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Not even a "yo, dude this site needs javascript to work" message. Graceful degra-what?

and you just _know_ some people would be ordering them 6 months before they were available.. .. never mind that to avoid damaging yourself you'd have to load it so light the bullet would be visible in flight - I am sure it would sell.

Having a hard time understanding why anyone would put unfettered effort into building up content on a platform where they have absolutely no right of access save at the pleasure of the platform owner.

Take that love of the show and build a fansite or better yet something where you don't have to worry about the copyright holder shutting you down.

I read that as "there is nothing that can be taken away from you"

Same frame of mind I think, slightly different way of expressing it. :P

>> ..as their base and building proprietary features on top.

I thought they were essentially doing that with QNX. It should utterly kick ass on a phone if they can manage battery life. As a bonus they control the O/S update cycle + avoid open source licensing issues that may sit poorly with some of their core customers. Just need to put the apps on it. I don't think android would have made things work out any better for them. They failed hardcore in other ways.

I bet they are right too.

I think mac users have demonstrated they are for the most part willing to pay more for something they perceive as offering a better experience. You can't make that choice if you're some broke dude surfing from a 400 dollar *nix box, so I think it is given that average mac users are less price sensitive - the more cash you have, the more your time is valued imho.

FWIW, posting this from a slackware box with my mac cooling in the next room. So by all means, show me the cheap stuff first :)

This seems like security/session management 101

I kinda hope/expect any password change will invalidate all client side tokens when I am using an app web based or otherwise. At the least, invalidate it when I do something that requires a rights check. ( IE adding scammer@someplace.tld as the recovery email or w/e ).

All allocated in 6? minutes and requires following on twitter. This allocation mechanism seems about as classy as "punch the monkey" banner ads.

I've been waiting for a reasonably priced Canadian VPS. just let me pay for it and sign up ffs....

Brokering 0days - legal? yes. Risk free? I doubt it.

Grugq makes me think of Gerald Bull.

Less a parked page than a flaming middle finger at nissan motor corp. No love lost. Read the dude's time line of judgements and court dates. Sort of interesting IMHO

I think you are probably right. Large companies will take these for vanity/defense of brand, but I won't hold my breath for mainstream adoption. What was the uptake like on info, name, pro, biz? Not much. If a large corp wants to use these to brand an area of "mindspace" like ".book" or w/e, they could have already done so through traditional branding avenues. - this will just be a 25k/yr adjunct to existing projects/products, but I doubt it will be anything of itself.

seeing as stone walls have been around for minimum 20000 years, and wooden fences likely much longer, I find his comment kind of funny.

Catapults are cutting-edge tech compared to a fence..

I've found copied web content due to the person copying it not changing any of my img tags, external js, css before putting it up... pretty dumb.

>> third world countries

like Canada.

regulatory capture + an effective duopoly means I get to pay for gold plated service and actually get telcom services that the rest of the world laughs at.

Brought to you by the same crowd that passed the "cookie law" that requires user opt in for any cookies - even if it is storing something as trivial as a session ID for the duration of one visit.

These legislators seem to be regulating what they do no understand.

I wish I could put this comment to the top of the page. How many TLD/ccTLDs are there already? The primary interest being served here would seem to be ICANN's. As a user, I may well register some of these new domains, but I'm kind of looking at it sidewise atm.

What value does it bring? Just more dilution of the already huge namespace for the most part.

If you have a legitimate interest in the name and the current owner has no defensible interest/use of the name, you can file an UDRP and generally get the name.

If somehow I was able to register "big_company.com", I'd be pretty much destined to lose it to a company with that name, unless _I_ also had that personal name or had made some use of the domain historically in a context predicated use of the name.

tldr - you cant really squat something unless it is generic

Nissan Motor Corp is after ".nissan".

I would be amused beyond words if Uzi Nissan/Nissan Computer Corp also applied for ".nissan". ( He's current owner of nissan.com and has had a long fight with Nissan over the domain name. )

In view of that, I am amazed there are three applicants for ".sucks". Funny, mebbe. worth 6 figures tho?

I looked at that link and am interested.

8 hours lecture online per week + whatever offline work, for 4 semesters. That format, at minimum passes the "sniff test". I think four semesters at that rate is long enough to legitimately teach the content.

My only question now is how well received is it by the world at large? Has anyone hands on experience with ITB?

>> or something else entirely

"making eye contact with your betters"

"choosing the wrong religion"

"whatever else I feel like, but can't write down without getting sued?"

sounds like gladiator school...

>> a VB god (rolling out your own DLLs and OCXs).

There's plenty of "VB Gods" around then. I suspect many C/C++ programmers one way or another found themselves working in a business that had VB as the shop standard? I know I did. I wrote good solid, readable, maintainable, stable code, including DLLs and OCXs - they're nothing special. Some of the projects I did are _still_ in use 10 years later at one location.

Was VB my tool of choice? Certainly not, but it was what I was required to use, with few exceptions. A good craftsman can succeed with an inferior tool. Just watch - The well crafted VB apps will have a half life similar to COBOL.

I read 'vet' as "tear it to bits"

>> It's not hard to imagine if you let your mind wander

Ahem: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075765/

Payment, or even a donation to charity for a token amount - say 1/3 the value of the work - would go far, but I still think it is the wrong approach.

Companies requiring this sort of project work should be aware it smells funny to the applicant and the only way to tell if the applicant did the work him/herself is a tear-down / code defence.

You have not saved any effort from the hire process - only tested if I am willing to jump through a hoop and made me question the company.

OK as someone looking for employment, I feel ambivalent about this and probably would pull the plug on the process if you asked for non trivial work from me. I understand the need to weed out applicants that lack skills. This can and should be done by technical screening conducted by qualified individuals.

FWIW this opinion is based on experience. I've conducted more interviews than I have given. As an applicant I once went through a fairly lengthy interview process that first did a screening interviews including live coding exercises. They were conducted and critiqued in real time. I have no issue with these. You can either do what you say, or you can't and it becomes apparent fast.

The next stage is where I started to question the company's processes - They requested a small "project" followed by an interview. I _nearly_ pulled the plug on this, since it was a request for 10+ hours coding, but did it anyway.

The next interview involved a fairly in depth defense of my code and design choices, white board work that again put my skill set to the test real time. After several hours of this, I was requested to do another "small project" and I walked away.

TL;DR Ask me a million questions, put my skills to the test on the spot, but don't ask free work... I'll think you're unable to judge my skill/confused/a scammer or whatever.

from the article:

"that researchers stopped the clinical trial early to give all patients a chance to receive the life-extending medication"

>> With 40% of your workforce gone you no longer have a business, you just have a bunch of assets.

Some people might argue you have 40% less assets. ( But I get where you're coming from.. )

I called it an "ugly-race-to-the-bottom" because the micro stock niche debases the art and makes the photographer's work into a commodity judge mainly on its' cost. I don't know about you, but I won't take an afternoon setting up a shoot, utilize thousands of dollars worth of gear, spend more time selecting/post processing and then submit it to a service that will sell the rights for 1 dollar and pay me pennies.

The micro stock model has worked because pricing was high. It's swung the other way. Fair value is not received in many cases.