"As far as science in general, the United States is by far the leaders for scientific paper production, measured by citations."
I think this got debunked last time we had this discussion, I'm lazy to search back sorry, but the results were something like the USA lost it's edge while the EU gained on this ground and the USA lost it's first place.
1. Verisign introduces wildcard
2. ICANN tells them to temporarily suspend that
3. Verisign sues, but the case gets thrown out
4. Verisign sues again and they settle that Verisign keeps its reign over.com until 2012, instead of 2007 BECAUSE they fucked up in the first place with that outrageous wildcard-advertising?
5. No ??? here, just profit.
Oh yea, and the people wonder why do I and apparently the rest of the world think that ICANN and the USA is not doing the task it had been given properly?
Didn't Wikipedia have a fundraising last time i checked? Why the need for advertising then?
The first priority should be keep the site clean, because that's one of the strengths of wikipedia, if i would have wanted advertising i would have went to any commercial info site.
I'd like you to pay my internet bills, since i started using the internet in the mid nineties. No? I keep hearing that the USA built the internet, pays for it and invented it so they have every right to do what the fuck they arrogantly want to do. Ok. Pay my internet bills, the price of my computer, of my router, and the 20m of cat5 cables, because as you know, my computer is part of the internet too. So, I'll wait your government to contact me with a gracious offer of paying my involved costs since 1996, interests included.
What? You don't agree? Then don't claim ownership over something which you didn't pay for.
Oh, you mean you were talking about DNS servers? You know what they are? They are an agreement from historical reasons. The USA is very nice to have covered the nominal costs of running the DNS servers compared to their value, which is that people use those ip numbers as dns servers traditionally. It's like a company buying another company which had 200k users. The users are value too! Guess what, who wouldn't like to have more than 3 billion (just a wild guess) users in their control, if even the control is limited? Pretty much everyone would volunteer to pay the fish and chips costs of keeping DNS servers online for having the power that historical fact represents. So, no. You're not doing anyone a favor by maintaining those servers, since the main benefits fall in your government's hand. You don't own the root dns servers either, since they are just ip addresses, apart from the nominal costs the physical servers represent which we discussed earlier. IP adresses by convention. Just like a well known brand name. In itself, it has value. Who are the costumers? The internet users. Who owns the brand? Noone. And everyone using the internet. The owners of the physical infrastructure.
With this congress vote, I think the USA lawmakers are acting like lemmings, or like in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, burning down the bridges behind themselves. It's a gamble. You only do that sensibly if the stakes are high, when you're sure you can win, and even then no sane people would do that. Well, i've got newsflash for you all, the USA might be the #1 country in the world atm, but that is just not enough if you got the rest of the world against you. Ignoring and using pure force, well, you'll be given your own medicine soon that way and i bet you won't like it.
Parent isn't a troll, he's actually close to the truth. Maybe it'S OFFTOPIC, but his statement in itself wasn't a troll.
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Nah, he is right in some sense.
Slashdot is a place where zombies, including the editors march 365 days a year, so i guess that one day difference where we celebrate it doesn't really matter.
"Perl was the innovator. And Perl even managed to popularize regular expressions. But these days others have taken over the task of innovation in that field."
I thought that it's not necessary to make my point stronger, but it seems so.
Disclaimer: I've seen you posting a couple of times intelligent stuff, i believe this is one of the few mind barfs everyone has when you posted about Perl having worse regexp than the others listed.
You talk way too generalized, about languages and not in exact, specific things when you're talking about regular expression support in those languages. Mind you, Perl is practically built around regular expressions. 'perldoc perlre' and 'perldoc perlop' should give you a slight idea how it looks like. While maybe C# has regular expression support like for example, sed or even my favorite text editor, vim does, it's nowhere near Perl's support for regular expressions. In Perl, you can use regular expressions almost everywhere, taking full advantages of the Perl additions. Ever wondered why people actively using regular expressions talk about the sed style and Perl style regular expressions? Because Perl added a lot of new/good stuff, mostly which is not duplicated fully elsewhere. In C#, support for regular expressions is nowhere near to Perl. About Python - I've got marginal experience, so i'd rather not judge it, but Ruby isn't built around regular expressions either. Sorry, Perl still is the most regular expression capable language around.
If you have already taken a look at Perl 6, then you might have seen that the regular expressions are almost completely taken to a new level there, so I'd rather say that Perl will stay _the_ top regular expression language for a while...
Woohooo, the slashdot trolls finally caught up with the news that ScuttleMonkey is an editor. Go trolls, go! Next time you might even be aware that/. is using an improved CSS layout.
So maybe people will clean up Oracle's _nightmarish_ security track record, because unfixed critical bugs for years is not an uncommon sight in Oracle land. I'd take security over features anytime.
Don't get me wrong, i know you're just a troll, although MySQL was/is lacking in some ways, as i'm perfectly aware of that, but nothing compares to not giving a sh*t about security especially in case of an enterprise level software costing so much in cash and resources.
It is a parental responsibility to have the talk about the bad men, etc.
..."is solved"...
They can't verify someone's age.
..."by kicking the kids out of the room instead of limiting adult speech."
Neither is desirable, imo. The best is always to educate, so that children learn about these dangers, not to ban them from those places totally or to fall into the other extreme, to ban adults from saying things which might be deemed inappropriate for children.
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"As far as science in general, the United States is by far the leaders for scientific paper production, measured by citations."
I think this got debunked last time we had this discussion, I'm lazy to search back sorry, but the results were something like the USA lost it's edge while the EU gained on this ground and the USA lost it's first place.
Could anyone find that thread, please?
Hey, I'll start bashing Bush in a second too, I know you would like it ;)
But seriously, some things are bashed for a reason.
This is just brilliant with that sig ;)
So let me get this straight:
.com until 2012, instead of 2007 BECAUSE they fucked up in the first place with that outrageous wildcard-advertising?
1. Verisign introduces wildcard
2. ICANN tells them to temporarily suspend that
3. Verisign sues, but the case gets thrown out
4. Verisign sues again and they settle that Verisign keeps its reign over
5. No ??? here, just profit.
Oh yea, and the people wonder why do I and apparently the rest of the world think that ICANN and the USA is not doing the task it had been given properly?
Sorry, you're just plain misinformed/wrong, look at the previous 5 discussions about this very same topic, i won't detail it for you.
Didn't Wikipedia have a fundraising last time i checked? Why the need for advertising then?
The first priority should be keep the site clean, because that's one of the strengths of wikipedia, if i would have wanted advertising i would have went to any commercial info site.
I'd like you to pay my internet bills, since i started using the internet in the mid nineties. No? I keep hearing that the USA built the internet, pays for it and invented it so they have every right to do what the fuck they arrogantly want to do. Ok. Pay my internet bills, the price of my computer, of my router, and the 20m of cat5 cables, because as you know, my computer is part of the internet too. So, I'll wait your government to contact me with a gracious offer of paying my involved costs since 1996, interests included.
What? You don't agree? Then don't claim ownership over something which you didn't pay for.
Oh, you mean you were talking about DNS servers? You know what they are? They are an agreement from historical reasons. The USA is very nice to have covered the nominal costs of running the DNS servers compared to their value, which is that people use those ip numbers as dns servers traditionally. It's like a company buying another company which had 200k users. The users are value too! Guess what, who wouldn't like to have more than 3 billion (just a wild guess) users in their control, if even the control is limited? Pretty much everyone would volunteer to pay the fish and chips costs of keeping DNS servers online for having the power that historical fact represents. So, no. You're not doing anyone a favor by maintaining those servers, since the main benefits fall in your government's hand. You don't own the root dns servers either, since they are just ip addresses, apart from the nominal costs the physical servers represent which we discussed earlier. IP adresses by convention. Just like a well known brand name. In itself, it has value. Who are the costumers? The internet users. Who owns the brand? Noone. And everyone using the internet. The owners of the physical infrastructure.
With this congress vote, I think the USA lawmakers are acting like lemmings, or like in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, burning down the bridges behind themselves. It's a gamble. You only do that sensibly if the stakes are high, when you're sure you can win, and even then no sane people would do that. Well, i've got newsflash for you all, the USA might be the #1 country in the world atm, but that is just not enough if you got the rest of the world against you. Ignoring and using pure force, well, you'll be given your own medicine soon that way and i bet you won't like it.
Parent isn't a troll, he's actually close to the truth. Maybe it'S OFFTOPIC, but his statement in itself wasn't a troll.
Nah, he is right in some sense.
Slashdot is a place where zombies, including the editors march 365 days a year, so i guess that one day difference where we celebrate it doesn't really matter.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
...and wrong.
Yes, because we hate your great democracy, why else.
Wake the fuck up from your phased out neopatriotic dream.
"Perl was the innovator. And Perl even managed to popularize regular expressions. But these days others have taken over the task of innovation in that field."
I thought that it's not necessary to make my point stronger, but it seems so.
Disclaimer: I've seen you posting a couple of times intelligent stuff, i believe this is one of the few mind barfs everyone has when you posted about Perl having worse regexp than the others listed.
You talk way too generalized, about languages and not in exact, specific things when you're talking about regular expression support in those languages. Mind you, Perl is practically built around regular expressions. 'perldoc perlre' and 'perldoc perlop' should give you a slight idea how it looks like. While maybe C# has regular expression support like for example, sed or even my favorite text editor, vim does, it's nowhere near Perl's support for regular expressions. In Perl, you can use regular expressions almost everywhere, taking full advantages of the Perl additions. Ever wondered why people actively using regular expressions talk about the sed style and Perl style regular expressions? Because Perl added a lot of new/good stuff, mostly which is not duplicated fully elsewhere. In C#, support for regular expressions is nowhere near to Perl. About Python - I've got marginal experience, so i'd rather not judge it, but Ruby isn't built around regular expressions either. Sorry, Perl still is the most regular expression capable language around.
If you have already taken a look at Perl 6, then you might have seen that the regular expressions are almost completely taken to a new level there, so I'd rather say that Perl will stay _the_ top regular expression language for a while...
"The regular expression support of languages like Python, Ruby, and even C# trump that of Perl."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha, oh, that's a good one, hahahah, haha. Oh boy.
*wipes tears off*
Woohooo, the slashdot trolls finally caught up with the news that ScuttleMonkey is an editor. Go trolls, go! Next time you might even be aware that /. is using an improved CSS layout.
I could never figure out why can't editors recognize dupes when i can most of the time just after 5 seconds of looking at the submission.
Oh...and we should patent it!
Obviously noone thought of this before, so no prior art exists.
So maybe people will clean up Oracle's _nightmarish_ security track record, because unfixed critical bugs for years is not an uncommon sight in Oracle land. I'd take security over features anytime.
Don't get me wrong, i know you're just a troll, although MySQL was/is lacking in some ways, as i'm perfectly aware of that, but nothing compares to not giving a sh*t about security especially in case of an enterprise level software costing so much in cash and resources.
These Oracle issues are well known as a lot of security experts prove it day by day.
"For once, a potential threat to children"...
..."is solved"...
..."by kicking the kids out of the room instead of limiting adult speech."
It is a parental responsibility to have the talk about the bad men, etc.
They can't verify someone's age.
Neither is desirable, imo. The best is always to educate, so that children learn about these dangers, not to ban them from those places totally or to fall into the other extreme, to ban adults from saying things which might be deemed inappropriate for children.
The goal of a parent is not to navigate their kids through life, but to give them a map about life.
When soviet russia took over south korea, old people were for LINUX.
Like that beardy fella over there, called RMS.
No time travel here, just plain ol' /.
Time travel would be if slashdot posted news RIGHT AFTER something happened. THEN we should start asking questions.
See, when Microsoft talks about innovation, this is exactly what they want to be seen like. Real innovation, like IBM Research, not the vaporware.
Forget what i said, as some others already pointed out, the headline is highly misleading.
Now is the time for ICANN to take action, if anytime. I don't want another wildcard case from Verisign, tyvm.
I've got an old medical book from 1893 which has various medical advertiments inside, on the inside part of the hard cover.