mattvot

I'm sorry to say I'm deadly serious O_O

I got into the web space through WordPress and naturally progressed into learning PHP. There are times that I wish I could work with another language just as well as I can in PHP.

I've attempted to learn Ruby. I know C++/C#/Java/Objective C. Yet I still come back to PHP. I can't explain it. I like PHP. I understand PHP. There are nice people willing to help me with PHP. PHP does what I ask.

It's not the greatest. It's no MIT Graduate. But I like working with it. PHP works hard and fast, plus it's a little fun.

I feel there is more important stuff for me to do with my life than worry about the structure of a common language.

I don't know, if anyone can help me understand my attraction it would be most appreciated.

Just got a few questions. What's the plan/idea behind it? Does it have a for-profit goal? How so?

I think this will turn out alright. The article mentions a law prohibiting such surveillance without a warrant, and the fact that this is being covered by main stream media to start.

Hmm, I'll look into it

Yeh. I thought that too, but it needs some more general tinkering anyway. I'll get round to it at somepoint

Yeh, when I've got the time I'll put a similar font on. It does have the correct font for the wallpapers though

I'm just going to take the opportunity to promote my social networking experiment, http://keepcalmand.com/

So far it's on track for exponential traffic growth, which is exciting. All traffic either comes from facebook sharing or google.

While my inner revolutionist is bouncing with excitement. Is there actually any evidence. My worry is that it's all speculation.

Thanks, good ideas. I think notifying clients is the best thing to do. The thing I'm most worried about are technical issues, and not being able to resolve them fast. Hiring a freelance developer to cover the shift could work.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but could you not just email the customers and tell them how much better the service is now? and hash the passwords as suggested

Calm down. I know of direct download. I hoped their manager would figure out which drivers would need to be downloaded.

I'm not complaining about the manager, I'm just curious as to why there needs to be so many steps. A better design would be to take my service tag and offer a zip containing the exact drivers I need.

Did you make a new account just to rant at my rant?

Solutions like pastebin.com provide the same, with a small url.

There is:

    "Storing a document in a URL is nifty, but not terribly 
    practical. Hashify uses the [bit.ly API][4] to shorten 
    URLs from as many as 30,000 characters to just 20 or so.
    In essence, bit.ly acts as a document store!"

http://tinyurl.com/3n6h8px

Boiling it down, it's a new file format with a built in viewer. You need to find a way to store the data.

Interesting, but I can't think of any practical application, apart from the service provider not having to worry about storage (maybe that's key ... more thinking needed).

Well in the last 3,000 years there has never been the medium for the population to voice their opinions and collaborate at such a large scale. Civilizations were run by the rich, not the population.

My hope is that eventually people will accept 'net supported politics as a way to support true democracy.

If freedom is the goal, then freedom has to be the goal of the majority. Yes, democracy is a mechanism, but we have never truly seen a way for populations to organize politics on mass before.

Democracy in the past (and now) has been an act for representatives that can have their own agenda.

Perhaps, but I'd like to think that the majority in a democracy would not push aside minorities.

Using your metaphor: There will be some caucasians that favor laws that benefit caucasians over others, but I would hope that the majority of caucasians would see that it is not ethical and not support such laws.

Hmm, I'm not as skeptical. At the very foundation, a democracy is about tending for the majority. As models like this become more popular there will be campaigns that you may not agree with, but as long as there are enough people opposed to the campaign it shouldn't be a problem.

If there aren't enough people opposing the campaign, well ... that's democracy.

Perhaps, but it's kinda different with websites. There are plenty of alternate marketplaces for products on the web other than Amazon. It's not the same as Microsoft having the vast majority of the market.

From my brief overview of the situation, it seems ethically questionable for Amazon to do this, but not unlawful.

Should it really be against the law to reduce the visibility of a competitors accessory for your own product on your own site? I don't think so.

I would have a different position if Amazon started harassing competition on other sites, like eBay.

It's more of a question of bad business on the M-Edge side. Don't rely on your competition for business. You'll get stuck when they decide to change.

WordPress will just create a new entry in the db with a different status, like draft. The current version would be 'published'.

Daft Punk - Tron Legacy soundtrack

Makes me feel epic and I feel like I am fighting a war with code

Not particular digital tech, but can't get enough of http://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo

I'd say quite a lot of GoDaddy services require a domain to be registered. But that does not mean they need to be registered with GoDaddy.

Services that do need a domain registered with GoDaddy:

    Domain Name Registration
    Transfer Domain
    Bulk Domain Name Registration
    Bulk Domain Transfers
    Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
    Discount Domain Club
    Domain Buy Service
    Go Daddy Auctions®
    Private Registration
    Business Registration
    Deluxe Registration
    Protected Registration
    Certified Domain
    Premium Listing
    Premium DNS
    Domain Backordering
    Domain Management

Services that don't need a domain registered with GoDaddy:

    CashParking®
    Web Hosting
    WordPress Blog Hosting
    Virtual Dedicated Servers
    Dedicated Servers
    Managed Hosting
    Virtual DataCenter
    Dedicated IP
    Go Daddy Hosting Connection®
    Website Analytics
    Search Engine Visibility
    Website Protection Site Scanner
    Hosting Management
    Go Daddy Email
    Hosted Exchange
    Online Calendar
    Fax thru Email
    Online File Storage
    Email Marketing
    Email Management
    Webmail
    Search Engine Visibility
    Website Analytics
    Email Marketing
    Business Consulting
    Business Solutions
    Quick Shopping Cart®
    Merchant Accounts
    SSL Certificates
    Code Signing Certificate
    Website Protection Site Scanner
    SSL Certificate Management
    Turnkey Reseller Plans
    API Reseller

Maybe, but my judgement is that while domains are relatively easy to move, various other services aren't.

It seems to me that the focus on HN and other sites is to move domains.

I'm not particularly up on GoDaddy TOS, but I imagine their not going to give refunds to prepurchased hosting. This would increase the friction involved in a total dump of GoDaddy. The customer would also have to allocate time to setup the new environments. Same with email, Dedicated and Virtual servers.

There are also SSL certificates. Again, I assume no refund, and the time it takes to gain and install a new SSL certificate from another provider would also increase the friction.

GoDaddy also provides alot of instant website tools. I'm not saying that SOPA opposers do not use these tools, but they tend to be marketed towards a non web savvy user that may not care/know about SOPA. This would reduce the effect of SOPA protests.

In summary I'd say that the tech savvy GoDaddy customer with a decent budget and the time to set up alternatives could dump all services, it's could be unreasonable to expect a total boycott of services from other GoDaddy customers.

I don't think they're going to 'go under' anytime soon. Domains are only a small portion of the product portfolio they offer.

Yeh, This has been the case for a while. It is because they cannot verify the owner, as the whois info is hidden behind DBP.

I've been trying to cancel my DBP subscriptions, to return my details to whois and transfer the domain. They don't make it easy.

I lost my account details, and am trying to retrieve my account. I filled in their form and attached my drivers license scan ... got an email today saying they need a scan of some ID :/

I've been watching all of this for the last 3-4 hours.

I am amazed at how most of the committee do not want to hear from experts, and ignore the facts with a quick dismissal like "Oh, I'm not a nerd, I don't understand, but what I do know is that piracy is theft and we must stop it.".

How can they not listen to the experts?

EDIT: Here's a livestream http://www.justin.tv/unearthed365#/w/2249527504

This is exactly what I want to be doing in my placement year starting june!

Traveling and programming. How did you afford the trip Alex? Savings or working on the go? If you don't mind, how much did it cost too?

Thanks

I agree there is a load of low quality developers out there on oDesk, but I've found that for the contracts good developers want, the buyers know not to hire the low quality developers. I've found plenty of high paying contracts on oDesk, you just need to know how to approach them.