Part of the settlement with Dynadot is for them to lock the domain so it cannot be transferred. Of course should the ruling be overturned they can then change ISPs if they want.
What the poster means is the ruling has done much more to draw attention to the bank that does money laundering than there would have been if their "law firm" had done nothing.
There was a time when parking fines in London were less than the cost of an all-day parking space. Predictably people parked wherever they liked. The solution was much stiffer fines, wheel clamping and the ability to tow cars away and impound them.
The same thing is happening here, complying would cost more than the fine. We need some equivalent of "wheel clamping" for Microsoft.
I wouldn't count on it happening though, I can see states getting used to a regular "microsoft fine" dividend. They will probably have a routine of Microsoft saying it will clean up, not doing so and being fined again.
This is a very small spend (in terms of space missions), quite within the capability of Europe and Japan, let alone, China, Russia and the USA. By the anticipated launch date India may even have the capability. Since this very small spend, and will give us an early warning as to whether a very large project to deflect the asteroid is needed, I am surprised that an "interest group" like the planetary society are the people looking into it. Maybe their costings will give some impetus to some country to achieve it.
But the off switch has probably been bypassed. After all that's all part of the "western conspiracy", just like putting Aids virus in the polio vaccine.
In France I was lead down a country lane that got narrower and narrower and eventually I came to the conclusion that I would not get my standard car through, so I turned round. Now My wife has a terrible sense of direction - or to be fair she is American and navigates by intersections, junctions and so on rather than by landmarks like you have to with the squiggly roads in Europe. (Actually I am as bad in the USA, all the roads and junctions look the same to me and by the time I read an exit sign's road number I have passed it)
As I headed back the way I came my GPS was still locked on to the old route and said "make a U-turn when its safe to do so". It did this a couple of times at about 5 minute intervals when my wife said "you could have turned in the gateway there". I pointed out that it wanted to send us back the way we came, and that we had given up on that route. My wife said "I don't know why you brought that thing if you don't even listen to it". This got my teenage daughter and I laughing.
Big mistake. Most women dislike being laughed at by husbands and by teenage daughters. Both laughing together is even less popular. My wife is a Texan, and Texan women don't usually keep it to themselves when they are unhappy....
End result, my GPS is at maximum throwing distance in some field in France.
Currently slashdotted - but it was never very fast
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I would wait a couple of days before taking a look!
And I got the pop-up "expected web forgery". Those guys....
I have no idea if it is true but
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I had a friend who was interested in church organs. Evidently even early organs has pneumatic "switches" that would switch the airflow to multiple pipes from a single key. My friend said that if Babbage had consulted an organ builder and used pneumatic components he would have been able to build a working computer at the time. And they were very green, the air from the larger early organs came from water power, displaced by water filling an air-filled chamber. Smaller organs used "chorister powered" bellows.
Yes, we knew all along that global warming was real. We just wanted to keep you dependent on oil to fund the Jihad in the name of Allah. So what if the whole kaffir will be more cooperative when you want us to show you how to keep cool with canvas rather than air conditioning.
Yup YOU UNCOVERED A VAST ISLAMIST PLOT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY AND AMERICA and we were trying to use global warming denial to ruin everything wonderful.
Of course, one big problem is that the scientific method is usually taught incorrectly. People frame it as if the scientific method explained everything about how actual scientists do actual science; there's this weird image that scientists just mechanically follow a set of steps, and science results.
If they have half a brain they do this. With less than half a brain they come out thinking that because scientists want to rigorously test things it is "just a theory" and therefore inferior to "things we know/believe to be true".
Would you want everyone with an education to be a scientist, engineer, doctor, or lawyer? In such a world who would end up setting the direction of society (which of the previous list would be most attracted to politics and able to play the game). Without any educated outside opinions you might end up with a very "efficient" society - for making money for companies.
Even worse, maybe the majority without education would identify with the uneducated "Christian Right" (the ones who don't even try to debate because they have a direct line to God who tells them) and none of the educated classes would rule but a "people's theocracy".
Before we were married, my wife used to be a secretary in a police department. When she met me she once said "well, of course I knew you must be OK because working fore the police is like having twenty big brothers. As soon as they know I am going out with someone they check his record and let me know if there is anything dodgy".
Nobody likes a Nerd, or to be proved wrong
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Nobody likes a Nerd, or to be proved wrong. You put them in the position of being proved wrong by a nerd. Surprised they aren't happy?
(Written by a nerd who has come to learn that that a discussion on quantum randomness and free-will is not what everyone looks for on a first date!)
Because they want the yahoo groups, mail, etc. Once they make them "silverlight only" they will have effectively locked people into a microsoft web. How many people will change groups because one member says that he cannot access it with Firefox?
Ebay could be cooperating with Scientologists for tow reasons. Legal threats or the promise of rewards in later lives. These are about all that scientology gives
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Is it possible for wikileaks to get wikileaks.org changed to another domain registrar or should they just jump ship from this spineless drone?
1 Dynadot shall immediately lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar,.
Part of the settlement with Dynadot is for them to lock the domain so it cannot be transferred. Of course should the ruling be overturned they can then change ISPs if they want.
What the poster means is the ruling has done much more to draw attention to the bank that does money laundering than there would have been if their "law firm" had done nothing.
In future they will be able to say "they must have copied our code" SCO wise.
There was a time when parking fines in London were less than the cost of an all-day parking space. Predictably people parked wherever they liked. The solution was much stiffer fines, wheel clamping and the ability to tow cars away and impound them.
The same thing is happening here, complying would cost more than the fine. We need some equivalent of "wheel clamping" for Microsoft.
I wouldn't count on it happening though, I can see states getting used to a regular "microsoft fine" dividend. They will probably have a routine of Microsoft saying it will clean up, not doing so and being fined again.
This is a very small spend (in terms of space missions), quite within the capability of Europe and Japan, let alone, China, Russia and the USA. By the anticipated launch date India may even have the capability. Since this very small spend, and will give us an early warning as to whether a very large project to deflect the asteroid is needed, I am surprised that an "interest group" like the planetary society are the people looking into it. Maybe their costings will give some impetus to some country to achieve it.
But the off switch has probably been bypassed. After all that's all part of the "western conspiracy", just like putting Aids virus in the polio vaccine.
In France I was lead down a country lane that got narrower and narrower and eventually I came to the conclusion that I would not get my standard car through, so I turned round. Now My wife has a terrible sense of direction - or to be fair she is American and navigates by intersections, junctions and so on rather than by landmarks like you have to with the squiggly roads in Europe. (Actually I am as bad in the USA, all the roads and junctions look the same to me and by the time I read an exit sign's road number I have passed it) As I headed back the way I came my GPS was still locked on to the old route and said "make a U-turn when its safe to do so". It did this a couple of times at about 5 minute intervals when my wife said "you could have turned in the gateway there". I pointed out that it wanted to send us back the way we came, and that we had given up on that route. My wife said "I don't know why you brought that thing if you don't even listen to it". This got my teenage daughter and I laughing. Big mistake. Most women dislike being laughed at by husbands and by teenage daughters. Both laughing together is even less popular. My wife is a Texan, and Texan women don't usually keep it to themselves when they are unhappy.... End result, my GPS is at maximum throwing distance in some field in France.
I would wait a couple of days before taking a look!
And I got the pop-up "expected web forgery". Those guys....
I had a friend who was interested in church organs. Evidently even early organs has pneumatic "switches" that would switch the airflow to multiple pipes from a single key. My friend said that if Babbage had consulted an organ builder and used pneumatic components he would have been able to build a working computer at the time. And they were very green, the air from the larger early organs came from water power, displaced by water filling an air-filled chamber. Smaller organs used "chorister powered" bellows.
Also in the news:
Microsoft/Yahoo opens deep sea trawler division.
We should add them to the database if they order the "Arabian dark roast".
Yes, we knew all along that global warming was real. We just wanted to keep you dependent on oil to fund the Jihad in the name of Allah. So what if the whole kaffir will be more cooperative when you want us to show you how to keep cool with canvas rather than air conditioning.
Yup YOU UNCOVERED A VAST ISLAMIST PLOT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY AND AMERICA and we were trying to use global warming denial to ruin everything wonderful.
Of course, one big problem is that the scientific method is usually taught incorrectly. People frame it as if the scientific method explained everything about how actual scientists do actual science; there's this weird image that scientists just mechanically follow a set of steps, and science results.
If they have half a brain they do this. With less than half a brain they come out thinking that because scientists want to rigorously test things it is "just a theory" and therefore inferior to "things we know/believe to be true".
Would you want everyone with an education to be a scientist, engineer, doctor, or lawyer? In such a world who would end up setting the direction of society (which of the previous list would be most attracted to politics and able to play the game). Without any educated outside opinions you might end up with a very "efficient" society - for making money for companies.
Even worse, maybe the majority without education would identify with the uneducated "Christian Right" (the ones who don't even try to debate because they have a direct line to God who tells them) and none of the educated classes would rule but a "people's theocracy".
And patent it with "using wireless communications" added.
Before we were married, my wife used to be a secretary in a police department. When she met me she once said "well, of course I knew you must be OK because working fore the police is like having twenty big brothers. As soon as they know I am going out with someone they check his record and let me know if there is anything dodgy".
Nobody likes a Nerd, or to be proved wrong. You put them in the position of being proved wrong by a nerd. Surprised they aren't happy? (Written by a nerd who has come to learn that that a discussion on quantum randomness and free-will is not what everyone looks for on a first date!)
Lets go with mandatory GPS implants then
These are slashdot posters. You will probably come back to find that Kim has been shut in the utility room and the cat has been raped.
Site triggers my AV with this attack: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-013.mspx
Because they want the yahoo groups, mail, etc. Once they make them "silverlight only" they will have effectively locked people into a microsoft web. How many people will change groups because one member says that he cannot access it with Firefox?
Look at Osama. It all started when he downloaded that bootleg copy of "love, love me do".
navigating by starlight is very useful in emergencies. When a hike went wrong (lost a trail) I had to use the stars to head for a road
Ebay could be cooperating with Scientologists for tow reasons. Legal threats or the promise of rewards in later lives. These are about all that scientology gives