If you told us that nine years ago we may have saved ourselves some trouble, but then again that issue of the zine would have been too short and I'd have had to write an article on dumpster-diving for bagels or something to pad it out. All's well that ends well.
Thank RBCP from phonelosers.org, as the rightful owner of our domain at the time he was the hapless victim who wrote that piece.
I can only speculate that it's gotten easier to do bad things via NetSol over the years, given how much they seem not to care about fixing their broken stuff.
Recent memory, my eye. This same thing happened to my old zine in 1999, and the trick was already old hat back then. We even published a how-to article about it, since our specialty was old tricks everyone already thought were lame.
The best part: Network Solutions were of absolutely no help to us in getting our own domain back from the hijackers, so we ended up having to use the same trick to just steal it back again. Three times.
I remember thinking much the same thing the first time I signed up with an ISP that didn't offer its users a chunk of public webspace; they just directed their customers to Geocities and such. This was back when domains were still expensive and having a URL of www.ISPname.com/~username wasn't a dealbreaker.
Whenever I use a switch statement, I'm compelled to name its variable "jimmysmits." This results in the statement "switch(jimmysmits)", and never fails to make me chuckle.
You know the fourth or fifth minute of any CSI episode, just before the Who song and the opening titles, wherein the cops are looking over the corpse of the week and one of them smirks and says something completely snarky and graveyard-humor-y about the whole situation to their appreciative chortling colleagues?
This seems like a good idea in theory, but in reality we rarely keep our eyes fixed on any point with all that much precision. Our eyes are always shifting around to get a bigger picture of things most of the time, even when we're trying to hold a steady gaze on something. Trying to precisely control a game, or anything else, with one's eyes seems to me like much more trouble than it's worth.
I'd take this fork as an extreme example of the Open Source world "growing the fuck up," as you put it. The original developers choose not to fulfill a need of their user base, so a new crowd with the wherewithal to do it decides to work on achieving that rather than exchanging flames with the old guard.
If the kid with the ball doesn't want to play fair, you either cry about it, or get your own ball and play like reasonable people. These folks did the latter.
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Given how scary space travel is, it's no surprise that the astronauts left behind a trail of bricks all over the pad.
If you told us that nine years ago we may have saved ourselves some trouble, but then again that issue of the zine would have been too short and I'd have had to write an article on dumpster-diving for bagels or something to pad it out. All's well that ends well.
Thank RBCP from phonelosers.org, as the rightful owner of our domain at the time he was the hapless victim who wrote that piece.
I can only speculate that it's gotten easier to do bad things via NetSol over the years, given how much they seem not to care about fixing their broken stuff.
Heh, it's nice to know how far they haven't come in nine years!
Recent memory, my eye. This same thing happened to my old zine in 1999, and the trick was already old hat back then. We even published a how-to article about it, since our specialty was old tricks everyone already thought were lame.
The best part: Network Solutions were of absolutely no help to us in getting our own domain back from the hijackers, so we ended up having to use the same trick to just steal it back again. Three times.
I'm just going to go ahead and pre-emptively get off your lawn.
This post totally made my morning. I salute you!
The Tunguska blast may well have been the biggest interdimensional crossrip up until the Gozer incident of 1984.
I remember thinking much the same thing the first time I signed up with an ISP that didn't offer its users a chunk of public webspace; they just directed their customers to Geocities and such. This was back when domains were still expensive and having a URL of www.ISPname.com/~username wasn't a dealbreaker.
...if he ever manages to finish writing his name on it.
Can I assume they'll need galactic warrants for these cosmic wiretaps?
Anyone manage to mirror the image before it went boom?
Good morning, Mormon Church. Say hello to Ms. Streisand for me!
On the bright side, you rediscovered gravity.
You would try and drag the Doctor into this, Mr. Saxon...
Whenever I use a switch statement, I'm compelled to name its variable "jimmysmits." This results in the statement "switch(jimmysmits)", and never fails to make me chuckle.
...too obscure?
You know the fourth or fifth minute of any CSI episode, just before the Who song and the opening titles, wherein the cops are looking over the corpse of the week and one of them smirks and says something completely snarky and graveyard-humor-y about the whole situation to their appreciative chortling colleagues?
This whole article is like that.
Indeed I had not tried, and I bow my shifty eyes before your superior knowledge. Thanks for the corrections!
This seems like a good idea in theory, but in reality we rarely keep our eyes fixed on any point with all that much precision. Our eyes are always shifting around to get a bigger picture of things most of the time, even when we're trying to hold a steady gaze on something. Trying to precisely control a game, or anything else, with one's eyes seems to me like much more trouble than it's worth.
After the secondary-market price of the original unit goes down as a result of this, I may actually buy a used 360.
Bender's arms break off. With his left arm he reattaches his right arm, with which he reattaches his left arm.
Fry: I don't know how you did that.
Mobile phones have been stinking for decades.
I'd take this fork as an extreme example of the Open Source world "growing the fuck up," as you put it. The original developers choose not to fulfill a need of their user base, so a new crowd with the wherewithal to do it decides to work on achieving that rather than exchanging flames with the old guard.
If the kid with the ball doesn't want to play fair, you either cry about it, or get your own ball and play like reasonable people. These folks did the latter.
They're taking a big risk here, going up against the DoJ. After all, the number of Departments of Justice has tripled in the past six months.