ok. i'll play. the issue is completely grey area, but you seem to see it in black and white. first off, what if the brand name is not exclusive to the brand? secondly, who is going to prioritize the legitimacy? should walgreens, rite-aid, or any other old brick and mortar company get drugstore.com? oh, because it is a legitimate online drugstore, drugstore.com gets to live? do i get royal.com (my family name) instead of royal supplies, the site it redirects to? that is why registering domains is first come, first serve. what next, a domain name oversight committee?
I never once said it was a black and white situation, though you just need to apply some common sense.
In all the cases you site, I agree with first come first served, as I said, we are talking about cybersquatting, and none of those cases are cybersquatting.
well, i might not be happy but i would not be surprised or angry towards you. i'd be mad at my marketing staff, my tech staff, and myself. then again, if i had such a large online presence, i'd have had the foresight to also get the typo domains.
i just know you have to take the bad with the good, and any altering of the way it works will only make a bigger mess. i'd love to hear what you suggest, though.
Fair enough if that's what you think. I personally think it stinks. And yes, I can't think of any way of altering it without making a mess.
Just lets hope that next time your kid tries to go to barneythedinosaur.com and mistypes it, she or he doesn't end up on a page promoting anal sex. Presumably, you'd just blame barney & co. for not registering myriads of typoed domains?
So, if you built up an exclusive brand, and someone else took your name just to benefit off your brand-awareness (even, maybe a competitor) that would be ok?
No-one has the right to use their power to muscle in on a generic or a company who legitimately have a reason for the domain, but that's not cyber-squatting, is it?
And, if you did manage to have a big online presence for your company, you'd be happy that anyone who accidentally mistypes one letter gets to my site advertising hardcore porn?
there is nothing wrong with domain-squatting. if you weren't smart enough to get the domain name in the first place or not quick enough to renew it (most of the time, the registrar give you first dibs with some amount of time), then so be it.
You idiot.
what next? go after the ad sites that rely on people's typos?
er yes, dumbarse or troller.. hard to tell with some people
If you ask a question, you can't tell me what I can't answer.
I answer "wine" - works for me, though from what I gather for some reason wine seems more stable on freebsd that linux, as I've often heard linux people moaning about things not working properly when they do for me (spotify is one reoccurring example)
I'm not disagreeing with what you say, but pointing out that everything on facebook is public anyway.
In less you specifically set it, everything is visible to your 'friends' and this also means any application your friends have used... all those piddly quizzes etc. that people run once, and never de-authorise, have virtually as much information to stuff as that person does itself.
That includes photos, and notes and everything else.
If you use facebook, go to settings -> application settings and look at how much dross you still have 'authorised'.
Then realise that not only can all these applications access all your stuff, but so can all the authorised dross on ALL your friends accounts (there is a setting somewhere obscure that lets you change this)
I'd NEVER put anything on facebook that was actually private, whether I used https or not!
If it's a contest between facebook screwing up the correct settings of headers, and AT&T screwing up how they cope with such headers, I'd bet my arse on the latter.
In fact, if it was the former, we'd have heard this story a LONG time ago (how many companies allow facebook, but use proxy servers? Very many that even I can think of!
errr, proxies cache content, not the headers. Under your scenario, yeah, someone could receive someone elses "page" but they would NEVER get the cookie, so your POSTS would still fail
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Just because they can, doesn't mean they WILL. That's the main problem with the GNU fanbois.
Yahoo committed accept-filters back to FreeBSD.
Apple has released code and bug fixes.
There are MANY MANY more examples.
And it doesn't have to be done in good faith. There are many good reasons for a company to contribute code back to the main stream..
If you don't contribute the changes back, then every time you update the OS, you have to repatch your system with your changes, and may even have to do alot of work if there are API changes.
By committing the code to the project, you are reducing the amount of work you'll need to do, as other people will make sure your code remains current.
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Mod parent up!
I'm a FreeBSD guy through and through, but it does seem possible that without Linux, Microsoft could have indeed captured the server market, as you say.
Where I worked in the late 90's, they started replacing alot of their working unix systems with more expenesive, less reliable windows servers, where different departments (os support/db support/application support) had to 'book' time on the machines to get work done without clashing with anyone else:-(
Needles to say, they effectively went bust a few years later, but at that time, MS was making real inroads that linux has helped thwart.
I've been with a few different providers over the last 10 years, and the support from superb is the best I've seen. Fast responses all the time, and they don't pry, but when I have needed to, they were willing to help (I made a typo in/etc/fstab once DOH)
They also provide KVM over IP if requested instead.
"On earth, oxygen is the most common element, making up about 47% of the earth's mass. Silicon is second, making up 28%, followed by aluminum (8%), iron (5%), magnesium (2%), calcium (4%), sodium (3%), and potassium (3%). All of the remaining elements together make up less than 1% of the earth's mass."
He was pointing out that a typical Thin Client has no fans or drives, so the cost saving of not having to services such things in traditional computers should also be factored in.
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echo "noembed" >> ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf
I had this too. The only 'fix' I could find was to get it to launch mplayer in a seperate window rather than as a plugin
ok. i'll play. the issue is completely grey area, but you seem to see it in black and white.
first off, what if the brand name is not exclusive to the brand? secondly, who is going to prioritize the legitimacy? should walgreens, rite-aid, or any other old brick and mortar company get drugstore.com? oh, because it is a legitimate online drugstore, drugstore.com gets to live? do i get royal.com (my family name) instead of royal supplies, the site it redirects to? that is why registering domains is first come, first serve. what next, a domain name oversight committee?
I never once said it was a black and white situation, though you just need to apply some common sense.
In all the cases you site, I agree with first come first served, as I said, we are talking about
cybersquatting, and none of those cases are cybersquatting.
well, i might not be happy but i would not be surprised or angry towards you. i'd be mad at my marketing staff, my tech staff, and myself.
then again, if i had such a large online presence, i'd have had the foresight to also get the typo domains.
i just know you have to take the bad with the good, and any altering of the way it works will only make a bigger mess. i'd love to hear what you suggest, though.
Fair enough if that's what you think. I personally think it stinks. And yes, I can't think of any way of altering it without making a mess.
Just lets hope that next time your kid tries to go to barneythedinosaur.com and mistypes it, she or he doesn't end up on a page promoting anal sex. Presumably, you'd just blame barney & co. for not registering myriads of typoed domains?
So, if you built up an exclusive brand, and someone else took your name just to benefit off your brand-awareness (even, maybe a competitor) that would be ok?
No-one has the right to use their power to muscle in on a generic or a company who legitimately have a reason for the domain, but that's not cyber-squatting, is it?
And, if you did manage to have a big online presence for your company, you'd be happy that anyone who accidentally mistypes one letter gets to my site advertising hardcore porn?
I think not.
I may be a git, but at least I'm not the idiot.
I hate the cyber squatters and typo-squatters, but I don't think a generic word like food can be considered squatting.
Remember, domains can be used for far more than www, so the lack of a web page means nothing.
I would like to say that they shouldn't be able to have .net because they are not an ISP, but unfortunately, that rule has long since died.
there is nothing wrong with domain-squatting. if you weren't smart enough to get the domain name in the first place or not quick enough to renew it (most of the time, the registrar give you first dibs with some amount of time), then so be it.
You idiot.
what next? go after the ad sites that rely on people's typos?
er yes, dumbarse or troller.. hard to tell with some people
I'd love that to happen. And of course, making sure that .net.XX .com.XX .org.XX are only used by appropriate organisations that fit the role.
It will never happen though.
If you ask a question, you can't tell me what I can't answer.
I answer "wine" - works for me, though from what I gather for some reason wine seems more stable on freebsd that linux, as I've often heard linux people moaning about things not working properly when they do for me (spotify is one reoccurring example)
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I'm not disagreeing with what you say, but pointing out that everything on facebook is public anyway.
In less you specifically set it, everything is visible to your 'friends' and this also means any application your friends have used... all those piddly quizzes etc. that people run once, and never de-authorise, have virtually as much information to stuff as that person does itself.
That includes photos, and notes and everything else.
If you use facebook, go to settings -> application settings and look at how much dross you still have 'authorised'.
Then realise that not only can all these applications access all your stuff, but so can all the authorised dross on ALL your friends accounts (there is a setting somewhere obscure that lets you change this)
I'd NEVER put anything on facebook that was actually private, whether I used https or not!
Obviously, he didn't RTFM... But are you new around here? This is slashdot!
I'm not even going to bother testing this.
If it's a contest between facebook screwing up the correct settings of headers, and AT&T screwing up how they cope with such headers, I'd bet my arse on the latter.
In fact, if it was the former, we'd have heard this story a LONG time ago (how many companies allow facebook, but use proxy servers? Very many that even I can think of!
errr, proxies cache content, not the headers. Under your scenario, yeah, someone could receive someone elses "page" but they would NEVER get the cookie, so your POSTS would still fail
Just because they can, doesn't mean they WILL. That's the main problem with the GNU fanbois.
Yahoo committed accept-filters back to FreeBSD.
Apple has released code and bug fixes.
There are MANY MANY more examples.
And it doesn't have to be done in good faith. There are many good reasons for a company to contribute code back to the main stream..
If you don't contribute the changes back, then every time you update the OS, you have to repatch your system with your changes, and may even have to do alot of work if there are API changes.
By committing the code to the project, you are reducing the amount of work you'll need to do, as other people will make sure your code remains current.
Mod parent up!
I'm a FreeBSD guy through and through, but it does seem possible that without Linux, Microsoft could have indeed captured the server market, as you say.
Where I worked in the late 90's, they started replacing alot of their working unix systems with more expenesive, less reliable windows servers, where different departments (os support/db support/application support) had to 'book' time on the machines to get work done without clashing with anyone else :-(
Needles to say, they effectively went bust a few years later, but at that time, MS was making real inroads that linux has helped thwart.
I get the same with Superb.net
I've been with a few different providers over the last 10 years, and the support from superb is the best I've seen. Fast responses all the time, and they don't pry, but when I have needed to, they were willing to help (I made a typo in /etc/fstab once DOH)
They also provide KVM over IP if requested instead.
Very fast, and well network connected too.
http://nsssc.superb.net/information/dca2net-info.php
http://nsssc.superb.net/information/corenet-info.php
(II promise, I have nothing to do with them, other than being a satisfied customer)
both wrong. the periodic table has nothing to do with commonness.
From: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/periodic/faq/what-element-is-most-abundant.shtml :
"On earth, oxygen is the most common element, making up about 47% of the earth's mass. Silicon is second, making up 28%, followed by aluminum (8%), iron (5%), magnesium (2%), calcium (4%), sodium (3%), and potassium (3%). All of the remaining elements together make up less than 1% of the earth's mass."
So, errr "yes" I am root.
Not sure what you mean.
I actually typoed that - the last years payment was $888 not $666 - however, the cost has since gone down, and my next yearly payment will be $648
It's a dedicated standalone machine. The package is:
P4 3.0Ghz
catflap.bishopston.net
4000 GB Included Monthly Traffic
Colocation - Space/Power
Hardware Rental - Pentium4 - 2.4GHz - 80GB IDE HD - 512MB RAM
+ extras of an extra 512meg of ram, and an extra 11 IP addresses.
I'm running FreeBSD, but they do that thing called Linux too.
The relevant section is here: http://www.superbhosting.net/dedicated-servers/discount-servers/
However, if you were making some kind of joke, I'll helpfully reply for you:
*woooosh*
Welshgit now looks a right Welsh tit!
*blush*
traceroute rather... If you think latency at superb.net is bad, it's probably your side of things.
Here is their network info. I'm afraid they aren't using quantum networks yet:
http://nsssc.superb.net/information/dca2net-info.php
You idiot - that's got nothing to do with the point that $850 for 5TB isn't a bargain, which is the point I was making.
Do you just want an argument for the sake of it?
And whilst there is no native ipv6, the latency, and facilities and support is more than fine.
Expensive doesn't mean good. Some of us actually look for good deals.
Feel free to ping catflap.bishopston.net
I thought it was because of the "I won't do what you tell me" angle of the song - as a dig that we won't do what the x-factor machine is telling us.
but if it really is only $850 for 5TB then it's a bit of a bargain.
Huh? I pay $666 a year for a dedicated server, and for that I get 4TB a *month*
superb.net if you want to check.
He was pointing out that a typical Thin Client has no fans or drives, so the cost saving of not having to services such things in traditional computers should also be factored in.