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jhghjnmmn
16y ago
The british army stick with a 10year old version of the land rover for the same reason - you don't want to be in a ditch in Afghanistan trying to fix a computerized engine management system with a hammer.
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16y ago
Some of us never lost it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Series
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16y ago
When I briefly worked for a "Three Letter Agency" we were told that the only answer we were allowed to give to any question like this to any of our own or foreign officials was "work of a confidential nature in the national interest" It wor
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16y ago
The point of the internet is that somebody with enough servers and their own browser could easily introduce their own TLDs.
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16y ago
Isn't this going to upset the IRS slightly? Are they going to demand the money back from everybody that wrote off software as a depreciation? Alternatively are people now going to be able to write off software as a cost rather than an asset
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16y ago
The difference is that book publishers don't make huge political donations
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16y ago
It does strike me as a very low barrier to entry business. Amazon could sell domains for 1$ more than versign charge them. Google could bypass verisign completely and launch their own top level domain with their own root DNS and give away "