The name passport.com was free for the taking at several registrars mentioned at CORE.
This speaks far more about the lousy current condition of the various whois systems than it does to the actual availability of the domain. NSI had a record on passport.com because they are the registry for the domain. Those other registries have simply not fixed thier whois processes to deal with the "decentralized" system yet. You cannot rely at this time on whois to tell you if a domain is available. Go to NSI and try fuckingsucks.net, and it will tell you it is 'inappropriate'. But write a script that parses the returned data for the correct whois server (instead of mucking about searching for the fuckword so you can lecture the user about propriety) then query THAT whois server, and you get the correct result:
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net Geoff Cummins (template COCO-6284) CORE-28 Fun P.O. Box 950652 Mission Hills, CA 91395 USA
You cannot rely on the broken scripts at these registries to tell the truth. Interestingly, *I* learned how to do this from reading a Slashdot article a few weeks ago, and implemented it on a web form using a few lines of PHP. That these registries still cannot be bothered to fix this worries me. There may be several up and coming future NSI's out there. *shudder*
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The "radiodurans" part of the name refers to the fact that the bacteria can withstand "1.5 million rads of gamma radiation, or about 3,000 times the lethal dose for humans."
Way cool! Eventually we might learn enough to genetically alter ourselves and acquire similar resistance. Imagine cheap housing and public buildings built with radioactive waste instead of wood and steel.:-)
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
But seriously, this guy could've charged MS a LOT more than $35 to get it back...
Get WHAT back? He didn't have anything that belonged to them.
You seem to think that using the automated payment system at NSI actually transfered the domain to the guy that paid. It didn't, it doesn't. A credit card is a credit card. I could walk into the phone company and pay your bill, that doesn't mean when people call you my phone will ring, and it doesn't change the name on next months bill either.
So how do you figure he could have held out for 5 figures? About all he could do is ask politely for his $35.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
those "piss-ant" sites, those "Here is a Picture of My Cat" web sites, are much more important than you might think. Boring or unimaginative though they may be (I'm a firm believer in the theory that 90% of everything is crap), those piss-ant sites are the mundane embodiment of the real potential of the internet - the ability of the average person to express an opinion, in a non-instrusive way.
Well put! Nowadays too many people get caught up in the "revolutionizing the way the world shops" buzz, and forget the "low-barrier to entry publishing almost anyone can take advantage of" side of things.
It derives from the fact that I am my kids' parent.
Or, put more succinctly: It derives from the fact that you placed your PENIS in your companions VAGINA and engaged in EROTIC expressions of HUMAN SEXUALITY.
And now you want to be sure you have the opportunity to put a milder spin on those facts if you think your kids might figure that out.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
other_comments Fascist, denies the presence of genitalia in human beings, encourages unthinking obedience to would-be mind controllers. Encourages leaving the raising of children to outside sources who decide what it good and bad.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Put them together and what follows are experiences of intense feelings of deep satisfaction and fulfillment. And therein lies the problem - for the masses of repressed 'moral' freakoids who believe mankind is the filth of all creation and deserves nothing more than to suffer and endlessly pay for its 'sins'.
It isn't porn they want to censor, it's genitalia they want to do away with.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
You're kidding, right? Your guide to child-rearing is a second-rate author of pulp horror novels?
King is much more, and much greater, than that. That you haven't read him is screamingly obvious. 'pulp horror novels' indeed. King understands more about childhood and what harms/enhances it than you ever will. You are afraid of your children, not afraid for them. Get a mind. Use it. Your children will appreciate that.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
In this case, Bruce Dickens, the owner of the Y2K Windowing Technique(TM)...
...if they have to give money to Bruce Dickens...
...see that Bruce Dickens has not really contributed anything...
...Bruce Dickens pissed off a lot of people...
I generally refrain from correcting minor spelling and grammatical errors in other folks posts, but this one was rife with a repeated mispelling of the mans name.
It is, more correctly, Bruce Dickhead.
Lets try to get it right.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Probably off-topic, but this reminded me for some reason of Enable. Enable was a powerful integrated office suite that ran on DOS and UNIX under X. Word processing, spreadsheet with charting capabilities, database, and communication components, all programmable via macros and a built-in 'report language' that reached into every component. Powerful stuff in its time. I think it was 1987 or so when my employer at the time bought version 1. The last I heard of them was a telephone conversation I had with one of thier sales reps in 1993 or so. She told me (with a certain excitement) that they had just signed a deal with Microsoft in which they agreed not to develop Enable for Windows. In return, MS would not port its office apps to X and compete against them in thier biggest market - the feds. Enable was selling tons of its product at the time to the federal government. A couple of years later Enable Software Inc. had completely disappeared. I recently found out that the former employer I mentioned is still running some applications we developed with Enable back in 1987! In MS-DOS windows under Win95! Does anybody know the rest of the story of what happened to Enable?
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
"It's getting silly - I have 4 different types of messaging accounts: ICQ, AOL IM, MS Messenger, Hotmail and regular email clients all run on my computer at the same time, and they all have overlapping capabilities."
I just don't understand this. Myself and several friends all got ICQ very early on, it has served us well. I cannot grok why one would load 4 clients? Is it necessary to make yourself accessible to every possible IM user on the planet? I realize it may be different for others, but basically the only people we want to IM are each other. I have zero desire to be accessible to 20 million AOL users, or the hordes who think those ridiculous "portals" with thier own branded IM's are cool.
As it is, my ignore list is easily twenty times larger than my contact list and all of us tend to view unsolicited IM's from lonely teen chatmongers and useless sales pitches demanding we "!!!!Go HERE NOW!!!!" as rude - I just don't get it.
All that said, a unified, standardized protocol only makes sense - I just don't understand the need that drives people to load multiple clients. Would someone clue me in?
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The internet is about exchanging infromation and ideas.
The problem is that for too many people, this is not what the internet is about at all.
I once posted a ZDNN Talkback that said:
"Screw e-commerce. Let the moneygrubbers build their OWN e-commerce network. The Internet is an information resource and a "low barrier to entry" publishing medium that almost anybody can make use of. Let them turn something else into a vast wasteland of advertising and product hawking like television has become."
I received a half dozen emails calling me a communist.
The masses of braindead consumerbots in this country (USA) perceive everything in terms of its potential to be commercialized. The vision of shared human knowledge available to all via the internet is steadily being strangled by another vision: of hype and unlimited marketing opportunity.
Want to see the future of internet? Turn on your television.
'Scuse me, I have to puke now...
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I've been wanting to transfer my domains OUT of NSI's purview. I don't find any such functionality on thier site. Last time I looked at register.com, there was a blurb about this to the effect that this capability had not yet been implemented.
Is this currently possible? And if so, is it currently too damn dangerous to attempt?
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
If you don't think this type of thing happens every single bloody day in the U.S., then you're the type of person the public schools were designed to create.
Well said. The combination of public "schooling", immersion in the fantasy world view of television, and the unending barrage of marketing and disinformation from the media has produced a large number of technically ignorant people who are little more than 'consumerbots', who seem to believe that thier sole purpose in life is to earn, desire, and spend.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sheesh. From now on, I'm having a monkey on a type-writer copy all my stuff.
The FBI has a massive database of typewriter characteristics, and if they could actually get thier hands on the machine, they can prove beyond a doubt if that machine produced a given document.
The monkey, most likely not being native to your country, is tracable via his import and immunization documentation. And not being a typical pet, you are going to be pretty visible in the neighborhood as the guy with the monkey.
"And another thing, officer, there are typing sounds coming from that apartment all night long!"
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Cash is intrinsically worthless, as it is a small piece of paper with a little bit of ink on it. The only reason it has value is because the government says it does.
Slams at the government aside, I disagree. The only thing that makes ANYTHING valuable is agreement. A critical mass of human beings agree that cash is valuable, and so among human beings, it is. Give a $20 to your dog, he isn't impressed.
Try to define 'value'. I am a real estate appraiser. How much is that property worth? How much money would a willing buyer agree to give and a willing seller agree to accept, each experiencing no undue influence, for the property? How does anybody determine this? By looking to see what other people have done with similar property, thats how. Do any of these people know anything, do they have some secret access to value knowledge? No. They simply agree, and they support that decision by referencing other agreements.
A lot of people talk about the fact that paper money is no longer backed by precious metal. But so what? What makes the metal valuable? Agreement. How is that value affected by scarcity or abundance? Agreement. What caused the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression? Agreement. If a large enough mass of people no longer agree that what you have is valuable, then you are shit out of luck. Your stocks are worthless. Your money is worthless. A large enough mass of people agree that your bank is unsafe, it is.
Its all agreement, its all very nebulous, and it could all come crashing down around us. All it would take is a little consensus.
Slashdot Mirror
well it would if jim morrison wasn't dead
JIM MORRISON IS DEAD??????!?!?!?!?!!!
Why didn't I see this on /.???? Is there a naked, petrified, open source morrison in the works?
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Redundant
Offtopic
Troll
Flamebait
Paradiorthotic
hmmmm. as a moderation choice, i like it. but my all time most-wished-for moderation category would be Retromingent .
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Windows underpants?
BSOD == Brown Streak of Death
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
by quonsar (quonsar@meepzorp.com) on 11:30 PM December 31st, 1999 EST (#188)
EST my arse!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
WTF are "hot grits" anyway?
i dunno. ask bub.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Fuck political correctness.
How predictable.
Don't knock it until ya try it - I like the way it wiggles around and moans.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The name passport.com was free for the taking at several registrars mentioned at CORE.
This speaks far more about the lousy current condition of the various whois systems than it does to the actual availability of the domain. NSI had a record on passport.com because they are the registry for the domain. Those other registries have simply not fixed thier whois processes to deal with the "decentralized" system yet. You cannot rely at this time on whois to tell you if a domain is available. Go to NSI and try fuckingsucks.net, and it will tell you it is 'inappropriate'. But write a script that parses the returned data for the correct whois server (instead of mucking about searching for the fuckword so you can lecture the user about propriety) then query THAT whois server, and you get the correct result:
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net
Geoff Cummins (template COCO-6284) CORE-28
Fun
P.O. Box 950652
Mission Hills, CA 91395 USA
Domain Name: fuckingsucks.net
Status: production
Admin Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Geoff Cummins (COCO-6284) geoff@hawky.net
+1 8188942773
CORE Registrar: CORE-28
Record last modified: 1999-12-10 02:56:08 MET by CORE-28
Record created: 1999-08-05 06:17:25 MET by CORE-28
Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.vmrdesigns.com 209.126.135.10
ns2.vmrdesigns.com 209.126.135.5
curtis.curtisfong.org 206.111.86.96
You cannot rely on the broken scripts at these registries to tell the truth. Interestingly, *I* learned how to do this from reading a Slashdot article a few weeks ago, and implemented it on a web form using a few lines of PHP. That these registries still cannot be bothered to fix this worries me. There may be several up and coming future NSI's out there. *shudder*
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The "radiodurans" part of the name refers to the fact that the bacteria can withstand "1.5 million rads of gamma radiation, or about 3,000 times the lethal dose for humans."
Way cool! Eventually we might learn enough to genetically alter ourselves and acquire similar resistance. Imagine cheap housing and public buildings built with radioactive waste instead of wood and steel. :-)
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
But seriously, this guy could've charged MS a LOT more than $35 to get it back...
Get WHAT back? He didn't have anything that belonged to them.
You seem to think that using the automated payment system at NSI actually transfered the domain to the guy that paid. It didn't, it doesn't. A credit card is a credit card. I could walk into the phone company and pay your bill, that doesn't mean when people call you my phone will ring, and it doesn't change the name on next months bill either.
So how do you figure he could have held out for 5 figures? About all he could do is ask politely for his $35.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
those "piss-ant" sites, those "Here is a Picture of My Cat" web sites, are much more important than you might think. Boring or unimaginative though they may be (I'm a firm believer in the theory that 90% of everything is crap), those piss-ant sites are the mundane embodiment of the real potential of the internet - the ability of the average person to express an opinion, in a non-instrusive way.
Well put! Nowadays too many people get caught up in the "revolutionizing the way the world shops" buzz, and forget the "low-barrier to entry publishing almost anyone can take advantage of" side of things.
Oh, and say hi to my cat!
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
It derives from the fact that I am my kids' parent.
Or, put more succinctly:
It derives from the fact that you placed your PENIS in your companions VAGINA and engaged in EROTIC expressions of HUMAN SEXUALITY.
And now you want to be sure you have the opportunity to put a milder spin on those facts if you think your kids might figure that out.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
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Fascist, denies the presence of genitalia in human beings, encourages unthinking obedience to would-be mind controllers. Encourages leaving the raising of children to outside sources who decide what it good and bad.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
"Boys have penises. Girls have vaginas."
Put them together and what follows are experiences of intense feelings of deep satisfaction and fulfillment. And therein lies the problem - for the masses of repressed 'moral' freakoids who believe mankind is the filth of all creation and deserves nothing more than to suffer and endlessly pay for its 'sins'.
It isn't porn they want to censor, it's genitalia they want to do away with.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
You're kidding, right? Your guide to child-rearing is a second-rate author of pulp horror novels?
King is much more, and much greater, than that. That you haven't read him is screamingly obvious. 'pulp horror novels' indeed. King understands more about childhood and what harms/enhances it than you ever will. You are afraid of your children, not afraid for them. Get a mind. Use it. Your children will appreciate that.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
In this case, Bruce Dickens, the owner of the Y2K Windowing Technique(TM)...
I generally refrain from correcting minor spelling and grammatical errors in other folks posts, but this one was rife with a repeated mispelling of the mans name.
It is, more correctly, Bruce Dickhead.
Lets try to get it right.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Probably off-topic, but this reminded me for some reason of Enable. Enable was a powerful integrated office suite that ran on DOS and UNIX under X. Word processing, spreadsheet with charting capabilities, database, and communication components, all programmable via macros and a built-in 'report language' that reached into every component. Powerful stuff in its time. I think it was 1987 or so when my employer at the time bought version 1. The last I heard of them was a telephone conversation I had with one of thier sales reps in 1993 or so. She told me (with a certain excitement) that they had just signed a deal with Microsoft in which they agreed not to develop Enable for Windows. In return, MS would not port its office apps to X and compete against them in thier biggest market - the feds. Enable was selling tons of its product at the time to the federal government. A couple of years later Enable Software Inc. had completely disappeared. I recently found out that the former employer I mentioned is still running some applications we developed with Enable back in 1987! In MS-DOS windows under Win95! Does anybody know the rest of the story of what happened to Enable?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
"It's getting silly - I have 4 different types of messaging accounts: ICQ, AOL IM, MS Messenger, Hotmail and regular email clients all run on my computer at the same time, and they all have overlapping capabilities."
I just don't understand this. Myself and several friends all got ICQ very early on, it has served us well. I cannot grok why one would load 4 clients? Is it necessary to make yourself accessible to every possible IM user on the planet? I realize it may be different for others, but basically the only people we want to IM are each other. I have zero desire to be accessible to 20 million AOL users, or the hordes who think those ridiculous "portals" with thier own branded IM's are cool.
As it is, my ignore list is easily twenty times larger than my contact list and all of us tend to view unsolicited IM's from lonely teen chatmongers and useless sales pitches demanding we "!!!!Go HERE NOW!!!!" as rude - I just don't get it.
All that said, a unified, standardized protocol only makes sense - I just don't understand the need that drives people to load multiple clients. Would someone clue me in?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I find it most ironic that Sig 11's intelligent postings (very rare they are) are moderated down, but his standard karma-whore bullshit gets a five.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The internet is about exchanging infromation and ideas.
The problem is that for too many people, this is not what the internet is about at all.
I once posted a ZDNN Talkback that said:
"Screw e-commerce. Let the moneygrubbers build their OWN e-commerce network. The Internet is an information resource and a "low barrier to entry" publishing medium that almost anybody can make use of. Let them turn something else into a vast wasteland of advertising and product hawking like television has become."
I received a half dozen emails calling me a communist.
The masses of braindead consumerbots in this country (USA) perceive everything in terms of its potential to be commercialized. The vision of shared human knowledge available to all via the internet is steadily being strangled by another vision: of hype and unlimited marketing opportunity.
Want to see the future of internet? Turn on your television.
'Scuse me, I have to puke now...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I've been wanting to transfer my domains OUT of NSI's purview. I don't find any such functionality on thier site. Last time I looked at register.com, there was a blurb about this to the effect that this capability had not yet been implemented.
Is this currently possible? And if so, is it currently too damn dangerous to attempt?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
If you don't think this type of thing happens every single bloody day in the U.S., then you're the type of person the public schools were designed to create.
Well said. The combination of public "schooling", immersion in the fantasy world view of television, and the unending barrage of marketing and disinformation from the media has produced a large number of technically ignorant people who are little more than 'consumerbots', who seem to believe that thier sole purpose in life is to earn, desire, and spend.
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
The FBI has a massive database of typewriter characteristics, and if they could actually get thier hands on the machine, they can prove beyond a doubt if that machine produced a given document.
The monkey, most likely not being native to your country, is tracable via his import and immunization documentation. And not being a typical pet, you are going to be pretty visible in the neighborhood as the guy with the monkey.
"And another thing, officer, there are typing sounds coming from that apartment all night long!"
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Slams at the government aside, I disagree. The only thing that makes ANYTHING valuable is agreement. A critical mass of human beings agree that cash is valuable, and so among human beings, it is. Give a $20 to your dog, he isn't impressed.
Try to define 'value'. I am a real estate appraiser. How much is that property worth? How much money would a willing buyer agree to give and a willing seller agree to accept, each experiencing no undue influence, for the property? How does anybody determine this? By looking to see what other people have done with similar property, thats how. Do any of these people know anything, do they have some secret access to value knowledge? No. They simply agree, and they support that decision by referencing other agreements.
A lot of people talk about the fact that paper money is no longer backed by precious metal. But so what? What makes the metal valuable? Agreement. How is that value affected by scarcity or abundance? Agreement. What caused the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression? Agreement. If a large enough mass of people no longer agree that what you have is valuable, then you are shit out of luck. Your stocks are worthless. Your money is worthless. A large enough mass of people agree that your bank is unsafe, it is.
Its all agreement, its all very nebulous, and it could all come crashing down around us. All it would take is a little consensus.
Rant concluded, plug commencing:
Visit Sleepless in Seattle.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16