Considering how many life-forms are going extinct each day, perhaps we should consider encoding gene sequences for future generations to re-create (I am assuming this will be possible in 10,000 years). Of course this might take zillions of these little disks......
I can't believe that they are pushing to encode the bible! Considering how much all of the religions have changed in just the past few thousand years, I suppose the bible will be as entertaining as neanderthal cave paintings are now.
Picture that one month the phone company doesn't send you your phone bill (for your easy to remember phone number, 233-1233). Then one day you discover that they have auctioned off your phone number, and now someone else owns it (and now gets all your phone calls). Gee sorry. But then they recommend that to cover for their inability to bill you properly, you get a new number, 9384930239320129-894389204839483932. Thanks for doing business with us!
p.s. You can't really be an employee of NSI, since they can barely keep up with email (still waiting for a reply on my second query, its been over a week now), much less read/post to slashdot. Nice troll though!
p.p.s. I have know in the past that class action lawsuits tend to straighten out this kind of junk, what do you guys think?
(sorry for the cruddy formatting above) I forgot to add that even though they can't seem to send me an invoice, they do spam me on a regular basis (the last one was for a t-shirt with my domain on it, advertising NetSol) I got this AFTER I sent in my initial inquiry..... Yeesh.
Ahh, but this DID happen to me. A domain I had been holding for several years suddenly turned up as being owned by greatdomains. What happened? I hadn't kept track of when the registration needed to be renewed, and never got a single email or letter telling me it was due. My first indication was when I hit my website, and up pops greatdomains "for sale" page. My email thus far has been answered by a pathetic form letter telling me it hadn't been paid for, and I should go register another domain! Needless to say after this pathetic treatment I will be taking my business (and moving my other domains) ASAP. Oh I forgot to mention, I have yet to talk to an actual human at NetSol since I just don't have time to wait on hold (last time I waited was over 40 minutes!) Interestingly enough when I emailed another registrar about transferring a domain, I got email back within 6 hours. Dunno about phone service, but they can't be as bad as Net(dis)Sol. And they cost less.
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Considering how many life-forms are
going extinct each day, perhaps we
should consider encoding gene sequences
for future generations to re-create
(I am assuming this will be possible
in 10,000 years). Of course this might
take zillions of these little disks......
I can't believe that they are pushing to
encode the bible! Considering how much
all of the religions have changed in just
the past few thousand years, I suppose the
bible will be as entertaining as neanderthal
cave paintings are now.
Well, I see it this way:
Picture that one month the phone company doesn't
send you your phone bill (for your easy to remember phone number, 233-1233). Then one day
you discover that they have auctioned off your
phone number, and now someone else owns it (and
now gets all your phone calls). Gee sorry. But
then they recommend that to cover for their
inability to bill you properly, you get a new
number, 9384930239320129-894389204839483932.
Thanks for doing business with us!
p.s. You can't really be an employee of NSI, since
they can barely keep up with email (still waiting
for a reply on my second query, its been over a
week now), much less read/post to slashdot. Nice
troll though!
p.p.s. I have know in the past that class action
lawsuits tend to straighten out this kind of junk,
what do you guys think?
(sorry for the cruddy formatting above) I
forgot to add that even though they can't seem
to send me an invoice, they do spam me on a
regular basis (the last one was for a t-shirt
with my domain on it, advertising NetSol) I got
this AFTER I sent in my initial inquiry.....
Yeesh.
Whiny (but true) sob story follows.....
Ahh, but this DID happen to me. A domain I had
been holding for several years suddenly turned
up as being owned by greatdomains. What happened?
I hadn't kept track of when the registration needed to be renewed, and never got a single email or letter telling me it was due. My first
indication was when I hit my website, and up
pops greatdomains "for sale" page. My email
thus far has been answered by a pathetic form
letter telling me it hadn't been paid for, and
I should go register another domain! Needless
to say after this pathetic treatment I will be
taking my business (and moving my other domains)
ASAP. Oh I forgot to mention, I have yet to
talk to an actual human at NetSol since I just
don't have time to wait on hold (last time I waited was over 40 minutes!) Interestingly
enough when I emailed another registrar about transferring a domain, I got email back within 6 hours. Dunno about phone service, but they can't
be as bad as Net(dis)Sol. And they cost less.
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