And who broke this news? Maureen O'Gara, that's who. "Reporter" (the quotes are important) for LinuxGram, a Linux "news" (again, quotes are important) source. And it is, of course, an OSDN site. How convenient!
My company is the victim of a going on 6 month 'joe-job'. I have literally looked at thousands of spams of all shapes and colors. The great majority of these spams are from losers who pay the spamming agency that's joe-jobbing us. These people use real domain names in almost _all_ of the spams that I have seen. When you consult the 'whois' database the contact information is usually bogus - telephone numbers 999-9999 - addresses like '1 Anonymous St.' - towns like 'Shapeless Mass.' and crap like that.
It seems totally logical to me that these losers would dry up and blow away over night after they contemplated the possibility of being lynched if they had to _by law_ provide real contact information.
The obfuscaters are tougher, but from my unfortunately _vast_ experience with this, they are the minority.
The problem is not the price. And BTW, I think there is a certain immorality in charging 100 USD for something that only cost a company 6 cents. The problem is that domain registration is being abused because the domain registrars aren't required to keep real records on people registering them. If you made them do this then spammers, speculators and all the other parasites of the Web would disappear. That would give more credibility to the domain owners, not jacking up the price
Why did the anonymous poster choose that word? I find nothing there remotely resembling a diatribe. Maybe the poster doesn't know what a diatribe is?
This is a pretty good indictment of the GUI producing developers in general. It's a decent commentary of how computers can become a lot better tools, but it's no diatribe.
Ya know, I can't think of a single person that I know that runs Turbolinux. Maybe that has something to do with their problems.
I don't know of a single person I know that owns a Ferrari, so I guess they'll be going bankrupt soon!
Your OSDN cousins over at Linuxgram screwed up - face it!
I wonder when VA [insert latest name] will be going belly up? I don't know one person who ever bought the commerical version of SourceForge, so using the TurboLogic...
The whole registry thing should be much more tightly controlled as well. You shouldn't be able to register domains like this. VeriSign et al should all be asking for more information from people who register domains that are suspiciously similar to other ones. They should prove that they have a company by that name or some other legitimate reason for wanting that domain. Registrars should be earning the money they get for doing more than just putting domains into the DB.
What happens if the company you happen to be working for has you hired as a private consultant (ie. you pay for everything). In my case, it was stipulated in my contract that I was to calculate all expenses into my hourly rate when I accepted the job.
The American people are indebted to the much maligned FCC for establishing these rules. Imagine, for example, what the structure of political power in this country might look like if two or three companies owned substantially all of the broadcast media in our major cities.
When asked by a secretary if she could destroy old documents that were just taking up space, Samuel Goldwyn, the movie mogul replied:
Go ahead but just make sure you make copies of everything first
Yeh, just another vaporware distro, just with more hype. Here's also another interesting one: BearOps I'd love to know
1. Has a *real* person actually used this?
2. Did they really install it in 3 clicks like the website says
This piece of FUD only resulted in a contest to see which Microsoft-owned tech website (read: ZDNet) could come up with the best funny sounding title
Queen Banishes Linux Royal throne flushes out Linux
For every server that switches back to Windows, there's gotta be at least 100 that switch over to Linux. Mr. Drake's article does a pretty decent job of pointing out why.
thanks for your offer of troops and planes now that all the fighting is done!
Yeh, I saw a news story on France3 rebroadcast on EuroNews the other day. Basically complaining about the Americans the whole time. In the end I wasn't convinced that the France3 reporter knew what we're all supposed to be fighting (that is, terrorism and not ego battles). I hate to generalize about the French after years of living abroad, but deal with them is their love of "protagonism" and then the typical complaining when they aren't leading the orchestra
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The Anonymous poster is obviously some Microsoft employee no doubt
It seems totally logical to me that these losers would dry up and blow away over night after they contemplated the possibility of being lynched if they had to _by law_ provide real contact information.
The obfuscaters are tougher, but from my unfortunately _vast_ experience with this, they are the minority.
This is a pretty good indictment of the GUI producing developers in general. It's a decent commentary of how computers can become a lot better tools, but it's no diatribe.
I don't know of a single person I know that owns a Ferrari, so I guess they'll be going bankrupt soon!
Your OSDN cousins over at Linuxgram screwed up - face it!
I wonder when VA [insert latest name] will be going belly up? I don't know one person who ever bought the commerical version of SourceForge, so using the TurboLogic...
6 bucks an hour in 1964 would be one a hell of a wage for a studio carpenter. And I bet he is probably crapping in his drawers!
Operating System: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, XP and 2000.
Sorry. No Linux, no show
What happens if the company you happen to be working for has you hired as a private consultant (ie. you pay for everything). In my case, it was stipulated in my contract that I was to calculate all expenses into my hourly rate when I accepted the job.
Written in 1968:
The American people are indebted to the much maligned FCC for establishing these rules. Imagine, for example, what the structure of political power in this country might look like if two or three companies owned substantially all of the broadcast media in our major cities.
Well, in 2002, we're seeing what it looks like
When asked by a secretary if she could destroy old documents that were just taking up space, Samuel Goldwyn, the movie mogul replied:
Go ahead but just make sure you make copies of everything first
Somebody email this article to Carly. Not as if she'd care.
1. Has a *real* person actually used this?
2. Did they really install it in 3 clicks like the website says
Whoops - Should have said Mr. Krane
Queen Banishes Linux
Royal throne flushes out Linux
For every server that switches back to Windows, there's gotta be at least 100 that switch over to Linux. Mr. Drake's article does a pretty decent job of pointing out why.
Thanks for saying the most intelligent thing I've heard all week: The geek community could learn a LOT from trying to emulate Linus' behaviour
"shopping" is a good one too
thanks for your offer of troops and planes now that all the fighting is done!
Yeh, I saw a news story on France3 rebroadcast on EuroNews the other day. Basically complaining about the Americans the whole time. In the end I wasn't convinced that the France3 reporter knew what we're all supposed to be fighting (that is, terrorism and not ego battles). I hate to generalize about the French after years of living abroad, but deal with them is their love of "protagonism" and then the typical complaining when they aren't leading the orchestra
personally, I hate cats, so I was really disappointed with that link to feline art. What is the deal with this cat?