I assume you're from Hacker News. I'd be very weary of Namecheap. I personally wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. They have been very dishonest in their dealings with GoDaddy in order to make themselves out to be some David fighting Goliath. In particular, accusing GoDaddy of noncompetitively restricting their whois access. Experts have already confirmed that that's standard practice in the industry to prevent abuse, and honestly, even I, a nonexpert, already knew that. Their making an issue out of it public reeks of dishonesty. As most /.ers will gleefully tell you, no-name domain registrars can be as crooked as a barrel of snakes. If you look in the comments sections of most anti-GoDaddy stories, you'll see plenty of them spamming their SOPASUCKSALLCAPS coupon codes.

My advice to anyone looking for a new registrar is not to go with whomever screams "Screw SOPA! Screw GoDaddy!" the loudest. Do some actually research on who provides quality service and has a long established reputation of not being a snake. I personally like eNom, but there may be better ones out there.

This is very true. I transferred my domains from GoDaddy almost a year ago just because their control panel is horrible.

And here I thought /. cared about a person's right to privacy. I guess it's completely evil and deplorable for Google and Facebook to invade your privacy, but perfectly legitimate for some asshole with a grudge to do it. In fact, we should encourage him and help him and undermine the law to do so.

Stay classy, /.

This, this, and this. I can't believe so many /.ers live in some fantasy world where Google willfully has RIAA cronies in their offices scanning their Music Beta users's collections with highly sophisticated forensic tools that can distinguish a pirated MP3 from a non-pirated one. It's not happening and it's not going to happen.

And perhaps most telling of all is that Go has supported ARM processors since day one.

I wouldn't be surprised actually if Google was developing Go for the explicit purpose of replacing Java on Android. They announced Go a few months after Oracle acquired Sun, and last month at Google I/O, Rob Pike had this to say about it.

Nowadays you can download most of it as JSON: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api. If you're logged in, the links on that page will automatically be populated with authorization keys, so you can just right-click-save-as.

Would you please shut down Bloglines?

I just noticed the Eee PC microphone issue when I installed the Gmail video chat client yesterday. I didn't feel like looking for a solution right away, but lo and behold, here it is. If I had the points I'd mod you up, instead, I'll just says thanks.

I thought it was funny, and I love the owner of that website.

27bslash6.com? More like 27bslashdotted.com.

They demonstrated HTML5 notifications for Google Talk in Gmail at I/O this year. I've been looking forward to that feature. Please don't tell me that's been just a click away for month now. Or on second thought, please do.

No, I was referring to science itself, from the band's point of view. Don't forget that they're marketing their own religion.

Especially considering one of the lyrics to the song is "I don't wanna talk to no scientist; ya'll motherfuckers lying and getting me pissed." They know there are educated explanations for rainbows and making babies--they may even know what they are--but it's just anti-religious elitism worth ignoring. Let them have their magical magnets. Any fans that take it that seriously probably weren't going to go on to be the next Gauss anyway.

Yep. Even when Apple loses, they win. Please pass the Kool-Aid.