I did. I registered it at yahoo.com because it is free. I didn't have to pay $14 bucks to get it.
If people want a web presence then they want a domain that they have absolute control over. The people who like to surf, but aren't necassarily interested in having a presence, utilize the e-mail services of their work, their ISP, or a free one such as Yahoo!
You seem to have a great deal of passion for this which I find comendable. My belief, however, is that.name offers something to consumers in which they are, frankly, not interested. Afterall, the posting here is not that.name is taking names and kicking everyone else's collective arse, its that it is struggling and may go bankrupt.
I know that this is wholly unsolicited, and maybe even undesired, but my (free) advice would be to read all of the comments to this discussion and find ways to answer all of the questions and negative postings. If you can do that, and implement it, then you may yet find success.
I sincerely wish you well in acheiving success if for no other reason than that you have a passion to make it work.
I am really doubtful as to whether or not this constitutes a service of which the populace is desirous.
Maybe I am just too cynical, but this really strikes me as an idea hatched by folks out of touch with the common internet using consumer. People might think that having an email that says bob@dickweed.name is cool, but how many of them feel it is $14 cool?
Having an e-mail address has usually meant having your name either distorted (at your work usually ala bdickweed@theman.com, dickwb@theman.com, etc.) or the ability to create a user name that you can wear as a mask (happeningpartydude35287@aol.com) when you are home. The desire of people to have.name just isn't there.
While I could be misjudging this, I find the fact that they are flirting with bankruptcy to give a cynical argument more credence.
I'd have to guess that this is going to doomed to failure. The biggest lure to the internet for most people is the anonymity it provides. If you puy your actual name there, that's lost.
Just take a look at all the posters here. How many of the nicknames are the posters real name?
In my LawSo classes we studied the cyclical nature of laws regarding individual freedoms in the US which, like a pendulum, swings between greater and lesser individual rights over time. Those rights are echoed in a number of places, including electronic media. It seems that we are entering a time when the pendulum is swinging away from supporting individual rights.
My question is how you foresee the swing of the pendulum in the future. Do you think that the cycles will get smaller until a balance is reached, or do you see the cycles growing larger and larger until it causes a fracture and/or revolution in our society?
What role will the conflict over electronic media play in the balancing of individual rights?
Of course it would also be interesting to hear your views on the cyclical nature of individual rights as well.
That makes a little bit more sense now. I kept seeing a whole bunch of motes all blown into a little pile at a base of some rock. But I can see how wind would actually help you distribute the sensors into an area.
When I was in school this seemed to be most prevelant at the more expensive institutions. Daddy ain't paying $20k a year to have Buffy and Chadworth making F's.
I have to use other means to get them to learn: I have to cajole, to gently persuade.
How sad that professors have to con kids into doing work. If you don't want to do it, fine- just don't expect to get rewarded.
So exactly what are the effects of a stiff wind on smart dust? It seems to me that even a moderate wind would wreak havoc on the survellaince attempts of dust, or am I missing something?
I checked out the FAA section and the very last bit of proposed rulemaking was one whereby the FAA would suspend an Airmen Certificate if the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) deemed that person to be a security threat. And once again under the current regime, it is guilty until proved innocent. Once you have been listed as a security threat, you have to prove that you are not to get your certificate back. They do not have to prove that you are indeed a security threat, only that you are suspected of being such.
And just what constitutes someone as a security threat? Why the TSA says so, thats what. This is one that I think needs some deserved comments.
When questioned as to whether or not Symantec's control bunker was actually a facade for an operation bent on world domination, Symantec's CEO, going only by the name Scorpio, declined to comment.
Although in fairness he did provide this reporter with sugar from his pocket and the Denver Broncos.
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I couldn't resist going to Alta Vista'a Babel Fish.
Nehmen die Plakate viel der Drogen kürzlich? Mit allem passenden Respekt uns ist zu informieren über jemand anderes, das bereits erfolgtes etwas tut - auf Deutsch nichtsdestoweniger - nicht dieses germane. Ich würde nicht sein, also störte, wenn ich nicht mehrere meiner eigenen Unterordnungen - die gute - zusammenfassend vor kurzem zurückgewiesen gesehen hatte.
Do the posters take much the drugs recently? With all suitable respect us is to inform about somebody else, already taken place the something does - on German nontheless - not this Teuton. I would not be, therefore disturbed, if I had not seen several of my own subordinations - the good - rejected in summary recently.
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My god, we could have just given them the key they need to take us over.
*gasp*
I, for one, am off to buy duct tape and tarps.
I did. I registered it at yahoo.com because it is free. I didn't have to pay $14 bucks to get it.
If people want a web presence then they want a domain that they have absolute control over. The people who like to surf, but aren't necassarily interested in having a presence, utilize the e-mail services of their work, their ISP, or a free one such as Yahoo!
You seem to have a great deal of passion for this which I find comendable. My belief, however, is that .name offers something to consumers in which they are, frankly, not interested. Afterall, the posting here is not that .name is taking names and kicking everyone else's collective arse, its that it is struggling and may go bankrupt.
I know that this is wholly unsolicited, and maybe even undesired, but my (free) advice would be to read all of the comments to this discussion and find ways to answer all of the questions and negative postings. If you can do that, and implement it, then you may yet find success.
I sincerely wish you well in acheiving success if for no other reason than that you have a passion to make it work.
I am really doubtful as to whether or not this constitutes a service of which the populace is desirous.
Maybe I am just too cynical, but this really strikes me as an idea hatched by folks out of touch with the common internet using consumer. People might think that having an email that says bob@dickweed.name is cool, but how many of them feel it is $14 cool?
Having an e-mail address has usually meant having your name either distorted (at your work usually ala bdickweed@theman.com, dickwb@theman.com, etc.) or the ability to create a user name that you can wear as a mask (happeningpartydude35287@aol.com) when you are home. The desire of people to have .name just isn't there.
While I could be misjudging this, I find the fact that they are flirting with bankruptcy to give a cynical argument more credence.
Just take a look at all the posters here. How many of the nicknames are the posters real name?
Cool;-)
My question is how you foresee the swing of the pendulum in the future. Do you think that the cycles will get smaller until a balance is reached, or do you see the cycles growing larger and larger until it causes a fracture and/or revolution in our society?
What role will the conflict over electronic media play in the balancing of individual rights?
Of course it would also be interesting to hear your views on the cyclical nature of individual rights as well.
I was thinking the same thing when I read the interview. If the proof is that obvious, then you will have quite a case.
Radar on M*A*S*H, right? When he was courting the intellectual hottie;-)
I have not read the Hiroshima piece, but was deeply moved by the 9/11 column. An excellent question for Mr. Barry.
Yes! That's even better! Wish I had thought of that...
Do you think that the phrase "Slashdot Effect" would make a great name for a band?
Thanks!
I'm still laughing at the visual that that created.
"Men, deploy the Butt Mote!"
I have to use other means to get them to learn: I have to cajole, to gently persuade.
How sad that professors have to con kids into doing work. If you don't want to do it, fine- just don't expect to get rewarded.
So exactly what are the effects of a stiff wind on smart dust? It seems to me that even a moderate wind would wreak havoc on the survellaince attempts of dust, or am I missing something?
And just what constitutes someone as a security threat? Why the TSA says so, thats what. This is one that I think needs some deserved comments.
Anyone else read this as Table Turkey and wonder just what kind of story we had missed originally?
All 32k+ games are actually various levels of BLAZEMONGER!!!!!
Its Funny! Laugh;-)
Stands for "Jay". All you have to is move the bush in front of the mural;-)
Why not go with a Rune based system for the LOTR fan base?
Although in fairness he did provide this reporter with sugar from his pocket and the Denver Broncos.
Nehmen die Plakate viel der Drogen kürzlich? Mit allem passenden Respekt uns ist zu informieren über jemand anderes, das bereits erfolgtes etwas tut - auf Deutsch nichtsdestoweniger - nicht dieses germane. Ich würde nicht sein, also störte, wenn ich nicht mehrere meiner eigenen Unterordnungen - die gute - zusammenfassend vor kurzem zurückgewiesen gesehen hatte.
Do the posters take much the drugs recently? With all suitable respect us is to inform about somebody else, already taken place the something does - on German nontheless - not this Teuton. I would not be, therefore disturbed, if I had not seen several of my own subordinations - the good - rejected in summary recently.
Gotta love Babel Fish!
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