Here's a few of the names I registered and never made a cent on:
BudgetDSL.com BudgetDSL.net Artoo-Detoo.com See-Threepio.com InstantOnPC.com NoBootPC.com EarnPage.com (wow that's dumb!) DSLCheap.com DSLCheap.net MartianSprings.com 19x.net (I let it lapse, but I'm thinking I should have kept it... even for email, a 3-letter domain is cool.) PeeRat.com !!! (yes!!! Pee Rat! Actually I was thinking Peer At. Shows what registering names at 4 am can cost you.)
I regged a bunch more, some of them probably ok (something with fix.com in it... I forget... hmmm.) I regged at least 50 over the years, and only one has turned out to have any value.
Wrong. MS is helping people shut down typosquatters, and replacing them with their own typosquating... sure, at the choice of the people. So my analogy is perfectly apt - people don't like "fast food" so they enlist McDonald's in tearing down Burger Kings and replacing them with McDonald's. Sure, its at their choice, but it hardly ends "typosquatting/fast food," and MS/McDonald's is not doing it to be friendly.
I have had people do enough bad shit to be that I am now disabled as a result of it. Physically (injuries) and mentally (PTSD).
It never gave me the desire to hurt others, it never "threatened to go supercritical." All it did was make me know that I didn't want to be like them, and didn;t want to cause pain in others because I knew how it felt.
Sure. You have a choice. But you're a fool if you think MS is doing this as a public service. Just because you hate urban sprawl doesn't mean you applaud the bulldozer knocking down Burger Kings that's being driven by Ronald McDonald.
But of course, having incorrectly-typed URLs that don't go ANYWHERE automatically resolve to MSN Search is just fine and not opportunistic at all, right? And the fact that shutting down these "typo-squatters" will thereby create more opportunities for people to end up at MSN Search is just a happy coincidence, no?
Used to have a running gag with a friend... when we were on the phone, from time to time one of us would break into "This is a test of the Emergency Eschelon System. This is just a test. Fatwah. Assasination. Bomb. Allah. President. Lenin. Infidels. Anthrax. Hijack. Hostage. Libya. Iran. Martyr. Ebola. Semtex.... This concludes this test of the Emergency Eschelon System."
"he gets a settlement instead of a drawn out legal battle."
That's supposed to be a good thing from the point of view of the legal system. It's considered a loss for both sides if you end up having to go to trial.
Or anyway, that's what Vinnie Barbarino said in that movie "A Civil Action."
You know what's interesting - after I posted about the DCC, I went to check on it, and found that not only was Philips indeed the creator of DCC (and its predecessor, the "compact cassette") but that the reason the cassette because one of the most successful formats ever was due to Philips releasing it in the 60's WITHOUT licensing fees, a situation forced on them by Sony's competing and closed format... which failed. So Sony has been doing the same thing and failing (and causing the success of their rivals) for over FORTY YEARS.
Wasn't Philips the creator of DCC, Digital Compact Cassette? If so, that's at least one failure they've had...
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Neither owns a "copyright" on using the name Apple to sell music. Copyrights are not trademarks, trademarks are not patents, patents are not copyrights. They are all different, the laws surrounding their use are all different, their durations are different, and what qualifies as "infringement" of them is all different.
The general public always gets them confused, and the companies exploit this confusion as yet another way to con people into thinking the companies have more rights than they actually do.
People had been clamoring for online music distribution for years, now have been calling for online video distribution for years, etc. Jobs just acknowledged the obvious. That doesn't make him a genius, it just makes him the only non-idiot in an industry dominated by idiots.
In an effort to reduce children's exposure to pornography, the U.S. Government today subpeonaed all existing forests and wooded areas. "It's commonly known that the second greatest, and before the internet the greatest risk for children's exposure to obscene materials stems from finding porn in the woods," said State Department representative Ms. Fascista McRedstate. "The fight against standing timber is the fight to save our children."
Not so. Rex Geveden is NASA Associate Administrator, NOT in charge of this mission. the truth is, Mary Cleave axed the mission foolishly - it had had some tech problems but they had been resolved before Cleave's decision, and the program was back on track.
The quote is NOT a manager promising a manager something to keep his project - the quote is an ADMINISTRATOR acknowledging that a lower-level administrator had made a decision that was not based on the data that the actual program manager had provided.
Oh great. All we have to do is have every healthy person in the world spend $20k-$40k per year on drugs that kill their liver and otherwise destroy thier health... for the rest of their lives. What a great solution!
From what I read elsewhere, the cost to complete the mission would be about $40m. So, it was a choice between spending $40m, to save a $257m investment, or spend $17m, to just burn the $257m.
In that light, and since the technical problems were reportedly resolved, cancelling the project seemed pretty stupid.
I was getting really obscene wrong number calls with people leaving messages on my machine. They were german, and calling from overseas, via collect call, which cost me money - How did they get my answering machine to accept a collect call? Simple - they had another person on the extension (of [hreaked into the connection somehow) pose as me and say yes to accepting the call. So they would leave messages on my machine about raping and killing women, discussing where they buried the body, etc... And it turns out they were after a certain person with these crank calls - they said his name, I looked it up and he was a nearby Lutheran minister. They had inverted a couple numbers. Once I managed to be home and picked up the call just after I had heard my answering machine "accept" the collect call, and just before the operatior hung up I told her no, told her what had been happening - to which she repeatedly denied that it was possible... then the two Germans came on and started swearing at me, thinking I was that minister. With the operator still listening I shouted at them to stop calling, and they loved that, started up with death threats, etc... at which point I just laughed and said "you fucking morons, you've got the WRONG FUCKING NUMBER." and said "so-and-so's at 12, not 21!"
Maybe I shouldn't have done that.... but they shut up instantly and never called back.
I wonder what that Lutheran minister did to get some german phone phreaks pissed at him?
Videodisc sucked? CED videodisc sucked, and it had fairly decent market penetration... but laserdisc absolutely did NOT suck. Once I got my laserdisc player, I never used my VCR again (or CD player for that matter, as the laserdisc played them), and only the eventual purchase of a DVD player ended up making me leave laserdisc... and some movies STILL look better on laserdisc than on dvd (compression issues.)
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Here's a few of the names I registered and never made a cent on:
BudgetDSL.com
BudgetDSL.net
Artoo-Detoo.com
See-Threepio.com
InstantOnPC.com
NoBootPC.com
EarnPage.com (wow that's dumb!)
DSLCheap.com
DSLCheap.net
MartianSprings.com
19x.net (I let it lapse, but I'm thinking I should have kept it... even for email, a 3-letter domain is cool.)
PeeRat.com !!! (yes!!! Pee Rat! Actually I was thinking Peer At. Shows what registering names at 4 am can cost you.)
I regged a bunch more, some of them probably ok (something with fix.com in it... I forget... hmmm.) I regged at least 50 over the years, and only one has turned out to have any value.
Wrong. MS is helping people shut down typosquatters, and replacing them with their own typosquating... sure, at the choice of the people. So my analogy is perfectly apt - people don't like "fast food" so they enlist McDonald's in tearing down Burger Kings and replacing them with McDonald's. Sure, its at their choice, but it hardly ends "typosquatting/fast food," and MS/McDonald's is not doing it to be friendly.
It never gave me the desire to hurt others, it never "threatened to go supercritical." All it did was make me know that I didn't want to be like them, and didn;t want to cause pain in others because I knew how it felt.
Sure. You have a choice. But you're a fool if you think MS is doing this as a public service. Just because you hate urban sprawl doesn't mean you applaud the bulldozer knocking down Burger Kings that's being driven by Ronald McDonald.
But of course, having incorrectly-typed URLs that don't go ANYWHERE automatically resolve to MSN Search is just fine and not opportunistic at all, right? And the fact that shutting down these "typo-squatters" will thereby create more opportunities for people to end up at MSN Search is just a happy coincidence, no?
Nobody ever showed up at our doors. :(
That's not a recipe. The patent is not on the "formula" or contents, it's on the mechanical process.
Or anyway, that's what Vinnie Barbarino said in that movie "A Civil Action."
I don't know how they let that one slip by.
Do you have a source for this info so I can update wikipedia? It's saying they waived the fees. Thanks.
You know what's interesting - after I posted about the DCC, I went to check on it, and found that not only was Philips indeed the creator of DCC (and its predecessor, the "compact cassette") but that the reason the cassette because one of the most successful formats ever was due to Philips releasing it in the 60's WITHOUT licensing fees, a situation forced on them by Sony's competing and closed format... which failed. So Sony has been doing the same thing and failing (and causing the success of their rivals) for over FORTY YEARS.
You would think they would learn.
Exactly. If there's one thing you don't want to do in the educational sector, it's make people have to learn new stuff.
Wasn't Philips the creator of DCC, Digital Compact Cassette? If so, that's at least one failure they've had...
The general public always gets them confused, and the companies exploit this confusion as yet another way to con people into thinking the companies have more rights than they actually do.
People had been clamoring for online music distribution for years, now have been calling for online video distribution for years, etc. Jobs just acknowledged the obvious. That doesn't make him a genius, it just makes him the only non-idiot in an industry dominated by idiots.
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In an effort to reduce children's exposure to pornography, the U.S. Government today subpeonaed all existing forests and wooded areas. "It's commonly known that the second greatest, and before the internet the greatest risk for children's exposure to obscene materials stems from finding porn in the woods," said State Department representative Ms. Fascista McRedstate. "The fight against standing timber is the fight to save our children."
damn - how'd you type all that fast enough to still be the first post?
yet.
spent a few weeks in a hospital bed, and something makes me think spaceflight would cause less bedsores.
Not so. Rex Geveden is NASA Associate Administrator, NOT in charge of this mission. the truth is, Mary Cleave axed the mission foolishly - it had had some tech problems but they had been resolved before Cleave's decision, and the program was back on track.
The quote is NOT a manager promising a manager something to keep his project - the quote is an ADMINISTRATOR acknowledging that a lower-level administrator had made a decision that was not based on the data that the actual program manager had provided.
Oh great. All we have to do is have every healthy person in the world spend $20k-$40k per year on drugs that kill their liver and otherwise destroy thier health... for the rest of their lives. What a great solution!
In that light, and since the technical problems were reportedly resolved, cancelling the project seemed pretty stupid.
I was getting really obscene wrong number calls with people leaving messages on my machine.
They were german, and calling from overseas, via collect call, which cost me money - How did they get my answering machine to accept a collect call? Simple - they had another person on the extension (of [hreaked into the connection somehow) pose as me and say yes to accepting the call. So they would leave messages on my machine about raping and killing women, discussing where they buried the body, etc...
And it turns out they were after a certain person with these crank calls - they said his name, I looked it up and he was a nearby Lutheran minister. They had inverted a couple numbers.
Once I managed to be home and picked up the call just after I had heard my answering machine "accept" the collect call, and just before the operatior hung up I told her no, told her what had been happening - to which she repeatedly denied that it was possible... then the two Germans came on and started swearing at me, thinking I was that minister.
With the operator still listening I shouted at them to stop calling, and they loved that, started up with death threats, etc... at which point I just laughed and said "you fucking morons, you've got the WRONG FUCKING NUMBER." and said "so-and-so's at 12, not 21!"
Maybe I shouldn't have done that.... but they shut up instantly and never called back.
I wonder what that Lutheran minister did to get some german phone phreaks pissed at him?
Videodisc sucked? CED videodisc sucked, and it had fairly decent market penetration... but laserdisc absolutely did NOT suck. Once I got my laserdisc player, I never used my VCR again (or CD player for that matter, as the laserdisc played them), and only the eventual purchase of a DVD player ended up making me leave laserdisc... and some movies STILL look better on laserdisc than on dvd (compression issues.)