I would feel pretty bad if I payed my $35 to find out it's free 2 months later. Do they have any advantages over free users?
Sure there are advantages, like the new built-in spellchecker which would tell you that there's no such word as payed but that you're likely looking for the word paid.
I think the harm is that register.com can use these coming-soon-websites to get advertising revenue by putting adds on 'property' (the domain) they don't own.
So does this mean that once a house is sold, the realtor must immediately take down their sign rather than leaving it up for a week advertising their name with the "SOLD" sticker across it? Now *there's* a class action waiting to happen!
$12.5K for that? How was he harmed? He had tools to point it elsewhere.
Technically, the $12.5K is for his services in representing the class. Otherwise, he likely would only get $5 as well. Still, what a completely frivolous lawsuit. It doesn't say in the article, but did he at least try to negotiate up-front first before wasting over half a million dollars in legal expenses?
Linus is a damned genious now, but when he started it, he wasn't a C programmer at all. Which leads me to guess, he wasn't much of a UNIX programmer at the time (let alone an experienced kernel programmer).
When I first started using Linux, it was at version 0.2 back in 1991/92 or thereabouts. It was blazingly fast on my 486 -- naturally, text mode only but it made MSDOS shit its pants. What I saw back then was certainly not the result of someone who's "not a C programmer at all".
I'm not sure of the exact details, but isn't that just for the replay license? You'd still need to go out there and PURCHASE all the CDs you wanted to play online. After all, when you sign up for a license, they don't ship you a starter pack containing thousands of CDs that you might want to play.
This doesn't compare to the wide variety of advanced hosting accounts you can find. Scroll about 3/4 of the way down to 759-09 and prepare to bust a gut.
For all the mods with no sense of humor (this used to be +5 Funny and has been modded down in what has become an outlandish waste of mod points), allow me to explain:
The nanotech carbon structure known as buckminsterfullerene is commonly referred to as bucky balls. This is a story about carbon nanotubes. The joke is an unexpected twist of sexual innuendo which relates buckminsterfullerene molecules to playing with one's scrotum (the "balls" reference, for the dim-witted).
Thank you. Please return to reading much more deserving drivel on this page.
[Note to rational mods reading this post: this is either Funny or Interesting, depending on your perspective and humor quotient.]
Could this be the first implementation of open source? Or at least open design? There wasn't a GPL at the time, but it was open.
I think you're forgetting prior "open" projects such as the wheel, creating fire, arrowheads, etc. Except for one's enemies, all primitive ideas were shared amongst a community for the benefit of that community.
Hackers have been working feverishly to get an embedded linux small enough to be fully functional inside a can of Spam. The project makes use of a 10GB IBM Microdrive, a custom power supply, and a hacked Palm device.
Iva Knowlife, the project leader for the linux-in-spam project, Spamix, stated that while it won't have any display or input devices, it supports gigabit ethernet and has a high geek factor, so the whole world should know about it. When asked what the practical purpose was, he said "Hell if I know, probably none... but isn't it cool?" Another project member, known only by his handle L4m3rB0y, stated "D00d, it makes a great anti-spam filter for my GNU/Sendmail server!" When asked if this can't already be done on the same machine a lot faster and at no additional cost, L4m3rB0y got agitated and only replied with a terse "Shut up, man!" He was about to say something else, but his mother called him upstairs for lunch.
Spamix is expected to be released in kit form with an expected retail price of $99. Interested parties will need to supply their own hard drive, gutted Palm internals, and empty luncheon meat container.
Students attending this new university are reported to have a half-life of only 18 months. Essentially, upon graduating students have little to no life left in them. How this differs from any other university remains to be seen.
I'm not sure I would be so happy if I were him. Are they trying to say he's intellectually challenged? "Read all about Jon 'Maddog' Hall at Tinyminds.org, where you can find lots of tiny minds."
Please please please don't throw me in the briar patch, Mr. Brer Bear!
Uh oh, looks like I've angered the trolls. Obviously someone's mother didn't pay him enough attention as a child. Hey AC, go post a couple more *BSD is dying threads -- someone just might notice you and give you the recognition you so desperately crave!
At least someone took the time to prove alchemy wrong. It's a travesty for a scientist to say cold fusion is wrong because of his faith. Be a scientist and use that damn method you've heard about since childhood. Since when does peer review mean you only test things that fit into your view of the universe?
You troll initially, respond AC to your own post, and troll in the reply to your AC post. I've been ignoring that "Have you meta-moderated lately?" message, but time to head right on over...
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I would feel pretty bad if I payed my $35 to find out it's free 2 months later. Do they have any advantages over free users?
Sure there are advantages, like the new built-in spellchecker which would tell you that there's no such word as payed but that you're likely looking for the word paid.
I think the harm is that register.com can use these coming-soon-websites to get advertising revenue by putting adds on 'property' (the domain) they don't own.
So does this mean that once a house is sold, the realtor must immediately take down their sign rather than leaving it up for a week advertising their name with the "SOLD" sticker across it? Now *there's* a class action waiting to happen!
...and all I got was a $5 off coupon.
Register.com today announced their fees are increasing by $5 for new domain registrations and renewals.
$12.5K for that? How was he harmed? He had tools to point it elsewhere.
Technically, the $12.5K is for his services in representing the class. Otherwise, he likely would only get $5 as well. Still, what a completely frivolous lawsuit. It doesn't say in the article, but did he at least try to negotiate up-front first before wasting over half a million dollars in legal expenses?
I mean, is that or is that not the vaguest bloody headline you've ever read?
"Linux is fast on a new fast computer"
I mean, come on...
I guess my submission was rejected... "Gentoo is slow on an old G3"
Linus is a damned genious now, but when he started it, he wasn't a C programmer at all. Which leads me to guess, he wasn't much of a UNIX programmer at the time (let alone an experienced kernel programmer).
When I first started using Linux, it was at version 0.2 back in 1991/92 or thereabouts. It was blazingly fast on my 486 -- naturally, text mode only but it made MSDOS shit its pants. What I saw back then was certainly not the result of someone who's "not a C programmer at all".
I'd love to get the list of songs and publish
which artist 'profited' by suing a 12 year
kid.
Apparently she was big into Frank Sinatra. Damn his dead and buried corpse for suing a 12 year old kid! How dare a dead guy sue a 12 year old kid?!?
remember the flap about microsoft auditing that oregon school district(sorry, no link)
I did the painstaking research for you. Please follow these steps to reproduce my complex methodology:
1. Open www.google.com
2. In the search box, enter: microsoft audit oregon school district
3. Click "I'm feeling lucky"
I'm not sure of the exact details, but isn't that just for the replay license? You'd still need to go out there and PURCHASE all the CDs you wanted to play online. After all, when you sign up for a license, they don't ship you a starter pack containing thousands of CDs that you might want to play.
And it cunningly anticipated Berke Breathed's return
That's no anticipation. It's merely a reference which, through revisionist history, you now interpret as foresight.
And the most important feature of all....
an OFF switch!
This doesn't compare to the wide variety of advanced hosting accounts you can find. Scroll about 3/4 of the way down to 759-09 and prepare to bust a gut.
For all the mods with no sense of humor (this used to be +5 Funny and has been modded down in what has become an outlandish waste of mod points), allow me to explain:
The nanotech carbon structure known as buckminsterfullerene is commonly referred to as bucky balls. This is a story about carbon nanotubes. The joke is an unexpected twist of sexual innuendo which relates buckminsterfullerene molecules to playing with one's scrotum (the "balls" reference, for the dim-witted).
Thank you. Please return to reading much more deserving drivel on this page.
[Note to rational mods reading this post: this is either Funny or Interesting, depending on your perspective and humor quotient.]
Wow... 20% Troll, 20% Informative, 20% Funny. The mods don't know their arse from a hole in the ground.
:)
I guess next time I should add a smiley or something?
Heh..."tardmuffin" is a funny word. :-)
"pusmuffin" is funnier.
A one time pad is 'unbreakable'
You can still brute-force a one-time pad.
they discovered this interesting phenomenon while playing with their bucky balls.
Could this be the first implementation of open source? Or at least open design? There wasn't a GPL at the time, but it was open.
I think you're forgetting prior "open" projects such as the wheel, creating fire, arrowheads, etc. Except for one's enemies, all primitive ideas were shared amongst a community for the benefit of that community.
Hackers have been working feverishly to get an embedded linux small enough to be fully functional inside a can of Spam. The project makes use of a 10GB IBM Microdrive, a custom power supply, and a hacked Palm device.
Iva Knowlife, the project leader for the linux-in-spam project, Spamix, stated that while it won't have any display or input devices, it supports gigabit ethernet and has a high geek factor, so the whole world should know about it. When asked what the practical purpose was, he said "Hell if I know, probably none... but isn't it cool?" Another project member, known only by his handle L4m3rB0y, stated "D00d, it makes a great anti-spam filter for my GNU/Sendmail server!" When asked if this can't already be done on the same machine a lot faster and at no additional cost, L4m3rB0y got agitated and only replied with a terse "Shut up, man!" He was about to say something else, but his mother called him upstairs for lunch.
Spamix is expected to be released in kit form with an expected retail price of $99. Interested parties will need to supply their own hard drive, gutted Palm internals, and empty luncheon meat container.
Students attending this new university are reported to have a half-life of only 18 months. Essentially, upon graduating students have little to no life left in them. How this differs from any other university remains to be seen.
Why can't we light candles or leave flowers or something normal people would do?
You've already answered your own question. The key phrase of interest is, "normal people" which excludes everybody on this godforsaken website.
The worst thing is people replying with stuff like "HAMMERZ!!! lOL!!!!!!! NO CHAINSAWS!!! LMFAO!!!11". Geeks can be the stupidest people...
Even worse is the lame-asses who respond with "LOLOLOLOL". What the hell is that? "Laughing Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud"???
I'm not sure I would be so happy if I were him. Are they trying to say he's intellectually challenged? "Read all about Jon 'Maddog' Hall at Tinyminds.org, where you can find lots of tiny minds."
Onoe we might lose a karma point!!!1!
Please please please don't throw me in the briar patch, Mr. Brer Bear!
Uh oh, looks like I've angered the trolls. Obviously someone's mother didn't pay him enough attention as a child. Hey AC, go post a couple more *BSD is dying threads -- someone just might notice you and give you the recognition you so desperately crave!
At least someone took the time to prove alchemy wrong. It's a travesty for a scientist to say cold fusion is wrong because of his faith. Be a scientist and use that damn method you've heard about since childhood. Since when does peer review mean you only test things that fit into your view of the universe?
Chill, it's a joke.
You troll initially, respond AC to your own post, and troll in the reply to your AC post. I've been ignoring that "Have you meta-moderated lately?" message, but time to head right on over...