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Comment: Re:"If there's dancing, the fees double." (Score 1) 342

"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it" Back in the 1950s, New York City enacted a dance tax.
[...] Needless to say the "dance tax" was revoked.

Actually, they still have it (or brought it back). Well, the last time I was dancing in NYC was around 2001. It was called a "Cabaret License".

Comment: Re:Sonic screwdriver in Dr. Who is actually MAGICA (Score 1) 94

by cstacy (#39850875) Attached to: Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver a Step Closer To Reality

The technology may be the backdrop but it's supposed to be realistic. Imagine a science fiction story set in the present, and it had Americans simply teleporting themselves to work by saying, "I want to go to work." That's not science; that's not reality or even possible. It's fantasy fiction.

Not into telecommuting, are you? "I want to go to work in my underwear!" works all the time for me..

Comment: Maybe not so many (Score 1) 116

by dereference (#39833227) Attached to: VeriSign Could Add 220 New Top Level Domains

You have to put a dot at the end of a domain name for a rooted search, or it's looked up locally first. If you're on a stanford.edu machine, and look up "music" or "art", you'll get the site for that department. If you want the "music" TLD (I wonder who gets that. The RIAA? iTunes? Myspace?), you have to type "music.". Unless you're really into DNS semantics, you probably don't know that.

That's an interesting point, but according to the man page for resolv.conf, the default for the ndots option is 1, meaning "if there are any dots in a name, the name will be tried first as an absolute name before any search list elements are appended to it." While you're correct that "music" won't work properly without the trailing dot, my guess is that most actual sites would be something like "www.music" (or something a bit more whimsical, such as "my.music"). In these cases, the name contains the requisite minimum one dot, thus hinting to the resolver that this is indeed an absolute name (specifically "www.music." or "my.music.").

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