Okay, I'm confused. I wasn't offered a new webmail address in my own domain. I was offered some idiotic "whatever@dotcomnow.com" address.
If they had tried to pull something on redirecting mail on my domain at all, you can bet I would be down to Herndon (they are in Herndon, aren't they?) as fast as I could with an aluminum bat demanding to see the person who made that decision.
This is absolutely crazy, and I want it to be the last straw. I have been screwed over by NSI both personally and professionally now:
I wanted to change the registrant name on zigg.com, which I registered years ago with a short-lived business of mine, to my own personal name, so I could dissolve the business. However, despite the fact that I sent them proof from the county that the business and myself were identical legal entities, they insisted that the change was a "domain transfer" and I'd have to reregister.
For two weeks now I have spoken and e-mailed at least ten different people on another issue. I recently came in to work at a startup ISP. The domains were registered through their "Registration Plus" or "WorldNIC" or whatever the hell they wanted to call it -- and the host record handles have periods in them! None of the NSI forms will accept these bogus host handles, and nobody who I can get access to -- not even after the front-line drones got so confused by what I was patiently trying to explain to them that they gave me the supposed "priority" e-mail address (priority@networksolutions.com, for those who are interested; but it still takes days to answer) -- understands the problem. I think I'm going to have to settle for registering the hosts under new IPs.
All in all, NSI has screwed me over again and again, and their callous disregard for professionals that need to get their jobs done by not even allowing me access to engineers (after repeated requests) to repair the aforementioned host handle problem is a load of bullshit.
Now, to the thrust of this posting -- where can I find these so-called alternative registrars? Are they yet capable of freeing me from the shackles of NSI -- to the point of never having to email anyone at networksolutions.com again -- and still keep my.com,.org, and.net's?
I sincerely hope that if they are not here now, that they arrive very soon. I have a lot of new business for them.
I've always been impressed with Wired's layout, and 50% of the time, its content. I have very few beefs with Wired. The Borg-Generations blurb was just plain silly, though...
I'd be less surprised if Windows imploded first. Why not sharpen your Qt skills writing proprietary software on Windows; then if and when Windows implodes all your code can be ported to Linux, *BSD, you name it (-:
IMO, probably not. It just demonstrates the fallacy of trying to close open technologies. You'll either utterly fail in closing it, or you'll kill the technology before it's out the door.
Kevin Unangst's words from the Wired article ring true here:
Being able to intercept the playback "is a reality of the music and PC industry," Unangst said. "It's like buying a pay-per-view movie and recording it on your VCR. People will still rent movies and buy CDs."
Oh, that would indeed be productive, considering the Windows binary culture. Source code is frowned upon, so how would you even get it to recompile? Besides, there are many Windowsisms in the API that would be next to impossible to implement on an OS that practices sound design principles in process and user segmentation.
Of course, there are quite a few "platform-neutral" APIs, but they are largely useless. And they still don't fill the niche that Wine, VMWare, and others do.
Damn straight I read the article. It's a bunch of FUD, plain and simple. I can't believe anyone would take it seriously. Saying that open-source software can "hide" trojan intentions and then citing an open-source program that clearly has those intentions right up front before you download it is seriously misguided.
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You've got my vote and support -- I'll be your first customer, or employee if you need me. (-:
Okay, I'm confused. I wasn't offered a new webmail address in my own domain. I was offered some idiotic "whatever@dotcomnow.com" address.
If they had tried to pull something on redirecting mail on my domain at all, you can bet I would be down to Herndon (they are in Herndon, aren't they?) as fast as I could with an aluminum bat demanding to see the person who made that decision.
This is absolutely crazy, and I want it to be the last straw. I have been screwed over by NSI both personally and professionally now:
All in all, NSI has screwed me over again and again, and their callous disregard for professionals that need to get their jobs done by not even allowing me access to engineers (after repeated requests) to repair the aforementioned host handle problem is a load of bullshit.
Now, to the thrust of this posting -- where can I find these so-called alternative registrars? Are they yet capable of freeing me from the shackles of NSI -- to the point of never having to email anyone at networksolutions.com again -- and still keep my .com, .org, and .net's?
I sincerely hope that if they are not here now, that they arrive very soon. I have a lot of new business for them.
I've always been impressed with Wired's layout, and 50% of the time, its content. I have very few beefs with Wired. The Borg-Generations blurb was just plain silly, though...
I'd be less surprised if Windows imploded first. Why not sharpen your Qt skills writing proprietary software on Windows; then if and when Windows implodes all your code can be ported to Linux, *BSD, you name it (-:
Flamebait, eh? I would have marked that one "Funny".
Silly moderator.
Kevin Unangst's words from the Wired article ring true here:
Oh, that would indeed be productive, considering the Windows binary culture. Source code is frowned upon, so how would you even get it to recompile? Besides, there are many Windowsisms in the API that would be next to impossible to implement on an OS that practices sound design principles in process and user segmentation.
Of course, there are quite a few "platform-neutral" APIs, but they are largely useless. And they still don't fill the niche that Wine, VMWare, and others do.
Please tell me where in the Constitution you find the so-called separation doctrine.
Here's a hint: you won't find it in there. You'll find it in the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Give me a break, moderator. This and the other post you expertly marked "flamebait" demonstrate which side of the political fence you straddle.
Damn straight I read the article. It's a bunch of FUD, plain and simple. I can't believe anyone would take it seriously. Saying that open-source software can "hide" trojan intentions and then citing an open-source program that clearly has those intentions right up front before you download it is seriously misguided.