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  1. Re:Namecheap is a good registrar on The GoDaddy Saga Continues · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used them too, and was very happy right up to when I tried to move the domains off. Why the move? Consolidation, but mainly because the foreign domain proxy office service could not be removed when we finally opened and office in that country. (Kinda expensive for some countries...) Then I found the problems. The are not actually the registrar for many of the foreign country domains, and they have some real problems moving your domains away. In some cases, I had to renew for another year, with another full year of the proxy office which I no longer needed, just to get my domain back. I got to know all the techs, since they only have a handful. Nice guys, but powerless in this case. Much more pleased with SafeNames. More expensive, but for a reason.

  2. Re:You don't get to be #1 on The GoDaddy Saga Continues · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is the truth. I had to consolidate registrars for a company. It was a challenge to get them all off GoDaddy. But it was a real battle to get them off NameCheap. For some I had to renew them with NameCheap before they would move them!

    Pot, let me introduce you to this kettle here. I think you may have a lot in common.

  3. Re:The "right" to bear arms is an Americanism on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZK61tV2nQQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15KLhgZaRvc

    Just some quick links... Some people are regretting that the right is only left in America.

  4. Re:The "right" to bear arms is an Americanism on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 1

    This took all of thirty seconds...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZK61tV2nQQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15KLhgZaRvc

    And there are many more, but I am off to relax before bed. Politics and slashdot don't relax me for some reason...

  5. Re:The "right" to bear arms is an Americanism on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering the protests in the UK and Australia now, I think a lot of places have stopped laughing.

  6. Re:Why? on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 2

    Actually the TSA started this a long time ago. How many people have had to change T-shirts to get on a flight? "Gimme the dame plane or I will point my shirt at you!"

  7. Re:Thats just FUD on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 1

    Of course, actually reading his posts over the YEARS would tell you that he has a clue. Your's actually do for the most part as well... Did you leave yourself logged in somewhere?

  8. Walled Garden on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And people wonder why I hate the walled garden approach to gaming... You can blow people away, but you can't say fuck... Idiots.

  9. Re:iOS Devices Already In Use on Android Approved By Pentagon · · Score: 1

    Have you not seen any of the articles about RIM collapsing on itself, and spinning off the handset devision before it loses all of it's value?

  10. Re:Why Doesn't the DoD Roll their Own? on Android Approved By Pentagon · · Score: 2

    The DOD does not build anything. They pay contractors to do that.

  11. Re:Valued by Results on Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    I agree. None of the "leaders" of any national movement have much in common with the average person. And that is the problem... And it is coming out. At the republican convention 2 years ago, the Tea Party was actively suppressed. Now it is consumed, but the people in it are still just as upset. The same thing will happen with Occupy. It will have people take it over, and the rank and file will leave, or better yet, protest the "so called" leaders. It has happened in the Tea Party, but it never makes the news. Only that weird guy in the Lincoln hat.

  12. Re:Valued by Results on Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process.

    No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act â" the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.

    No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

    The funny thing is that most Tea Party people are also for all of that. It is in the politicians interest to keep us divided, however. If the public ever wakes up and realizes that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street want the same thing, the party in Washington is OVER.

  13. Re:Xerox on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 2

    Actually, in most cases it is the driver. Printers do not have enough horsepower to check every image that way.

  14. Re:Christians are in Favour of SOPA on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 2

    Fundamentalists will love this. Goodby pornhub, redtube, pichunter, and so on... They want to send porn back to DVDs and dirty magazines.

  15. Re:Gaming. on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:crowdsourced on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone on the planet can add a company to this list with no confirmation that it's true. And there's nothing to prevent anyone from deleting companies. Sounds like a great mechanism to slander or harass innocent companies, and one that's oh-so-easy to sabotage by someone who supports SOPA. Good luck with this.

    Amusingly enough, that is how SOPA is designed to work.

  17. Re:LVMH on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 1

    I didn't know that guy selling purses out of his trunk had a website...

  18. Re:GoDaddy Still Supports SOPA on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 1

    A lot more people are injured while hunting then while Internet trolling.

    And I hate you for making me defend that idiot in charge of GoDaddy.

  19. Re:Linode FTW on Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? · · Score: 1

    There are ways to upgrade a kernel on the fly... Not that I do that, since I never get into uptime dick size competitions, but it is done.

  20. Re:FDC Servers on Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? · · Score: 1

    Not if it was requested. It would, however, make him a network abuser there when he got slashdotted. :)

  21. Re:Jokes on them... on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The toxic chemicals released from burning all that hardware gave them all cancer.

    "Why are you worried about something that will kill you in 7 years when there are so many things that can kill you tomorrow?" -- Lord of War

    Hard to preach long term thinking when most people in the community die in their thirties...

  22. Re:Idiots. on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that miltant crazies don't really know what a hard drive is, or where the memory is stored. It's just a devil box at that point. Hell I don't think most US fundamentalist crazies would know either.

    Sure they do. It is that big box on the floor with all the buttons and lights on it and a cup holder. What do you think I am? Some kind of idiot?

  23. Re:Oh noes on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No need. The US Congress is racing to do that for them. (I wish this was a joke)

  24. Re:Barney Spy Drones on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    If the barrel is not rifled, it is not a gun under the federal definition. Cities, however, may have some restrictions, but most do not.

  25. Re:Barney Spy Drones on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course not. They would never make tech that police are using illegal for civilians. Like wiretapping, or guns. Just never... The problem for them is that this is much easier to make at home than a gun. (Although, guns are surprisingly easy to make, and if not rifled, they are legal in the US)

    Now I know I am on some watch list...