Now, do you REALLY want us to spend a serious fraction of our time and money preparing and making available the raw data..
Nope. We expect you folks to spend some time thinking up a way so that you don't spend any time at all on "preparing" the supposedly "raw" data _and_ still make it available to the desirous public. Like you know putting up a file on a website with some footnotes. I hear universities have some websites.
I guess you're in favor of DRM and 20-year patents and 80-year copyrights as well? Because having access in those cases is also just as "pointless"?
Huh? Why include the data provider as an "author"? Just because that's the way it's been done so far doesn't mean it can't change to something more appropriate. Maybe like a data citation.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather focus on keeping a language relevant to the kinds of problems people are trying to solve, not trying to maintain some level of trendiness like the latest cool band.
On the other hand, trends are relevant too.
Ah, ok then its just listing out servers. I'd not seen anything like it before, so thought it might have something to do with the outage today especially given the update date.
Noticed it earlier today. The Twitter-verse of course was immediately complaining about it. As usual I checked the ping, whois, traceroute stuff and it's interesting to say the least:
$ whois youtube.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.LOVES.HILPERS.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
YOUTUBE.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:59:16 UTC
GULLI.com seems to be somewhere in Germany as per its geo ip.
The stuff above is still what I get back from whois.internic.net.
Wow, just checked for whois google.com and it's coming back worse:
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.UY
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
GOOGLE.COM.SANATATEA-NOASTRA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.PROGRAMASVIP.COM
GOOGLE.COM.MX
GOOGLE.COM.IS.SHIT.SQUAREBOARDS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.DO
GOOGLE.COM.CO
GOOGLE.COM.CN
GOOGLE.COM.CHIQUITASEXY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.BR
GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM.AR
GOOGLE.COM
Anybody else seeing this?
India with corruption so deep-set and intractable that even buying a TV usually involves multiple pay-offs?
This used to be true in the 80s when there were massive import duties. But it's not true any longer atleast for tv sets (I just bought one here).
There still seems to be a lot of corruption, especially in real estate, where money under the table (in order to avoid tax) is usually included in price calculations and usually benefits buyer and seller and is to the detriment of only the govt purse. I'm not relishing the prospect of purchasing a house here and am wondering if i can actually stand up to the pressure and how much it will cost me.
The world is no nursery. - Sigmund Freud
