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That's not a very solid argument. GoDaddy sucking is besides the point here. I doubt many if any registrars would refuse the government like that. But even that's beside the point.

What the real issue here is, is that law enforcement pretty much busted in and took down a domain name without warning. They shot first and asked questions later. Jotform is a legit site, not even close to dubious like some others where you can actually argue that they might have been knowingly violating copyright and such. This is scary stuff. There was no due process, no warning, nothing. They just did it. It's proof that any more laws giving the Feds power to take down sites is totally superfluous and unnecessary as its already happening in a very public way.

You don't get mad at the company for not switching registrars (even if they are a douchey one). Jotform could have been able to take care of this situation had someone just alerted them to the problem. No way is this their fault, especially not for the reason you put forth.
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If you'd like to meet him, even briefly, go to the Penn and Teller show at the Rio in Vegas. After every show, they hang out in the hallway and chat with the audience as they leave. They usually wait until everyone is gone before they head out. (By the way, Teller's letter mentions his version of The Miser's Dream, which is still in his act. And it's the most amazing interpretation of it I've ever seen.)

I always joked that if college didn't work out, I'd work as a street magician. As I've traveled around the country, I still make a point, time permitting, to stop by magic shops. I've yet to find one that doesn't have something from Teller written on the walls somewhere.
Reading the comments below, am I safe if I have my domain name registered with Namecheap? How can I make sure that this won't happen to one of my sites? Is this Godaddy specific or all domain name registrars affected by this? What about non-US registrars (can you guys name some)?
It doesn't stop there. USA has been known to curb Internet Freedom by threatening foreign governments in private despite their hypocritical attitude of condemning censorship regimes.

You can see the list of governments whose policies is controlled by USA with the signatories of ACTA.
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It's trivial to statistically demonstrate that the new meaning is used far in favor of the old meaning - in language that's all that matters.

You can do this experiment yourself. You will find that the new meaning is so common, so prevalent, that you'll be hard pressed to actually find an example of the old meaning in usage beyond correcting somebody using it in the new meaning.

It's not a zero-sum game. New meaning for words and phrases don't wipe out old meanings. That's why dictionaries developed this novel technique where they list alternate definitions for words -- because all of the definitions are valid because words and phrases can have more than one meaning.

when usually the entire phrase should be replaced with "so."

I don't disagree that "so" is a more concise transition. But it can get old fast when it's used all the time. It may even be better to just ask the question with no lead in at all.

I disagree that "it begs the question" categorically doesn't have a meaning beyond the one coined from a poor translation from a Latin translation of Aristotle's original Greek. Insisting that it can only mean the logical fallacy is ignorant on several kinds of levels and only shows how little the prescriptivist knows about the phrase and how language works in general. You'll find that most aren't even aware that the English phrase we use is not even a correct translation from the Latin and the Latin is not correctly translated from the Greek! It's like a perfect storm of compounded ignoramuses.
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From how I read the story, it made it seem like he got permission before the studio did. Wouldn't that make the exclusivity point moot?
This isn't really some unforeseeable edge case that nobody could have reasonably expected to happen - their site lets you build a form, embed it on a page, and they either email or save the form data for you. Not anticipating phishing would be fine if it was 10 years ago.
I'll take congress's concern for privacy seriously when they start applying it to themselves. For instance, in the draft of the so-called "stimulus" bill I read, it called for centralizing all medical records under federal control. The federal government doesn't respect americans privacy in anything- even in much more private areas of their lives, such as financial dealings. (You're compelled to reveal these to the IRS every year, and all the banks give individual transaction data to the government upon request, they don't even need a court order.)
I wrote out a significant response about the strange segregation of being a celebrity (of any repute) before rereading your post.

The most interesting thing to me is that within the span of 24 hours you ate alone with one partner's wife and the next day got yelled at by the other partner.

Did you talk to them after the show?
Yeah, I thought it would be something like that. The other option might be green tea extracts, but I have no experience with these and you may end up with a higher caffeine dose, even though green tea is usually far lower on the caffeine than coffee.
Yes. For another account, see David Rusenko's blog post about GoDaddy and Weebly: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...

Their .com doesn't seem to have the same ugly ICE/government/FBI logo landing page, so that seems to also implicate GoDaddy.

If that's the case they could get their services up again by just switching registrars and DNS servers. (?)
The author is a clever and talented guy, but this is terrible idea. I sincerely thank the author for expanding the way I think about content and presentation.
I am sure this is all fine. Our fine government would never do the wrong thing.

</bitter sarcasm>
I seemed to have missed the part about why Gigya did not just suspend the non-compliant users' service, or indicate they would do so in a communication.

Threatening legal action to the very people you worked so hard to get to use your free platform is just asking for problems.

Most of the Gigya apologists I've read seem to say something along the lines of, well the chips were down and they were shooting from the hip. As every true gunslinger knew, this was the fastest way to get killed.
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If you use a DNS provider like pair.net - is godaddy involved at all? ie. are there reselling/subcontracting of domain services we don't know about?
I think his contest were blatantly political, not even bordering race.
Earlier today I got a phishing attempt with a link to a form hosted with Google Docs. Does this mean the same thing can happen to Google?
It doesn't matter what DNS service you use when the registrar can change the DNS records for your domains, which is what they've done.
I suspect they were planning to use Tor for command and control.

Odd that it was only a requirement for the Windows software though. Perhaps they script its installation on the Linux side.
Here's a much better idea for responsive text: put a bare bones summary at the top, then expand the points below. This is useful for people on mobiles.

It's also useful for people with disabilities - blind people apparently like summaries and links, because otherwise it's hard for them to scan.

It also helps people who just aren't great at reading (or reading English), which is a huge deal these days. Almost half the web is below average intelligence now, and over half the web doesn't speak English natively. And everyone is busy.
Any .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, .tel, and .travel domain is subject to seizure by a US court order. What company you register the domain at (and what country it's in) is irrelevant since the registry itself (Verisign for .com/.net/.org, NeuStar for the others) is in the US.
this might always happen, but considering the amount of opensource software and it's stability (when it's bug free) it should be considered stable and reproducible, compared system and RVM - both will be compiled - unless you save the compiled package and install it, but this can be done for both System and RVM
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Despite my grumpiness about English prescriptivism (and having to wade through the seas of absurd self-reinforced linguistic ignorance that usually comes with it) I don't really have a problem if people use "raise a question" or "beg a question" or "ask a question" or much to the prescriptivist's chagrin "aks a question" since "ask" was actually "aks" at around the same time "begs the question" was translated into English and had been for at least 600 years (from "acsian")and hadn't yet been influenced by the Scandinavian form "aeske".

The most important quality of all in language is the simple question "does it succeed in communicating?" I've seen many writings, in dense, linguistically correct, nuanced English that utterly failed to communicate at all, and many writings by semi-literate teenagers that succeeded despite great irregularities in their usage of the tongue.

Every English speaker knows what "begs the question" means in the modern meaning, it is effective communication. Very few people know in the old. It is not effective to communicate using the old meaning with a modern general audience. That is poor use of Language.
If it's anything like the others I've seen, GoDaddy will charge an "administrative fee" of hundreds of dollars to get the domain name turned back on, let alone unlocked and able to be transferred out.

I have been telling people this for YEARS. Yet everyone always thinks "It won't happen to me." Until it does.
Please tell me they switched providers after that.
When I was in high school, one of the biggest employers in my area was the Jackson Laboratory. They found that one of their senior executives, Warren Cook, had lied on nearly every aspect of his resume.

He falsely claimed to have earned a Master's Degree from UMASS, as well as the Navy Cross in Vietnam. My favorite part was when he claimed to have played on the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team.

While he was a fraud, the company thought he had done a pretty good job and still wanted him to stay. Fortunately he resigned out of shame. Honestly I think that they should have fired the person who hired him after looking at that resume.
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Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&...
You can get around some of the bandwidth costs by doing what AVG and others do, which is bounce 100% of downloads to download sites like CNET so that the downloads count towards bumping you up in their 'top downloads' lists -- which helps you get even more downloads moving forward.

Some companies do not offer phone support (especially not to Free users), so this limits free users support down to just tickets and forums (which can be user-moderated to a large degree). Some companies have had success bouncing free users who need support to 3rd party 'PC help' type companies who can work with the person over the phone - for a hefty fee of course, and part of that goes back to the originator as commission.
It's not a copyright issue. Scuttlebutt is that someone used their forms for phishing.
I'd use something like Grunt (https://github.com/cowboy/grunt) as a way to minify & concatenate your files for deployment.

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I got a feeling this news will break pastebin and not DNS :P
The title quote hits home for me today -- reading through my sent mails, I kept wincing when I made some confident assertion that ended up being totally off-base. It sucks to be the one appending IMOs to every sentence (especially in the startup scene, with its focus on brilliance / cojones / whatever), but otherwise you're just wasting people's time.
We established multiple datacenters across different providers with active-active DNS, so neither of them could take us down. It's not really for the faint of heart, though. We spent a fair amount of time trying to get the right services to communicate correctly across DCs.
Who needs SOPA when you can do whatever the hell you want. Great to know our taxes are being put to good use and helping create new jobs and services. Thank you US Government.
Well at least it wasn't copyright related.
Even on Windows, I do work mostly from the command-line, but with batteries - that is I use Far Manager (think about midnight commander). Then I have few shortcuts, to cmd.exe, and some to cmd.exe + visual studio's cl.exe in the path (32-bit one, and 64-bit another). I used to had even set-up to run Far Manager under other shells.

And then I have cygwin, sometimes it's pain, for the symlinked files, as they don't run directly from cmd.exe, but a simple 'sh -c "gitk --all"' works. And now with the latest cygwin, that moved totally to X11 for tcl/tk, I need startxwin.cmd started somewhere (startup).

For places where cygwin overrides some of the CMD shell commands (and I'm quite fluent .bat file writer, and still use them a lot), I just do "call dir *.c /s/b", call, because cygwin has overriden my dir with their application, and I got tired of deleting it, rather I do "call dir" if I need the CMD shell.

grep, sed, bash, find, etc. are really awesome tools.

Lately I've been making a portable luajit distribution, and found out that BUSYBOX, being almost linux exclusive, can be compiled for Windows (mingw) and OSX. It packs a lot of the commands + shell + few other things in one executable.

And most of the time these commands would work the same way on each system. So "sed" would be the same sed on OSX, Linux and Windows... I'm thinking of moving to it, as right now my reliance on cygwin, while being good to me, makes me isolated if I want to share some of the scripts with coworkers (I can't make them install cygwin, but they won't have problems with 600kb busybox.exe)

The best IDE so far for me has been the command-line.
Any system that is applied consistently would be much easier for torrent sites to dodge.
A old windows hacker might get confused with Dynamic Data Exchange :)

Naah... the name is just good, call it what you want - IDE, PE,
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Seriously. I was prepared to be sympathetic until I saw GoDaddy's involvement. Jotform chose to use a despicable company with a long history of behaving in this way. They shouldn't be surprised when they're the next to get screwed.

They're trying to get sympathy from the internet by framing this as an example of SOPA-like abuse after they financially supported a company which supported SOPA. That shouldn't fly.
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I think I agree, for the most part. I have no problem with people arguing that copyright shouldn't be called theft, but I do have a problem with people arguing that copyright can't be called theft.

Perhaps the distinction is finer than the subject deserves. If I'm honest I think I prefer the "should not" argument to the "may not" one because the latter begs for shallow, deductive arguments from definitions instead of admitting a more thoughtful discussion.
Anyone care to transcript this, since not everybody has unlimited bandwidth?
hahahahaha Godaddy sucker!
just love the NS:

Registered through: Go Daddy
Domain Name: JOTFORM.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
This article has made the rounds a few times, including a recent Gruber link that I can recall, but certainly it'll be new to some people. If you ever wondered how long Teller is willing to work on a trick to get it right, just read this.

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/nov/20/man-ball-hoop...
That sounds very interesting, and I'd love to read the study. Please post back here if you find it.
I'll respond. I lived in the Bay Area for 10 years, had a very successful exit, and packed it up to move to San Diego. Started another startup there and met my co-founder there--but recently went to Austin.

I missed the energy of the Bay Area, frankly. San Diego is sleepy. But the last thing I wanted to do was go back to the Bay Area and get sucked into the vortex again. Austin seemed like a happy medium.

Since moving to Austin, I can safely say that I expect my company's revenues to more than double this year from what we were doing in San Diego. We work with many local businesses, and we're booming right now. In fact, since we moved from San Diego, we've grown from 7 to 9 people, hired another full-time developer, etc.

Things are just way more exciting here. (Not to mention that I'll save nearly $40,000 this year on taxes. And groceries/housing/gas are way cheaper.) Though I'll always have a place in my heart for San Diego, it's just not a great place to do a startup. Austin is my home for the foreseeable future, and I'm happier here than I ever was there, despite the amazing weather in SD.
Oh. Yes. Good point!
You're falsely assuming scammers cannot get access to capital to comply with regulation. Madoff is just a small time scammer as an example. It's a false sence of security and leads to anti-competitive practices.
Okay, now I am confused. This article basically directly explained my situation. I learned by doing, not by studying or taking classes. I have a HUGE whole in my knowledge regarding algorithms, uncommon C of features, and things classified as true "Computer Science".

Anyway, I was thinking about reading these books. That is, until I saw phillmv's comment. There has been a lot of debate and suggested lists of books to read on this comment thread, but no concrete suggestions. I went from 3 suggested books to a few hundred. I know there are no magic books that make you a master of Computer Science, but does anyone have a concrete quick list of what is necessary for filling in the blanks in a self taught programmer's education?
Yeah but this doen't appear to be a US court order seizure
You have to combine it with online access control protection:
http://www.whispersys.com/screenlock.html

But it also makes a data wipe easier to do securely, and gives you an additional last minute option when you see trouble coming (just turn your phone off).
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Agreed, I honestly don't understand how it could be so well received on HN. Do you really need to use boldface <b>at the end of every sentence?</b> This article just seems like money-worshiping, social-climbing drivel.
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One reason not in this post which may influence the decision to raise is how fast the industry you are in is moving. If it's a fast-growing, fast-paced industry with lots of competitors raising big warchests, raising money may be required to give you resources to sell, scale and generally keep up with the Jones'es. If you're industry is not as quick, competitive, etc, fundraising might not be as requisite.

Not the only dimension but an important one.
I found at least 2 accounts maintaining 'hosts' files on github, how would we go about centralizing these effords?
They rewrote from delphi, that was usable and efficient, to wpf. Bad call.
There are more polite and productive ways of asking for proof of the phenomenon. Or, better yet, use Google the way it was meant to be used, and find out for yourself (just search for stories about DNS migration/propagation issues). People have documented visits to their old IP addresses for a very long time (much longer than the TTL) after updating their DNS with new IP addresses.
Something like this, to give you a good starting point, combined with something like the SleepCycle iOS app, to get the wake-up timing more precise, seem like a great combination.
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What does this even mean?

Hosting "HTML5" is exactly the same as hosting "HTML".
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Apparently it brought NPG back to the negotiating table:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2010/08/nature_and_california_m...

Unclear on the details, but presumably UC got a somewhat better price. (Note that UC was getting a better price than most libraries to begin with.)
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I found his characterization of the people getting paid to check tickets -- "I'm scared of Mr. Rich person" -- a bit naive.
Nice to see some added security features, including more secure password hashing.

Here is a direct link to the changes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4-beta-1/#w...
> I am fairly sure that even a rough approximation is better than nothing.

Still very impressive. All 7 billion people on earth are better off with this rough approximation than nothing.
The primary rationale for using an IDE is that it gathers all your tools in the same place, and you can use them in concert with roughly the same user interface paradigm, and without having to exert too much effort to make separate applications cooperate. The reason this becomes especially desirable with GUI applications is because it’s very difficult to make windowed applications speak a common language or work well with each other; aside from cutting and pasting text, they don’t share a common interface.

This makes me wonder -- could one create something like the GUI equivalent of UNIX's modular philosophy? Desktop systems like OLE and KDE's kparts don't seem to have accomplished that goal. What about Web Intents?
Too bad the gravitation constant is 9.8
Guh. A fun dive into politics, but I'm not such a big fan of Boris' conclusions, as you might imagine.

> Backbone by itself is not sufficient for building complex web apps.

That bit is particularly galling ... It's one thing to opine about stated philosophy, and another thing to really look at how the rubber hits the road.

SproutCore/Ember (5 years worth of apps, major corporate backing): http://sproutcore.com/#application-slider

Backbone.js (1.5 years worth of apps, just plain 'ol open source): http://backbonejs.org/#examples

'nuff said.
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GoDaddy may not have fought very hard for Jotform, but I'm pretty sure any US registrar would be hard pressed to the US Government saying "Turn off this website or else."