on google, most likely, as any larger group like Facebook would have a bevy of lawyers advising them of their folly in pressing google on something that they won't win by right or by expensive litigation)
I find it hilarious to see all the kindle owners ragging on the ipad for being overpriced and how they can get the same thing that's so much better for less in a Kindle. Then say one word about the features of the ipad and they run screaming in the other direction saying you can't compare the two since the kindle is "just an ebook reader". So, apparently we can compare them when talking about batter life and price, but we can't compare them when talking about app stores, color displays, games, etc etc etc.
For right now, cost and (extreme) battery life are really the only two things kindle has going for it. Give it a few months for the prices on ipad to come down and it will bury the kindle, or force them to drop the price on it quite a bit to maintain their edge. They're not in exactly the same market. The Kindle is in a subset of the ipad's market. Which usually means "it's cheaper" is the only thing they have going for them.
I was rather wondering why RB wasn't listed in the tags below the story. Sort of a "hey guy I think you forgot something?" moment.
That being said, I was big into RB in version 1-4 (I worked with Andrew on debugging) but back then the windows support was shakey. A lot of features didn't work, many didn't work the same, and you had to do a lot of #IF's with separate code in places for mac and windows. Linux support wasn't there at all really.
Looking at 08-09 recently, the windows support is surprisingly good. Back in version 4 day, you were required to debug both environments from the very start of the development process, because trying to track down oddities in how one platform differed from another was a complete nightmare if you suddenly decided 4 months in that you wanted to see how it ran on windows and ticked the box. But with 09 I was indeed able to tick the box and it basically ran correctly. Some minor tweaks, mostly to the GUI elements, but definitely useable.
The greatest weakness of RB nowadays seems to be the idiots trying to develop professional software with it. Not that RB can't handle it... I've seen and done things with RB that would bury anyone trying to implement them in most other languages in anywhere near the same timeframe. (afaik RB is king of the mountain for RAD) The problem is that now that anyone can produce powerful apps, even coding retards can try to sell their wares. Our POS system is made with RB (NOT something they advertise! tho I recognized the binaries immediately) and little stupid things like not setting focus on a window after opening it, problems like that which persist after a year of development... makes me want to stomp down there, rip the source out of their hands, spend a single day with it, and get rid of all the annoying bugs they seem incapable of fixing.
Anyway I stray a bit. The basic thing to keep in mind is just because a language can cross-compile, doesn't mean you just tick the box and you're good. It rarely works out that way. Good languages will give you only a minimal headache, and won't require you to start from Day One with the second target in mind. I take a "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude here, lets see how some people fair in real-world examples before passing judgement on just how good this "universal target" language really is.
A lot of the newer computers go the other way, sucking air IN through the keyboard and out the back.
Has the benefit of actually being cooler on the fingers than would be otherwise even without venting through the keyboard.
Though I can't think of any laptops offhand that actually forced air out through the keyboard. I've used a few models that definitely dissipated heat through the keyboard, but none that had a fan actually pressing the point. They were just driven by "heat rises".
Battery life is not relevant beyond the length of time you need to use it continuously. So unless you intend to read for over 12 hrs straight, battery life (eve if just) over 12 hours is no more useful for you than battery life of 20 days.
My ipod touch gets plugged in while I'm driving to/from work, and that's enough for me that I have NEVER ran my battery dead.
It's no different than cell phones. Plug it in every nigh before bed.
I think the Kindle is going to have to make some serious changes. For 2x the price you get 5x the features with the iPad. Kindle's been out awhile and prices have already worked their way down as features and size have crept up. The iPad is just hitting the market and is already a better value for the money. When the early adopters are done paying their tax and prices on the iPad drop, Kindle has a very serious problem on their hands. I wonder what they intend to do?
Same thing has already happened with the palm pilot, but against a flurry of devices. (ipods and smartphones) Who in their right mind would buy a palm pilot today? Kindle is headed down the same road. I bought a PP 4 yrs ago not because I liked it, but because it was the only product anywhere near the price for what it did. People bought the Kindle for the same reason. And they're both going to find their way to the garage sale.
unfortunately, searching the child for such things would probably have only fanned the flames of paranoia.
as much as you have legitimate useful suggestions, it's unfortunately necessary to consider the tolerance level of the public in such cases.
And if the guard had been unwilling to assist even after heated discussion, imagine how much more crazy things could have gotten if the man tried to take her off the train and to a hospital?
Thirty years ago none of this would have been a problem, checking her for diabetic gear, even taking her to a hospital would have been acceptable to most. The situation isn't the problem. The world is just plain broken today.
last I heard on this, the domain owner had written signed request on file at his registrar to not transfer the domain unless he was there in person with valid IDs because so many people had tried to fraud the domain from him.
Then some yutz at the registrar let someone fax in a request for a transfer, and he had quite a fight to get it back, but got it back in surprisingly short order.
From there I didn't hear any further on it. You'd think that if that many people were that desperate to get their hands on it, it ought to be worth something. Maybe not 100 mil, but something. With all the banner revenue he has to be getting, I don't understand how he's broke. That should have been his meal-ticket for life. Maybe not extremely lucrative, but should have at least been a nice steady income forever.
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sometimes there are write languages for the job, and sometimes there are wrong languages for the job.
But you see, there's only one right (write?) language for the Jobs
Lots of great memories Palm, though none recently
Just another case of a manufacturer that failed to keep innovating. Blackberries and iPod touches took them out of the handheld data market, and there are currently way too many equal and better smartphones out there today. Palm became irrelevant about 2 years ago. The only angle they could possibly have used at this point was customer service, and unfortunately for Palm, they actually started at the bottom of that pile and stayed there. On that note I'd say "good riddance". Complete lack of product support made me a one-unit-customer.
I certainly won't miss them. They neither offered a good product nor pushed the industry in the right direction.
In order to install it on a machine below Apple's 800 MHz specs, you must hack the original installation code or perform other tricks, and that act itself is a violation of Apple's license.
Nope.
It's easy to do and does not violate the license agreement, nor require you to "hack" any installation software. We'll use my G4/733 as an example. It says it doesn't meet the minimum requirements when I boot the 10.5.6 disc.
Boot a powermac g5 off the 10.5.6 disc. Reboot the G4 in firewire target mode and plug it into the G5. The g4's hard drive will mount up and be an eligible volume for installation. Install to the G4's hard drive. When the G5 restarts, unplug the firewire cable and restart the G4.
Complete the installation by setting up your account on the g4 and go get your software updates. You haven't violated the licensing agreement. The closest pass you've made is the "install on one computer". But you have installed on one computer, using another computer.
Apple also recommends having a bootable external hard drive for troubleshooting, and companies like Alsoft recommend this. It's a whole different world than windows. So many of the things that MS makes difficult or impossible, are simply accepted as normal and even expected on a mac. Like portability of OS between hardware. I have a single external hard drive here that will blow your mind. 250gb, 12 partitions. Contains a bootable partition for the 9.2.1, 10.3.4, 10.4.6, 10.5.6, and 10.6.0 install disks, and installed 9.2.2, 10.4.11, 10.5.8, and 10.6.3. (full usable installs, not stripped down) There is no mac in the world it won't both boot to desktop and install OS to, provided it has firewire or USB2. (one of the many reasons actual serious repair techs prefer working on macs)
Really? I'd like to see 10.6 running on either 384 or 512 MB.
(instructions at the bottom)
BUT I can say with personal experience that even Tiger will run on 128mb, and leopard will run on 256mb. They're not HAPPY, but they do run. A bit like Vista if you install it on one of the silly "vista ready" stickered netbooks in minimum configuration.
I'm also aware that doing that violates Apple's 10.5 license.
Perhaps I missed something, can you enlighten me on this, it says you can only install it on an "apple brand computer" iirc. My G4/733 is "Apple branded". It may not meet minimum system requirements for 10.5, but nothing in the license forbids my getting it running on it? And 10.5 actually runs pretty good on that old dog. It's the gigabit ethernet model and I use it as a local fileserver. Much better SMB sharing support in 10.5.
OS 10.6 requires 1 gigabyte; no exceptions.
Patently false. I've personally worked on several original macbooks that shipped with 10.4.7 and two 256mb sodimms, that had been upgraded to 10.5, and now they wanted to go to 10.6. Advised them they needed more memory to run good, denied, just update the os. Updated to 10.6 (by temporarily swapping one 256 for a 1gb) and then ran sw updates to 10.6.2 and put back the 256. Ran dog slow on 512mb. They changed their minds once they saw it, and we replaced both 256's with 512's or 1gb's and things were much smoother.
Totally OT so mods fire when ready, but wanted to reply to your sig
OS 10.6 requires 1 gigabyte; no exceptions. But WIN7 runs well on just 1/2 GB. Apple's OS appears *twice* as bloated.
Actually 10.6 will run in 384mb. It won't install with under 1gb of ram. (and other requirements like processor speed)
The difference here is, Windows will let you install into a memory footprint that will make you want to slit your wrists with an icepick. It has nothing to do with the amount of memory either of them needs, but how much they sensibly require. It's like the Dells that were sold as "vista ready" and that were basically unusable until you upgraded them. It's hard to make a good comparison, but OS X and Vista are actually about on par for performance vs hardware host.
This is probably a foreign concept though for you, being able to install on one machine, and move the hard drive to another machine, and have it immediately work perfectly. But you can do that with OS X. One of the many, many advantages of maintaining and servicing a mac. You were making observations on things that you can and can't do between the two OS's, so I'd hope you wouldn't ignore this disparity? ;)
or maid? you can't forget the maids
Japanese animation often exagerates leg lengths, I don't see it as a problem.
It's not a problem. Until they start trying to design clothes for real people. That's when the problems start.
didn't you know, when you're in space the lack of gravity causes your legs to expand back up to their 'natural length'
"The company he once built"
Because the other steve just had nothing do to with it
Last I checked, Jobs was the businessman and Woz was the tech. Without Jobs there never would have been an Apple Computer Inc. And Woz would still be in his garage tinkering. That's what each of them does. Jobs does business, Woz does tinkering. Both are necessary to start a computer company. But unfortunately, in the long run, only one of them is necessary to continue it. Woz was an incredible and probably an essential contribution to Apple in its early stages, but as a company grows, the value and results from powerful business leaders quickly overshadows the brilliant minds working within. The reason's pretty simple.... a sizable company can fairly easily replace good techs, but a good businessman is much riskier to replace. (as Apple found out a few years ago when it tried to replace Jobs)
Right now Jobs has dozens of people at or near Woz's technical level working for him. Apple needs many techs at this stage. But they work best wit only one business leader providing direction. That kind of waters down the tech's importance, regardless of what level it's at.
While "April Fools Joke" may be an american tradition, the concept of a practical joke on any day is universal. Believing a globally preposterous newspaper article any day of the year should win you some sort of razzy'ish award.
Unless you think the average Jordanian would even consider such an article to be true, any day of the year? No, this one was a dim bulb. OR, OR he happens to have a greater-than-average belief in aliens, and just latched onto it before someone could hit him with a common-sense-bat. There's my bet.
Although star trek comes obviously to mind with Nemoy, I also remember In Search Of. But I suppose that puts me a bit off the curve.
I think Lucas is so pissed the he will forever be remembered for Star Wars and nothing else
Oh I think Alec Guinness (Obi Wan Kenobi) has him beat a country mile. That absolutely drove him crazy, he was an actor on stage and played roles like Hamlet, and yet his role in Star Wars is what 99% of the people that know the face will remember him for.
Why would they do that? Its in Google's best interest to quietly do a deal with Facebook.
Although google certainly is a company for profit and carries all the associated baggage that comes with it, they place a much higher value on their reputation and public image than most other companies, even to the point of having faith that taking a stand on certain things will in the short-term cost them money, but in the long-term will be a net benefit.
Remember, their mission statement is "do no evil"
This sort of crusade is right up their alley. Right on par with pulling out of China. Remember that from last week? Your memory is certainly short.
sort of a streisand effect if you look at it right. he's trying to shift the blame away from himself and is stepping into the spotlight as a result. but the error is so obvious that near 100% of the observers realize who the fool is.
The mayor called the local security authorities, who combed the area
So... the mayor set aside common sense, skipped the whole "why don't we call the newspaper and see what their source for this story is?" and called in the marines? AND the local law enforcement ALSO failed their reality check, made no attempt to talk sense into the mayor, and headed out on their alien snipe hunt?
I say the whole group got what they deserved. The only reason the mayer is lawyering up is in retribution for a whole henhouse full of egg on his face.
I'm bummed that Facebook are taking a legal position that would cripple the web if it was adopted (how many people would Google need to hire to write letters to every single website they crawled?)
I was just thinking the same thing... that looks like an excellent dragon for google to slay to the benefit of the entire internet community. And they're in a good position to do it. One way or another, someone's going to have to do it. This is a battle that either google is going to go looking for, or that is going to come looking for google. (when some very stupid smaller group tries to "pull a facebok" on google, most likely, as any larger group like Facebook would have a bevy of lawyers advising them of their folly in pressing google on something that they won't win by right or by expensive litigation)
Good luck, however, reading your Kindle in the dark.
love that comment. Somewhere around a 9.5 on the Zing Scale
I find it hilarious to see all the kindle owners ragging on the ipad for being overpriced and how they can get the same thing that's so much better for less in a Kindle. Then say one word about the features of the ipad and they run screaming in the other direction saying you can't compare the two since the kindle is "just an ebook reader". So, apparently we can compare them when talking about batter life and price, but we can't compare them when talking about app stores, color displays, games, etc etc etc.
For right now, cost and (extreme) battery life are really the only two things kindle has going for it. Give it a few months for the prices on ipad to come down and it will bury the kindle, or force them to drop the price on it quite a bit to maintain their edge. They're not in exactly the same market. The Kindle is in a subset of the ipad's market. Which usually means "it's cheaper" is the only thing they have going for them.
I was rather wondering why RB wasn't listed in the tags below the story. Sort of a "hey guy I think you forgot something?" moment.
That being said, I was big into RB in version 1-4 (I worked with Andrew on debugging) but back then the windows support was shakey. A lot of features didn't work, many didn't work the same, and you had to do a lot of #IF's with separate code in places for mac and windows. Linux support wasn't there at all really.
Looking at 08-09 recently, the windows support is surprisingly good. Back in version 4 day, you were required to debug both environments from the very start of the development process, because trying to track down oddities in how one platform differed from another was a complete nightmare if you suddenly decided 4 months in that you wanted to see how it ran on windows and ticked the box. But with 09 I was indeed able to tick the box and it basically ran correctly. Some minor tweaks, mostly to the GUI elements, but definitely useable.
The greatest weakness of RB nowadays seems to be the idiots trying to develop professional software with it. Not that RB can't handle it... I've seen and done things with RB that would bury anyone trying to implement them in most other languages in anywhere near the same timeframe. (afaik RB is king of the mountain for RAD) The problem is that now that anyone can produce powerful apps, even coding retards can try to sell their wares. Our POS system is made with RB (NOT something they advertise! tho I recognized the binaries immediately) and little stupid things like not setting focus on a window after opening it, problems like that which persist after a year of development... makes me want to stomp down there, rip the source out of their hands, spend a single day with it, and get rid of all the annoying bugs they seem incapable of fixing.
Anyway I stray a bit. The basic thing to keep in mind is just because a language can cross-compile, doesn't mean you just tick the box and you're good. It rarely works out that way. Good languages will give you only a minimal headache, and won't require you to start from Day One with the second target in mind. I take a "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude here, lets see how some people fair in real-world examples before passing judgement on just how good this "universal target" language really is.
A lot of the newer computers go the other way, sucking air IN through the keyboard and out the back.
Has the benefit of actually being cooler on the fingers than would be otherwise even without venting through the keyboard.
Though I can't think of any laptops offhand that actually forced air out through the keyboard. I've used a few models that definitely dissipated heat through the keyboard, but none that had a fan actually pressing the point. They were just driven by "heat rises".
Battery life is not relevant beyond the length of time you need to use it continuously. So unless you intend to read for over 12 hrs straight, battery life (eve if just) over 12 hours is no more useful for you than battery life of 20 days.
My ipod touch gets plugged in while I'm driving to/from work, and that's enough for me that I have NEVER ran my battery dead.
It's no different than cell phones. Plug it in every nigh before bed.
I think the Kindle is going to have to make some serious changes. For 2x the price you get 5x the features with the iPad. Kindle's been out awhile and prices have already worked their way down as features and size have crept up. The iPad is just hitting the market and is already a better value for the money. When the early adopters are done paying their tax and prices on the iPad drop, Kindle has a very serious problem on their hands. I wonder what they intend to do?
Same thing has already happened with the palm pilot, but against a flurry of devices. (ipods and smartphones) Who in their right mind would buy a palm pilot today? Kindle is headed down the same road. I bought a PP 4 yrs ago not because I liked it, but because it was the only product anywhere near the price for what it did. People bought the Kindle for the same reason. And they're both going to find their way to the garage sale.
But it could have read "Sex offender gets stiff punishment". That would have been worth the hardcopy.
unfortunately, searching the child for such things would probably have only fanned the flames of paranoia.
as much as you have legitimate useful suggestions, it's unfortunately necessary to consider the tolerance level of the public in such cases.
And if the guard had been unwilling to assist even after heated discussion, imagine how much more crazy things could have gotten if the man tried to take her off the train and to a hospital?
Thirty years ago none of this would have been a problem, checking her for diabetic gear, even taking her to a hospital would have been acceptable to most. The situation isn't the problem. The world is just plain broken today.
last I heard on this, the domain owner had written signed request on file at his registrar to not transfer the domain unless he was there in person with valid IDs because so many people had tried to fraud the domain from him.
Then some yutz at the registrar let someone fax in a request for a transfer, and he had quite a fight to get it back, but got it back in surprisingly short order.
From there I didn't hear any further on it. You'd think that if that many people were that desperate to get their hands on it, it ought to be worth something. Maybe not 100 mil, but something. With all the banner revenue he has to be getting, I don't understand how he's broke. That should have been his meal-ticket for life. Maybe not extremely lucrative, but should have at least been a nice steady income forever.