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No, the "good side" is opposing censorship and DNS filtering.

Read what they wrote:

Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."

They are explicitly just backing off on this specific bill with the intent to do it "better" in the future.

GoDaddy sounds to me like they're reaffirming their support of the principle of DNS-based censorship and the domain seizure practices they currently participate in.
What difference?

> Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance

This is not what I expect to hear from a CEO of the company that is an integral cog of the Internet. He still got his priorities all wrong, and his interests are still not aligned with the interests of the majority of Internet users. GoDaddy is exactly where it was yesterday, they simply made a cosmetic PR statement that doesn't really affect anything long term.
Texas?
A good smartphone comes but once a year
"Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in China" Or imagine if the top ten stories pointed out that they aren't Apple's factories, but Foxconn's, and that Foxconn also makes the Playstation 3, the Wii, the Xbox, and the Amazon Kindle, as well as stuff for Acer, ASUS, Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung... Yet somehow Apple always takes the blame. I've even seen this used as a justification for buying an Android device over an iPhone. Does anyone seriously think that conditions in the HTC or Huawei factories are different from Foxconn's to any significant degree?

I don't like the factory conditions in China, either, but neither do I like seeing Apple getting the brunt of the criticism.
who is john galt?
The graphic[1] comparing the iPhones and the HTC phones over (a short) time really stood out for me.

1. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/834118/apple-htc.jpg
We have only two week vacation at Turkey, fuck :(
I was shocked when I looked at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...

The US has 0 (zero!) mandated days off. Even China gives people 5-15 days minimum.
The other point I was passive-aggressively hoping to make by grammar nitpicking is that maybe we can do without a one-word slur meaning that, since its primary purpose is for one side in a negotiation to call the other side a bunch of big fat pussies in an attempt to shame them into weakening their demands.

I imagine we don't have one word that means "having a spurious sense of entitlement" because up until recently (the last one or two hundred years) it was generally crystal clear whether your station allowed you to demand something of someone else or not, so that you'd simply throw someone's station in their face instead of trying to make a sense of entitlement into a character flaw.
I like this feedback, this is good. Just two things I'd clarify -

> Everything I've ever read from this guy makes him look like an asshole.

I have like zero regard for traditional social decorum. I rub a lot of people the wrong way. But I'm also the guy that actually goes to bat for people when they crash, when times are tough, when something needs to get done. I've taken a lot of people out of the low point of their lives and built them up, and everyone around me does pretty well across the board - fun, work, wealth, social lives, experiences, getting out of the comfort zone, etc.

> But I doubt 30 to 60 minutes a week is really worth paying anything extra.

Depends on your goals in life. Most people would dislike my pace, but I get an immense amount done. Much of what I do has no direct gain for myself, it's just making the world more into the kind of world I think we ought to live in. 30 to 60 minutes is coming directly out of my reading or charity time if I wait around. Cutting sleep isn't the answer - I'm already slightly sleep deprivated; if anything, I need to sleep more to get to sustainable levels.

Anyways. Am I an asshole? Maybe. My feelings aren't hurt if you think so. But moving fast, being demanding, not pussyfooting around -- it has drawbacks, but leads to immensely more ability to do good big things in the world.
I've met the CEO a couple of times, and I'd say he basically brags about exploitative they are.

Have to say I'm shocked at how many tech savvy people use them. Didn't realize how convincing Danica Patrick is I guess.
If they still support the Senate version (PROTECT-IP / PIPA) this means little. I'm ecstatic that the anti-SOPA crowd is advancing by leaps and bounds on an almost daily basis here, but in the next month we need to up the pressure on PIPA too - especially because it's farther along (full Senate set to discuss it January 24)
who is Jason Roberts?
GoDaddy previously invested time and money into supporting this legislation: "have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago."

Let's see them invest some time and money into stopping SOPA. Making a statement is one thing, but money is speech these days and they can afford better lobbyists than we can.
"enhanced from GNU Emacs"... Implying that you could easily enhance Emacs is a certain way for pushing passionate users away from this.

You don't "enhance" Emacs, you hack it, extend it, write cool modes...
Your comment is singularly unenlightening. I'm just saying that Musk's comments create unreasonable expectations. If you materially disagree, this kind of sarcasm does nothing to express what you think is wrong. If you don't actually disagree, then you're just kind of being rude, aren't you?
For people who genuinely enjoy their jobs, this would be quite painful. I imagine doing this where I work and the employees would revolt.
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Go Daddy has changed its position on SOPA, but I've already begun the transfer of my domains to another registrar whose CEO doesn't enjoy killing elephants. This is an opportunity to do a little housecleaning with my registration contact info. Currently I have something like this:

foo.com sowbug@qux.com
bar.com sowbug@qux.com
baz.com sowbug@qux.com
qux.com sowbug@qux.com

Left column is domain, and right column is whois contact info for that domain. They're all personal (i.e., non-business) domains, though my whole digital life flows through them.

It doesn't seem smart to have me@example.com as the whois contact for example.com; if something went wrong with the domain, then I'll also likely have lost the ability to receive email there. Since all my domains are (soon to be) at the same registrar, I don't want to use another domain I own, either, because it's likely when something goes wrong with one domain, it'll happen to the others at the same registrar under the same account, too. It's tempting to use a Gmail address, but I hesitate to use a free email provider as part of my domain security policy. Finally, as a somewhat orthogonal point, privacy protectors like myprivacy.ca are nice, and they could conceivably break the cycle in the dependency graph, but again, as with Gmail, I worry it could become the weak link (e.g., myprivacy.ca still needs an email address for password recovery).

What do you do?
> What about the disutility from alienating everyone else in the coffee line?

You can believe this or disbelieve this, but by far the most common reaction is along the lines of, "I wish I had the balls to do that..."
I just go off the phone with Stephanie Bracken.
She was very nice and polite and sounded more like a good sales guy than PR (perhaps its the same?).

I got the story that they have millions of domains and blah blah blah, and pretty much you all are right: "GoDaddy heard all their customers complaining about SOPA, so not to lose too much business we deciding to change our approach".

I asked what it means "no longer support", she said GD will withdrew their name from the SOPA list, stop lobbying and encourage other companies to stay against.

As before I was aside of this, now GD sounds like a lose flag on the wild wind. This will make me transfer my domains out of GD as they are too unpredictable. What if too many users whine that they owe my domains and GD "will transfer them because they dont want to lose business".
The Apple wireless keyboard is small enough that it might work to simply buy two of them, one for each hand. Instant "split" keyboard.
I think registers sound like the sort of approach I want, thanks.
ENTITLEMENT:

1a: the state or condition of being entitled

3: belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.

Words sometimes have more than one meaning.
I doubt that, Tony Stark and Ironman comics have been around for decades, and he's always been a flamboyant billionaire.

Musk just dreams big.
Jason Roberts is co host of the TechZing tech startup podcast.
While I appreciate the progress and ever-decreasing costs of EVs, does anybody else wish some car manufacturer would produce, you know, a normal-looking electric car in the $25k-$35k range? Most EVs resemble futuristic sex toys more than they do conventional automobiles.

Edit: I should point out that the Tesla Model S has a tasteful look, but is a bit too fancy pants for me at the moment.
what could they say? we know sopa would make us some money but even before it's legilated it started to cost us money than we had to withdrew our support?
I agree with all of that. My comment was skeptical in nature. My personality is very aware of "being an ass" so sometimes I wonder if I should have been an ass in some situations. There is probably a good medium between the two extremes.
I really don't like SOPA, but I also don't like being on the same side as these children. If they don't get their own way, they throw a tantrum by DoSing certain portions of the Internets.
Except that if you do: whatever | tee filea | tee fileb | tee filec | tee filed >/dev/null, you'll get parallelism. This works since tee will write first to stdout, and then to the file you pass it. This may not be "all available" parallelism, but I suspect that it's a decent approximation of "good enough".
There's no good place to say this, but that URL bothers me every time I see it. What the hell are "Rouge Websites?" I think they meant something else. :-P
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I think it may have been StackOverflow that made them take notice.
Richf thanks for the encouragement.
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Not sure about having an editor in a browser, but if you want a (mostly) decent IRC client in the browser you could try:

https://irccloud.com/

I have 3 invites if anyone wants to email me (my email is on my profile).
Earth is not all that inhospitable even if you lack technology. There are something like 10 quintillion insects inhabiting earth. The number of bacteria is several orders of magnitude greater. These things all get by just fine thanks to Earth's sweet conditions.

But if you dropped a colony of one of these natural survivors on Mars, it would simply die. Even what we consider to be harsh environments on Earth (e.g. Antarctica, the bottom of the sea, the top of Mt. Everest) are quite hospitable relative to the average on Mars.
Someone who thinks stopping SOPA is impossible, but on his Google+ page has the tagline: "No matter how intimidating the odds, always remain undaunted."

Way to stick to your guns, Jason.

I do agree in part with him though. Google, Facebook, et al. have been too quiet. Anti-SOPA propaganda should be somewhere highly visable on their websites. They need to at least spread the word about it.
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144 of the Biggest Websites using Godaddy
I understand your feelings. One thing I always want to do in my work is to do something useful. It does not have to be much or useful for many, but it has to be useful.

Regional blocking for videos is almost the very opposite to useful in my view. SO I would not stay long if I ever started working on a such company almost no matter the pay.
My 1991 copy of the Oxford English Dictionary doesn't have any definition resembling 3, nor does my Tenth Edition Webster's, so whatever source you must have checked must be quite recent.
an early mentor of mine told me that you have to work with and then subvert the environment you are in, rather than bitch about it. always stuck with me.

he just happen to run a large black market import operation in communist east europe.
The original Iron Man no, of course not. But I think it was Jon Favreau (the guy who directed the new movies) that said he used Elon Musk as an influence for building the character in the movies:

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/tesla-ceo-...
Don't assume your users know how to use their browser
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Nono.. It means many different people are solely responsible. ;)
Microsoft, Nissan, Clear all use GoDaddy. Let's ask them to stop.
According to GoDaddy's SSL page, lots of big-name companies use them — Microsoft, Nissan, Clear, Escrow.com, uh, TV Guide:

http://idisk.me.com/shinyplasticbag/Public/Pictures/Skitch/SSL_Certificates_-_Secure_Your_Data___Transactions-20111223-121636.png

Why don't we put some pressure on them to drop GoDaddy, too?
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Do those statues cross international borders?
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Antarctica is not on a diffrent Plant. Lifing there will not earn you a place in human history.

I think a lot of stuff can be send to mars in the beginning. It should not be to hard to build a big house in a couple of parts and stick them together on mars.

I for one am not jet sure if I would go to mars.
how does it end? i got bored... oh look a squirrel!
But not the German one. Actually it's one of the best working system in the world nowadays. And if you look at other well performing countries in Europe - Scandinavia, Switzerland, they are nowhere working like crazy. Holland has quite a sustainable pension system. I think you are over-generalizing. Sure, some countries are in deep shit, but that's not the social model that's in cause, rather a lack of accounting, lower business moral, lower education level, etc. There are also non social states going bankrupt.

I think you miss the point, this move from VW is actually acknowledging that taking time off is a step toward more productivity. I also think that having time for family, culture and further education on non related topics is the best way to make you a round person and thus someone who will be highly efficient in its job life. If that's how you would define Europe, it hasn't worked that bad... I mean, there have been centuries some people are saying the demise of Europe, but it's still one of the richest big area in the world.

Europe has gone through so much more worse crisis than the debt crisis, it will take its game together and solve it.
> "Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future"

Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but this reads to me like: we still support SOPA, but we're going to pretend we don't, because we realise our customers are against it, but feel we can fool them by making a pro forma denunciation of SOPA.

I'm not a customer of Go Daddy, but if I was I would still transfer my domains. This declaration isn't good enough for me.
Clearly, they mean websites that are red. Red means communist. We must protect ourselves from the threat of communism.
Too late. Their petulant and dickish responses from the last few days show their true feelings on the issue.
GoDaddy changes their stance on SOPA.
Indeed, with the right team and right working environment deciphering legacy application can even be fun. So the problem is not the legacy code alone.
A good friend of mine bought one of the first Tesla Roadsters. I remember when it was delivered at midnight, and we took a test drive. Executive summary: Oh. My. God.

He's had a service guy several times, but only once has it been for an actual problem as I recall - the remainder were initiated by Tesla to head-off problems they'd found on other vehicles I suppose. Tesla has been very communicative with him the whole time.
If you have to be told this, odds are, you should not be the one tinkering with DNS or web server config files.

The most frustrating pattern is when www.example.com works and example.com goes to their Outlook Web Access. It used to happen so much that I wonder if it was some misguided default configuration used by some hosting company.
Texas Proud - This Has Nothing To Do With Social Media #texas
The lone whistle-blowing engineer, the EFF, Wired mag, and others stood up to AT&T.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70126

The reality is though that AT&T is far less of a public-facing company with a much more locked-in customer base. It's very easy to switch away from a company like GoDaddy and they know it.
Look, I appreciate the sentiment, but a website compromise spree is only going to give the lawmakers more ammunition with which to create more legislation designed to oppress in the name of protecting us from the bad guys.

Speaking as a parent of two kids, temper tantrums never work.
If you're a mom and pop or speciality shop you may close between 7 and 9 (usually closer to 9), but most of the regional or national "stores" close between 10pm and 12am.

Grocery stores are even better, generally either closing at 12am or not closing at all. Wal-Mart, for instance, is mostly 24 hours, and Wal-Mart is very widespread.
Wikipedia also said they would move registrars. That must have had an even greater impact.
I think the meaning becomes clear because this sense of the word is almost always used as an attributive modifier of a pejorative term: e.g., "entitled pricks", "entitled, combative princess." I agree with you that it has a much more specific meaning as a predicate compliment: "I'm entitled to my own opinion."

Language changes. People sometimes still complain about "hopefully" being used as a sentence modifier, as in, "Hopefully language mavens will see their role in speech communities as custodians and curators of beneficial older conventions, rather than as guardians and protectors of acrolectic law." However, the etymologically literal sense of this word ("in a manner full of hope") has so little use that the non-standard meaning predominates.
Too little, too late. Fuck them.

Of course, I would have said that before they stopped supporting SOPA. They've always been a sleazy spammy company whose advertising is full of blatant sexism. We should not have been surprise by their support of SOPA. Sleaze will do as sleaze does.
Exactly, I'll still be transferring my 21 domains out of GoDaddy before the new year.
The linked 'DeveloperIntro' page hasn't been updated since 2010, but the code was updated as recently as last month.
EDIT: http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/source/list
I think there is a difference. In German States, some states stipulate business hours†. In the US (and most other places) it's up to the businesses to decide their business hours.

Regarding the "supposed" part. I don't know exactly but I don't think there was some coordination or agreement between nations on who would do what.

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_hours#Germany
Mojang Has Never Supported SOPA
The NHS is incredibly efficient in terms of ROI, the cost per person of the NHS is less than the cost of overhead admin work for healthcare in the US.
"Sadly, most offices are daycares for adults. People act out their high school insecurities on an epic scale and wonder why they aren't getting anywhere in life."

Can you elaborate? This was a fun teaser but you didn't flesh it out enough.
I did read the problem statement, but I thought tee was writing to all files in parallel. It's surprising that there seems to be no way to achieve that.
> I keep score in happiness and satisfaction, not dollars.

The only way to win at society's collective pissing contest is to opt out.

I believe that this is the secret of work: find the work that gives you more satisfaction than pain, and become the very best you can at it. The money will follow, and it will no longer control you. What controls you now is a sort of purpose that you find through your work. Mind you, it doesn't negate the fact that there will be unpleasant/unsexy things to do at work. (That is one reason why you're getting paid for it, after all.) And it may even make it harder, as you now have a greater emotional involvement in your work.

Purposelessness will suck you dry. I think people instinctively know this when they choose salary over happiness, they just believe it to be inevitable.
He ate at least one Wurstenschnitzel too many.
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even than it would not matter. Apple could move every manufacturing operation to another bad but better than china condition countries overnight. And we would pay half more for the same equipment..
Incorrect. Shielding humans from radiation has been a solved problem for decades. The fact that Skylab didn't need to do it does not mean that traveling to Mars is impossible.
I love that idea. I was looking as the "documentation" for a web-framework yesterday. All I was getting was tutorials and videos, nothing that explained to me how the damn thing works. Most of my questions would have been answer more quickly with a simple "Here's how it works and here's the API".

A few times a week I browse the mailinglist archives for the OpenBSD cvs and misc lists. Why some people may see it as rude, I find it refreshing when the developers tell people that reading walkthrough, tutorials, quick start guides and googling isn't a substitute for learning how things work. Sadly few products/projects make it easy to learn how things work and focus solely on "here's how you do X/Y/Z. Just tell me how it works and I'll figure it out.

I honestly think that this "left-brain centric" approach is to blame for a lot of people picking wrong solution for the problems. Of cause people should know better and get a more in depth knowledge before picking a tools, but realistically that doesn't happen as often as we would like.

I think there would be a large audience for the type of documentation that your suggest and I believe that it would a lot of people, my self included, to be better developers.
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