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Comment Re:Too bad google's own search doesn't turn up any (Score 1) 121

Oddly, while it still does not find any security keys, that same search now gives me two results - one for a pet door, and another for a pet carrier. I doubt either of those is compatible with google's authentication system.

If something is ONLY available through amazon, its not available.

Comment Re:My story with those assholes... (Score 5, Informative) 113

Avoid using whois on registrar sites to check availability. It's trivial for them to hijack that info and then allow someone else to see what domains people have been checking, so they can pre-emptively register them.

The best way is to check the TLD server directly, using "dig"

Failing that, use a real whois client (NOT anything web-based)

$ dig thisdomaindoesnotexist.com ns


; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> thisdomaindoesnotexist.com ns
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39567
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;thisdomaindoesnotexist.com. IN NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

com. 899 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1405884613 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 178 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 20 15:31:01 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 117


$ whois thisdomaindoesnotexist.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.

No match for "THISDOMAINDOESNOTEXIST.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:30:55 UTC <<<

Comment TAG: NOTNEWS (Score 0) 134

IE is a vulnerable pile of crap and always will be.

Everyone that doesn't live under a rock already knows this.

No amount of "ZOMG! NEW HACK FOUND IN IE!" announcements is going to get through the skulls of those that still use it.

Please, no more stories about IE vulnerabilities. Consider it a standing notice "IE is a POS"

Comment Just one more wonderful benefit (Score 4, Insightful) 1037

the Internet offers.

Learning about reality is a GOOD thing.

Learning that the silly myths and superstitions pounded into your head when you were a child are silly myths and superstitions, and NOT universal facts, is a GOOD thing.

I know it wont be in my lifetime and probably not in my children's either, but someday, humans will shed all religious superstition.

Comment Microsoft (Score 1) 742

is still a near-monopoly, and their platform still sucks and helps to fester malware and trojans.

I don't use MS software, I don't recommend MS software.

Its not (just) because of what they USED to do, its because of what they STILL DO and what they STILL ARE.

They stole the consumer PC by just happening to be in the right place at the right time. They had shrewd marketers and slick lawyers to make sure they got to keep it.

But they've never managed to dominate anything else. Zune is dead. Windows tablet will die. And the PC world is slowly (all-too-slowly) leaving them behind. I look forward to the day they are nothing but a bit player, relegated to the sidelines. Maybe all they will have left is heir gaming market, since that will the only thing helping them hold on to life when people mange to escape the lock-in elsewhere.

Comment Ownersip of the copper POTS infrastructure (Score 1) 582

along with the wirecenters/etc should be transferred to local cities and townships, to use for emergency communications. (Eg 911).

Every line should automatically have a number, every line should able to dial 911. Cost of maintenance should be covered by a SMALL tax, similar in amount to the "e911" charge already in use, per home.

In fact, this is what should have been done with payphones, too. But its too late for that I guess.

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