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  1. Re:How do they know it's not in use? on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    A domain can exist for the sole purpose of sheltering subdomains.

  2. Re:How do they know it's not in use? on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Who are you answering?

  3. Re:How do they know it's not in use? on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If the rent is paid, it's being used. That the owner is attempting to hustle someone else is a separate issue.

  4. Re:Wonder how many empty and error just don't have on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I have five, three of which are related by name and connected to books of mine. One is the 'real' site and the other two are by and large stubs. They have bits of stuff on them but are to keep those particular names under my control.

  5. Re:Ooh! Ooh! I know! on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never search for a domain. Just make a prioritized list of acceptable ones and start registering. If it's taken, it will tell you; if not, it's yours. If you search, there's no guarantee that won't be detected and squatted. Happened to me.

  6. Re:Ooh! Ooh! I know! on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group. It's shorthand, no more useless than the acronym IBM.

  7. Re:Just an observation here: on Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge' (edmontonjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    If the wheat is modified to be "resistant to bugs" so that the bugs can no longer eat it, what makes the engineers think it's still food for humans?

    Well... One little thing might be that insects aren't mammals. There are great numbers of things insects can eat that you cannot. There are also a great number of things you can eat that **specific** insects (or classes of) cannot. Take a Monarch caterpillar and put it in a container of nice, fresh fruit - and watch it die. Your sentence exposes your physiological ignorance.

  8. Re: Authorities untouchable on FBI Arrests Three More Men Who Hired 'SWAT' Perpetrator (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pray tell, the stress of police work dealing with homicidally violent people equates to which other stressful jobs.

  9. That's an amusing thought.

  10. Re:The very reason for GUIs on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that pony you're on nineteen hands?

  11. Re:Real men don't use mouses ! on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're gonna fuck up the plural, it's meeses.

  12. That said, word processing without a mouse is substantially more fluid, when you use an editor you know how to operate. The mouse is disruptive to the workflow of writing anything really, be it text like a post, or longer writing, programming, etc. If there's a lot of keyboarding in the activity, any action that requires using the mouse is disruptive IMHO.

    Very much your HO. I find that not to be the case. I find it nightmarish just to imagine writing my stories with only a keyboard.

  13. Re:Cash whenever possible on Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the concern is for today, not tomorrow. Just read up on Wells Fargo or PayPal's suppressing purchases (legal everywhere purchases) for political purpose.

  14. Re:some have no smartphone on Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Having read down the current comments now - Not at all as tiny, poor or incarcerated as you believe, nor as troglodyte-like. You're just typing your personal preferences (and your pomposity) as if they were fact.

  15. Re: Preferred form... on Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming you own/carry one.

  16. Re:some have no smartphone on Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not as tiny as you believe, but yes, we're idiosyncratic. And really, this sub-thread is responding to "everyone has", a stupid statement, not about companies catering.

  17. "Everyone has a smartphone these days" on Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What a stupid assumption.

  18. That was done when a human designed and implemented the algorithm.

  19. Re:"Virtually" the same? Shockingly "similar?" on Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Their DNA would only be 100% identical at the very moment the egg split in two.

    Not even then.

  20. Re: See, I told you we were different, Aaron! on Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No they do not. You need to do some studying.

  21. Seriously? I need to consider an entirely fabricated civilization located somewhere far away, at some time long ago, with some projected interests, technical abilities and wealth over "We got no idea."?

    He got exactly the response that suggestion deserved. Amused bemusement. Unless he can give some links to information supporting the above, it's no better than "God dunnit."

    And no, circular logic does not suffice.

  22. You do realize your post is stating you believe that's more likely than "it could be a comet", right?

  23. Re:Highly advanced image recognition indeed on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I do believe the previous AC was being sarcastic.

  24. Re:No One Has Respect For Consumers on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are cars tooling around this very day that were manufactured well onto a century ago. More usable ones half a century and later, but still. Cars are extremely durable and easy to craft replacement parts for. The era of 'only subscription automobiles' is easily a full half century away.

  25. Re:No One Has Respect For Consumers on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Does no one understand the function of dark nail polish?